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A01406	The vision and discourse of Henry the seuenth Concerning the vnitie of Great Brittaine. Diuided into foure chapters. 1. Containing an introduction. 2. Inducements to vnitie. 3. The policy, deceit, and mischieuous spite of the vnderminers hereof. 4. The danger of diuision. Related by T.G.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.	1610 (1610)	STC 11526; ESTC S105669	39,084	72

their great noise their open passe doth tell So friends and countrymens great hate delay'd Workes strong effects if once it be displai'd VVhere greatest loue is any where expected If thence proceed no shew of kinde intent They which do faile herein are soone suspected And feare seemes wise suggesting some contempt Then strangenesse growes from th' one vnto the other And both will shortly secret enuie smoother For as the glasse through which the eye doth peere Makes all things seeme of colour with the same So do all actions good or ill appeare As good or ill conceit the minde doth frame And this is commonly the vsuall course That ill doth waxe and growe from bad to worse Some-times a fa●se report is blowne abroad Of wrong which doth incense the hearts of men And then reuenge is like the hellish goade Which makes the wronged rouse him from his den That mischiefe often-times he brings to passe To quitte a wrong which neuer offred was Then wrong with wrong and bloud with bloud repai'd Makes euery place the stage of butcherie Whole families thus often are decai'd Oft kingdomes are thus wasted vtterlie For where one lawe of concord doth not binde Bellona still will vent for mallice finde As windes of heate or coolenesse doe partake With sands or waters where they lately pass●d As breath a sauour good or ill doth make As from the teeths Percullis it is cast So are our thoughts as our presumptions seeme O● as our iealousies do them esteeme When after seauenty yeares in bondage pass●d The Iewes had leaue their Citties to repaire Some ma●e-contents ●broad false rumors cast And forg'd strange tales to make them all dispaire But all deuices could not hinder them From building of the faire Ierusalem So England seeing many lets to muster If those be lets which euery fancie venteth And seeing from these lets new le ts do cluster Wher●by the world at Englands good relenteth The more should all to Vnitie incline In spite of those which at our weale repine The different iudgments of the Vnion And other discontentmens haue so wrought That Romists are imbould'ned here-vpon Of Brittaines discord to retaine a thought And to divulgate on a publike stage The brainsick vapours of the Romaine rage So wise a king such Councellers of state As at this day few kingdomes do maintaine T●e Romists prize them at so meane a rate That personall Quaeres they will not refraine Who with their Popes and Cardinals would be bold V●to the world strange stories might vnfold But for the scandall of the Christian weale Which labours now of her vnworthie guide Some Christian Satyre would such acts reueale As modestie hath heretofore denide Yet if the Romists daily shall prouoke They must expect a wel-deserued stroke Thy wrongs my deare Eliza shall inflame Those hidden sparkes which seeme extinguished Since by thy grace the Muses honour came They cannot heare thy honour blemished Eu'n they which of these times do most complaine In thy defence may sing a pleasing straine Thy due no honest Papist shall offend Some of their Popes haue rightly thee esteemed All they which do vnpartiall censure spend Of thy most princely vertues well haue deemed Though Parsons clamorous and fugitiues Would staine such princes and depraue their liues As for my Iames which sees his foes despite And tries the valour of approoued friends If with respect their seruice he requite They for their silence will make such amends That in her strength Rome shall assaulted be And at her doores al'armaes she shall see So cast a cause such bombast furniture Such proude brauadoes from Romes painted flourish These iustly may all Christians hate procure D●●esting falshood which blind zeale did nourish Who onely at his owne defence doth lie Such ward his owne defence shall not supply When Hanibal neere Rome his armie brought He put the Romans vnto more distresse Then at the siege of Carthage where he fought With all his power her thraldome to redresse So when the Popes V●aligon doth burne He well may feare t' will shortly be his turne So many towring wits incouraged So many souldiers readie for the charge Might soone throughout all Christendome be spred And might some Romane prisoners inlarge Since Rome by pamphlets al the world doth threaten With true reports shee 's worthie to be beaten The Romists and the Schismatickes agree To raile at those whose cause they cannot wrong The worthiest Prince from these cannot be free In subiects loue they will not haue them strong On th' one side Parsons Martins on the other All awfull loue of gouernours would smother And whilst thrice-famous England doth prepare To countermine the Romane policie VVhilst th' English in the front their strength declare Vpon their flanke the Schismatickes will flie So that they 'le giue assistance vnto Rome VVhich once victorious would worke their doome Then let conceits and