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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20596	The masque of the League and the Spanyard discouered wherein, 1. The League is painted forth in all her collours. 2. Is shown, that it is not lawfull for a subiect to arme himselfe against his king, for what pretence so euer it be. 3. That but few noblemen take part with the enemy: an aduertisement to them co[n]cerning their dutie. To my Lord, the Cardinall of Burbon. Faythfully translated out of the French coppie: printed at Toures by Iamet Mettayer, ordinarie printer to the king.; Masque de la Ligue et de l'Hispagnol decouvert. English	L. T. A., fl. 1592.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1592 (1592)	STC 7; ESTC S100421	72,125	152

to increase and make vp the number of thy newe Spanish Armie the League of Arragon against theyr King rayse vp the vsurpers of Zaell in the Realme of Valencia I will propose no other Rebels to thee then onely of the Spanish Nation confederates Nursses of thy Fore-fathers extreame cruell and agreeable to thy humours The Rebels of Gallicia who cast off Ramis the third King of Leon The coniuring Bishops that scaffolded theyr King of Arragon and made him pay an honourable fine because hee had taken the reuenewes of the Churches whereto hee was constrained by necessitie to satis-fie the charges of the wars against the Moores in the yeere one hundred foure-score and two Get to thee also by the same enchauntments the Rebels of Sallamanca against the King of Leon Of the Nauarrets by whom neuerthelesse these seditious were besieged taken and chastised Of the Lords of Lara who mooued great threatnings and attempts in the raigne of King Henrie of Castile An Almorand quarrellous and sedicious against the estate of Nauarre The mutinous of Ebora hauing for their cheefe leaders Gonsallo and Vincent Ianes If the Spanish Tyrant Phillip if his sonne in lawe the Duke of Sauoy if the Duke of Parma who is come to thy succour for his owne profit and his maisters suffice not with theyr forces in steede of them which haue beene vanquished by our inuincible Hercules and his valiant Noblemen call vppe to thy ayde by thy charmes the predecessours of thy King no lesse cruell and bloody to wit Alphonsus King of Castile and Leon vnhappie vicious and most tyrannous Almundir desirous to raigne Berenger the murtherer of his brother Remond whervpon hee dyed very miserably Bermond the 21. King of Leon Henry the fourth of Castile Eringo who poysoned the King Bamba and raigned ouer the Gothes Don Alphonso the 11. who caused his brother the infant of Castile to bee smothered Ferdinand of Arragon who conspired with the Duke of Ferrara to poyson the King Don Ferdinand Garcia King of Leon Mahomet the fourth King of Granado and many others besides If the women that beare thee company haue not their wits sharpe enough to aduance both thine their own affaires withdraw thy selfe to hell and there consort thee with that wicked Queene of Metz Brunechilde the Sorceresse by nation of a Spanish Goth daughter to Atanagilde the twelfth King of the Gothes whom Sigibert King of Mets married for the plague of France And if thou wilt for company ioyne with her Goswind the Gotthish Queene who conspired against King Richard very troublesomely take likewise Brunehault Fredegonde and all the deuillish women of the world Ayde thy selfe yet if thou pleasest with Cerberus the Sisters Eumenides and with all the horrible route of hell because thy selfe art very hell in-deede Reuiue againe all the Monsters vanquished by auncient Hercules but being thy selfe so monstrous thou hadst neede fortefie thee well with the Monsters already subiected by the force of the aduenterous Thebane Doost thou trauaile thy selfe to seeke on the earth and vnder the earth all that is an emie pernicious monstrous cruell turbulent bloody barbarous odious horrible and contrary to vertue knowing the same to bide in thine owne selfe Needest thou any other assistance then thine owne other forces or other horrours Thou surpassest all the horrours of earth and hell all the malices of the ayre and neuer was any crueltie or treason exercised but thine hath surmounted them Canst thou not content thy selfe to haue thys Geryon of Spayne thy succourer Are not these thy fathers strong enough to maintaine thee in thy greatnesse But when thou shalt be thus assisted with all that I haue spoken of can all these forces all these cruelties treasons charmes Magical-arts Fryers frocks and hoodes these Monsters the horrours infernall these Furies ouer-throw our Alcides The body is stronger then the shadowe and trueth more forcible then falsehoode Thou groundest thy selfe on an vniust cause on humaine strength and exceeding violence our Hercules in his iust cause buildeth not on fleshly forces but on GOD onely that established him the vertue equity and right of hys claime thy in-iustice and ambition are the enemies that hetherto haue disgraced and defiled thee Thinkest thou to conquer by flattering and embracing thy foe the spye that betrayes thee and discouers all thy enterprises Would God thou hadst beene smothered in thy byrth then had not this estate beene in such combustion where thou raignest but thou hast gyuen him the fayre collours which beguileth thee and strengtheneth vs thou hast honoured and shaddowed him with the goodly titles