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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

the victorie the thirteenth of September the fourteenth of September Sultan Syliman dyed before Segett and the seuenteenth the towne was taken the day following Sigismund the father of Augustus king of Polonia put to flight the armie of the Muscouits the day after Iames the king of Scots was slaine with many of his Nobilitie by the English in battayle He reciteth many moe examples besides which we may reade in the fourth booke of his De Republica where hee likewise affirmeth that there haue been many great Princes who haue dyed in that moneth and there he reciteth at least twentie But me thinkes as one well noteth that this should giue too much credit to the moneth of September to the preiudice of the other in that it hath force to change estates and that these curiosities are not to bee admitted of vs but to bee referred rather to the historicall Calender then to bee reputed a matter of sounde doctrine for what moneth is there which may not be authorised with like examples At least it is changed from his former naturall force in respect of that time present for the greatest alterations and change of states at this day and especially in the kingdome of France haue happened betwixt December and August The same may I alleadge likewise of the death of the greatest Lordes of France who dyed in other moneths and that the moneth of September hath almost lost his prerogatiue since For concerning the Princes which haue dyed of late in France and which haue brought notable change with them as we may see at this day we shal finde none which dyed in the moneth of September Mounsâ—ier Duke of Alenson and brother of the late King dyed in Iune 1584. and the tenth of that moneth The Prince of Orange whose death can neuer be sufficiently lamented nor the manner hated and abhorred likewise dyed the same day of Iuly following whose death was violent and practised by the Spanish treason in that manner that neuer historie in respect of the proscription hath made mention of the like vnlesse it be of Pyrats Robbers by sea and such who according to the lawes of nations haue euer been excluded from the benefit of faith trueth and loyaltie and consequently from all saftie for as Tullie writeth Pyrata non est ex perduellium numero definitus sed communis hostis omnium alioqui ius etiam bellicum fidesque iurisiurandi saepe cum hoste seruanda For instance we haue the memorable proscription of Crocotas the arch pyrat of whom Augustus the Emperor caused proclamation to be made by the sounde of his trumpet that whosoeuer would take him should haue a hundred twentie thousand crownes I onely alleadge this in respect of the most detestable murder of the worthie and vertuous Prince of Orange not long after the death of these two great personages followed the fatall ruines of the Lowe Countrey In one worde Catherine of Medices the Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall the King of France last slayne by that false Iacobin a murther written in Tymes forhead by the pen of aeternitie to astonish all posteritie these all happened from December to August and therefore mee thinkes September hath small vertue to induce vs to respect it But of all rules which I knowe worth the marking to iudge by of the falles of kingdomes Common wealths I finde none more renounced by Master Bodin then the numbers of seuen and nine and those which arise from the multiplication of these two and the perfect number of 496. which first is obserued by him and he saith the reason is because of the infinite wisdome of God who hath so disposed all things by number that kingdomes themselues after certaine yeres haue ordinarilie come to ende and that humane things fall not out by chance I confesse indeede concerning the criticall dayes whereof the seauenth day is called the King by Galen that from theÌ„ce are drawne strange meruailes of numbers applyed to weekes moneths yeares ages worlds and so to townes Common wealths and Kingdomes whereunto all that may bee referred which we haue spoken before of the periods of 500. of 250. of 700. yeares although I finde such contrarietie in the examples alleadged by Master Bodin for the confirming of these numbers that they are not firmly to be relied on as vndoubtedly true For to the inteÌ„t to haue them established more stronglie he alleadgeth the Romane fasts who as he sayth can neither faile nor lye But on the contrarie Onuphrius who hath corrected them iustly maketh a doubt And as Master Augier sayth he likewise would relye vpon the annales of Fabius pictor And in the first place the better to confirme his Square being the roote of the fatall number composed of twelue Twelues multiplied by 12. he saith that the Monarchie of Rome continued a hundred and fortie yeares which by the consent of all authors continued 244. yeares or thereabout and I finde another which saith it endured longer namely 245. yeares which cannot serue to fulfil the Cube of the fatall number but it is an exceeding fault to slippe a hundred yeares Furthermore to confirme one of the perfect numbers namely that of 196. and to shew the effect of it he sayth that since Augustus vnto Augustulus the last Emperour of the Romanes the one whereof he calleth by the name of Conquering the other of Diminishing there was 496. yeares where the Histories and Chronicles mention fiue