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A true and perfecte description of a straunge monstar borne in the citty of Rome in Italy, in the yeare of our saluation. 1585 Vnder which is described both the originall and triumphant state of the Holy League, and also the sodain and desperate fall thereof in the yeare 1588. With certaine verses exhortatory to the King of Spayn, that hee would withdraw his persecuting hand from the Church of Christ. Wherein are also shewed some of the cruelties exercised vppon our countrey-men and others in the Inquisition and gallies of Spaine.
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I. L., fl. 1590.
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hast it lost That which Charles and others won kept in Barbary from the Turke thys king hath lost through the great desire he hath to make wars in christendome Still warring where thou shouldest aide and that with inickle cost And sith that God hath seated thee to weare his crown in Spaine To yeelde accompt to God of this thou surely shalt be faine For what thy tirants do thou doest sith thou doest giue them leaue And if thou looke not well in time they also will bereaue Thee of thy earthly crowne and rule for that they bring in hate To all the world both thee and thine with all thy roiall state For all who erst haue wronged beene such whose friends had wroÌ„g Do call reuenge and threat reuenge with hope ere it be long If thou do not relent in time for to performe it so That thou with them and they with thee will find it to your woe T is vaine to trust too much in golde or Indias siluer mines Or els to friends that are but friends so long as Fortune shines And seemes to lull thee in her lap but bend shee once her brow Thy friends are gone ere thou beware or scarsely knowest how For friendship forst doth wauer still and waiteth but a time For to reuolt though biding yet till things grow more in prime All are not friends that are thy thrall perforce gainst right and will VVhat shew soeuer they do make their hate remaineth still And still doe hope but for a day to set their shoulders free From seruile yoke and tirants fell appointed so by thee To rule and raigne and bear a sway to murther and to sposle Such as are vnder thy hard hand in any forraine soile Sure God the righter of all wronges doth limit time and age How long all tirants shall remaine and rule in bloudy rage VVhich time and age no man shall passe no not a moment small But at the time that God appoints King Charles the last of that name that consenâ—ed to the massacre died bleeding at the nose eyes mouth and al other vents in the body The last king and brother to Charles being young was by the Guises proeurement a chiefe actor in the massas cre with D. of Guises was the first that altered his na ture to make him take plesare in the effusion of bloud and therefore by the iust indge ment of God he caused the Guise to be murthered so so daynly that he had no time to repeÌ„t perforce they perish all Let Charles of France be in thy minde who did but yeelde consent Vnto that slaughter in his Realme whereof he did repent Yet by his death the Lord would shew his wrath in some degree His vents all bleeding till his corps of life and bloud was free But the cheefe authors of the fact though yet they liued long In time receaude their due desert and recompence of wrong First Guyes that great bloud thirsty beast and auctor of that ill Which neuer seemde to be suffisde or haue of bloud his fill The Lord appointed at the length when now his sin was ripe And growen vp vnto the full that he should haue his stripe By his appointment whome he taught and first inuerd to bloud He of himselfe not being so his nature was more good For by the Guyse he was induste to do what so he did And was partaker of his sinne that els would not haue slidde Therefore the Lord appointed so within his secret deeme That he alone should be the man to send him to his toome Without regard of friendship past the Guyse doth seeke his death The king it knowes which to prâ—uent he stops the Guyses breath So makes him wallow in his geare that erst had shed so much Of other mens without remorce and now his death is such Euen like the man that taught his crow to eat and pull out eyes Of Lambes and other simple beasts her huuger to suffice The Crow inured still thereto ere that the man it wiste Shee pluckt an eie out of his head while sitting on his fifte Such are the iudgements of our God and so he brings about The scholler in such vgly sinne doth roote the maister out But Iustice yet not fully done though king repent the deede The Lord will surely be reuengde and make all such to bleede As shed the bloud of Innocents and do his saints such harme His power is naught at all abridgd ne shortened is his arme And who hath he resernde in store to touch the Lords annoine Noate To dare lay hands vppon the king to ioypard such a ioynt Euen they aduanced by him most and whom he loued best And of all the other hypocrites prefer before the rest The Iacobins euen those the Lord appointed for the fact To lay their hands vppon the king The Iacobins are an order of â—â—vers whom the king moste preserred they did that bloudy act O depth vnsercht and secrets such as neuer may be knowen By humane wit till thou O Lord vouchsafe to haue it showen In time decreede by thy selfe then all the world shall see Thy holy Iudgements what they are and what thy counsails bee But what shall that vngrations house that durst to be so bold To lay their hands vpon their King escape so vncontrold No sure I know they all shall rue that vile and cursed deed Ere it be long as they deserue I hope to see them speed As of the rest none haue escapte that were the chiefe of al In the massacre done in France vpon both great and smal So sure the rods that whipped them at length must into sire They were but great Iehouahs whips I meane the cursed frire With all his crue that did consent vnto King Henries death Agreeing so amongst themselues as beasts deuoyd of faith Bethinke thee well O King of this and trie where thou be cleere And innocent of such offence as is rehearsed heere Flying fame doth say if she say true that Orange Prince was slaine By thee alone sith thou alone didst promise largely gaine To him that should commit the fact which gaine did bring to passe A Spaniard tooke the same in hand most like a wilfull Asse And did performe it villanously who after had his hire Not of thy gold but cruell death as iustice did require Fame saith more that thou art stainde in death of proper sonne Thinke sure to yeelde accompt of all what euer thou hast done For many things are bruted more which I dare not reporte The Lord doth knowe them euery one both where and in what sorte And where thou shouldest aide such kings whose subiects do rebell How thou it dost this Realme and France may witnes very well Whose subiects neuer woulde haue sturde but by thy prosserd aide Of men and money in their need which makes them not afraide Of God nor Prince nor of the Law that bids vs all obay Our Prince appointed by the Lord
