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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

confession to kill a Prince neuer heard of before Bodin Numbers no certaine grounds of vndoubted truth Bodin greatly erred A 100. yeeres slipt by M. Bodin 196. All ●hese shall be more plainely set downe in my booke of the vniuersall periods of all Kingdomes The 7. number It is no Sabboth for a Kingdome to fall The 7. number not drawen out of Scripture necessarilie Vncertainty in Diuinations A sleight of Satan The certaintie and vncertaintie of Astronomicall iudgements Astrologie An absurd error begotten of ignorance A foolish Superstition Zanch. Myzald No good reason Gen. 1. No good reason An vnlike similitude It is impossible to haue such experience This possible common Meere toies and vaine fables Beza his opinion of Iudiciall Astrologie How far one may iudge of particular men Phisitions The art contemners of this age misvnderstand Ieremie The abuse of Astronomie He that yeeldeth himselfe to beleeue Pronostications giueth himselfe the 1. of Ianuarie to be a foole al the yeare after My L Henry Haward in lib. of supposed Prophets Errours frō hence Lib. 1. Annal Ignorance of true causes brought this Coeli Rhoding What Astronomers can doe by their art Comets Zanch. de oper lib. 3. cap. 2. And Erastus de Come●is Earthquakes A Comet 1581. No vndoubted certainetie in Comets Starres frō time to time haue foreshewed wonders to come Dever Chr. Relig. Heauens signes serue to confute Atheists Licinius Maxent Luk. 2● Ieremie misconstrued Wonders in the aire to what they serue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inundations Coniunctions of Planets No absolute necessitie 1524. Ridiculous feare so in the yeare 1588. And therefore E. Zing in his tables made our period to be 1584. whom I shall confute in my booke of periods Then Christ as he was should not haue beene ignorant of it Lib 4. de Repub. Of dreames Mans curiositie neuer staied Naturall Dreames 1. In melancholy men De Somno Scipionis Amans sibi Somnia fingit 2. Diuellish Dreames Valer. Max. lib. 1. 7. Marke it Satans illusion A second sort of diuelish dreames Heathen superstition By shaking the head An imitation of the heathen Oracles Trophonius den Seraphis Delphos 1. Uision 2. Dreames 3. Voyce When Vrim and Thummim ceased A perfect Ape Exod. 3. Math. 3. 17. Gen 41. 3. The original of al charms Satan indeed careth for none of all these Extispiciū Cruell Idolatry Barbarous sacrifices Augures Poulterers Uanities end Most common at this day Vnlawfull Astrologie forbidden by the ancient lawes Accursius ened A cholerick Gentleman A thing not thought of by any law Former times full of them Austin Too great frowardnes to say there are no Witches Sorcerers such like Discou of witches Vnlawfull Diuination forbidden Note this How starres worke in our Dreames The dreame of Astyages Iudg. cap. 7. The Adamant The Cuckowe The Nightingall Luna Iupiter Saturne Sol. Note this Zanch. Austin Influence and celestial heate Iupiter Stator Ascent in cap. 13. lib. 2. Gell. A fit similitude The force of the bodies heauenly in these earthly Iosephus de antiqu lib. 2. We follow the aire We follow the yeare Note this The ground of Sympathy An excellēt writer Vnlikely in my opinion A great error and a foule ouersight of a Scholler An vnsound conclusion A mistaking of the Creation Deut. 13. Act. 7. An vnlike coniecture Ob. Sol. A signe a cause differ A Similitude Frischlin is too vehemēt against Astronomers Gen. 1. 17. Chap. 11. Astronomie must not goe so farre Fritschling confuted Dreames by reason of a Sympathie Calphurnia Katherine of Medices Chap. 27. C. Gracchus lib. 1. 7. Dreames the fountain of superstition Not to trust them So at Christs presence The world is full of such Diuine Dreames God vseth often simple meanes Mauricius A coward a murderer Note Alexander Theodosius So of ours against the Spaniards 1588. Anthonie the Hermit Melanchtō Iere. 23. Inspiration But great care must be had herein by reason of so manie false inspirations Lybianus Cratippus Note this S. Iohn Inspirations in former times Iohn Husse Fox in lib. Martyr Meaning Luther which signifieth a swan Cap. 38. Anote against peremptorie conclusions in Diuining Paul Greber Vncertaine who and so are all such diuinations Numbers vncertaine My L. Henry Howard No rule necessarie to iudge of the chaunge of a Kingdome We ought to marke Gods threatnings The scope of this whole treatise Libertie of speech sits a mother A thing not possible All Europe bound to England for her daughters Anno Dom. 630. Cambridge founded as some write Anno Dom. 800. Oxford founded Caius de antiquitate Cantab. Cambridge more anciēt Both admirable both matchlesse Alexandria not comparable Doctors in Cambridge Oxford The Innes of court Both Uniuersities stand in need of the Innes of court The mother of peace The fountaine of policie The Innes of court falsly standered to be too loose in the educatiō of her youth Carefull of the Vniuersities The Innes of court not able alone to furnish England with wisdome Uniuersities the stay of a land Athens Ante aduētum Christi 90. Cosmus