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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42675	The Ghost of the Emperor Charles the Fifth appearing to Volcart the porter, or, A dialogue of the times		1690 (1690)	Wing G638; ESTC R30404	32,343	42

THE GHOST OF THE EMPEROR Charles the Fifth Appearing to VOLCART the PORTER OR A Dialogue touching the Times April 1st 1690. This may be Printed ROB. MIDGLEY LONDON Printed for John Newton at the Three Pidgeons over-against the Inner Temple-gate in Fleet-street 1690. THE GHOST of the EMPEROR Charles the Fifth Appearing to VOLCART the Porter c. The Ghost GOOD chear Friend prethee where abouts am I and how far is it to the Low Countries Volcart You seem not well awake Sir in asking for the Low Countries when you are no wat Brussels Ghost Ah do not insult over a poor unhappy Shadow that has had no rest for this hundred and thirty Years Did you know who I were be you Friend or Foe you would shew me some respect Volcart Pray let 's hear then who you are that we may know what respect is due to you for my being a Porter does not hinder me from being able to give as good account of things as another and tho' I have not liv'd an hundred and thirty Years yet have I liv'd the best part of that time which makes a Man old enough not to be afraid of Ghosts and Shadows Pray then ask what you please for I have past no small time of my life at Court Ghost Good Friend do not trifle with me you tell me you know Brussels and what has past in the World Pray what 's your name you that speak for if you be of Quality I shall presently know you are you the Duke of Arschot Count Egmont Count Horn the Marquess de Bergues These are Persons well known in Flanders Volcart God forbid I should pretend to be so great as any of these no no I am only a poor Door-keeper my name Volcart But pray let 's know what 's yours Ghost Why I am the Ghost of Charles V. he that ruled not only the Provinces we speak of but carri'd his name much farther so that I need say no more to thee Volcart You Charles V. you are an Imposter were you that great Prince you would know the place where you are seeing you built it Ghost Ah! I begin to know whereabouts I am 't is true it was I that built this Palace but why dost thou make me remember a thing which was the beginning of my misery Dost thou know why I built it and for what end it serv'd me Volcart No unless it were to hang Pictures in at least this is the common report But is it possible that you are that great Prince whom I have heard so much of and whose Memory is in so great veneration in these Provinces Ghost The very same Volcart And what brings you into these Countries Ghost The desire of knowing what passes Thou knowest I was born here and that the love of ones Native Country never dies Another reason brings me here besides I am willing to instruct my Descendants how they may be more happy than I. Here 's the wretched place where I began to lose my Innocency I had rang'd Pictures here as thou now saist of all the Princes of Europe but to my misfortune none of 'em appeared so beautiful to me as that of my Sister the Queen of Hungary I was always gazing on it Curst be the Painter that made her so handsom which gave me a desire to behold the Original which appeared to me far more beautiful than its Picture I could take no pleasure after this but in her company What shall I say I loved her she loved me And this is the cursed effect of these abominable Pictures Volcart How methinks this does not well agree with your Character for I comprehend by this that the Love you had for her was of another nature than that which is usual between Brother and Sister Ghost Very true and would to God it had not proceeded so far I should not have sigh'd as I have done and been driven to this despair But to make an end of this discourse dost know who Don John of Austria was Volcart Know who he was yes sure he was Governour of these Provinces and I have admitted thousands and thousands of Persons into the Palace to speak with him Ghost That is impossible for tho' thou art otherwise old enough yet not so old as to have seen him It 's about an hundred and thirty Years ago since I am dead and he was then at Mans state so that consequently he could not live long enough for thee to know him Volcart What then you don't mean Don John of Austria the Son of Philip IV. begot on an Actress the Brother of our King now Reigning Ghost No. Volcart You speak then of the other Don John he that won the famous Battel of Lepanto in a word your Son Ghost Yes but dost know who was his Mother Volcart No I have read Strada out without being the wiser in this matter He says indeed that he was your Son that he was brought up by Don Lewis Quiscida the Steward of your Houshold no body knowing who he was he himself being ignorant of his Original till Philip the Second inform'd him one day a Hunting but of his Mother he made no mention Ghost Who is this Strada Volcart Why he was a Jesuit that gives an account how you left the Empire and forsook the World and who likewise has given us the famous History of the Troubles in the Low Countries under the Reign of Philip II. your Son Ghost A Man of his Order could not write any thing to disgrace my Memory for the Jesuits have been ever Pensionaries to the House of Austria besides the first thing they learn is to offer Incense to the great ones of the World However if he has conceal'd my shame I will not know then that the Queen of Hungary was Don John's Mother Volcart The Queen of Hungary Don John's Mother What your own Sister Ghost The very same Do not I tell you so Volcart However prepared one may be against the hearing of extraordinary things yet shew me the Man whom this Relation will not surprize A Child of ones own Sister Whoring is frequent enough and passes for Gallantry but thank God Incest is not so rife Our Town it 's true is full of Cuckolds as well as others and my own Son was of the number having married a Woman a little above his Quality But seeing the Wife of a King and the Sister of a great Emperor have drove on the Trade it belongs to him to comfort himself And it appears to me that it is not the Cuckolds that suffer in the other World but those that make them so otherwise it would be the King of Hungary who would appear to me and not the Great Charles Ghost Thou saist right and it wou'd not be just that after having suffered in this World they should suffer moreover in the other However being now sufficiently instructed about me prethee learn me what has hapned in this Country since my death Volcart What then have the