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A02187	Newes from Italy of a second Moses or, the life of Galeacius Caracciolus the noble Marquesse of Vico Containing the story of his admirable conuersion from popery, and his forsaking of a rich marquessedome for the Gospels sake. Written first in Italian, thence translated into latin by reuerend Beza, and for the benefit of our people put into English: and now published by W. Crashavv ...; Historia della vita di Galeazzo Caracciolo. English	Balbani, Niccolo, d. 1587.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1608 (1608)	STC 1233; ESTC S100534	64,277	90

the Paradises of Naples Naples the Paradise of Italy Italy of Europe Europe o the earth yet all these Paradises were nothing to him in comparison of attaining the celestiall Paradise there to liue with Iesus Christ If any Papists musing as they vse and measuring vs by themselues do suspect the story to be some fained thing deuised to allure and intise the peoples minds and to set a flourish vpon our Religion as they by a thousand false and fained stories and mirables vse to doe I answere first in the generall farre be it from vs and our Religion to vse such meanes either for our selues or against our aduersaries No we are content the Church of Rome haue the glory of that garland Popery being a sandie and a shaken a rotten and a tottering building needs such proppes to vnderset it but truth dare shew her selfe and feares no colours But for the particular I answere cunning liers as many Monkes were framed their tales of men that liued long agoe and places a farre off and vnknowen that so their reports may not too easily be brought to triall But in this case it is far otherwise the circumstances are notorious the persons and places famously knowen Vicum Naples Italy Geneua are places wel knowen Calantonius his father Charles the fist his Lord and Master Pope Paul the fourth his vncle were persons well knowen examine either places or persons and spare none truth seekes no corners disproue the story who can we craue no sparing neither is the time too farre past but may soone be examined He was borne within these hundred years and died at Geneua within these twenty yeares and his sonnes sonne at this day is Marquesse of Vicum Let any Papist doe what he can he shall haue more comfort in following the example then credit in seeking to disproue the storie In the course of my poore reading right Honourable I haue often found mention of this noble Marquesse and of his strange conuersion but the storie it selfe I first found it in the exquisit Library of the good gentleman Master Gee one that honours learning in others and cherisheth it in himselfe and hauing not once red it but often perused it I thought it great losse to our Church to want so rare a iewel and therfore could not but take the benefit of some stolne houres to put the same into our tongue for the benefit of my brethren in this Realme who want knowledge in Italian and Latine tongues And now being translated I humbly offer and consecrate it to my holy mother the Church of Fngland who may reioyce to see her Religion spredding it selfe priuily in the heart of Italy and to see the Popes nephew become her sonne And next of all vnto you right Honourable to whom I am bound in so many bonds of duety and to whom this story doth so fitly appertaine You my honourable good Lord may here see a noble gentleman of your own rank in descent birth education aduancements like your selfe to be like you also in the loue and liking of the same holy Religion And you good Madam may here conceiue iudge by your selfe how much more happy this noble Marquesse had bin if his Lady Madam Victoria had bin like your selfe I meane if she had followed and accompanied her Lord in that his most holy and happy conuersion And you all right Honourable in this noble Marquesse as in a crystal glasse may behold your selues of whom I hope you wil giue me leaue to speake that which to the great glory of God you spare not to speake of your selues that you were once darknes but now are light in the Lord Blessed be that God the father of light whose glorious light hath shined into your hearts Behold right honorable you are not alone behold an Italian behold a noble Marquesse hath broken the ice and troden the path before you In him you may see that Gods Religion is as well in Italy as in England I meane that though the face of Italy be the seat of Autichrist yet in the heart thereof there is a remnant of the Lord of hosts You may see this noble Marquesse in this story now after his death whom in his life time so many noble Princes desired to see His body hath lien in the bowels of the earth these seuenteene yeares but his soule liues in heauen in the bosome of Iesus Christ and his Religion in your hearts and his name shall liue for euer in this story Accept it therfore right honourable and if for my sake you will vouchsafe to read it once ouer I dare say that afterwards for your owne sake you will read it ouer and ouer againe