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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

apprehended they that had excited this pittifull and bloodie Tragedie who by his commaunde were publiquely burned in Ebora and information beeing giuen against the other theeues and murderers about three-score and tenne of them were most iustly hanged At thys day in Fraunce it is heresie with the Leaguers to doe iustice on such like naughtie villaines when as theyr crimes trecheries and murders are as miraculous An obseruaunt Gray Fryar named brother Ferdinand de la Place wyth other that were hys zealous companions went so fast as he could to Madrill to the King of Castile there this impudent and bloody Monke perswaded him shamefullie to put to death certaine Christians whom he termed to be Apostataes which afterwarde was found to be most false So many abuses mischiefes hath beene committed by these counterfeit hypocrites these scellerous and hooded murtherers as not without cause in the yeere one thousand two hundred and threescore vnder the raigne of S. Lewes was the order of the begging Friars extolled to the third heauen for theyr profession yea they preferred themselues before all other in holinesse of life and stoutlie commended their voluntarie pouertie whereby they prouoked many Prelats against them and almost all men that were seene in Diuinity But Guillaume du Temple d' Amour a Doctor of Sorbonne being a man of better conscience then any at thys day of the same Colledge who create the like instruments of rebellion by their pernicious resolutions and defende the abhominable murder of the late most Christian and religious King with other more of great learning both dispised and disproued openly such Beggers alleadging that theyr pouerty was vowed without cause and that he would maintaine such manner of life to be but a pretext of Religion and onely fit for such beggers as desired to liue in loosenes and idlenes In the end neuerthelesse they got the vpper-hand in their cause by the iudgement of Pope Alexander and the Booke that this Doctor made which at thys day remaineth in the Librarie of Sorbonne was condemned But shoulde not thys Doctor haue highly aduantaged his cause if he had liued tyll now adding to his plea the impieties parricides all sorts of crimes smoothly hyd and couered for the present time vnder the habites of this holinesse Thou hast wretch brought in and practised another manner of people that are called Iesuites not beggers but such as make beggers of whom the scandalles are more secrete yet much more pernicious then of the other But why say I thou hast practised thys bad generation seeing thou thy selfe art not onely practised but begotten ingendred by them Howe now mee thinks I heare some one say belike then thys Alecto or accurssed League hath many Fathers Verie true the Spanish pride and ambition as I haue saide brought it into the world as a mishapen masse or lumpe but these turbulent Iesuites with the Rodemont of Mendoza haue so louinglie lyckt it as they gaue it forme composition and garments to decke it withall These thou esteemest fit for thy coniuration or els they are founde to be very necessarie members to thee cleaue these hypocrites for the particuler profit of themselues and of theyr Maister the King of Tyrants they being all of the Spanish Nation or at the least issued from Spaine For about the yeere one thousand fiue hundred and twentie-one Ignatius de Layola was the first founder of these Iesuites an obstinate enemy to the house of Albret which malice yet continueth in his seede at what time Pampelunae reuolted the affectionate friends to the royall House of Albret from whence descended the King by the late Queene Mother of most worthie memory with those of Foix as also the true heire of the Realme Henrie d' Albret tooke occasion by the retreit of the Garrisons of Pampelunae that sallied forth to succour the Gouernours of Castile by reason of the warres and deuisions then beeing to haue theyr secrete intelligences in Bearne and Fraunce In fauour of whom King Fraunces sent Andrew de Foix Lord of Asperraut the younger Brother to Odet de Foix Lord of Lautrech who gathering vnto him those of the faction of Grammont tooke the Castel of Saint Iohn at the foote of the gate Whereupon the Duke of Nagera Don Anthonie Manrique seeing himselfe so suddainly surprised and that the Citty of Pampelunae began to grow tumultuous secretly got forth thereof and withdrew himselfe into Castile leauing his house to the peoples spoyle Thys Layola then at the dislodging of thys Viceroy Manrique out of