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A02171	The Spanish masquerado VVherein vnder a pleasant deuise, is discouered effectuallie, in certaine breefe sentences and mottos, the pride and insolencie of the Spanish estate: with the disgrace conceiued by their losse, and the dismaied confusion of their tronbled [sic] thoughtes. Whereunto by the author, for the better vnderstanding of his deuice, is added a breefe glosse. By Robert Greene, in Artibus Magister. ...	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1589 (1589)	STC 12310; ESTC S105848	19,550	42

presumptuous broode of Antechrist puffed vp not onely with this blind zeale but with the spirit of pride which filleth them with aspiring ambition in so much that they imitating their father the Pope séeke not to content themselues with ecclesiasticall power but to entermeddle with kingdomes and states so that they feare not to bridle the affections of Phillip as farre as they list to limit burning his Sonne at their pleasure and letting him blood to abate his courage almost to the perill of his life Iudge gentle reader if this becommeth a Subiect an inferiour ●ay a Cleargy man who shoulde be humble and giue these duties to Caesar that belong to Caesar and those honors to God that béelong to God But the Deuill w●rking their confusion by their own imaginations hardneth thei● heartes with Pharao and maketh them sham●lesse with Achitophell to giue wicked counsel against the trueth 〈◊〉 as Pharao was drowned in the ranckour of his thoughts and Achitophell seeing the Lorde had ouerthrown his counsailes went home and hanged himselfe So shall confusion come to all that with Saule kick against the pricke that rightly it may be said to 〈◊〉 confused C●●argie men Achithophelis consilium Achithophelis l●queum ¶ The rest of the rascal Rable of the Romish church as Monkes Friers and di●ging Priestes storming at these newes sitting banquetting with the fair Nunnes hauing store of daintie Cates and wines before them stall-fed with ●ase and gluttony grone out of their fatte pa●ches this passion Quanta patimur pro amore Christi GLOSSA. NOw Gentle Reader giue leaue that this crue of popish Madcaps may presume amongst the rest into our Masquerado these are they which saying A●● Rex Iud●●orum yet smote Christ on the face with a réede these are the Buls of Basan that fatted vp in the Popes stall féede them selues against the day of slaughter thes● are the iolly fellowes that once in England liued like Princes in their Abbeies and Frieries whose bonnettes were valed and their top sailes so low stroken that no winde would serue them from sinking into the bottomlesse gulfe These be they who when Christ commaundeth that who so l●ueth him shall take vp his crosse and follow him clapping on their backes a basket stuffed with good cheare ●ay Quanta patimur pro amore Christi Whereupon are merily recited these verses O Monachi quorum Stomachi sunt Amphora Bacchi Vos esti● Deus est testis mundi mala Of this generation Iohn Boccace in his Decamero● telleth many pretie tales of their Lecherie as when ●air Albe●● vnder the shape of the Angell Gab●iell lay with Dame Lezet●a of their false Legend as a Monke preaching to the people hauing founde a verye rich feather of some some ●●range Foule intended to make his Parishoners beléeue it was a plume of the Angel Gabriell Certaine good Companions his Familiars noting his knauerie secretelye ●●ole out off his Casket the feather and put in coales Well Mas Monke come once into his Pulpit after a long Exordium t●lde to the People what a Relique he had one of the feathers of the Angell Gabriell but putting his hand into his casket and finding nothing but coales straight founde the knot in the rush and saide hée had taken the wrong Casket but yet brought them a Relique no lesse pretious which was the coales that Saint Laurence was roasted on so that making crosses with them vpon their Garmentes hée departed with Monkish credite Manye of these and worse pranks abhominable to rehearse haue their owne Countrymen and Papistes penned down against them amongst choice one mer●ly I call not his name to remembrance setteth downe that a Monke ●itting in his cel had on the ●ne side his Leman a fair Nun no man on he other side his portasse béeing thus seated as in a Dileman laying one hande on the Nonnes knee and the other on his Masse booke hée fetcht a great ●●gh and saide Quo m● vertam nescio the Deuill behind made him answere Haud refert vtraque enim ducit ad infernum Whereupon to auoyde the doubte hée made proofe of both Another setteth down these verses as a Censure O Monachi nigri non es●is ad imp●a rigri A●ran●t●t vestis qualis intrnisceus estis Their religion and their nature thus agréeing debating amidst their cups