which if you do you shall find it wil stir vp your pure minds inflame your hearts with a yet more earnest zeale to the truth and wil be an effectuall meanes to increase your faith your feare of God your humility patience cōstancy and al other holy vertues of regeneration And for my part I freely truely professe I haue bin often rauisht with admiration of this noble example to see an Italian so excellent a Christian one so neere the Pope so neere to Iesus Christ and such blessed fruit to blossome in the Popes own garden and to see a noble man of Italy forsake that for Christ for which I feare many amongst vs would forsake Christ himselfe And surely I confesse truth the serious consideration of this so late so true so strange an example hath bin a spur to my slownes whetted my dul spirits and made me to esteeme more highly of Religion then I did before I know it is an accusation of my selfe a disclosing of my own shame to confesse thus much but it is a glory to God an honour to Religion a credit to the truth and a praise to this noble Marquesse and therefore I will not hide it And why should I shame to confesse it when that famous renowned man of God holy Caluine freely confesseth as in the sequell of this story you shall heare that this noble mans example did greatly confirme him in his Religion and did reuiue and strengthen his faith and cheere vp all the holy graces of God in him And surely most worthy Lord and honorable Ladies this cannot but confirme and comfort you in your holy courses and as it were put a new life vnto the graces of God in you when you see what not the common people but euen such as were like your selues haue suffred for Religion and when you see that not only the poore and baser sort of men but euen the mighty and honourable as your selues are doe thinke themselues honored by embracing Religion Pardon my plainenes and too much boldnes with your honors vouchsafe to accept it as proceeding from one who much tendreth your saluations and reioyceth with many thousands more to behold the mighty gracious work of God in you Goe forward right noble Lord in the name of

and embrace his holytruth and yeeld his soule and conscience obedient to the heauenly calling and so become the seruant and childe of the most high God whereby he may aspire and attaine to the true and highest dignity which is to enioy the fauour and comfortable presence of God his holy grace to loue God and to be loued of him and so at last to be aduanced to that heauenly and eternalglory which is prepared for them who in this world do forsake themselues and their owne desires that they may in true holines serue the Lord. With these and such like holy speeches he answered the disholy and dishonest demand of this carnall Papist But for all that this importunate and vnreasonable Iesuite for he was of that sect ceased not to be troublesome to this noble and holy Gentleman still vrging him with fond and friuolous reasons and pressing him with rediculous arguments as this especially for one he promised him a huge sum of money if he would returne home which saith he lies ready at Lions for you and the Brokers and Exchangers there are prepared to pay it And he further assured him that if he would come againe into Italy they had procured him liberty of his conscience and Religion at Turing and there also he said he should find a great summe of money ready for him But when this importunatefellow presumed to presse the good conscience of this resolute Gentleman with such base arguments and began to weigh Religion in a paire of gold weights then the noble heart of this holy Christian could not but shew it selfe mooued and therefore in a holy zeale and an ardent loue of his Sauior Christ Iesus he cryed out Let their money perish with thē who esteeme al the gold in the worldworth one daies society with Iesus Christ his holy spirit cursed saith he be that religion for euer which shal wed men to the world diuorce them from God Go home therfore saith noble Galeacius take away thy siluer again make much of that drosse of the earth together with your dregs of popery lock thē vp together in the chest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And as for me know it that my Lord Sauior Christ hath made me enamored of far more precious iewels and durable riches But the heauenly constancy of this holy man droue this frantike papist from his bias into an extreme choller for he according to the nature of his Popes holy religion thought that when all arguments had failed yet money would haue wonne him and therfore seeing him so highly to scorne and so disdainfully to contemne so great offers hee thought it very strange and therefore seeing all his labor lost and his best hold proue so weake he fell from mony to meere madnes and forgetting himselfe and his duty brake out into ill words and reproohfull termes But when the Magistrate was informed of it and saw that this arrogant papist durst so far abuse the patience of so honorable a man therfore by their authority they forbad him