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A19644	Belgiaes troubles, and triumphs VVherein are truly and historically related all the most famous occurrences, which haue happened betweene the Spaniards, and Hollanders in these last foure yeares warres of the Netherlands, with other accidents, which haue had relation vnto them, as the battels of Fleurie, and Statloo, the losse of Gulicke and Breda, the sieges of Sluce and Bergen, the conquest of St. Saluador in Brasilia, and the taking of Gosse by Charles Lambert, &c. Written by William Crosse ...	Crosse, William, b. 1589 or 90.	1625 (1625)	STC 6072; ESTC S109106	45,855	80

Heauen-diuiding line Whose Zenith perpendicular doth stand Ouer the Sun-burnt Aethiopian land Eighteene braue Cohorts were from Zealand sent With danger-daring Resolution bent To cut the Dike and that lowe Champion drench VVhereon th' Iberians did themselues intrench Then might you see that massie bounding frame VVhose Rampier did the Riuers fury tame Pierst through and through and giue a free accesse Vnto the Floods which made their swift addresse To this inlarged rupture then the Moales Abandon'd quite their hollow vaulted holes Conies their Burrowes Hares their Formes forsooke And their swift legges new postures vndertooke Swimming along with men-deuouring Sharkes With Musicke-louing Dolphins scaly Carpes With bearded Barbels and that ruddy Fish Whose Chines are seru'd vp for a daintie dish Vnto the Burgers when their drunken Is a Faire or Reuell Kirmish Inuites their braines with Rhenish wine to skirmish This Deluge made the Borgian Bands retyre Crost in the proiect of their proud desire Because they fayl'd both of Cazaunt and Sluce Which they so long'd to gaine for Philips vse But although Borges braue Designe was croft By wauering Fortune and his honour lost Together with his Armies pierst the heart Of Isabella with repining smart Yet Vanderbercke who Gulicke did besiege With 's Legions rais'd from Naples Spaine and Liege Brought comfort to the Court whose furrowed face Lookt frowning sad for Sluces late disgrace Hee whilst that Maurice with his feeble Troupes Incamp'd at Dornicke and his Army droupes Being prest with sicknesse marcht vnto the Towne And there entrencht vpon the bordring ground Pethan commanded for the Belgicke Peeres As Chiefe Gouernour Archprefect who for some fore-past yeares The Cities Helme and Dutchies both had steer'd For 's loyall care for 's gouernment vnfear'd But now suspition mounted on the wing Of iust pretence bred iealousies within Amongst our Captaines whose well trained Bands VVere subiect to Pithans austere commands Hence sprung this cause the wealthy Iuliers Boore Had hoorded vp in his well furnisht store Larger prouisions which might well supply The pinching wants of our necessities Whose foreseene pressure did begin to threat A Saguntine penuriousnesse of meat The tainted store prouisions being sold By State-Commission which the Towne controld Besides those Pastures where the Roar a great Riuer in the Dutchie of Iuliars Roar fills His slimie channell from the purling hills Did swarme with Heards of that large German breed Whose vse might full releeue the Cities need For this respect the Gulikans aduise Wauering Pithan prouisions to surprise From out the Champion ere th' approaching foes Should stop the passage and th' Aduenues close Good was the Counsell but like verball winde It tooke no root within th'vnsetled minde Of Gulickes Gouernour whose wanting care From all defence our warlike Troupes doth bare For what out-daring death selfe-lauish Sprite Can striue with hunger or with famine fight Then thus suppose you see surrounded round Faire Gulicks walls and that their Trenches bound Close to the An vtter work commonly raised beyond all other Fortifications Rauelin and those vtter workes Behind whose masse the stout Defendant lurkes Suppose you heare the dreadfull Cannon play From their high-crested Platformes and display Strange characters of Death whose sad aspect Might terrour on Deaths second selfe reflect Lifes lauishnesse whose Adamantine heart Meane terrours doe not mooue nor cause to smart Close to these brazen Trunks the worlds last wonder True counterfeits of Ioues amazing thunder Deaths p●ologue acts his part the Musket sounds Lowd summons vnto death to blood and wounds Nor is this all wee suffer famine raignes Cleannesse of