hundred On the other side to the intent the better to ground his opinion of nuÌ„bers as likewise to shewe their force he alleadgeth that in holie scripture the law of GOD hath nothing so often as the 7. number be it either in the solemne feasts of the Sabboth or the seauenth moneth be it for the freeing of seruants and leauing the ground without tilth the seauenth yeare which was the yeare of Iubile But some doe reproue this for as much as that the places out of scripture implie naturally a rest or Sabboth whereas on the contrarie the seauenth alleadged for the fall and change of kingdomes is full of troubles depending on humane actions which number can neither be drawne out of the law of God either in plaine tearmes or by way of necessarie consequent yet for all this he confesseth that of those aboue named rules indifferently obserued of diuers authors there is none of necessitie whereupon wee may so iustly relye our selues as to set down a certaine iudgement of things to come seeing that the greatest part of those who haue been willing to iudge of the meanes rules surely touching the foresayd changes they haue ofteÌ„ stayed themselues vpon Astronomie supposing that change of Kingdomes chieflie to depende vpon starres and celestiall causes whereunto God hath sometimes as it were tyed himselfe for the shewing of things to come wherein Satan as the Prince of the ayre maketh

who haue been forward in my cause who haue plentifullie bestowed their wealth to maintaine mee and who haue not feared to dye to doe mee good And shee perswading that Trueth sent her to direct them hath so much preuailed with a great number that howsoeuer for other faultes in the bloodie woundes of an afflicted conscieuce there is none either so careles without remorse or so profanely wicked without feare but that relenting at the faultes which they haue done remaine grieued yet falselie suborned by her meanes neither the most fatall warres dragging the infants from their mothers breasts drawing them from out their wombes slaying them in their cradles rauishing their wiues and daughters wasting their countries burning their houses defacing their temples violating their sepulchers performing all crueltie forgetting all curtesie to those that were borne amongst them nor the ciuill slaunders in the time of peace performed against them in malicious manner who sought my prosperitie aboue their owne safety these and such like I say and if ought else can bee thought of greater then these are are done and without remorse vpon the false surmife of true Religion Iudge now if euer creature of my innocencie and I may boldly stand to iustifie my own integrity hath had greater cause to complaine of wrong more iust reason to suspect violence more true grounds of vndoubted feare then I that haue sued and am not heard haue lowdely spoken and not regarded haue infinitelie deserued and not rewarded It is obiected against me that the first murder was committed by my meanes that Cayn had neuer laide violent hands vpon Abel if in religion he had not been farre more righteous And if the Persians had not supposed that to bee prophane which the Greekes beleeued to bee most holy Xerxes had not come from Asia to Grecce he had not spoyled their townes burnt their temples and done them thousand wrongs but falsely supposed by my meanes Thus discord grew betwixt the Egyptians and the Hebrues and both contended which should bee my followers but if I had not been proudly confronted with a base strumpet and that my honour had not been therein hazarded wherein it was infamie to coÌ„tend I had quietly rested though with some disgrace and had liued contented though with losse of credit Nay rather giue me leaue womanlike to complain though hopelesse without reliefe of wrongs offered to my person in stead of offering I haue suffered in stead of doing I haue receiued such manifest violence such apparant wrongs such secret disgraces such open iniuries as when I shall make report what I haue indured for my names sake the red sea shall disagree as once it did and part a sunder the Sunne shall be amazed as sometimes it was and stand still Nay shame shall darken it and it shall hide it selfe to heare the reports but what I haue suffered at first I was put to flie out of Aegypt with sixe hundred thousand besides women and children pursued by Cencres the King of Aegypt and if heauen in the middest of my distresse had not made the raging sea to be a drie land so many had perished for my sake But then I must needes confesse after a tempest came a calme for humiliation I had honor authoritie for feare and in stead of Aegypt I possessed Canaan and although the power of my almightie from whence I came casting a snaffle into the mouth of the red sea made him that he durst not atteÌ„pt to doe me violence yet I liued not long in the land of Canaan but like a Nightingale I had thornes to awake me to keepe me singing and soone after false she that tearmed herself by my name caused dissention amongst her children brought me in daunger by my owne followers theÌ„ were my fauorers diuided together with Roboam and Ieroboam their Kings not long after was I with Israel cut off from the house of Dauid and first transported into Assyria where I remained captiue then with Iuda making my habitation within Ierusalem I was pitifully afflicted lamentablie spoyled cruellie taken by Nabuchadnezzar the King of the Assyrians who pulled downe