vse him with such cruell courtesie as followeth that whereas he vsed these words to other memento homo quod cinises in cinerem reuerteris that is remember man that thou art ashes and into ashes thou shalt returne he casting ashes into his face thundred out this terrible threatning memento homo quod Gibellinus es cum Gibellinis in terram reuerteris that is remember fellow that thou art a Gibelline and with the Gibellines thou shalt to the pot Deus bone tantaene animis caelestibus irae is it euen so sirs can Pope holie harts harbour such cruell hate then Lord deliuer vs from the crueltie of two-legged Foxes If you reade Iohn CarioÌ„ in his Chronicle and other writers you shall finde how louingly Pope Alexander the third vsed the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa Alexender 3. his crueltie against the Emperour Fredericke Barbarossa who after he had anathematized him with the horrible curse of Simei and thundred his ratling excommunication against him tooke him in the end within the towne of Venice trode vpon his necke euen with his feete who for the establishing of his authoritie did openly pronounce before the people this saying in the Psalme Super aspidem basiliscum equitabis calcabis leonem draconem that is thou shalt ride vpon the Aspe and the Basiliske the Lion and the Dragon shalt thou treade vpon Likewise was Franciscus Dandalus Duke of Venice excommunicated and banished by Pope Clement the fift Clement 5. his crueltie against Franciscus Dandalus duke of Venice and enioyned to a certaine pennance which was that he should goe â—long the Popes pallace vpon his knees with a coller about his necke â—ike a dogge Who would thinke they â—ould confirme this rough crueltie by â—laine scripture but yet they can after â—he exposition of the Church of Rome â—or wot you what is written in the â—ight psalme thou hast put all things â—nder his feete sheepe and oxen A prettie Romish commentarie yea â—ll the beasts of the field that is Chriâ—tians Iewes Turkes and Tartarians â—he foules of the aire that is the soules â—nd Saints departed and the fishes in â—he sea that is the soules that are in purgatorie And this is it which Cardinall Poole being the Popes lieutenant at the councell of Trent did fortifie by the words of Christ that he would make Peter a fisher of men which after the sence of the Church of Rome is to be vnderstood thus that he would driue all Emperours Princes and Potentates into the Popes net to broyle theÌ„ or frie them euen as his holines should thinke best for his owne diet The Lord deliuer England from such fishing least after fishing come frying and the Foxes bring faggots But what should I speake of forraine Princes how lycenciously presumptuously hath he dared to controll the mightie Princes of England infringing their liberties and incroaching vpon their prerogatiues wherin if he were at any time withstood he straightway cast about to depose them As King Iohn was most miserablie vexed by Innocent the third King Iohn vexed by Innocent third and forced at last to resignethe crown with al his title of soueraignetie both in England and Ireland Henrie 2. suspended from his crowne As Henry the second was suspended from his crowne and for the space of foure dayes went barefoote to Thomas Beckets Tombe dieng the rough stones with his bloud What a solemne oration made Cardinall Poole being sent by the Pope to Charles the Emperour setting forward against the Turke whose purpose was to perswade the Emperour to turne his prepared power from inuading the Turke and to bend it against King Henrie the eight worse then any Turke as he said What blustering stormes of rebellion hath that late councell of Trent blowne vp in christendome that cannot yet be appeased Councell of Trent of the bellows of rebellion And all because the olde Foxe â—ath perswaded his young cubbes that â—hey may lawfully deuoure the lambs â—hat is the Pope hath powred an opiâ—ion into the papists that if he dispence with them The harmonie of Popish doctrines and dealings they may lawfully breake â—romise And heerein their doctrines â—nd dealings iarre not one iot for what â—oe they teach that the Pope hath the â—isposition of the crownes of christian â—rinces that he hath the right of deâ—iding to whom any kingdome belongâ—th that he hath lawfull powre to giue kingdomes to such as can conquer and get them that hee hath authoritie to â—ischarge Christian subiects from their â—utifull loyaltie to their lawfull prinâ—es that he hath power to giue leaue â—ea blessing reward immortalitie and â—ternall felicitie to such rakehels and â—ebels as attempt the tearing of the â—rowne from the Princes head And what is the practise of our papists they sauour rebellion they ioyne in conspiracie with strangers to conuey the crowne to a forrainer they agree with the enemie in faction to offer our cuntrey to a pray I cannot more fittly compare them then to those kinde of Scorpions and little Serpents which Pliny and Aristotle mentioned to be in Mesopotamia which neuer hurt or harme strangers but deadly sting the naturall inhabitants nay of worse condition they are theÌ„ the serpents for they haue venome to hurt others but not