Medices Padway Liuie A happie Vnion Campion Confuted by D. Whitaker Confuted by D. Fulke Humfrey Reinold Puritans Politickes Atheists Law must cut these off A thing often done Your Townsmen Lincolnes Inne by the Chancery lane Ly-ans Honor your Doctors Rayling Asses Young men should write and inure themselues in smaller matters A fit taske for the finest Scholler The late worthy Earle of Darbie who died April 1593. Neuer enough lamēted Who dyed Sept. 1593. Cantabrigiae lachrimae Sir Christopher Hatton L. Chancelor of England Aurea puluereis praestant aeterna caducis A thing fit onely to be done by thē Of the warres in Flaunders on the Sea 1588. In Fraunce The euery where beloued Earle of Essex In Trinitie Colledge A patron of the Uniuersities and the Innes of court Sweet Master Campiō Britton Percie Willobie Fraunce Lodge Master Dauis of L. I. Drayton Learned M. Plat. Balladmakers A work howsoeuer not respected yet excellently done by Th. Kid. But by the greedy Printers so made prostitute that they are contemned Nor Poetrie be tearmed Ryme D. Haruey M. Nash. Doctores liberi sunto Others of that name as fit for a Scholler to inueigh against Great pittie For fellowships Many Graduats vnmeet for the common wealth Lamentable when it is so in a common wealth Englands great care in appoynting her officers The right Honorable LL. of the priuy Counsell Valiant captaines Learned Embassadors Hen. Darby Vniuersities not to be controld by euery odde conceipt The Vniuersities of Fraunce not equall to ours in England Founded 1490. Founded 1506. Anno. 1457. To King Henry 8. The Papists diligent to gaine English Studēts All thinke they haue more reason to be richer then Schollers An vntruth Englands chiefe care is of learning Schollers must learne patience M. Alablaster Spenser and others Lylia clouded whose teares are making All praise worthy Lucrecia Sweet Shakspeare Eloquent Gaueston Wanton Adonts Watsons heyre So well

treason they tearmed by the name of Gods Church their phantasticall opinions Gods knowne trueth and their poysoned heresies the inspiration of Gods spirit It were tedious too long to repeate their names who continually haue slaundered Loyaltie with base tearmes when themselues haue deserued most badly both of the Church and of the Common wealth Thus might I with teares remember the wrong that I suffered in the Northerne Rebellion where though the fact was so infamous as the memorie is odious to this day yet did they pretend a reforming of religion a freedome of consciēce and a bettering of the Common wealth I passe ouer without speech but neuer to be remēbred without sighes the lamentable rebellions made in Lincolneshire the disorder in Norffolke by Ket his bad companie the intollerable boldnes in Kent by Iacke Straw and his accomplices These and such like haue laboured to roote me from the place of mine abode to pull out Loyaltie from the mindes of subiects to make them offend thinke there is no fault to raise a flame that may giue light whilest the Common-wealth shall burne to stirre vp those vnder pretence of right who haue desired to subuert the state of the whole land Iosephus an ancient writer setting downe the rebellious reuolting which the Iewes made from the Romanes vnder colour of rude and vntoward dealing which they found in Florus their gouernour he setteth downe the particular remonstrance that King Agrippa made touching the small apparance of occasion which they had rebelliously to exempt them from their lawfull obedience the Iewes replied that it was only against Florus and not the Romanes that they bare armes whom Agrippa tolde it was easie to say so but their actions were such as worse could not haue been by the greatest enemies of the Romane Empire for the townes they sacked the treasuries they robbed the houses they burnt the fields they wasted neither were the townes the treasuries the houses the fields of Florus and no man had wrong but the Romanes to whom these belonged In like manner when in former times for I am loth to mention these later faults wrong openly was offered to them of our countrie the townes takē the churches robbed the houses burnt the men slaine and not so much sacred as the very sepulchers of our forefathers the pretence was onely this not a wrong or disobedience to the Prince but a reuenge and reformation of the oppressing cormorant And thus lately for I must needs touch it whilest Lopez most Iewishlie nay Iudaslie had concluded with the Spanish Pharisies to sell his Soueraigne yet shamefully hee protested this whereunto common sense will hardly allow credit that he onely ment to deceiue them of their coyne and to saue her from harme Can we thinke the Spanyard so credulous as in a matter of so great importance to credit without good cause Can wee thinke it likely that he who had concealed it hetherto from her Councell ment after to impart it to her Maiestie These things and manie such howsoeuer smoothed ouer with a faire shewe haue been committed by vnnaturall subiects since her Maiesties raigne that our very enemies for the state of our countrie could by no meanes possible haue deserued worse And howsoeuer the lawe