teeth in euery street complaines Things horrid are deuour'd Dogs Mice and Rats Lowd croaking Toadpoles hunger-starued Cats The Flemish Courser and the Frison Steed High pamperd for the Saddle now must feed The Riders Colon whose vnsatiate maw Both against Reason Nature Customes Law Feeds on that flesh whose liuing backe did beare Himselfe through horrors mouth through dangers feare Those high-fed palats which not long since far'd On Friselands fattest Fowle Westphaliaes Lard Zealandish Salmon and the wilde Boares haunch VVith which the richer Dutch doth cram his paunch On solemne Feast-dayes these for want of meat Things vilifide and dunghil'd now must eat To redresse this our men their Spirits rally And resolute appoint a valiant sally By whose aduenture they might either die Or manumize themselues from penurie Since better 't is for Valour once to bleed Then still to feele affliction vnder need In this conflict Captaine Iohn Haydon young Haydon doth appeare More then himselfe out-facing Fate and Feare And with his Pistoll arm'd dischargeth sure With euery shot a certaine Sepulture To some blacke-visag'd Spaniard who doth fall Neuer to rise before the last dayes call Amongst the rest one of the proudest foes As Challenger himselfe in Combate shewes Aduanc'd before the rest and there defies Goliath-like his brauer Enemies This Spur-gall'd Haydon who accepts the fight And though vnarm'd yet kills him in the sight Of both Battalions then recharg'd falls backe To answere him too with his Pistols cracke But the Retreat now sounded parts the fray And our men disappoynted cut their way With their well tempred Fauchius to that gate From whence they made excursions but of late This Salley past wherein with doubtfull chance Bellona shew'd her grimme fac'd countenance And all reliefe Debard or shut vp portculliz'd from the Towne By Vanderbercks Intrenchments who sits downe Resolu'd to winne and weare then courage droopes And mourning valour vnto famine stoopes Whose Bilboe-steeled poynt was farre more keene Then Spaniards wrath or Vanderbercks fierce spleene These motiues vrg'd a parle both condiscend To this condition and Committees send As Delegates in trust whose sound aduice The present difference might full compremise Both parties being agreed Count Henrie takes Reconquerd Gulicke which Pithan forsakes Who now dismarching through the Coleine port Surrenders vp this hunger-conqu'red Fort. To reaffront this losse when first the Spring To Winter-tyred mortalls ioy doth bring When May first opens those selfe-named Flowers Which Aprill blossomes with his pearled showers Nassauian Henry of Nassaw Henricke with selected Bands Of Horse and Foot in fruitfull Brabant lands Neere to Breda from whence his dreadfull Armes Transported worke strange characters of harmes In little Brabant Famine Sword and Fire Glutting Reuenge fresh boyling with desire Some fiftie Dorpes were in a moment burn'd And their faire-fronted Edifices turn'd By the consumption of the raging flame To that first Chaos from whence first they came In midst of these Combustions Henry falls Before well fenced well mann'd Herentals Where seeking by Petarre to force the place Our wanting The Vanguard Van shew'd not that wonted face Of ancient resolution whose default Debars the rest from A Towne in little Brabant Herentals assault Yet after this repulse our Foot surprise Partly by force partly by Compremise Two Little Forts much vsed by the Dutch An

you they haue seene The bloody Leaguer and the deaths of men They 'l sweare th 'aue been at Bergen and that fight Which Mansfield made At Flewrie neere to Namurs in fenced Namurs sight And talke of nought but Orders Postures Motions Whereof themselues haue scarce the verball notions Thrasonian braues compar'd with Souldiers braue Who make the field their house their bed their graue And scorne to speake of what themselues haue done That so they may the Braggarts Stigma shunne Nor were these glorious puffes the men alone Which curs'd the warres and wisht themselues at home But other Capuan Souldiers Carpet Knights Who with their Crownes had bought out merits rights And in the time of that long twelue yeares peace VVherein like Iades they liu'd in pomperd ease Procured had some Office of command By bribing gifts and iuggling vnder hand These men whom meanes not merit had erected With this disastrous night were much