the Citie as the manner of that place is in such cafes and so this newes bringer had his pasport to be packing and to go home and count his siluer and there to bragge of his good successe for he now could say by good experience that so much money as was enough to lead an hundred popish friers to and fro whither a man would like Beares by the nose could not touch the conscience of one protestant much lesse make him a papist CHAP. XXIX Being deliuered from the importunitie of the Iesuit not long after came a Monke nimble witted and learned a kinsman of his owne who had a strong conceit that he could haue reclaimed him but he came too late the Marquesse being dead before he came AND thus it pleased God to deliuer this sick gentleman from this troublesome tempter and this messenger of Satan which came to haue buffeted him but he buffeted yea and vanquished him Satan in him and he might report at home that he found the Marquesse sicke in bodie but whole in mind yea that he neuer saw in all his life so resolute a conscience and so couragious a mind in so weake a body And thus the Lord doubtlesse did in mercy to him that being from this disquiet companion he might with more comfort and lesse griefe beare the burden of his sickenes which now grew vpon him more and more and left him not till it made him leaue the world and till it had translated him from this his pilgrimage to his eternall rest and till it had made him of a poore Marquesse vpon earth a glorious King in heauen Whose death as it was wonderfully lamented of the whole Church for the vnrecouerable losse they had of him so it was a merciful blessing and a welcome messenger of God to him for it freed and deliuered him from many stormes of new temptations which the Diuell was raising against him for within a short time after his death there came to Geneua a certaine Monke a good scholar a gentleman by birth and neere a kin to Galeacius who being puft vp with Monkish pride and a conceit of his owne ability for such an enterprise thought so farre to haue preuailed with Galeacius by his nimble wit and eloquent tongue as to haue perswaded him now at the last either to haue relinquished his Religion or at least to haue left Geneua and to haue returned into Italy where his vncle had beene lately Pope that so by his presence and countenance and the helpe of his great friends which he had both in the Popes and the Emperours Court his children might be in more possibility of those high dignities and great places in the world which they and their other friends aimed at and for the attainment whereof nothing so much hindred them as their fathers Religion and course of life But he returned home a proud foole as he came and ashamed of his proud and insolent spirit which perswaded him by his vaine babling he could haue ouercome him whom he found when he came to Geneua to haue ouercome the world and all spirituall enemies and now to be triumphing in the glory of heauen And so leauing him and all other his Popish carnall kinred gnashing their teeth for anger to see his admirable constancy let vs returne againe to our sicke gentleman whose end now hasting on will also hasten an end of this strange story CHAP. XXX His long and languishing sickenes grew and increased vpon him in such measure as his paine was most grieuous but hee bare it all with an heroicall and heauenly courage so that it might manifestly appeare that euen the Lord from heauen did lend him strength and as the torments and pangs of the disease increased so hisfaith and patience and all heauenly vertues shone in him more and more so that it was most true of him which the Apostle saith as the outward man perished so the inward man was

and want Christ Iesus CHAP. VIII Of the grieuous combats betwixt the flesh and the spirit when he resolued of his departure NOw heree by the way it may not be omitted what kind of cogitations he hath often said came into his mind as he was deliberating about this great matter For first of all as often as he looked on his father which he did almost euery houre who decrely loued him and whom againe he respected in all duety and reuerence so often doubtlesse he was striken at the heart with vnspeakeable griefe to thinke of his departure his mind no doubt often thinking thus What and must I needes forsake my deere and louing fathr and cannot I else haue God my Father O miserable and vnhappy father of my body which must stand in comparison with the Father of my soule And must I needes faile in duety to him if I performe my duety to God O miserable old man for what deeper wound can pierce him then thus to be depriued of the onely staffe and comfort of his old age Alas shall I thus leaue him in such a sea of troubles and shall I bee the onely meanes to strike into his heart the deepest wound of griese that yet euer pierced him in all his life This my departure is sure to make my selfe the obloquy of the world yea to breede reproch and shame to the Marquesse my father and to my whole stocke and kinred How is it possible