and their courtisans of the Spanish repulse full of wine and and delicate cheare they cry out Quanta patimur pro amor● Christi ¶ The Nobilitie of Spaine grieued at the dishonour of their shamefull returne after great consultation vow a generall Pilgrimage of S. Iames of Compostella in hope of his aide for reuenge to them is said S● Petrus dormit Papae num Iacobus vigilabit vobis GLOSSA. WHen Hannibal had geuen the Romanes a repulse before Capua the Senate hearing the il nowes resolued in the Senate house to sacrifice vnto Mars fearing hee was displeased with their Armie which sentence Scipio hearing starting vp amongst them said I will no other God but our fortunes no other vowes but our right no other Sacrifice but the Sword I infer this heathenish comparison both accounting their Saint of Compostella with the Pagan Idols and thinking them far inferior to the courage of Scipio although none glories more in his Chiualr●e then the Spaniard But I suppose his religion and his stomack to be equally poysed the one false the other faint that what they attempt is not to bee ouercome with prowesse but to suppresse with multitudes for their seruice in warres is either by pollicie to circumuent by pe●iurie to intise by treason to vndermine or by some litte martiall practise to weaken the enemie whom if they finde valiantly to 〈◊〉 their braue once cooled they seldome or neuer dare giue a fresh Incounter wherupō these the Nobles of Spain danted choose rather fearfully to séek out S. Iames of Compostella then valiantly with Scipio to sweare reuenge with the sword This custome brookes not an English heart for our Nobles hauing taken repulse flie not to S. George but managing their swordes crye God and their right séeking either with Epaminondas to win their honors with their bloode or to be caried out with him resolutely on their shieldes They faint not with Iulian at the frist frown● of Seuerus but valiantly expect with the Argentinin of Alexander the great the comming of their ●oes not asking how many there be but where they bée not attending with Xerxes and his faint-hearted Souldiours to haue the braue but valiantly like the Caualiers of Troy thrusting amidst the attending Grecians Diuers instances as when in the time of Robert the third king of Scottes Earle Douglas with a mightie and puissant armie entred the Frontiers of England making ha●ocke as farre as Newcastle sundrye times ●ickered with our men and gaue them the foyle which Henry Percie Earle of Northumberland surnamed Henrie Hot-spurre noting fuming at such bad Fortune and as it were strooke to the heart with the dishonour of the English sought not

to S. George or other Pilgrimages whereof then there were many in England but offering his praiers vnto GOD and vowing a couragious resolution on the hiltes of his Sworde hauing a very small companie in respecte of the Scottes hée pricketh towardes them and although he was sharply repulsed at the first and second encounter yet thinking how swéete it were to die rather then to li●e with dishonour hée gaue a fresh charge and ouerthrew the Scottes with such a slaughter that hée tooke Prisoners the Earles Douglas Fife Murrey and Angus Thus do our Nobles of England make their pilgrimage and end their reuenge which if it be not true I report● me to the Nobles of Spaine themselues who lately had experience o● theyr Courage that they were faine for the vowing of their Pilgrimage to S. Iames to deserue this mocke Si Petrus dormit Papae 〈◊〉 Iacobus vigilabit vobis ¶ The Duke of Medina Captaine general of the Armie and Spanish forces rydeth on a Iennet with one foote out of the Stirrop his cappe pulde ouer his eies and his pointes vntrust to him is said Pillulae Britanicae in dissent eriam te coni●c●runt GLOSSA. WHen Iulius Caesar was sent by the Senate Dictator against the Gaules his friende Lepidus asking him whether he now iournyed In Galliam quoth hée quae sit urus ant sepulchrum aut honorem This valiant resolution of Caesar was not sound in the Duke of Medina Sidonia for though he was sent by his Prince and Soueraigne as Generall of all his Forces yet hee choose rather to returne with dishonour then with valiant Caesar to séeke a Sepulcher in England For comming with a mightie Fléete well prouided with martiall furniture such as might haue amazed the greatest Monarch in the whole world to encounter comming with as greate a braue towardes England as Xerxes against Lacedemonia setting vp his S●●●amers as Commaunders that Eolus should hée fauourable to his Nauie And with him the Admirall Don Ma●t●nes de Ricaldo Pedro de Valdes Martin Bretendona Gomes de Medina and others whose Hierogliphicall Simb●ls Emblems impr●sses and deuises did prognosticate as they supposed their triumphant victorie and our