deiected And their crest-fallen courage did sinke downe Lower then th' Earth on which they lodg'd vpon Cursing the day wherein their fathers crownes Had made them vassalls to Bellonaes frownes But after that The Moone the siluer horned Planet Which hid her head like some declining Comet In that fell Tempest had vnloosd her Carre In Latmos Mount and that the Sunne from farre Mounting his Steeds in our Horizons poynt Inlightned had the darksome firmament Our men like to the Solar opening Flower Fresh courage tooke fresh comfort in that howre Wherein bright Phoebus with his cheerefull face Began to runne the Zodiacks Westerne race Aduenue signifies a passage Our Guards were then vpon th' Aduenues set Fires kindled were and forrage store was set Prouisions by Direction were sent downe From Skenks strong Sconce Embricks rampard towne Besides the ships wherein the baggage went Were to the durtie Dornicks quarters sent Wherein the Souldiers did receiue supplie In this first ingresse to necessitie Of those sad wants which Custome knowne became Another Nature to their Vertues fame Heere our Battalions did some three months lie Prest with the terrours of Mortalitie With Lice with Hunger and vncessant Raine Which filld the Rhine with all the bordring plaine Our men were shopt vp in those Barnes and Cells Wherein the Milke-sop Cleuiaes Peasant dwels Where like some fleecie fold with hurdles pent We past our time in pining languishment And in that Signifies a standing ●ampe Leaguer was our patience knowne More then our actiue Valour e're was showne For hauing spent the reliques of that store Which was prouided by th' vplandish Boore And after that rich Embricks fertill plaine Dismanteld was of trees of corne and graine By our Forragiers who did better know To cut then plant to reape then till or sowe Our Conuoyes then did for their forrage poast Beyond the Riuer to that Southerne coast Where stately Cleeue vpon a Mountaine stands Which all the Frontier thereabouts commands We marcht neere Goffe and Zantams new built walls For straw and fewell at our Drums sad calls Where the proud Spinola a Genouese by discent Genoan Marquesse then did lie With his best Horse and choyce Infanterie To stop our passage and th' attempts to breake Of the Nassauian Squadrons now growing weake With a disease which in their Troups did raigne With franticke fits with sense-confounding paine Which fierce contagion did not onely touch The French or Scots our English or the Dutch But spread it selfe like to some broken ball Of sulphrous wild-fire through our Quarters all From Eltam where Cleeues Votaries did wunne Southwards to Greets and towards the rising Sunne Where Raise being iealous of the bordring foe Her horned Workes and Rampiers new doth show Neuer that Simois-neere intrenched troupe With pestilence did more infected droupe When Phoebus moou'd for Concerning this plague read Homer the first of th● Iliads fayre Chriscis Rape Whom Atreus sonne to 's lust did captiuate Darted his wrath vpon those Grecian Bands Which would not yeeld to Chriseus faire demands Neuer the Plague wrought a more direfull bane In Salems Citie when Vespasian Read Ioseph● Bello Iud lib. With his Pretorian Cohorts did surround Mount Sions walls and that more sacred ground Whereon the Temple stood proud Asiaes wonder Whose spired crest Osiris vaile did sunder Then our weake Troupes were with this murraine prest Whose furie did our Cohorts all infest And like some sad Mephitis pierst their vaines Procuring death with fierce tormenting paines Some Regiments which could two thousand shew When wee first marcht vnto the Randeuow Could scarce fiue hundred of that number tell Excepting those who by this sicknesse fell Some Companies whose Squadrons were compleat Full sixescore strong when we at Skencks-Sconce met Could not a Tertian of that List produce Fit for the Seruice and Imployments vse Those that did liue could scarce intombe the dead Nor giue due rights to them that perished Those that were sound could not attendance giue Vnto the feeble nor the sicke relieue In eu'ry place was nought but desolation Skie-piercing cries and fearefull lamentation Vollies of Shot a fatall Dirge did sing Which ecchoing from th' adiacent Rhine did ring Whose Golgoth'd banks became one vaulted tombe Inclosing heapes within their spacious wombe Amongst which Signifies the slaughter or mortalitie