idle groundlesse feares Be held as mutinies in armies raised Or like to haruest showers procuring teares Of those which would their timely helpe haue praised By others harmes let Britaines sects be warned VVhich till their ruine Concord haue not learned Though Brittaine like to famous Tyre do stand All moted by a neuer-failing riuer Though woodden walles her bayes coasts command Though Truth feare neither Rome nor Satans quiuer Yet if some pore-blind factions be not true Their fond diuision all the rest may rue What was the cause that Greece so soone had lost That great commaund which Alexander gained What great misfortune could so soone haue crost That power which throgh the world was not restrained How did her glorie suddenly decline Which in the view of all the world did shine Her riches and her prowesse did exceede All kingdomes of the world which then were knowne Her name did euery where great terrour breed And who withstood her headlong downe were throwne Yet want of Concord did her frame dissolue And she againe to weaknesse did reuolue Her captaines did themselues with broyles consume Which had conioyn'd themselues in forraine fight To th' Empire euery one would needs presume And euery one made equall claime of right As ships in whirlewinds quickly strike the saile So Greece did stoope when hers did her assayle And as the first great Emperour of Rome In greatest conflicts neuer was dismai'd But when he sawe that in his chiefest bloome By his disloyall friends he was betraid He hid his eyes and would not make defence But left the scourge to heau'n for this offence So Greece when she perceiu'd her home-bred iarres To waste her cities and her wealthie store She then foresawe that shortly forraine warres Should make her captiue which was queene before Then widow-like whose Lord and sonnes were slain Of Concords breach she onely did complaine Diuision both a breach and passage made First for the Roman after for the Turke Now Ottoman all Greece doth ouershade Where he the Christians ouerthrow doth worke Whose policie all Europe might

the King of Kings To sound his praise and to procure his feare And arme th'elect 'gainst serpents poysned stings These haue indur'd the front of spitefull Rome And yet sustain'd strong factions push at home These are the heraulds of the Lord of hoasts Which bring his peace or else denounce his threat These faint not for the Babilonian boasts Nor Schismaticks whose braines on trifles beat Thrise famous was their former constancie Thrise famous be their new ●ntegritie Yee Pilots which doe keepe the middle channell And shunne the shelfes and shores on euery side A saint-like iury doth your iudge impannell Which in their verdict for your weale prouide The Chiefe-chiefe-iustice for you hath decreed That still for you shall stand the royall seed Let hellish Miners hellish sulphur lay To ouer-turne their faithfull steddinesse Let Atheists raue and blasphemies display Let others shew their brainsick headines The heau'ns bright eye sees all and will confound All those which striue to bring them to the ground Some-times his kingly prophecie shall tell Some-times the graue Cecilian Sentinell And oft his foes shall ring th' alarum bell And traiterous tongues shall traiterous plots repell For gainst the right all treasons are accurst Like poisons they their first inuenters burst Long liue my Iames for thy true Churches good Long liue the Church thy true right to maintaine No King no Church no Church no King had stood The one without the other hath a maine And since your loue with Gods loue is vnited With mutuall loue this land shall be requited It neuer greeues me that mine Henries line Is quite expir'd since I in thee doe liue Since greatest families must stoope to thine Which to it selfe doth dayly luster giue Thine Eglets shall this little world inioy Not fearing ought the greater worlds annoy Yet must I not forget Elisa's name The quintessence of all the femall sex Whose vertues did extoll her worthy fame Aboue her proudest foes which did her vex Who often did attempt her life to spill Yet had not powre so good a Prince to kil Like Debora she did the truth maintaine No Prince atchiu'd more warlike acts then shee No Prince so many languages did gaine Who forreiners interpreter could be Her dauntlesse spirit made the stoutest feare Yet to the poorest shee inclin'd her eare Her court was royall yet she did not grieue Her subiect hearts with heauy tax nor tolls Distressed states shee alwayes did releeue Whose Chronicles her great exployts inrouls Meane while all England thriu'd prospred well And now her blisse no earthly tongue can tell That Phoebe long did this horrizon hould And as she far'd so England ebd and flow'd At length her crest the highest sphaeres did fould Whilst Englands subiects in great darknesse row'ld When from the North another light appea'rd Which nights black mantle quickly had casseer'd Once Europes Princes did on scaffolds stand To feed their eyes with Englands tragedie But then they saw t was heau'ns all powerfull hand Which did present a ioyfull Comedie For now the world a three-fold cord doth see Which by no strength nor force may broken bee When Rome enui'd Achaias waxing strength Which to an vniformitie was growne The Senate sat in counsell and at length