her walles burned her temple the Kings pallace tooke away the golden vessels dedicated by Salomon to my vse put out Sedechias eyes bound him with brasen chaines and spoyled the bookes of my lawe which after miraculously were restored by my Scribe Esdras thus was I handled by the Greekes Alexanders successors ruling in Syria who would haue compelled my people to haue yeelded to their maners especially that proudly famous and so tearmed King Antiochus who tooke the ornaments and vessels of the Temple which had been restored by them of Persia ruinating againe Ierusalem new built forbad my burnt offerings sacrifices and such like to deface me and make me basely an exile to the Greekish ceremonies neither was I onely thus handled by them but those who at this day are my sworne enemies I meane the Romanes who extended their Empire into that corner where I dwelt placing their Images within my Temple setting their Eagles ouer my portals from whence proceeded abundance of superstitions but I had been throughly wounded before that by my owne countrimen at Christs death who had giuen mee so great a blow as that in iustice for my sake they were sacked by the Romanes and to this present wheresoeuer they abide they are poore practising base trades as Usurie and Broaking made subiect to extreame tributes paying continual tasks and yet without houses lands or other possessions not retaining so much as the shadowe of a Common wealth since that I cruelly was banished froÌ„ amongst them yet notwithstanding all the calamities which they suffered could not keepe them from contending amongst the Christians they grounded their false poynts vpon the old Testament so that after al this they were chased from France England Spayne by reason of blasphemies which they vomited out against Christ Iesus thus the Mahometists tearmed my people Miscreants vowed themselues for their sworne enemies And howsoeuer these were harmes which in the weaknes of my fauourers I could not defende without flight yet if among Christians themselues I had not been pursued with as great hatred at this time I should not neede to haue complained of wrong But now seeing bloudie warres haue happened betwixt those that were my owne children where I their mother intreating in most kind tearmes was not free from daunger nor could exempt them from spoyle let the world iudge if euer any receiued greater wrong theÌ„ I haue suffered The Greekes and the Romanes both contended so long for my fauour till both were content to forsake me quite and to make me perish if it had been possible for vndoubtedly I had dyed but that I was immortall Arrius came from Aegypt to sheath his sword within my

Prince her subiects that most cruelly by the meanes of her own countrimen These were they who iustly conuicted of treason by lawes made 200. yeare since in the time of Edward the 3. do openly but wrongfully boast that they haue suffered for religion yet I may say this that such as repenting their follie shewed a sorrowe and were willing to performe amendment were pardoned a thing not to be expected in so great a fault although iniuriouslie some of them haue not been ashamed to say that neuer religion was persecuted more then vnder the most vertuous peaceable milde mercifull religious gouernment of Queene Elizabeth nay I can confidently say this that in stead of punishing those who haue not offended she hath suffered many to keepe their religion stil to liue without danger of law and such as haue professed themselues to be Romish Catholiques aske but that graue and reuerend father Nicholas Heath somtimes Archbishop of Yorke and Lord high Chancellor of England he must needes confesse and vndoubtedly would doe it if he now liued that he tasted of his Soueraignes clemencie in so great a measure that those who for religion tearme her to be cruel are such as seeke by all meanes possible to defame her gouernment Pole the Bishop of Peterborough Cutbert Tonstall a reuerend graue man VVhite Oglethorp Thurlbie VVatson Turberuile Fecknam such as all of them had been zealous against mee yet she pardoned them their liues because they had not traiterously sought hers for since the beginning of her raigne to this present day there is no man able to proue howsoeuer some haue bin malicious to affirme the same that Queene Elizabeth hath for religion onely put any to death of the Romish sectaries It were long for me to repeate things alreadie sufficientlie knowne wherein Rome hath so malitiouslie dealt to suborne her Iesuits that from them this 36. yeares England hath had the greatest cause to feare the subuersion of her whole state Pius the fift vngodly and cruell in this poynte intended to free the subiects of this land from their allegiance to their dread Soueraigne a thing abhorring against diuinitie a matter neuer heard of with any of my followers and hated euen of the heathen themselues who neuer tasted of my trueth to graunt pardon and openlie to auouch it to subiectes and against their Prince and to English men against their owne countrie it is such a faulte as former time neuer thought of the age present dooth abhor and shall make thereat the dayes insuing to be astonished it were too lamentable to be thought of Religions superstition should make any so fearefull of the Popes authoritie Fraunce howsoeuer thou art now distracted into small peeces yet in the daies of thy second Henry thou hadst little feare of the Popes