themselues buâ— these to hurt their princes their nobleâ— and people are content to hazard their own states Farre more bewitched theiâ— that foolish fellow who was wel contented to bee depriued of one of his owne eyes so that conditionally he might depriue his companion of both It seemeth to me that he which framed the picture of Furie as followeth meant to describe these desperat dealings who is painted with a sword in his hand for his greedie desire of reuenge and desperatly rusheth vpon a Iaueline murdering himself whilest he seeketh the spoyle of another Countrimen degenerous if not so farre alienated from loyaltie you are vnworthie of the name of countrimen what drunkennes hath couered your spirits that you should wooe the Spaniard to worke your woes No trusting to a Spanyards courtesie cruelly wish your owne euill by opening your gates â—o strangers prostrating your wealths â—o the courtesie of him who hath vowed your ouerthrowes It is an olde saying that he blameth Neptune without cause who hauing once made shipwracke wil â—enture to the sea the second time you haue had triall of the Spanyards disposition euen in Queene Maries daies his courting tearmes were but painted coâ—ours to deceiue your simplicities when he spake most faire he ment most falseâ—y and when Spaine began to shew â—reacherous England began to seeme suspicious whereupon in happie time â—hey parted If these be forgotten take notice by your neighbour nations and â—ook to your own house wheÌ„ thy neighâ—ours is on fire What should I here reâ—ort out of histories their crueltie laid vpon the Indians which as they surmount all credit Beware by others harmes so am I not furnished with words effectuall
a whore in the companie There is none so arrant a whore in the world as the strumpet of Babilon Perfit papists the woorst knot of theeues and why who is an actuall dealer in wicked and vngodly practises against all Kings and kingdomes Then whether hearts hating Gods truth which should rightly enforme them and carousing of this whorish cup which doth strangly enchaunt them be faithfull to her princely person or peace of this realme I commend it to the iudgment of all them that loue our prosperitie The second reason THey that beleeue the Pope to haue the disposition of Gods sentence Papists beleeue the Popes sentence of excōmunication against the Queene doe also suppose that Queene Elizabeth is not lawfull Queene of England because the Pope doth not accept her so But our Romish catholikes beleeue that the Pope hath power to anathematize and to dispose the sentence of excommunication and consequently hold that her Maiestie is not lawfull Queene of England because the Pope doth not so accept her Therefore perfect papists are traiterously minded to the happie state of England This reason would be deeplie pondered for since the old Foxe hath excommunicated and cursed her royall person and the yong Foxes beleeue also according to his distilled opinion into their mindes that hee doth this pro suo iure then this is the consequent that all their kindnesse and courtesies all friendly countenances and conformities all loyaltie and allegiance all seruice and obedience is but from hollow hearts extorted and not in any true loue performed either to the saftie of the Queenes Maiestie or to the fortifying of this land against foraine danger because they carrie no other opinion of her and her louing people than the Pope himselfe hath published In good sooth this geare would make worke for the hangeman if it were thoroughly sifted for of necessitie to this confession of traitorousnes must all be driuen that meane to continew perfect papists The third reason THey that carie a countenance conformable to her Maiesties lawes no longer then it stands with the Popes pleasure Papisty obedience but at the Popes pleasure can bee no true harted subiects But perfit Papists obey her Maiesties lawes no longer then it stands with the liking of the Pope as the Iesuit Hart sometimes confessed Therefore perfect Papists can bee no good subiects Here let the true subiects vnderstand that the Pope hath powred an opinion into his papists Greater cause to feare then to trust them that Kings and princes if he dispence with them may breake their faith and promise that nulla fides est seruanda cum haereticis no faith is to be kept with Gods friends and his foes that Papists with liberall permission may sweare and vnsweare if aduantageable oportunitie doe occurre which since that they do beleeue to stād in his power to dispence withall and that he is both able to pardō them and willing to reward them yea that it is within his reach not onely to giue them the kingdome of England but the kingdome of heauen also then let them sweare their protestations are not worth the paring of a rotten apple their obedience is but at the Popes ad placitum Whereupon ariseth a good caueat that we rather tie short then trust a two-legged Foxe The fourth reason THey that receiue entertaine read and recommend such lying libels and hart-stealing pamphlets Papists reade and recommend popish libels as wherby her Maiesties right is impeached her regiment reuiled her title of supremacie defaced her faith