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A15033	The English myrror A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy: containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, vnto which is adioyned, enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, and lastly a fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred Scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales: wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation. A worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. By George Whetstones Gent. Seene and allowed.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1586 (1586)	STC 25336; ESTC S111678	158,442	230

reported that his notorious crimes exceeded the dayes of his age which I ouerpasse as examples necessary for other purposes and vnto this impious parte I will ioyne this following crueltie Upon a day one tolde this naughtie Emperour that his cosen Mamertius Antomenes resembled him in comelynesse of bodie and magnanimitie of minde vpon which report Commodus pronounced death both vpon the reporter and his innocent cousen holding it for reason that it appertained to no man to vaunt lesse to resemble him and in my opinion if Antomenes resembled him in deuilish qualities death was too easie a scourge for so lewde a life Mulla Abdula father of Moley Mahumet commonly called the blacke king in whose cause the mortall battaile betwéene the king of Portugall and Amoley Muluco king of Fees was fought the 5. of August 1578. as in the alteration of the latter common weales by enuy shal be more largely shewen vpon an enuious suggestion that his brethren by the priuity in nature and bloud loked to liue in greater liberty then subiectes by the assistaunce of a noble man of the countrey called Alcatho Alley caused the throates of a eleuen of his brethren to be cut in one morning Now to conclude these particular tyrannies of enuye vnto which millions of notorious examples may be enserted the monstrous murders of king Richard the third a tyrant of our nation is worthy note in whose wretched end yet worthy his wickednes the happines of Englande began againe to florish and enioyed her auncient renowne This tyraunt at such time as he was Duke of Glocester with an enuious eye behelde the soueranity of king Edwarde the 4. his brother and yet inforced by necessity obeyed him For annoynted kinges with weake policies are not depriued but vnable to hold his hand from their throates who for their dignities toke the vpper hand of him against the lawes of honor with his impious handes he stabbed Prince Edward to the hart beeing taken prisoner at the battaile of Tewksbury Next like an Alehouse ruffen with his dagger he slew the infortunate good king Henry the sixt in the tower of London Then heaping murder vppon murder he caused George Duke of Clarence his naturall Brother to be drowned in a Butte of Malmesey And last though not the least to rowle vp a number of noble subiectes endes with the death of king Edward the fift and Richard Duke of Yorke the kinges brother his nephewes whom he caused to be murthered in the Tower and buried without honor to infame the name of king Edward the fourth and his posterity he pronounced his mother like a filthy harpye to be a strumpet and that the sayd king Edward was a Bastard and him selfe onely legitimate as I think sonne of the diuel for it séemeth wonderful that so inhumane a creature should take life of humane séed CHAP. 3. Enuy originall of warre and capitall cause of the destruction of the first Monarchies MAny yéeres after the beginning euery king qui etly enioyed the countries in his own possession vntil Ninus king of the Asserians enuying the soueranity of his neighbour kings put him self in armes vnlawfully to inlarge his owne dominions by deposing other frō their kingdoms Thus byenuy frō the bottom of hell came war by war confusion of deuine humaine blessings the aduauncement of thousandes of diuelish iniquities For whereas lawes giue place to armes the honor of God is wounded his word is misprised Iesus Christ is blasphemed and persecuted his Gospell is reiected and his Sacraments are prophaned fire is put to the house of the lord Wolues are thruste into his stéepefolde and wilde Bores among his vines truth and equity is peruerted charity is cold innocents and the iust are oppressed youth bee ill instructed publicke orders are broken discipline and rules of good life are abolished ignoraunce is raysed knowledge is abased proud ambitious and men of leaste estimation doe gouerne the learned wise and vertuous are disofficed as ideots and men of no merite countries bee vnpeopled fayre Cities are burned peaceable citizens are murthered their wiues and daughters are rauished their groundes lye vntilled goods compassed by the trauels of a mans whole life in one hower doe become the spoyle of a riotous souldiour And to conclude though short of a number of other curses which follow warre vice mounted in her chariot