Nauarre remained in Garrison in the Castell of Pampelunae with other Souldiours belonging to the Emperour It so chaunced that the Castel was assayled by the people and the mouth of the Cannon directed by the assailants to a certaine place where by hap it met with thys Layola who had both hys feete brused in peeces with the stones that the force of the bullet droue out of the wall so that he fell downe from the height of the Castell beeing with-drawne was afterwarde preserued from death and hys hurts healed Then seeing himselfe thus maimed and vnapt for Armes he gaue beginning to thys good kinde of people Let vs not then account it strange that these men so desperatly applie themselues to remoouing of estates especiallie thys heere considering they are come of a Spanish Father a warriour a naturall enemy to this estate whom heerein they follow very perfitlie but not in change of lyfe For thys holy Father beeing thus metamorphozed could weare no shooes and therefore went bare-foote and came for followers first to Paris where beeing vexed by some and relieued by other-some his owne Maister Peter Fabri Diego Laynes Iohn Codury Claudius Gay Pasquall Brouet Fraunces Xauierre Alphonsus Salmeron Simon Rodrigues and Nicholas de Bonadilla students in diuinitie he raunged into the rule ordained by himselfe each making a vowe of perpetuall pouertie and chastity But to them alone I will not giue thys honour for many other haue trauailed in this high peece of worke as faithfull seruaunts and counsellers of so woorthie Fathers the bellowes of ambition abortiue sonnes of the Father of lyes bringing nothing hether but what they learne of him and marked with his marke to know them for his owne Thy face Sorcerer is writhen and like to that Sibillaes whom the Poets feigne to be the Mother of the Gods but thy Bawdes and Pandars haue made thee a false visage so faire as can be to entise young Lordes and Gentlemen to loue thee The draught of thy dissembled countenaunce to diuers of thy chiefe consorts hath brought immediat death yet seemed it so excellent as in theyr eyes it surpassed the auncient Marble portraite of Venus that wonderfullie enflamed men with loue Diuers Lords and Gentlemen haue been rauished with thy looks whom thou in the end hast depriued of life in sundry battailes and encounters to make them receiue due chastisement to theyr impudent dishonest

assisted by God did not sustaine and restore it hardlie should she find any other to helpe her with recouerie of health albeit this is not the first time that Fraunce hath been deuided into Leagues and partialities after which it hath beene reunited and reconciled For the disease of this estate is so sharpe and violent albeit the cause thereof is well knowne to all as if it find not an aunswerable remedie by the admirable prescription of some speciall and no vulgare Phisition vndoubtedly immediate death will ensue Which were great pittie my Lordes that Rebels should so doe after they haue mangled dissipated and spoyled it vnder collour of reformation and pretence of Religion haue likewise brought in the Spanyard euen to the verie hart of the estate and then caused him to discend into Brittaine Prouince to enrich himselfe with the publique ruines and hauocke of French-mens goods Doe ye not already behold that the Spanyards are Maisters within Paris Doe yee not see them gorging the riches treasure of the Cittizens See yee not likewise how they handle the foolish people that when they come to acknowledge theyr fault they are so feeble and faint-harted as they easily chase driue them forth of their houses wherof they presently will haue the authority and disposing beside eyther by faire meanes or force deale with theyr wiues theyr daughters and their seruaunts It is easie as Pindarus saith for the rude base multitude to trouble and ouer-turne a great Cittie but to bring and re-establish it in the former florishing esttae requireth a little more paine and trauaile For such onely can doe that to whom God as the true Gouernour giueth the means and counsell how to performe it The King alone can re-establish Paris and the Spanyarde assisted with the Rebels both without within gapeth but for the generall ruine therof The King labours to preserue it as beeing his proper heritage and principall seate of the Kinges the Spanyard imployeth his daily paine for the losse therof accounts it best to vse it as a garrison a pernicious garrison a garrison which will be the miserable end of the greatnesse and excellencie of Paris for whose safety the King endured before it the discommodities of a long siedge desiring