defamed christian religion nourished by her called hereticall deuilish and damnable and the professours thereof worse then nullifidians and infidelious Atheists can be no good subiects But this is the dealing of our perfect Papists Therefore the conclusion followeth that such can be no good subiects Manie wicked and traitrous pamphlets haue beene scattered in this realme to darken the glorie of the Lords annoynted to weaken the good willes of her highnes louing subiects to winne worthlesse male-contented malicious wretches treacherously to conspire with our sworne enemies whereby to fortifie the Romish faction These haue and doe want no fauourers to scatter them in corners to send them to their louers to commend their substantialnes as matters vnaunswerable both such merchants as send them and such brokers as vtter such Babilonish wares are right worthie to pay their heart bloud for custome The fift reason THey that receiue pardons Papists receiue pardons to free them from loyaltie absolutions and such like stuffe to exempt and free themselues from loyall obedience are but subiects in show watching their times to worke their owne willes But our absolute Romaine catholikes receiue pardons and absolutions to acquite them from dutifull allegiance Therefore shake a perfit papist out of the masking weede of his pretended conformitie and then shall you finde that an heart deuoutly affected to the Romish religion is as deeply infected with the venome of treason Gregorie 13. Pius 5. Sixtus 5. The dealings of the Popes is not vnknowne of Gregorie the 13. Pius 5. and Sixtus 5. who labouring our subuersion by Englands vnnaturall children haue sent their pardons and absolutions to free them from subiection a thing abhorring from all religion hated of the heathen the age present loathes it and succeeding posteritie shall be astonished to heare of such cruelties The sixt reason The Pope erecteth seminaries for the hatching of Foxe-priests and catholikes receiue them to nursing THey for whose catholike good the Pope pretends the erecting of his seminaries and therefore receiue from thence such subtill treacherous and disloyall wretches as infect them with poyson and perswade them to treason cannot bee faithfull and true hearted subiects But the Pope maketh his catholikes beleeue that he erecteth seminaries for their good and they also receiue and entertaine his Iesuits and Foxe-preists issuing out of those dennes of Idolatrie Therefore the conclusion followeth that such can be no good subiects Parsons Campion and Hart Parsons Campion with the rest cast in the Popes mould and fitted for the seruice of the beast that sits vpon the seuen hilles haue wanted no entertainment in this land in their times although there were nothing more intended of them then this namely to set the subiects against their prince Englishmen against their owne countrie as leaue was giuen to Parsons and Campion by Gregorie 13. 1580. Aprill 14. to interpret the Bull of Pius quintus The seuenth reason THey that are wearie of these dayes Papists gape for a golden day and liue inhope of another world which in their ordinarie by-word they call their golden day or yeare of Iubilee can be no faithfull subiects to her by whose gracious gouernment these dayes are continued But the papists are wearie of these daies and languish in looking for their golden day which almightie God send them in leaden haste Therefore papists can bee no good subiects That the papists are wearie
to display them sometimes raging amongst themselues who with one thrust of a sword should braueliest paunch an Indian sometimes rosting them aliue with soft fires sometimes murthering them with mankind mastiues sometimes a shambles of Indian mans flesh and causing them to eate one another Amongst the rest there is a strange storie of an Indian Lord flying from the I le Hispaniola into the I le Cuba who was by the Spanyards so hotly pursued An holie hypocrite that at the last hee was apprehended and tyed to a stake to be burned where a deuout fransciscan Frier began to enforme him in his catholike religion telling the Indian noble man that if he did beleeue those things he taught him he should goe to heauen presently and enioy euerlasting happines else no way but to hell to endure perpetuall torments The Indian Lord making a pawse at the matter asked him whether the Spanyards went when they died to heauen quoth the Fryer because they die in the catholike faith The noble man hearing him say so answered forthwith that he would not go to heauen nor haue any fellowship with sâ— bloudie a nation Mournfull Mexico for the desolation of thy nobles in whom thy ioy and glorie did cheifly consist thou hast warned succeeding posteritie to beeware of trusting Spanish courtesie Moâ—enzuma King of Mexico his thousand presents were not able to keepe him from Giues and wrongfull imprisonment These examples teach you that â—f you let this cruell Tirant but to tread â—pon the shoore his desire will not be satisfied vntill he haue footing withâ—n your walles and if once hee tread within your walles he will harbour in â—our houses and haue his hands in your â—reasuries nay though you would giue â—im as many