Bulles when impatient of his proude and vsuall vsurping within thy territories thou didst not onely by edict decrees parliaments proclamations disanull his supreame authoritie but denied him stoutlie those yearelie reuenewes which he exacted out of thy dominions And Philip thou which now gouernest Spayne and fondly intendest to be the worlds Monarch what minde then didst thou beare against the Pope when sending with thy Duke of Albanie an Armie into the coasts of Italy thou spoyledst their towns destroyedst their fields sackedst their cities and with thy canons girt them within the compasse of their owne walles This shewed to the world how little being offended thou esteemedst of the Popes Bulles and thy father that worthie Charles the 5. tooke Pope Clemence captiue and the whole Colledge of Cardinals made him pay for his ransome 400000. Duckets valued the Cardinals at a higher rate And least thou which art openlie my professed enemie shouldest thinke that Englands Elizabeth wanteth presidents of her countrie valiantly to withstand and scornfully to make account of the roring of thy Bulles remember but the time of Queene Mary a gracious Soueraigne if she had not been blinded by thy meanes when thou wert offended with her cosin Cardinall Pole and in disgrace of him sent vnto Petie a begging Frier the Cardinals Hat she crossed thee in thy purpose and made small account of thy great threats I could alleadge the worthie Henry the 8. regestred in Honors Catalogue to liue for euer how couragiously to aduance me he shaked off thy seruile yoake and exempted his subiects from the Romish tyrannie But to let these passe as matter apparant without proofe I must needes complaine of two notorious enemies such as in the daies of peace haue done me the greatest wrong that euer woman suffered and least wondering thou stande amazed how this should be in the land of knowledge in Elizas raigne I meane the prophane Atheist and the zealous but falsely Puritane And although I poore Religion am not so good a states man that willingly I intermeddle with matters of the common wealth yet I must say thus much in the true defence of my selfe that since prophane Machiuell hath obtained so much credit amongst the greatest states men of all Europe Atheisme hath perswaded the world of my death tolde Princes that there was no religion Can any counsell bee more pernicious to a Common wealth more dangerous to a Countrie more fatall to a Prince then onely to relie in causes of greatest importance vpon his owne wisedome to seeme to haue that religion in shew which he neuer meaneth to imbrace in trueth to preferre Heathens before me to ascribe felicitie to fortune and not to vertue and true religion And these with diuers others of like impuritie that prophane A theist broched vnto the world which was no sooner drunke by the states of Europe but some of their kingdomes haue come to ruine Nay I will take vpon me without presumptioÌ„ to prophesie thus farre that the greatest kingdom that Europe hath the most mightie people that euer was and the most famous common wealth that euer florished shall all of them by contemning religion become desolate And howsoeuer I will not presume so farre proudly to make with Bellarmine temporall prosperitie a note of the true Church seeing she is ordained to suffer many calamities vnder the hands of tyrants yet I dare say thus much that religious Princes while confidently in a good cause they haue fullie relied vpon Gods assistance they haue notablie triumphed ouer all their enemies thus in the old Testament Abraham Moses Iosua Gedeon Samuel Dauid Ezechias Iosias and the Machabees all triumphed ouer multitudes of their enemies because I howsoeuer contemned by prophane Machiuel was the sole conductor of all their armies thus almost as Moses did Pharaoh in these latter times Constantinus ouercame Maxentius The like might bee spoken of Theodosius the elder of whome Theodoret maketh honorable mention of many priuiledged fauours he obtained for his true profession thus in the

found farre inferior Now these and benefites farre greater then these are should England be robbed of by Treason depriued of by Sedition and quite spoyled of by Rebellion And therefore in the colde quaking feare of so great an euill when as I think how treason goeth about to supplant my state to sel my honor and make me perish with one wound then doe I iustly wish the teares of King Anchises mourning for the fatall destruction of proude Troye or of M. Marcellus for the citie of Syracusa when hee sawe it burned or of Salust when he sawe Rome ill gouerned or of King Demetrius when hee saw his sonne in lawe slaine in the battaile of Marathone But because mens harts are flintie and not touched with iust sorrowe breeding remorse of my fall let me wish and wishing obtaine the kinde and brinish teares of Queene Rosana for her husband Darius when he was conquered by the great Alexander or of bewtifull Cleopatra weeping without comfort that her best beloued Anthony was conquered by Caesar but if these teares be prophane and not befitting to mourne for the wrong to so vertuous and to so holy an Iland then let me wish the teares of Ieremy for Babylon when it was made captiue or Dauids mourning for his sonne Absolon or olde father Iacobs for his sonne Ioseph this were tragicke matter to write of treason to thinke but of that yet death to thinke which they intended after that day if euer