of Catholique zealous the enemie of the Heretiques and Pollitiques the Freende of the Common-wealth and the holie Vnitie These couertures are too slender and feeble to blinde the eyes of our Lynceus and are no other to thee then Nets to wrappe thee in as Venus with Mars by the cunning of Vulcane or as ambuscadoes on suddaine to surprise thee Thou flyest fayre with thy enemie after thee following at thy heeles and euer-more to our great aduantage he spurres thee and yet as I haue said keepes thee companie albeit thou hast deckt him with so many double Crosses and bought Pater nosters after the fashion Castillane and Albanois as hee seemes to thee thy speciall friende thus louest thou thy fraudulent coulloured enemy and hatest and pursuest vs to thy vttermost And albeit so many learned pennes haue discouered him for a bold-faced shamelesse beast defacing his faire glistering collours where-with like a Peacock hee makes thee follow him about let vs once againe lift vppe this counterfeite Masque and wee shall see wyth what Chymaera and with what Hydra our Hercules hath to deale He that vnder thy Ensigne makes open war vppon vs and couert warre vppon thee or rather this enemie that fights for vs against thee for he neede not doubt but the faithlesse ambition which thou hast brought foorth and begunne will bring both thee and thy other Coniurers to a miserable end decks himselfe with feigned loue to the Common-weale the holy vnitie VVhat publique-weale what holy vnitie meanes he Callest thou it cōmon-good to ruinate so many Countreyes and Citties is this detestable League this coniuration so pernicious to the estate and the Catholique Religion a holy vnitie If it be the effects doe publish themselues VVas neuer seene such out-rages such impieties wracke of Religion corruption licentiousnesse and Atheisme as since thou thus exaltedst thy selfe and hast trode both iustice and Religion vnder foote thy Armes haue brought in thys dysorder and generally hath dyspersed bothe bloode and fyre Thou prophanest iustice thou forcest and slaue-like leadest it vnder thy irregular and most indirect Lawes thou makest the Catholique Religion the Goddesse of warre that strikes spoyles and kylles Hast thou no shame Knowest thou not that Religion is full of peace and makes it her glorie to suffer and endure torments and not to torment any Knowest thou not that

affection But who would not dis-robe thee of thy shadow false Venus seeing it is nothing else but gold siluer all sorts of stones about thee with Perfume Amber Muske and Ciuet that thus makes thee smell so sweete as violets Thy garment is bordered about with certaine Ciphers onely vnderstoode by thy principall Cabalists with diuers Letters and Charracters wrought on the imbroyderie carrying thys report This is the Sanctuarie or defence of the Catholique religion and of the Common-weale All the forepart and exteriour shew of thy body is fayre yet semblable to painted and guilded Sepulchers that containes within them nothing but loth-some smels and rotten bones farre dyffering from theyr goodly appearaunce yet like to that deceite shrowded with the Mantle of hypocrisie Thou hast gotten Archers for the guard of thy person who on their best coates beare the double Crosse of Ierusalem but on the other the red Crosse with teares In what part soeuer thou marchest thou art followed wyth a great Court of all sorts of people because thou giuest heere and bestowest there Thou makest some Marshals of Fraunce others Gouernours others Chauncellours others Presidents others Secretaries at commaund others Counsellers of thy Priuie counsell and the brotherhood despoyling the better sorte of their Offices and substituting thy seruaunts So manie boot-halers so many Banck-rupts so manie shamelesse persons come to kisse thy hande each one striuing who shall beare thy Commissions so full of profit who shall first extort a gyft by falsly giuing the Pope to vnderstand the fulminations against the death of the Prince who is in Spayne who is in Flaunders who in Lorraine who in Sauoy When thou shewest thy selfe in publique these poore Brokers of thy Colledge these Carriers of rogations these Graplers for benefices and pencions these Fishers with Crosses these Preachers for reward with the gesture habite and Castillane countenaunce goe publishing with hart and voyce See heere the blood of Charlemaine see heere the enemie to the Heretiques and Pollitiques And thys is but to beguile the valiant Princes that take part with thee as some haue written to wit the Authour of the Booke called Stemmata Lotharingiae in thus blazing thy discent euen as thou deceiuedst brought to a poore end the couragious Duke of Guyse his Brother who but for thee the onely cause of their losse had much credite and many honours in thys Realme And not long since vnder thy shadow I saw a band of Armed men breaking and renting the armes of Fraunce vnder the authoritie and conduct of a simple Attorney at this day named Bussi who hauing doone violence to iustice forced perforce the Senate against the Senate alas led captiues and prysoners the chiefe of Harley the example of constancie and only president of vertue as also the other principall Officers of the Court to the Dungeons in the Bastille which at thys day remaineth in his hand Fayre Goddesse one can heare nothing more openly cryed by thy back-bearers then thy