Decreed that discord must be quickly sowne They thought that first their league they must vntwine Or else that state they could not vndermine To which intent they Commissaries sent To draw each Cittie to her ancient lawes Who told those Greekes t' was bondage to be pent Within the compasse of the Lions pawes That lofty Eagles tooke no note of Flyes Nor great commanders of small families That yearely Praetors were the onely Kings Which soone returnd their suites and writts againe With these the wrong'd expostulates such things As awfull feare with others must refraine Where euery Burgesse is a Senator And each wise Citizen a Monitor Thus stand prouincials of the Romaine state A time they Lord-like liue but at the last The meanest may their cause with them debate Of iniuries which in their time haue pass't Then are they faine to plead as priuate men And fancie-feeders alwayes faile them then For if these petty Kings haue offered wrong Within the yeare in which their powers confin'd That time expir'd each Citizen is strong To right himselfe and to the lawes them binde Then are they sure to haue a due reward As they haue had a right o● wrong regard Those sponges then are forced to repay The liquor which from others they did soake Protection may not course of Iustice stay Nor venale tongues may venale iudgments cloake Thus did Romes conquered countries flourish more Then vnder Tyrants they did earst before And as for Rome the nursse of liberty It Consuls had which yearely it did change Where worthy men had place themselues to trye And had a field where vertue 's life might range Yet if within the yeare they did offend The Tribunes with them shortly would contend Man's chiefe content is freedom to the minde The heauiest doome is bondage to the heart The one delight in all estates doth finde The other griefe and neuer dying smart The sight smell touch the hearing and the taste Are sowre to those which are in bondage plac't The Oxen still the heauie yoake do shunne The Bird the cage the Hawke vnman'd the lure Each beast from man with hasty speed doth runne Least once intrap't it thraldom should indure But men much more yee much more then other Should quit your selues not your freedō smother With this smooth speech these Romans did assay To breake th' Achaians sacred bond of loue For neuer did this state it selfe betray As other Greekes which strangers aid did prooue For ciuill broyles and forrein force or'throw As stormes doe Cedars which alone doe grow Now when th' Achaians heard this sl●e discourse They sounded soone the ground of their intent They knew ●ight well coniunction was the nource Of all their weale which Romans would preuent Then like to Bees they sallyed out in swarmes And would haue slaine them but for law of armes Whilst springs to streames streames to sea did run Whilst hils made shades heau'ns had starrs to shine Th' Achaians concord should not be vndone And all their hearts in one they would combine If Rome by sword their vallor meant to trie Together they would liue together dye So would all th' English if some were not wrongd By selfe conceit and charmes of sorreine foes They would performe what vnto right belong'd And with their wrack not hazard Britains woes Woes will attend on those which woes contriue And such as peace out of the world would driue No other land nor Church doth Babel dread Here is the golden meane twixt two extreames If any land with veri●y do wed T is Albion which display's the brightest beames As in full orbe the Moone giue● greatest light So Britaine now is in her power and might

exalted Their bloud and liues for honours ●uerdon spent When walles and trenches were with men bestrewd Which with each others bloud themselues imbrew'd Who after this hath heard their friends bewayling Some their owne brethren some their fathers deare Some shedding teares for sonnes no whit preuailing Which were to them in bloud and loue most neare VVho hath this seene but one poore scaene hath seen Of Tragedies which had in England beene For siege of townes makes peace within their wals And cooles the heate of all intestine broyles All forraine warre vnto agreement cals That home-bred discord which all cities spoiles And though some worthie men do loose their liues In honours field their glorie daily thriues But if the Miners had their wish obtain'd And had the pillars of this state oreturn'd Great Britanie had of endlesse strife complained And had within it selfe like Aetna burned The best deseruer had beene as a groome Debar'd the honour of his auncients tombe Then might each wayward thought with ease perceiue The happinesse of awfull gouernement And that they do themselues of good bereaue Which lend their eares to causlesse discontent For busie heads like shaking palsies are Which alwaies moone yet all good motions marre When rich America the Spaniards got And of the Indians millions they had slaine T' was held to be the chiefe Iberian blot Which all her other actions there did staine For which they pleaded that they Pagans were And that their numbers iustly they did feare But why gainst Christians Christians should thus raue Not differing much in faiths foundations Why Romists should themselues like wolues behaue Like deuils to blow vp this famous nation The world can guesse no other