of men Carnage grim-fac'd death did stalke And on these Trophees did triumphing walke Wishing her hand with one all-killing blow Might all our Legions to th' Infernall throw Some for this cause did blame the blamelesse Lawes Of potent Nature and condemn'd that cause Which by some iealous A law amōgst the Athenians by which they banished great men O estrocisme might banish These Spirits from this world and cause to vanish Those Seats of valour that stupendious frame Vnto those Elements from whence they came Others againe did curse false Galens Art And our Campestrian Leaches who doe part The quintessentiall Spirits of trees and plants Of Stones and Mettalls and supply the wants Of feeble Nature with their Fomentations With their Elixars Iulips and Purgations Who giue their patients some Aesonian pill As they pretend by which their bags they fill With Perues Gold and with Arabiaes wealth Themselues being impotent deuoyd of health Troubled with Coughs with Agues and Catarrhs With Dropsies Gowts with those intestine Iarres Which from distemperd humours doe proceed When they deficient are or doe exceed But all in vaine for 't was the firme decree Of that all-changing vnchang'd Deitie VVhose purpose through defects doth neuer alter All potent because impotent to falter VVhose power is such that in a twinckling eye It can consume large-spread mortalitie Not being tyed to Fortune Fate or Chance Gods onely knowne through mans meere ignorance 'T was hee that strucke with his all-powerfull hand Which checks the roaring Sea which rules the land Our suffring Troupes whose Valour oft had scapt The Canons shot and murdring Muskets fate 'T was hee that made those fields a common graue For th' English

retreate Or els aduaunce themselues and make a stand Vpon that place where he should giue commaund This last being graunted he doth straight inlarge The Frount of his battalions and doth chardge As when some raine-engendred Torrents shocke Both beate vpon an adamantine rocke Or when some sulphrous fulminations fire Lights on the crest of some piramide Spire The Bombards first did with their Torlin play And hundreds slaine vpon the Champion lay The bullet furrowed fielde with shot sowen And all the plaine with batterd Corslets strowen Then their Loose wings which begin the fight Forlorne death destined hope With our loose wings of Muskettiers doth coope The lighthorse failing fowle on both the flankes Do chardge and wheele and wheeling change their rankes The Muskettiers from either side do poure Of palefac'd bullets a death storming shower The Pikemen push and pushing with their Pike Through maild habergeons helmes and Corslets strike Foote stickes to foote and hand doth gripe with hand Each Frounter with his Frounter next doth bande With streames of bloud the bloudie greene doth smoake Whose vapour tooke foment with eu'rie stroake Our Curaciers by valiaunt Otherwise calld the Bishop of Halbershat Brunswicke led The last of all vnto this combat sped Whose footesteps dread and danger did attend Whersoeuer they did with their Cornets wend. Heere a braue Souldier wounded with a bruise Through th' orifice his fleeting soule out spues Heere a sure Gunner shot off by the knees Liues vpward whilst the nether fragment steeues Heere a man-woman Amazonian dame A Votaresse to Mars and Venus game Shot neere her friend in his imbracements dies And liuing dying thus doth simpathize But in the midst of this tumultuous broile Brunswicke though shot out braueth feare and toile Both chardge and rechardge fals on Frount and flancke Sometimes by file sometimes giuing in by rancke From morne till noone this dreadfull fight did last But when It was a little after mid day the sunne had the Meridian past Some thirtie minutes all things being confusd The Spainsh vanguard broake their Chiefe amusd With our mens courage Mansfield then appeares More then himselfe and thus inflaming cheeres His last reserue come on keene vp your spite Against these Barbr'ous Demimoores despite Breake through the Frount of that halfe broaken troupe And make their stiffnes to your valour stoope With your well pointed blades hew out your way Through their battalions which your course forelay No sooner sayd but done for forth they rush And like some winter storme do downe right push All that 's opposd and rowting file by file Rancke after rancke they passe that iron toyle