rather to recouer it by reason and reknowledging of offences past thē to take it by force and so commit it to sack the Souldiours spoyle Therfore thou needest not accuse the King because so long time he besieged Paris with no other intent rather heereby thou shouldest conceiue an argument of most wonderfull and debonnaire kindnesse or rather a princely fatherlines towards his Subiects who are as deere to hym as his naturall Children What man is he so foolish that will thrust fire into his house vnder shadowe that it is occupied by his enemies if he haue the meanes left to chase them away or to make them become hys Freendes VVhat Father is it beeing neuer so greeuously offended with hys Sonne will therefore immediatly worke his death or destruction Will he not rather vse discretion and tarry the time wherein by necessitie or other kinde of trauersing hee may bring him againe into the right way or acknowledgement of hys fault In vain were it to doubt otherwise marrie if the sonne perseuere long time stubborne and the Father be seuere in the end he will chastise him according to his deserts The King then hath proceeded like a good Father of a familie hauing vsed incredible pacience and kindnesse euen till the extremity when he might haue ruined and confounded all his enemies God therefore will permit him a double recompence and if heereafter the Rebelles be handled by his Maiestie more rigorously themselues thereof haue giuen him iust occasion It is harde to order or well guyde an aduice and deliberation for reducing a Kyngdome vexed wyth troubles and sedicions into a sounde assuraunce as the Pylot what-soeuer experience he hath findes it difficult for him to guide the Shyp when he is hindered with exceeding rough Seas and extraordinarie tempests when he shall be dryuen from hys right course of Nauigation and see the vessell begin to splyt and shyuer against the Rockes being vnable longer to man the stearne But GOD gyueth grace to the King as a most good assured expert Pylote to recouer the Barque of the Common-wealth of Fraunce so menaced and in danger of ship-wrack to the confusion of all his enemies And nowe to returne to you my Lordes loue yee better to lyue miserably vnder the tyranny of them that would destroy yee then vnder the sweete and agreeable subiection of the most gracious King on the earth Who makes no spare of himselfe but standes exposed to all daungers to winne you by his Armes and by the assistance of so many great Lords and Gentlemen to re-seate peace quiet and tranquillity As Pindarus writes comparing Peace to a fayre and mylde weather which causeth aboundance and fertilitie of all good things and is as he saith the soule of the spirite and thought the daughter of Iustice that conserueth and maintaineth the greatest Citties hauing the most excellent keyes of counsell and good deliberation VVyll not you then trauaile with your King to gaine thys fayre and precious Iewell Will not you followe him to chase hence the cruell dysquieters of your Countrey Loue ye better to consent to theyr inuasion to loose and bury your selues in theyr Conquests then liue vnited to your King in peace in your Houses and Castels wyth your Wyues and Chyldren Wyll yee suffer your selues to fall head-long into thys discorde which ingendereth nothing but confusion which in such sort dazeleth the very greatest spyrits as they shall not see and know what is good for them How soueraigne a vertue is it to counsell well and howe equall there-with is it to listen good counsell and follow it It is greatly to bee feared considering the mallice of these Rebels that it bee not saide of this estate as Cicero wrote of the Romaine common-wealth the shaddowe whereof to our great paine remaines in this kingdome Sedition is lightly mooued and oftentimes on very small occasion but suddainlie it engendreth dyuers troubles as raging stormes and tempests that sundry wayes tosse and turmoyle the Common-wealth and sometimes it falles out that the Author of these broyles dooth as the Bird who hauing got bird-lyme by chaunce into her winges the more shee striues to loose her selfe the faster her winges cleaue together with the lyme If then wee woulde haue the Common-wealth to liue and florish let vs liue in agreement with our King for concorde is the verie soule of the Common-wealth The vnitie which you haue followed vntill this present is contrarie both to your quiet and welfare of the state Perceiue yee not by the disorders heere engendred by the enemies of the Realme that their entrance was made onely to triumph ouer you And will yee forget your selues so much as