tearme them not enemies but simplie as rebels and seditious to their owne countrie yet they ought not to be honored with the name of peace nor as subiects any way to be made partakers thereof vnles the infinitly ouerflowing mercie of their Prince vouchsafe them vndeserued so great a fauour When Anthonie rose vp in armes against his countrie he was iudged condemned worthilie by the Senate to bee a rebell and when some intended to send vnto him to intreate of peace Tully thought it was most strange farre differing from the state of the Senate to affoord a rebel the priuiledge of an open enemie France can testifie of the like when trayterous subiects vndeseruedly giue mee leaue to tearme them by that name haue been so mightie to withstand the King that he hath sent without cōtrolling tearms as to an open enemie England hath not now and I happilie wish as I hope it neuer shall any cause to deale in the like manner But the time was in the dayes of Edward the sixt when a base pesant so braued the Kings armie that they vouchsafed them parle as if Rome had sent Ambassadors to the men of Carthage But rebellion being the canker of a Common wealth time hath taught vs by lamentable experience in the warres of Rome That sedition doth grow by suffering and that clemencie is rebellions spurre which if it had not bin a state so florishing had not so soone failed And for France in the time of holie Lewes sedition had not been so soone cut off no rebellion had been rooted out if the sword had not been made sharpe for to cut them off for it be commeth a Prince like a good Surgion to cut off the putrified parts least the sound bee infected with the like contagion Furthermore to groūd my seueritie vpon the tearmes of honor for Loyaltie cā hardly indure clemencie towards treason there is no Gentleman vnles degenerate that will indure the lye of his companion without recanting and shall the Prince not onely suffer this but wrongs dammages iniuries despitefully at the hands of traytors Then band your selues Honorable Lords wise Prelates braue Captaines worthie Gentlemen resolute Soldiers trustie Citizens and painful Cominaltie that the smallest part of treason may not take strength in our time and all of you rather hazard the last droppe of your dearest bloud then by treacherous dealing the least wrong may bee offered to her sacred Maiestie This is a iust quarrell wherein Loyallie we are to vnite our selues for loosing but the bridle to such dangerous treasons our Prince our liues our Countrie our fortunes are all indangered at the same instant Besides either to pardon these at home or fondly to credit those abroad can bring no other benefite to the land but this a contempt of our authoritie a certaine danger to the Princes person a perpetuall and needfull feare of some new attempts yet euer I must reserue a prerogatiue to my gracious Soueraigne for gracious clemencie a worthie vertue to a subiect but dangerous to a traytor giues them but leasure to fortifie themselues graunts them but time to renew their force the storme is no sooner past but there is present feare of as great a tempest For it is great simplicitie to suppose at least the extremitie of follie to beleeue that those who are once plūged in the gulfe of treason and haue throughly plotted for a kingdomes conquest can possibly be reclaimed with the greatest kindnes or let goe their hope before their liues giue vp the latest gaspe If a kingdome were so weake or a Prince so timerous as almost it was

lately in the Realme of France yet it were easie to proue out of the histories of al times that traytors seditious persons howsoeuer they haue been so bold that they durst in the field incounter the Lords annoynted yet he whom the scripture calleth the author of victorie and the God of battell shall make them to flie when no man followeth shall cause ten thousand of them to bee chased with a thousand and in the day of battell giue victorie to his owne annoynted The rebelliō that was made in Spayne against the Emperour Charles the 5. in the beginning of his raigne together with the happie successe of his Maiestie may serue as apparant proofe to confirme this seeing the seditious faction was foyled and the most of thē taken captiue It shall be needles to adde this that in the daies of Queene Mary when first she came vnto the Crowne finding the people to be mutinous and in the land nothing almost but flat rebellion in shorter time then the space of two moneths worthely she was conqueror ouer all her enemies such was the state of Flanders 1566. and three yeares after yet neuer heard of that rebellious sedition preuailed against a lawfull Soueraigne all ages afoorde multitude of examples in this kind the vnnaturall riot of Duras the wonderfull successe of the battell of Dreux in France and after of Poncenas and not to stand in particulars of that country the euent of things hath made known vnto vs that rebellion builded vpon a weake foundation cannot possibly stand if the Lord in anger do blow vpon it neither speake I this to make a Prince more seuere against his rebellious subiects to make the Scepter of a King plow vp the