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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

great courage and fortune in bringing home from farre so rich treasure Thus wee may see that the Lord is on our side that bringeth vs home safe with a few little Pinasses from the verye iawes of our enemies when the Spaniards could not returne hauing so strong an Armado fu●nished for battell These considerations no doubt maketh Phillip to let his Cleargie sweat in these friuolus attemptes while he himselfe quietly may for excuse say Iubet Ecclesia dissentire non audeo ¶ The Cardinals of Rome seeing that the Pope was male-contented for the bad successe of the Spanish Fleete apparelled like Mo●●ners goe sollemnly singing De pro●●ndis from Castel Angelo to S. Peters Church to them is said Lugete quia cecidit Meretrix THis broode of Antechrist whome Francis Petrarch and Iohn Bocca●e calleth I●sipidum Sal terrae the Cardinals I meane no sooner haue any thing to contrary their mindes but with the Pharisies they annoint themselues and causing trumpets to be blowne before them flye to their Dyrges Tren●als as Causa sine qua non their misfortunes may not be redressed But seeing they oppose themselues to Christ and his religion their lyp labour is turned vnto sin and cry they Domine Domine neuer so loud yet their fayned exclamations in vain are only breathed into the ayre But leauing their religion as palpably heretical to al true Christians let vs in a word or two looke into their liues wherein as in a Christall Mirrour wée shall see figured and pourtraid the Anatomie of the seauen deadly Sinnes For Pride both in their heartes puffed vppe with aspiring thoughtes and in their Apparell set out with inestimable brauerie the meanest Scholler of the least Traueyler eyther by reading or experience may manifest For who méeteth a Cardinall mounted first marking the trappings and furniture of his horse richly studded his foot-clooth of veluet fringed with golde his braue attyre couered with his Scarlet Robe and his sumptuous traine following him shall thincke that hée méeteth not one of Peters Disciples but some greate Potentate or Monarch of the worlde rather resembling ALEXANDER in his effeminate Persian robes when hée surnamed himselfe the sonne of AMMON then a Christian a Piller of the Church that shoulde in the humblenesse of his life giue light vnto the People Their Sodomie as they kepe not very secrete for they in their Pallaces imitating the heathen God IVPITER gett● them Ganimedes which Stantes a poculis serue for Pages yet they as much as they can obscure but their Lechery they feare not to make manifest as béeing Fathers of manye Bastardes and Paramours of sundrye Courtizans to whome in their Carnouale they goe in Maskes and so openly co●rt with sundry deuelish deuises Their slooth is séene in the securitie of their liues for apply they themselues neuer so strictly to studye while they are of meane degrée yet after they attain the calling of a Cardinal they answer with their maister the Pope that with Peter they haue cast the Net and laboured all night and now catcht the fish not the soules of men but some great dignitie and preferment which gotten they say to their soules liue at ease Their glutony is seene in their sumptuous banquets which excéede in such riotous aboundāce to pāper themselues not to féed the poore that the Monsters of Rome their predicessors in belly chéere Heliogabolus Commodus Iulianus Lucellus Emperors and Senators neuer surpassed in this vice ●hese péeuish shauelings Enuie is seene in their ●rowning at the fortunate successe of their verye friendys for when any amongst them is preferred to the Papacie then the rest incensed with enuie ●all to treasons conspiracies priuy murders and poisonings that some Popes haue scarcely liued 2 daies nay some one day before they haue bene made away by the Cardinals who through enuye séeke to establish the Papall seat with blood as did pope Alexander and diuers others so that oftimes it may be said of their Pope as Tully said of the Consull that liued but one day Vigilantissimum habuimus Papam qui t●to su● Papatu somnum vix vidit Their wrath furie let the Chronicles of the state of Italie as of Venecia Florence Vrb●e Naples Geneua the rest discouer in which places hauing bene appointed 〈◊〉 Legats they haue displaied the Trophees of their wrath as vpō the house of the Medices in Florence after y ● death of old● Cos●o against Peter Ludouike and Lorenzo their intent to murther these braue Gentlemen so to satisfie their extreame wrath and fury Their Couetousnesse Italie cries out on as burthened with their taskes extortions and impositions for Bul● Pardons and dispensations nay England it selfe may be produced as a witnesse who ● long while payd to Rome many extraordinary dueties Poole ● Woolsey are late instances what in●atiate co●●tousnes is barbour●d vnder the pr●t●nsed shewe of their religion these 〈◊〉 linges sléeping thus in their wickednesse att●nding vpon that rich whore of Babilon who professeth himselfe Patronesse of their practizes mourne least our abolishing of their abhomidations in England should incense the rest of Europe by our examples to shake off their heauy yoke of ignorance and to imbrace the light of the Gospell and therefore rightly to them is said Lugete quia cecidit Meretrix The Cleargie of Spaine mounted richly on their lennets 〈◊〉 vp and downe consulting and at their wits end fuming a●d fretting that their counsels had no better successe to them is said Ahithophelis consilium Ahithopelis laqueum GLOSSA. PHILLIP being olde holding in the one hand a sword in the other a crootch as ready to step frō his Scepter to the Graue hath his minde troubled with contrarye passions so that he may say with Don Pedro Spiritus est ab inquietudine co●c●us Deuout he is although it consisteth in ignorance ambitious desiring still to inlarge his possessions and kingdomes and couetous as neuer satisfied with al his ter●●tor●s and treasures yet age somwhat cooleth th●se desires 〈◊〉 casteth water in the ●lame but his Cleargie make supply by their perswasions in what his peares doe faile in defect for they sorie that litle England should suppresse their graund Patronesse that proud Who●e of Babilon or oppose it selfe against Antechrist the Pope thinking that if either these ●●●lde or the ●ight of the gospel did flourish that Princes Nations hauing a déep insight into their iu●ling● their religion should faile they inc●nse poore Phillip to set himselfe Ex diametro against the trueth and to indeuour in what he may t● subuert the estate of true Christianitie ayming especially at our most gratious Soueraign Ladie Elizabeth as the chiefe Defendresse and Patronesse in all Europe of the puritye of the Gospell giuing counsell with Achitophell against Dauid agaynst the Lordes annointed but hée turning their worldye wisdome into foolishnes ouerthroweth their pollicie and practizes veryfieng vpon their heades the prouerb Malum consilium Consultori pessimum These shaulinges this