presents as Motenzuma â—hey should not bee able to redeeme â—our feete from the Giues or necks from â—â—e Rope A vaine reply But some man will answere â—â—e that these were heathenish creatures â—ithout God in this world but they â—re catholikes of the Spanish faith and â—rofession I confesse indeede that the â—panyards greatly pretend the vpâ—olding of the catholike faith but their â—eeds declare that they wholy entend â—e encrease of their priuat commoditie Their large proffers are but Sodoms fruite Spanish proffers like Sodoms fruit for they although goodly in show yet being handled they fall to ashes these beautifull in outward appearance touched turne to poison to the ouerthrow of them that credit them For looke a little into the Low countries hath their catholicke religion freed them from Spanish inuasion Are not many of them willing to entertaine any religion and to forsake al to please the King of Spaine and are they for all this at better peace Their long and multiplied grieuances may teach you vnlesse vtterly vndocible that the catholike religion is but a Spanish masking weede to obtaine his purpose and that howsoeuer he promiseth you to set the crowne vpon a Popish head yet his captaines souldiers shal cast lots for your liues his gentry and nobles for your liuings and you as many as should liue should be slaues drudges euermore suspected and distrusted from which seruitude neuer to bee deliuered vnlesse your wiues should conspire Lastly if other nations haue so felt these furies though scarce thought to haue done him any wrong what treacheries what cruelties Spanish hearts most bitter against English men what villanies must we needes looke for to be performed vnto vs of him whose malice is multiplied according to the number of so many supposed receiued harmes and foule dishonours Then countrimen Italionated or Englishmen Spanyardized let me thus much perswade you that the benefit of your treason if vnhappilie successe should answer your sinister meanings which God forbid is that your countrie should be desolate your selues feared or suspected and the garland of your peace shall adorne the heads of your deadlie foes your stately houses shall harbour stinging serpents a thing lamentable but yet a iust reward of traitors CHAPTER 4. An oration from olde Rainard to his Iesuiticall cubbes and extrauagant Foxe-priests wherein his experienced wilines directeth them from curious contemplation to treacherous practises DEare sonnes before I take my leaue and last farewell I cannot choose but reuiue the remembrance of my auncient loue not that by recounting my abundant fauours which from time to time you haue tasted I meane vpbrayd but rather to recomfort my selfe whose loue towards you by nature or forwardnesse to fit you to further seruice is so well recompenced with diligence to execute what I shall giue you in charge You know sonnes how I haue erected seminaries and to what end which mine enemies doe call bad conuenticles no better then cockatrices to hatch treason in these I neuer thought any cost too dear Not causelesly whereby either to make your bodies fit for trauaile or to helpe your natures inclination with fallacious art for the accomplishment of our purpose And now my sonnes it is hie time that you fall from contemplation to practise which is to transforme religious superstition into policie Popish practike diuinitie and policie into treason wherein let none of you scorne your old fathers direction for though your yonger yeares be riper in art yet my experience may teach you in treasons to bee acted English you are and to England must I send you whose Albion clifts seeme to me a farre off like rockes of pure Diamond where some right dearely loue me your olde father Too many and from the depth of their entire affection shall embrace you my deerest children And more shal the more thou art discouered But the greatest part pursue me with deadly hate tearming me no better then a bloudsucking Canniball a robber of Churches Fit titles for thy Foxe-ship a patrone of heresies a father of falshood the brocher of quarrells the head master of mutinies the seede-man of sedition the infringer of liberties the controller of Princes the enemie of Christ the monster and astonishment of nature enchayning Christian soules in miserable thraldome and more then Aegyptian seruitude But the time may come when all this may be repaid the hope whereof is vnto me as it were a restoratiue to reuiue my faint and languishing spirits which hope doth depend chiefly vpon your cunning Two reuiuing cordials for the old Foxe his heart in compassing and cunning consisteth in this which followeth first that you worke vpon such as are fit to be added to our catholike faction and secondly in the manner of the performance Those that are the likeliest to be fitted to this frame that is to lend an hand when oportunitie strikes alarme I speake not sonnes of those who alreadie are deuout catholikes earnestly expect and hartily pray for successe of our cause Who are likeliest to be framed to popish practises either are male contents whom enuy or inconstancy may make desirous of a change or loose professours proculstants who haue lent