cōmendations and panegiricall prayses and contrariwise the execrations of Henrie of Valeys and of the Bearn-nish-man he is not the sonne of a good Mother that rayles not against them who so holdes his peace is thought a suspicious person a pollitique and a Huguenot By how many sundry waies hast thou dealt against the very cinders and ashes of that good King since thy violent hands so bloodily murdred him And how at this instant doost thou baffle and abuse our lawfull King his successour who deserues not this Empire alone but as Alexander had the whole world Albeit thou art throwne down from this thy greatnes and that notwithstanding thy pollicies thou canst not reach I will not say to thy desseignes but to the step frō which thou art with-held by by the strength of our Alcides very neer vanquished yet neuertheles thou presumest neere Paris with thy Duke of Parma whome thou tearmest thy Deliuerer thou makest the earth tremble where thou pacest thou hastest to the succour but indeede the generall ruine rather of this sincke of all filth this Babylon Paris where as a Shyp without a guide thy followers flote alofte with euery guscke of winde ready to endure shyp-wracke and fall from Scilla into Charibdis or run on the ineuitable rocke of thy imminent end and destruction Nowe the Spanyards discerne thee abounding infurie like the wounded beast at the wild Bore pursued or the chafed bul therfore they nourish thee with the succour of thy sworne enemie execrable Enion furthering thy charmes wherwith continually thou bewitchest the people that thou with them mayest be confounded together What need thy borne-foe stir further thy selfe holdest the weapon on thy peoples throats if they speake of peace or returning to duetie thou dis-armest them thou killest them thou hangest them thou cuttest their throats thou castest them into the Riuers Thou hast no care of the extreame calamitie of so many poore people of the strange necessity want wherby thou hast and still doost send forceably to wracke so many innocents so many artizans and Husbandmen who liue as it were but from this day vntyll to morrowe If they leaue thee thou watchest them with Spyes to robbe spoile and lastly kill them but let vs not abash our selues hereat for at all times thou hast been cruell and onely feedest thy selfe with theftes spoiles blood and pittilesse murders Thou deuillish Circes hast had recourse to one like thy selfe to be maintained and conserued in nature and reason alike but heere thou wilt prooue to haue a contrary and far different issue Thou art cruel and callest to thy helpe all kinde of crueltie to holde for euer if thou couldest thy Babylon slaue like to thy tyranny if thy associats did not surmount out-goe thee Thou now makest thy selfe strong with Spanyards thy freendes who at all times haue beene enemies to the honest minded French the cruelties of them committed in Fraunce in Italie and in Flaunders haue beene manifested enough vnto vs and as yet remaine fresh in our memorie But if wee would see how they haue imployed their industrie to make themselues renowmed with the Prototype first patterne and mould of all barbarous crueltie let vs read the hystorie of the horrible insolencies and detestable tyrannies exercised by them of late memorie in the West Indiaes vnder the raigne of Charles the fift and Phillip his sonne they Atlas and thy chiefest Minnion Thys Historie is written by a Spanyard himselfe named D. F. Bartholmew de las Casas a religious man and a Bishop and out of the Castilliane tongue was turned into French Good GOD how cruell did this Sarrasin shewe himselfe in his tyrannous conquest of Portugale where hee murdred and massacred the faithfull Subiects of the King Don Antonio and martyred an hundred or sixe-score Ecclesiasticall persons men of worth and good qualitie as also the poore religious men that tooke not part with him Thou shouldest forsake this

to imagine it may any way redownde to your profit and aduantage be not I entreate you so easily deceiued What mis-fortune is it to Fraunce that heeretosore hath beene a refuge to other afflicted Nations a terror to the very proudest people that reigned in Greece in P●lestine and hath been renowmed thorowe Europe Asia Affrica hath astonied the Almaignes conquered the Gaules commanded in Italie often-times combatted the hardie English with-stood Emperours and other great Monarchies chased the Sarrasins of Spayne who neuerthelesse haue left behind them too many of their seede What mishap is it I say that Fraunce shold now be constrained to send for the succour of Strangers not to augment her glory to conquer from the enemy the auncient patrimony of the Crowne and thereby to erect Trophies of your victories according to the famous testimonies left by your Auncestors but to deliuer vp herselfe to them as a pray to expose to their pillage holy Temples Pallaces and Castels to giue them raunsome or rather to sell them her Gentlemen peaceable Cittizens Merchaunts handicrafts-men women children and sucking infants yea euen against herselfe to coniure so resolutely Behold the estate wherein you may now see thys poore King beggered well neere by the meanes of your League glyding vnder the species albeit a false pretence of Religion heere too long a time Will ye not my Lords by the accustomed fidelity of true French-men vnmaske your eyes see into what Labyrinth you