inuyroning him round and gazing vpon him with their neuer satisfied eyes Some that expected he should haue wrought great wonders stoode pittifully howling ouer him others that had long feared and somewhat felt the force of his furie stoode giuing thankes to the almightie for so gratious a deliuerance and others not caring which end of the staffe went forwardes for there were of all sortes stoode laughing and grining and making mowes which sorte would haue béene as readie to runne with the hound had the hound still continued the chase on hope to haue pykt the bones and fedde on the reuertion of the pray This Monsters great heads that earst spake great blasphemies against heauen lay now yéelding foorth against the same place and him that ruleth therein most bitter curses in the anguish of their distempered braynes and with déepe and hollowe grones bewrayed to all men their sorrowes His right arme hanging downe the head his crowne standing a one side more after the falling then swearing fashion with the rich stone and pearle of his scabbard fallen off in many places and his golden chape quite fallen off and lost yet there remayned many stones and pearles with the golden hilt vppon the leaden blade which blade at the first thrust turned directly to his owne bosome and being at the first drawen séemed so vnsutable to the rich scabbard that men wondred to sée so braue a shew to couer so weake a weapon his hautie spéech was altered from El mundo no me basta to his doubtfull demaund No aprouechando Tesoro que hare Which in effect is thus much if my treasure auayle me not what shall I doe as though his infinite treasure wherein he trusted had quite deceaued him And therewith he set such a sigh as pearced to the quicke euery entraile limme of the whole Monster in such sort as the whole body became so loose with the feare that it is doubted whether the laske may be stopt till guts and all goe together into the préeuie but in the meane time there was old stopping of noases phogh quoth the beholders what a stinking Holy-league is this The left arme that lately played such Rex in France beeing the very butcher of this League vpon the Saintes of God was now cleane cut from the body by * one The last freÌ„ch king who perceiuing the purpose of this League caused the Duke of Guize to be murthered who at the first sate as newter till he saw that the Monster in déed pretended in his sayd progresse to bereaue him also of crowne life then began Henry of Valoys to besturre him as one to whom a crowne life was more déere then so to léese either of theÌ„ and espying his time he layes so about him that eare euer the Monster was ware he smote the left arme quite off his shoulders which in the fall brake his sword vomiting out with his blood this frantick french Cruelle mort me preuient as much in english as Cruell death preuents me meaning as it séemes that sodaine death had preuented his purpose which reached euen to the kings own life so that he gréeued more for not effectuating his purpose then sorrowed for conceiuing so great a sinne in his heart The bedye bowelles and other inwardes of the monster I sawe so chaunged from that it was lately described that what with their vinum Theologicum and ouer soone excesse in ioy but especially their suddayne and vnexpected sorrowe euen when they thought all should haue be'ene according to their longing the whole stomach of the beast was so ouercome that his entrayles fell a sending vpwarde and his stomach spewing out such blasphemie against Heauen and such bitter curses against the Church of Christ that the stintch thereof was and yet is still ascending into the nostrelles of the Lorde which stincke though according to his long patience he suffer for a season yet let not his Church dispayre for at length when the stinch is at the greatest he will so destroy the whole bodie of this monster that not onely his curssinges and blasphemies shall cease together with his tyranny and power but euerie lymme shall suddainely vanish away as the whole bodie was at the first ouer hastely begotten and hatcht into the worlde But yet the number of Martyrs appoynted to suffer vnder Antichrist is not full Well this late myrie bodie was againe of late so out of tune and in so contrarie a note that it made all the beholders much to maruaile for in ste'ede of Neuer such cause of ioy which was the spe'ech in the Monsters prosperitie I heard playne mumbling amongest them Neuer in like extremitie A soddayne chaunge but what can not the Lorde bring to passe howe can he'e turne the ioyes of the wicked into sorrowe and the crosses of the godly into swe'ete ease as this is the Lordes dooing and it is woonderfull in our eyes His twofolde tayle trayling after and contayning such a number of people of all degre'es and ages euen from Princes pe'eres to the most abiectes people the beholders also perceiued woonderfully altered the one parte comming from the mothers head were such as were woonderfully bewitched by the charmes of the great Sorceresse of Rome and had quaffed de'epely out of her Idolatrous cuppe whereby some of all sortes became so superstitious that they followed the League and Popes cause of me'ere superstition onely but these the simplest and smallest number for the greatest number were wholely of the Diuell the Syre without any religion or deuotion at all drawen onely by desire of gayne and preferment crying with the rest Oh the holy League the holy League yet they as carelesse and voyde of holinesse and religion as hee that neuer knewe the meaning of eyther euen like the roagues at the late defacing of Lincolnes Inne which neyther cared for Prentises nor had receiued any iniurie at the handes of anie Gentleman of the house yet gladde of the least opportunitie to robbe spoyle and doe any mischiefe what so euer had no thing in their mouthes but Oh the Prentises the Prentises downe with the house kill the raskalles c. Such I say were the greatest followers of this League hoping vppon the soddaine of vagabonds and lubbars to become Lordes at the first dash whereof no doubt In resâ—ect of their wonderfull mixture and that with the vildest nations vnder heauen as with the Negro the Iewe the Moore in such sort that scant one among a hundred can proue him selfe free from one of these three sortes of people especially in Granada Murcâ—a Iaen Andauzia c they heard large promises made to all the followers which made the Spanish mungrelles so hastie to cause their Courtizans and Wiues to followe into Fraunce their inuincible Armada promising against their comming hether to haue prouided for their entertaynement the fayrest houses in London vaunting before the victorie to sell veluets in Cheapeside by the Rapyer and to measure out broade cloth