Vnto the station of our mutineers VVhose wauering fills both sides with iealous feares For Corduba surmising that they lay For a reserue his last pursuite to stay Durst not ingage his ouertired bande But on the place of battaile kept his stand The losse was not vnlike foure thousand slaine Of either side the Champions browe did staine VVith Purple streames of their vermilion bloud VVhose Rubie congeald on th' Earths surface stood Amongst this honourd list stout Weimars Duke And Rougiere their fatall deaths wound tooke Mengesheim was ta'en and Brunswickes arme was shot VVho lost his hand whilst he the lawrell got This conflict being past the Count doth march Mounted vpon a rich triumphant Arche Ouer the A riuer which runneth into the Mase The Prince of Orange Sambre vanquisheth the Boores Passeth through Brabant ioyneth there his powers Neere Rosendale with the A riuer which runneth into the Mase The Prince of Orange Nassauian Graue Both being resolud thin'gaged towne to saue From the Castilians who with might and maine Applied the siege Bergen-opzom to gaine Fame bruiting this with her shrill Sounding winde VVith iealous feares fils the Marquesses minde VVho doubting that both Armies might Surprise His passage vnto Antwerpe straight doth rise With all his Regiments Tertioes and to Vulcan turnes His strawe built station which inflamed burnes The large extent of that well fenced frame Ere our Bergheneers to the pillage came But what Toledoes wiles The Prince of Parma Farnezes might Gonsaluoes power nor Spinolaes despite Could not effect for nine times seuen yeares Against the fortune of the Belgian Peeres Home-spunne Sedition if not crost by Fate Was like to worke against our Vnions State This faction first was leauen'd by the sower Of call'd Arminianisme whose clowdie shower Seem'd to deface the cleare irradiant Sunne Of reform'd Truth which on these Regions shone New Sectaries these Rudiments did varnish With fresh additions and did fairely garnish The Frontispice of that halfe rotten house Whose Architecture did the soules amuse Of sundry Belgians which for shelter came To this faire-seeming scarce substantiall frame This diffrence in Religion caus'd another Diffrence in Faction which th' Arminians smother For selfe-behoouing reasons till the State Was manag'd by t' Hollandish Aduocate Great Barneuelt a Paragon for wit For faction greatnesse which entirely knit And linkt to 's fortunes were the golden bayts That caught Plebeian minds with fond deceits He vassal'd as the rumour saith to Spaine Enuious to Nassaw couetous to gaine And spheare within his reaches that command Which Maurice held with his victorious hand Appalls the multitude with iealous feares With tickling rumours fills the glowing eares Of his Associates tells them that t' indure The proud Nassauians yoake and their grandeur Were to proiect their freedomes and themselues Against the ridge of those Monarchicke shelues Which mightie Philip the 2. King of Spaine Philip raised at the first To quench his vast ambitions Dropsie thirst Besides it were against the sacred Lawes Of God and Nature to forsake the Cause Of their Religion which b' Arminius spred And replanted in Hollands fruitfull bed By his Disciples now despis'd abiect VVas eu'n supprest by the Caluinian Sect. Thus Policie ioynd with Religion shrowdes The Barneueltine plots and like those cloudes Where a Parelion sits deceiues the sight Of rash beholders with their specious light But O diuine Religion why shouldst thou To mens designes nay palliations bow O why shouldst thou whose radiant tresses chaine God vnto man and man to God againe Why should thy Name ineffable diuine Zeales Cabinet and pure Deuotions shrine Bee made a stale to all the blacke intents Of humane proiects and the bloody bents Of their pretences who pretending right Like Nimrods proud against thy Scepter fight So that there liues not that damn'd A damned Murtherer Assassine Nor that vnloyall loyalliz'd Ignatian Not that Rauilliac whose death poynted knife Despoyl'd the braue Henry the 4. Gerard who kild the prince of Orange Nauarrois of his life Not that Henry the 4. Gerard who kild the prince of Orange Burgundian Murderer that Squire Nor that Lopes but drawes the twisted wire Of his ranke Treasons from the faire pretence Of gloz'd Religion though his senselesse sense Right Those that haue the Apoplexie are insensible