that then day shoulde enioy a sunne being darker then the blackest night as I wish and hope that it neuer shall shall Englands wise and painefull Chroniclers write nothing but warres and bloodie fieldes Poets Lucan-like begin with Bella per emathios plus quam ciuiâ—ia Campos and then those that like the Philosopher Ariminus who wrote of the aboundance of Aegypt haue finelie discoursed of the plentie of this Iland may sit downe and shew a naked bare and fleshles Skeleton to the whole worlde and those that haue boasted as Demophon of the fertiltie of Arabia shall sigh and say that Englishmens teares hath shedde such aboundance of salte in the earths furrowes that the Iland is become barren and they that like Thurilides of the treasures of Tyrus haue tolde the worlde by trauaile of Englands wealth may sit downe and say The rich betrayed are the richest spoyles and those that like Asclepius of the mines of Europe haue written of the welthie bowels of the English earth shall say that then she sendeth forth nothing but smoake desirous to make an eternall night And those that haue written like Dodrillus of the praise of Greece or Leonidas of the triumphs of Thebes or Eumenides of Athens gouernment shall tell posteritie that Treason in one day depriued England of all these But least some should think that then my sorrow should be greater theÌ„ cause why and that the losse were nothing which England should haue by so foule a sinne giue mee leaue but in plaine tearmes to set forth a naked trueth and diuiningly to tell what would bee Englands miserie at that day M. Crassus the renowmed Romane valiant in warre wise at home taking Syllas part against Marius and Iulius Caesar that was then Dictator who being taken prisoner spake a loude I weigh not my harme but the pleasure that Crassus shall haue to heare this newes And amongst other surely this will not bee the least that Spayne should heare but of this harme the Court which is now like the eight Spheare beautified fullie with fixt stars should be nothing but like the ayre full of Meteors sending downe lightning thunder raine haile and such like and then should ancient Cato that in 86. yeares was neuer seene to violate grauitie so much as by a smile who was wise in speech sweete in conuersation in correcting seuere in presents liberal in diet sober in promise certaine and lastly inexorable in iustice leaue the Court at the age of 55. yeares and betake him to a little village neere Pilena where the passinger might write vpon the porch of his poore cabinet O foelix Cato tu solus scis viuere O happie Cato thou onely knowest how to liue then should Lucullus one of the valiantest Captaines that Rome had after the warre against the Parthians seeing the common wealth troubled with the ciuill faction of Sylla and Marius from Rome betake himselfe to Lobo neere Athens then might Dioclesian although a tyrant which is seldome but ambitious after 18. yeares gouernment betake himselfe to spend the rest of his daies in obscure silence whom if the Romanes would recall by ambassage within two yeares after he would rather liue in his poore garden with Pericles his inscription Inueni portum spes fortuna valete nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios the same is ingrauen in the tombe of Franciscus Pullicius And then iustly should Scipio Africanus somtimes so highly honored in Rome which in the 22. yeares tha the made war with Asia Africk and Spayne neuer fought vnluckely who gained Africa sacked Carthage ouercame Numantia and conquered Hannibal yet discontented liued in a poore towne for eleuen yeares without euer entring into Rome or Capua Such should be then the desolate state of this whole Iland and greater calamities should fall vpon vs then a heart not vsed to these possiblie were able to vtter But seeing I haue begun giue mee leaue a little to reason the case further Can they preferre vnknowne before those that are well knowne vniust before those that are most iust strangers before domesticall couetous before soberly moderate wicked before religious deadly enemies before those that are sworne vnto the Common wealth a Spanyard before an Englishman and Thilip before our dread Soueraigne There was neuer nation found so barbarous so cruel so without pitie wherein not so many nay not one was found so cruell to his owne countrie Tully O if he liued now to inuey against those thought Verres the worst man that euer countrie had yet compare him with these and he was meerely honest hee stole but out of Apollos temple secretlie and in the night some fewe religiouslie honoured Images but these I feare to speake it haue intended to take a sacred Prince from a holie land he offered violence to the place where Apollo was borne but these not to the place but to a personage farre more sacred then Apollos was But let not deep scanning wisedome be offended that I compare her to Apollo for whatsoeuer wroÌ„g was offered to that which trueth or ignorance deemed in earth the dearest that is contained in the treasons which haue been intended against our dread Soueraigne who all this while standing like a rocke of pearles in the assured confidence of Englands watchman is not danted to see her enemies to bee so malitious After that Philip of Macedon had conquered the Athenians hauing Philosophers at supper with him he propounded this Question VVhat was the greatest

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