cause but pride VVhich Popes by other colours seeke to hide Is this the Church whose Prelate Christ resembles VVhich was the mirror of humilitie Yet at our Sauiours voice each creature trembles But Popes though weake marre all tranquilitie VVhose artificiall wings heau'ns heat will melt Then shall they feele what others oft haue felt VVhat can blood-thirstie Rome pleade for defence VVhat brazen maske such horride facts can hide VVhat mint of treason may with this dispence This new-coin'd treason which lies open wide VVhat wretch for this dares frame Apologies VVhich beeing vie'wd yeelds such deformities Yet Romists do among themselues auow This ougly plot their Aladin to aduance For which they are as Saints exalted now VVhich cast those rebels into such a trance The Indians which deuils reuerence Of deu'lish minds giue not like euidence But Bellarmine doth flat deniall make For Tortus now is tortur'd out of ioynt That Iesuits of this plot did notice take That they were strangers in this treasons point That Garnet Ouldcorn Tesmund much did loath An act so vile which no pretext could cloath He writes that Garnet made a long oration Disclaiming th' act at 's execution VV'had Englands heresies in detestation Extolling Rome with constant resolution In whose approued faith he brauely died And so himselfe a worthy Saint he tried Such maine vntruths are fit for maine supporters Some Cardinall must countenance such lies Such will beare downe a thousand true reporters Transforming falshoods into verities These are Romes champions to maintaine a breach VVhich do maintaine that they may ouer-reach Their seuerall letters to their inward friends And to their loues without equiuocation Their owne confession testimonie lends Their hands approoue their iust examination And their consulting what was to be done When they had finish'd what they had begun All these proceedings doth the Cardinall know For many Romists did to Rome resort To shun iust rigor for that aimed blow And to the Pope to make a true report Yet for iniustice he would England blame And seekes to hide Romes neuer-dying shame And as for Garnet when his death drew neare Hee was perplexed with an inward care His words were few and by them did appeare An heauie burden which his conscience bare Thrise he crau'd pardon for his guiltinesse Which he before a thousand did confesse If Bellarmine Romes maister of defence Can finde no better warde for Romes disgrace Then to disprooue so great an audience And that all euidence he will out-face What shall men thinke of Romes inferiour rabble Which of vntruths so confidently babble When aged Beza dangerously was sick The Iesuits fain'd he made a recantation But when his health and pen bewray'd this trick A shamelesse slight must salue their reputation They said that Beza forg'd of them this lye To wrong them with reproch and infamie VVhen Henry Bourbon Paris did besiege And that the Citizens could not long hold out Rome to incourage them against their liege This strange miraculous accident gaue out That all his armie papall curse had blasted All had black faces and their power was wasted When first My Iames in England did arriue T' was nois'd by Iesuits that he did them loue He knew their worth and would their weale contriue And vnto Rome he would a fautor prooue There soone should be at least a toleration So soone as he did raigne o're th' English nation And now of late a rumor they haue spred That Antichrist in Babylon is borne VVith this report the credulous are fed To put away all Antichristian scorne And thogh such sleights may serue their turns awhile The wiser sort at such poore shifts do smile Romes absent fauorites in hand are borne That onely Popes giue Antidotes gainst sinne That she is like th'all-purging Vnicorne That she alone doth heau'ns conniuence winne That she hath workes of Supererrogation As in a treasure for each Christian nation That Rome is like Noes arke where all is well Without the same sinnes deluge will destroy That Rome hath charmes for all the strength of hell Her Clerkes are fiend-proofe scorning all annoy That Masses sung and Crucifixes worne The greatest rage of Lucifer do scorne Her exorcismes made in our Ladies name Do serue to prooue these maine conclusions But now the world perceiues this cunning frame And how poore souls are wrong'd by strange delusions Her fained miracles are now detected Her Alcumie is euery where suspected Her beaded prayers which the priests repeate A sacrifice of fooles where faith is wanting Her outward shewes without religious heate Can hardly keepe th'vnpartiall from recanting Shrift penance whippings but for maskes do serue To hide Licentiousnesse whilst Zeale doth sterue And a● for Purgatorie 't is a grinne To fright the ignorant and make them flie Vnto the Priests to haue a salue for sinne And that on Romane helpe they may relye For they which haue a liberall resolution From any fault shalt haue an absolution Such queint deuices help'd Romes clergie well When her base Caterpillers were neglected Then they inuented many a subtill spell Whereby they might the better be respected As lately Mylains priests deuis●d for gaine Our Ladies eyes with bloudy teares to staine T is strange to thinke what idle fopperies Do passe for currant where Rome domineeres