bowels of his owne countrie men but to shew that Loyaltie cannot brooke rebellion that sedition is odious to a good subiect that treason is intollerable in a Commō wealth if I lincked with Religion a thing hardly to bee hoped for in this bad age coulde but liue for a small time safe from treason if some of Englands subiects had continuallie remained in my fauor then durst I boldly haue compared with the proudest nation and hauing religion a crowne and loyaltie as a strong defence she might valiantly haue incountered her stoutest foes for I may confidently auouch in the reuerend securitie of an vpright minde that excepting treasons blowne into the heartes of her subiects by forraine enemies England hath been as free from danger as far from distresse in as great prosperitie as euer was Iland in so bad an age Then countriemen giue mee leaue to perswade thus much that the benefite of treason shall bee this if vnhappilie which God forbid you obtaine your purpose your countrie shall bee desolate you your selues shall bee feared and suspected of your enemies and these ample ornaments garlands of long peace shall crowne your enemies for the victories obtained in your conquest I that haue made your children dutifull in whose mindes the name of a Father did extinguish disobedience I that haue made your friendes trustie in whome the name of sacred Friendship was wont to banish all deceite I that haue made your wiues in the honorable reuerence of your loue to respect no perswasion of strangers thereby wantonly to commit adulterie I I say intreate you by these fauours that being children in duetie you bee not disobedient to so good a mother being friendes by promise and that confirmed with a sacred vow you bee not found deceitefull to so dread a Soueraigne lastly being those whom nature religion time and countrie haue matched nearlie for this 36. yeares with so gratious a Prince that you bee not seene to prostitute your bewtie to a stranger to admit Tarquin into your fauour and neuer to bee vnpunished to violate so great an oath for what the seuen Ambassadors commended in their common wealths vnto King Ptolomey that England may iustly vaunt she professeth at this day and where as they in three things compared which should excell England possessing one twentie may iustly in comparison out strip the proudest that Europe hath The Ambassadors of Rome boasted that their Temples were honoured their gouernours obeyed and their wicked punished may not England doe it more iustly if you compare it with those times And yet for honouring our Temples I cannot so much commend vs but onely that that little honor which they haue amongst some it is in true sinceritie The Ambassadors of Carthage iustly boasted that their Nobilitie was valiant to fight their Cōminaltie to take paynes and their Philosophers to teach was there euer countrie I except not Carthage in his best estate where either the Nobilitie is more valiant the Cōminaltie more laborious or the teachers more profound then in England at this day The Ambassadors of Cicely boasted that their countrie executed iustice loued trueth and commended simplicitie neuer Common wealth I dare auouch since the first societie that man had was ruled with more vpright iustice was honored with greater trueth and admired for more simplicitie then generallie is the state of England the Ambassadors of the Rhodians bragged that the old men were honest the young men shamefaste and the women peaceable and may not England iustlie boaste of all these The Ambassadors of Athens that they consented not that their rich should be partiall their people should be idle their gouernours should be ignorant and is not all this now as true in England amongst vs as euer it was in Athens amongst them The Ambassadours of Lacedemon vaunted that there was no enuie because all were equall no coueteousnes because all were common no idlenes because all did labour and are not the same banished from our land howsoeuer procured by a better cause For England wanteth enuie in her selfe not because all are equall but all friends England is not couetous not by reason of communitie but because of conscience And idlenes out of this land was banished long since with the Lorde Dane The Ambassadors of Sictonia glorified iustlie in these three wherein England is supposed to bee farre shorte that they admitted no strangers inuentors of new toyes that they wanted Phisitions to kill the sicke and aduocates to make their pleas immortall wherein I must needes confesse for trueth onely becommeth my talke that howsoeuer in the aboundance of her wealth England hath giuen strangers money for very toyes yet it was not for loue of them but to shew the world that their plentie was not debarde from euery stranger for Phisitions I may truly say thus that the Aesculapins honoring Pad●●●● in the aboundance of her skill is vnequall to make comparison with vs in England and lastly for our aduocates a slaunder I confesse common but yet most vntrew men so learnedlie wise so wiselie religious and so respectiuely learned wise and religious as if Europe would seeme to contend in this doutles shee should bee