of triumph arrogātly treadeth pore vertue vnder foot therby they that shold cry out of this outrage against God and man are dumb and the reformers of these enormities deafe these vengeances by war the enuious eye and ambitious hart of Ninus bred in the worlde which died not with the destruction of Th'asserian monarchy Notwithstanding enuy the erecter was the destroyer therof For Arbactus leiftenant of the Meades enuiyng the soueranity of Sardanapalus a man more effeminate then a woman by the assistaunce of other lords gaue battaile vnto the king Sardanapalus discomforted ●…led into his pallas there enuiyng the fortune of Arbactus more to reaue him of the glory of his triumph then moued by sorrow of his own defeat Sardanapalus set fire of his Pallas his wealth him selfe so by the prodigall spoyle of his life recouered the reputation of a man for manhood is most truely tried by constancy in the trembling passage of death The like enuious part was committed by Ariathes king of Capidocia who being ouercome in battail by Perdicas one of Alexanders successors fled into the Citye enuiyng Perdicas good fortune more then he lamented his owne mischance caused the city to be set on fire incouraged his souldiers citizens to slay their wiues children holding it lesse euill to die by the violence of friends then to liue a seruile life vnder the controlment of their enemies And by this means in truth he reaued Perdicas of the spoyle of his victory but did both vnto him selfe and countrey an iniury against nature and reason against nature in committing wilful murder vpon him selfe posterity against reason in that time was able to repaire his ruines of fortune But to kéep an order in discoursing the actions of enuy by the victory which Arbactus had ouer Sardanapalus the empyre of Th'asserians was trāslated into the Meades which corse most conquerors adopted Princes euer since haue taken to crown their natiue countrey with imperiall title to leaue the places conquered or by other meanes gayned to the tyrannye of leifetenants Well this monster enuy which mortifieth the naturall affection of a father robbeth dutifull obedience from the son made the one of these the cause the other the ouerthrow of this second empire For Astiages the last king of the Meades receauing answer of the Oracle that his daughters sonne should gouerne his empire as it were to despight the Gods that had fore destined this honor vnto his daughters sonne vpon an enuious thought first

blesse with you be peace and loue Christ thus the wicked Iewes doth curse peace shall from you remoue Christ is the authour of all peace the sacred word doth say day Christ will haue peace throughout the world against the iudgement Much more may be said although no man can say ynough in the commendation of peace saue such as haue felt the worst vengeance of warre for as Cicero sayeth the goodnesse of a thing is knowne by the depriuement thereof If our neighbours harmes may make vs héedfull or our owne prosperitie make vs thankefull to God true to her Maiesty and obedient to her graue Ministers of publike benefite we may beholde our countrey as a beautifull Towre on euery side enuironed with a consuming fire and yet miraculously preserued from the least vengeance thereof But experience teacheth that examples of miserie moueth many times cōmiseration in the beholders but seldome impresseth any déepe sorrow in theyr harts The Romaines many yeares saw the bloody vengeances of war inflicted vpon sundry kingdoms yea many times sorrowed to sée their owne conquests When Pompeyus was murthered his enemy Caesar shed teares vpon his head and Alexander gaue the mighty Darius a royall funerall Which compassion may be more properly tearmed a motion of pitie than any worke of charitie for they still followed the fortune of warre without consideration of the pretious blessings of peace But when the stout Romaines whose couetousnes of rule the whole world could not glut by ciuill and most pernicious factions in the triumuirate of Cesar Crassus and Pompeius and afterward in the triumuirate of Octauius Anthonius and Lepidus felt in their owne bowels the scalding furie of war when they saw the fathers throte a sheath for the sonnes sword when the mother beheld the rauishment of hir daughter and the sister mingled teares with hir brothers blood when the Senate house was no Sanctuary for Cesar nor Pater patriae a protection for Cicero when the fountaines were turned from the Cities and the chanels flowed with the best burgesses blood when the faire buildings were fired by the houshold seruant and the rascally maysters of the richest merchants goods whē Iustice was painted without a mouth and oppression with a hundred hands when law gaue place to launces and Orators to the braying of horsses when vnciuill souldiers iudged Senators and the nobilitie were suppliants vnto the vnconstant multitude when religion was mispraised youth ill instructed gray heares vnreuerenced discipline