that the good old man can ouercome or indure so great a griefe but rather he must needs be swallowed vp of it so with woe and misery end his life Shall I then be the cause of death to my father who would if neede had beene redeemed my life with his owne death alas what a misery is this like to be either to me or him or vs both yet must I care lesse for bringing his gray head with sorrow vnto the graue then for casting my owne poore soule with horror into hell And no lesse inwardly was he grieued in respect ofhis noble wife Victoria for hauing no hope that she would renounce Popery and go with him therefore he durst not make known vnto her the purpose of his departure but rather resolued for Christs sake to leaue her and all and to follow Christ Shee was now as he was himselfe in the prime of youth a Lady of great birth faire wise and modest but her loue and loyalty to her husband surpassed all How was it possible patiently to leaue such a wise so that his perplexed mind discoursed on this fashion when he lookt on her And shall I so yea so suddenly and so vnkindly leaue and forsake my wife my most deere and louing wife the onely ioy of my heart in this world my companion and partner in all my griefe and labour the augmenter of my ioy the lessener of my woe And shal I leaue her not for a time as hertofore Idid when the Emperors seruice called me from her but for euer neuer againe to enioy her yea it may be neuer to see her And shall I depriue my selfe of her thereby depriue my selfe ofal others also of al the comfort of the coniug all life married estate And shal I so leaue her desolate alone in that estate age whereof she is Alas poore Lady what shal she doe what shal become of her and of her litle ones when I am gone How many dolefull dayes without comfort many waking nights without sleep shal she passe ouer What wil she do but weep waile pine away with grief And as he cast these things in his mind he thought he euen saw his wife how she tooke on with her self sighing sobbing and weeping yea howling crying running after him with these pitifull out-cries Ah my deere Lord and sweete husband whither will you goe and will you Ieaue me miserable woman comfortlesse and succourlesse What shal become of me when you are gone what can honors pompes riches gold siluer iewels friends company all delights and pleasures in the earth what can they all do to my comfort when I want you And what ioy can I haue in my children without you but rather my griefe to be doubled to looke on them And how can I or the world be perswaded that you care for them and for my selfe Is this the loue that thou hast so often boasted of Ah miserable loue which hath this issue either neuer didst thou loue me else neuer had true loue so strange an end as this of yours hath And yet which is worse then all this you neuer shewed me cause of this your strange departue had I knowen cause it would neuer haue grieued mee halfe so much But now that the cause is not knowen what will the world iudge but that the fault is in me at least if they cannot condemne me for it yet how reprochfull will it be to me when euen euery base companion dare lay it in my dish and point at me with their fingers when I go by and say this is that fond woman who married him with whom she could not liue and whom her husband disdained to liue withall This is that simple foole who is desolate hauing a husband and a widow her husband yet beeing aliue Either shall I be counted wicked which haue caused thee to leaue me or foolish miserable and vnhappy who chose so fondly as to take him whom I could not be sure of when I had him In a word I shall be depriued of thee yea of all possibility of hauing any other and so hauing a husband I shal liue in al misery altogether without a husband These two cogitations of his father and his wife greatly tormented him and the more because hee laboured to keepe close this fire which burned and boiled in hisheart namely to conceale his departure lest by being knowne it might haue beene hindred which he would not for a world Yet there was a third and speciall care that pinched him and that was for his children which were sixe in all goodly and towardly children and worthy of so noble parents the more griefe was it in that they were so yong as that they could not yet conceiue what it was to wanta father the eldest was scarce fifteene and the yongest scarce foure yeares old hee loued them with most tender and fatherly affection and was againe loued and honoured of them It is wonderfull to thinke how when his wife the Lady did giue into his armes his yongest childe to play withall as oftentimes wiues vse to doe how it were possible for him and what a do he had with himselfe to containe from floods of teares especially because his eyes seeing them and his hands holding them and his heart taking delight and pleasure in them his minde could not but discourse on this manner And shall I within these few daies vtterly forsake these sweete babes and leaue them to the wide and wicked world as though