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A55438 The Pope's advice to his sons a conference in the Castle St. Angelo between the Pope, the Emperour, and the King of Spain : printed from an ancient manuscript. 1679 (1679) Wing P2926; ESTC R8672 6,767 13

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THE Pope's Advice TO HIS SONS A Conference IN THE Castle St. Angelo Between the Pope the Emperour and the King of Spain Printed from an Ancient Manuscript LONDON Printed for J. S. near the Grate in Little Britain 1679. The Consult Pope Emperour King of Spain Pope WElcom dear Sons unto our Court of Rome Blessing Apostolick and Holy Doom Shield all the House of Austria from mischance And both their Fortunes and their Crowns advance Emperour Thy Foot most Holy Father do I kiss Of Churches Benediction do I miss Th'Emperial Crown from Austria will be gone Which Heav'ns forbid for then we 're all undone Bohemia's Rebels with Hungaria joyn The Hereticks from Danube to the Rhine Their Heads their Arms their Forces they combine ' Gainst Rome and Austria Oh the * Frederick Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhine Father to Prince Rupert whose elder Brother is now Prince Elector Palatine Palatine That cursed Calvinist with his Partakers Those damned Schismaticks the Church forsakers Upon our Ruins to build their Fortunes seek Which makes me thus before thy Holiness speak Pope The Keys of Peter and the Sword of Paul Shall shut and open cur in pieces all The Gates of Heav'n Nations Laws and Rights And turn clear Days into the darkest Nights E're one of Calvin's or of Luther's Sect With Roman Bays or Eagles shall be deckt Emperour The Threats and Curses of the Catholicks Are now despis'd by those vile Hereticks Help us by your Counsel therefore Holy Sir And shew us means to quiet all this stir Pope Thou mayst by Reasons and Embassages By Questions Answers and like passages Win time awhile But these are our of date Now Swords not Words do Kingdoms arbitrate To Neighbour Friends and Subjects quickly send That from Surprise thou mayst thy self defend My Nuntio's and my Legats I 'd dispatch More Forces ' mongst the Catholicks to hatch Mentz Cullen Triers Catholick Bavier Hast thou in Germany with others there Thy Uncle Albert and the Polish King Unto thee quickly may their Forces bring And though my self with Florence may not send Our Arms so soon yet Money will we lend The Cantons of the Switzers shall be waged Which to our See do hold themselves engaged So is the Saxon Duke with his Estate To thee in Dresden and th' Electorate Whose elder Cousin's Hopes will make him fear And to thy Fortune and thy House adhere I 'll also send to Savoy and to Venice To France our eldest Son and to S. Denis The King of France is styled by the Pope his eldest Son and most Christian and the King of Spain his most Catholick Son I 'll fetch the Saints from Heav'n the Fiends from Hell But I 'll these drunken German Rebels quell Besides thy Spanish Cousin present here Whom Europe and the new-found World do fear The Church's Atlas and the Empire's Prop. By Strength by Wit by Friends or Gold we 'll stop These proud Attempts and Darings of the Dutch And break their Forces cost it ne'r so much King of Spain If Caesar and your Holiness have done Observe the Answer of your Spanish Son Not German Prelats nor Bavarians can Nor King of Pole your self or any Man Nor Tuscan's Duke nor Albert my poor Brother The Canton Catholicks nor any other Bring timely Succours ' gainst the Conjurations These Almain-Graves have made throughout all Nations Expect not help from Savoy or Venetia Who fear and deadly hate the House of Austria I look for nothing from the King of France For he 'd gladly by our Fall his Throne advance And why should you from Saxon hope for more Than Charles my Grandsire reap'd from him before Who gave him all and more than you do mention Yet shortly after in the great Contention 'Twixt him and German Rebels he forsook His Benefactor and part against him took And Caesar if at home thou lookst for Aid Thy Kingdoms both are lost thy Strength decay'd Thine Austrian Subjects also are infected With Luther's Heresie and have rejected The Papal Dignity and may do thine And with their Fellow Lutherans combine Spain then must help or what will Caesar do And how shall Spain help Rome and Caesar too Shall Indian Armies be recall'd from thence Italian Forces march away from hence Leave Milan Naples and our Silver Fountains Unguarded naked to march o're Mountains Through Grison's Countrey lead the strength of Spain In 1588. the Spaniards invaded England with an Armada of 134 Ships of which onely 53 returned home again Or venture our Armada once again To Narrow Seas and so at once lose more Than we have got in six score years before So thou at Habspurg I in Arragon May shave our Crowns turn Monks and live alone You count your Friends but count not all your Foes Whose Strength whose Number you cannot oppose The Northern Tract of Europe from Britannia Protestants not inferiour if united in strength to the Papists Tending to East as far as Transylvania Save Poland and some trifles is their own Oh me in fourscore years how are they grown Three Kingdoms England Scotland Ireland be With Denmark Norway Sweden six you see Besides those two which they have won from thee Being eight in all and our Kings are but three The Number of their Princes Dukes and Counts With their Free Lords and States ours far surmounts And as their Number so their Spirits are Made great with hopes of the prodigious Star This Comet appeared as far above the Moon as the Moon is above the Earth as was observed by the Learned Dr. Bembridge Which o're Almain blaz'd December last The dire Portents of which they on us cast Alas for Rome alas for Ferdinand Alas for Philip Must he needs withstand His own the Empire and the Church's Foes And so himself the Church and Empire lose Have all my Ancestors to five descents By Conquest Wedlock and like Ligaments Ty'd Earldoms Dukedoms Crowns and Empire fast And is the Period of our Greatness past And our Declining now begins to hast Who hop'd for Western Monarchy at last Ah * William of Nassau Prince of Orange Ancestor to the ●●asent Prince Nassau Nassau hateful Son and Father Curs'd be your Name and House you you did gather The Fearful Rebels into warlike Bands Which now do State it in the Netherlands There there you writ Nil Vltra once again And set up Eastern Pillars Bars to Spain Emperour Thus are our Dangers thus our Fears related Thus be our Minds perplex'd our Hearts amated If Rome have any secret wisdom hid Laid up for evil times or ever did Make wicked Hereticks seel Church's Pow'r Then Father now 's the time and this the hour Remember how two Fredericks heretofore Frighted thy Predecessors this may more Hazard thy Fortunes utterly oppress The Roman Church thy Self and Us unless By some prime Stratagem fetch'd from the Deep Thou dost thy Self and Friends from danger keep Pope And are our Friends so few and so