dishonorable and miserable ouerthrow playing at dice for our Noblemen and knight● and deuiding our Land into portions Medina and Ricaldo sytting thus as Princes of the Sea brauing Neptune in our Straightes no sooner came alongst our Coaste and were encountred with our Fléete filled with Noblemen of invincible courage but Medina the great Champion of Spaine tooke the lower end of the ship Ricaldo his bed whereas our Lord Admirall the Lord Charles Haward stood vpon the vpp●r decke resolutely and valiantly incouraging his m●n to fight for the honour of their Countrie The Lord Henry Seymer a noble man or worthy prowesse standing in the face of the Enemie to p●t oile in the flame valour in an english heart taught the Spaniards with Bullet that the noble men of England ●●er●d with sparkes of honour counted life no more but a debt euery houre due vnto nature With him the Lord Thomas Haward whose forward resolucion the Spaniards may reporte in Spaine to their great dishonour Next these that woorthy Gentleman that famous Caualier the terrour of Spaine that fortunate Knight Sir FRANCIS DRAKE be●●irred himselfe as his wonted maner not fearfully as Medina but valiantly standing in the fore roome deliuered with Cannon his Ambassage to the Enemie With him Sir Martin Frobusher Sir Roger Townesend and others which I omit not as men of lesse valour but for breuities sake Then let vs note and reioice how our nobles of England and worthy Knightes behaued themselues how God inserting courage in their mindes fought for vs and the trueth and how striking a terrour and cowardize into the Lordes of Spaine as vnto Senacherib and his hoste bending their Forces againste Samaria the Lorde of Medina hasted out off our Seas and our Fléete helde them long in chase spoyling and praying on their Shippes daily Thus the great Generall of Spaine was content to pockett● vppe this Dishonour to saue his life and therefore must abide ●he reprochfull taunt that our English Pilles hath cast him into a laske and such a ●yxe as hath defiled all his honour then for me let him haue the deserued scoffe Pillulae Britanic●● in dissenteriam te coniecerunt ¶ Don Martines de Ricaldo chiefe Admirall of the Fleete standing in the Hauen and ●eeing his tattered Shippes considering what goodlye Vessels were taken and drowned and what store of men and munition they had lost leaning his backe against a broken ancker and shaking of his head saith thus O Neptune quantas ●pulas vna coena deuorast● GLOSSA. ALthough Don Martines for his expert skill in Nauigation and pollicie in nauall ●●ght was elected chiefe Admirall of the Spanish Fléete yet such his fate his Fortune or his little courage that comming to England as proudly as the Turke came into the gulfe yet he went away worse dishonoured then Calig●la that in stead of Battaile gathered Cockles on the westerne shoare Six yeare at the least he was greate Commaunder for furniture necessarie for this intended Fléete which no doubt he stuffed and stored to the full gathering together such prouision as if shoulde with the Giantes inte●d 〈◊〉 against Mars and Iupiter Hee had in his Flee●● of Gallions Hulkes Pataches Zabres Galeas●●s and Gallies ●●● The receit beeing 57868. Tunnes 〈◊〉 19295. Mari●ers 8450. And of great brazen Péeces 2630. Prouided thus as might be supposed for the conquest either of Asia or Africa hée bendeth his course aga●●st England a little Iland where as S. Augustine saith their be people with Angels faces so the Inhabitantes haue the courage and heartes of Lions which poore D●n Martines tried true For GOD vsing ELIZABETH his seruant and her subiectes as his instrumentes to punish the enemies of his trueth no sooner cam● 〈◊〉 proud Holofernes into our seas but the Mice crept out off little Betulia Iudith sitting peaceably in her royall seat incountring fiercely with their Foes taught them that God fought on their side then not to be daunted with multitudes and Martines fearfull shrunke away But God who holdeth reuenge in his hand let loose the windes and threw a storme into the sea that many of their shippes which escaped our handes perished on the Rockes vsing the Sea for reuenge as he did against Pharao when he persecuted the children of Israell So that Don Ricaldo with dishonour passed into Spaine and our Admirall returned with glorious triumph into England bringing home Shippes Prisoners and Furniture that our English shoares sounded with Ecchoes of triumph and euery mouth was filled with the praises of of the Lord Charles Haward while Ricaldo dismaied at at his misfortune and his tottered shippes saith O Neptune quantas epulas vna coena deuorasti ¶ Don Pedro de Valdes Generall of the Armie of Andel●si● now Prisoner in England greeuing at his fortune sitteth sad and leaning his