are entred and ioyne in this most iust cause to recouer with your King the happy times that were in the raignes of K. Lewes the 12. Fraunces the first and Henrie the second whom your Fathers and Grand-fathers faithfully serued Who is the French Historian that now can say of the three estates of this Realme as Titus Liuius wrote of the good accorde of the three orders ordained in Rome Certainly saith he the Cittie of Rome is verie happie inuincible and eternall by her concorde the Knights are excellent men and worthy to be praised the people kinde and dutifull the mildnes and humanitie of the Senate onely conquers through the prompt and voluntarie obedience of the people The Antithesis heere is most apparent for Paris is brought into such estate as she may cal herselfe vnhappy neere her destruction The Ecclesiasticall persons that ought to maintaine this great Citty in peace concord they breath forth nothing but bloode and fire sowing no other seed but of dissention and perswading the people to force iustice and abuse the Magistrates Consider my Lords you that haue read Histories how discorde and partialitie the cause of sedition and troubles hath wrought the fall and vnfortunate end of most mighty Empyres and florishing Common-weales that strange enemies neuer brought them such misery and calamity as their own domesticall disquietnes where vnder the countenaunce of Weale publique liberty and such like pretences euen as the Leaguers do at thys instant they conspired and compassed the vniuersal ruine of the estate It hath been well noted from time to tyme that neuer was any florishing Cittie destroyed by an Armie of Strangers if first of all she nourished not ciuill warres in her owne bosome then must it needes follow that after long ciuill warre eyther her estate is changed or els by the stranger she is brought into a lamentable condition Doe not your selues heere beholde the like Paris is it not already and that very willingly in the Spanyards gouernement vnder collour of deliuerance seeing it remaineth now at hys deuotion O blinded French-men who for reiecting the sweet Lawes of peace abiure the fidelity you owe to your King to sheeld ye from the punishments due to your breach of fayth became Rebels murderers of the late King making recourse to your enemy who hath circkled you with his Armes that knowes right well how to raise his profit on your insolencies as already ye see what he hath doone Were it not better for you to acknowledge your faults and desire pardon of the King who naturally is inclined to mercy And you my noble Lords who through misgouernment haue suffered your selues to be carryed away with the passions of the League shall doe much better to reioyne againe wyth your King and heade you beeing as you are principall members of the estate whereby at once will be quenched sedition discorde warre partialities as also the stranger chased away who smiling in his sleeue at our deuisions by these bad affaires returneth himselfe good profit I beseech ye consider what Plato saith Ciuill war is nothing els but sedition a capitall pernicious plague to the Common-wealth which infecteth with the contagion thereof all the partakers therein and most commonly it proceedeth of couert and small occasions like vnto a pyning Ague which beeing not at the first perceiued and by medicines preuented consumeth the body by little and little to iust nothing This ciuill warre is then the more dangerous in that it is enterprised against the King and the estate vnder a false pretence which will cause if you open not your eyes God vouchsafe to holde strong hande with the true and holy intent of the King such ciuill spoyle among our selues as wee shall be made forreiners in our owne Country For thus will the Spanyard if he can deale with ye in the end set foote vpon your throates to rid himselfe of you and then will make warre on ye not as a freend or confederate but as an enemy both to one and other Not as a Protecter or Deliuerer as the foolish rebellious people vainlie tearme him but as a proude Vsurper and blood-thirstie Tyrant Can ye thinke his cōming into Fraunce is for any other intent If ye dreame on any other friuelous opinions ye but abuse your selues Preuent then in good tyme this slye deceitfull Spanyard beate backe his stratagemes with other of more honor for if ye with-hold your selues ouer-long from asswaging this discord which is daily and hourelie aduaunced by your mortall enemie that already leades yee with him as captiues in tryumph ye shall find it as hard to get any remedie or helpe as to heale the Feuer Ethique that hath got the maisterie in a languishing bodie This rebellion hatched so long time by the practises and deuises of the Spanyard who alreadie vaunteth that he hath yee in possession and as it were tyed fast in his snares is euerie hand-while mooued and enflamed as a fyre kindled in a thicke wood and as the one wyth the winde so the other with smooth shadowes sweet speeches and notorious trecheries is dispersed with such violence as the greater part of Fraunce is rent and mangled The rest that is left and abideth in obedience to the King receiueth wonderfull discommodities Notwithstanding they are resolued not to forsake hym or to participate with a thought of thys rebellion because they are not ignorant that GOD hath expresly commaunded in so many places as heer-tofore wee