vnused a famine with vertue and nothing publike but disorder when the vineyards lay vnordered vnprofitable briers ouerran the fruitefull fieldes whē the plow was laid in fire and fire hurled into the husband mans barne I say when these proude Romaines beheld in their owne cities these hauocks of diuine and humane blessings they were in tymes past neuer so forward souldiers in following of war as they were now humble suters for peace they neuer attributed so much honor to Cesar for conquering of kingdoms as they gaue reuerēce to Octauian for determining of the ciuil broiles In perpetuall remembrance of Octauian they added to hys name Augustus and decréed that all the following Emperors should be called Augusti and after death both Augustus and the good Emperors succéeding in most solemne manner they deifyed and placed among the number of their Gods The great Cane of Cathaya is so called in honor remembrance of their first Emperour Chanius who being aged the meanest and poorest of the seauen linadges which gouerned or rather tirannized the prouinces of this Empire as the historie saith by the reuealement of a white Knight tooke knowledge that the wil of God was that he should be Emperour peace-maker of and among the seauen linadges vpon which comfort and the faithfull obedience of the people he obtained this blessed conquest The mightie Emperour of Aethiopia is called Preter Iohn and in their language beldugian which signifieth ioy and power only in remembrance of one of his auncestors who notwithstanding he was the soueraigne of seuenty Kings yet he established peace through his whole Empire These glorious monuments remaine of peacemakers are like to liue vntill the world end when the violēce of death the vnconstancy of fortune and iniurie of time haue enterred the haughtiest conquerors returned back their conquests and of their huge colonies haue left no signe at all But so setled are the vertues of peacemakers and so precious are the blessings of peace as these heathen that had no other guide than naturall reason annexed their good Princes names vnto the honour of the crowne as men that hoped the name would make the vertue her editorie or at the least instruct succéeding Princes of the worthinesse of their auncestours And questionlesse men are greatly incouraged to weldoing when good demerites are fully rewarded and good mens liues are faithfully registred For albeit the soule of man traueileth without a guyd to bring foorth that which is good yet in as much as the corruption of fleshe is néerer our sensible motions the deuine workes of the soule are darkned as is the brightnesse of the Sunne by the Moone the most inferiour Planet being opposite betwéen the same the earth and therefore to helpe our infirmitie next vnto the sacred scriptures the histories of time are the moste visible lights to shew vs the way to happines where the names of good men liue which taketh away a great part of our feare to dye And truely if for the worthines of some one king of that name the Aegiptian kinges were called Pharaoes the Bethinian Ptholomies the Albian Siluies the Romane emperours Augustes the Ethiopian Preter Iohn the Cataian the great Caan by farre larger warrant the Englishe kinges ought to be called Henries For of 8. Kings named Henrie sithens the conquest cronicles cōdemne no one of thē to be irreligious notably wicked or tirannous oppressors of their subi●…s but as images and patterns of kinglye magnanimitie of w●…nderfull prowesse of peaceable gouernment and of many other deuine and heroicall vertues euerye of them hath left a rare monument of a noble gracious and good Prince as if by heauenlye prouidence an especiall blessing had béene ioyned vnto the name of Henry But albeit the heathen ceremonially thus named their Princes as the Cardinall of Rome doe newe christen their Popes yet true Christians estéeme of this adoption as of the image of Iesus engraued in a wodden crosse which is as full of holinesse as a painted fire of heat and both a like The fayrest tree that beareth no fruite is fit for the fire and the best named Christian without the exercise of christianitie is méet for hell So that I alleadge the examples of these worthy persons as instructions for their posteritye and attribute no greater honor vnto them then that they were the ministers of Gods goodnes and mercy of peace and prosperity to their subiects which are the greatest

gouernment of Fraunce no otherwise then the auncient statutes of the Danes Britans or Saxons doe at this day the Gouernment of Englande This vnnaturall Lawe had a barbarous beginning for the reporters thereof confesse that anno 420. the Franconians hauing abandoned their Countrey inhabited along the Rhine and especially about Treues The manners of these people being barbarous they liued vnciuilly without Lawe Which considered by Pharamonde their first Kinge the sonne of their Duke Marcomir He chose foure of the principall men of the Sicambrians whom he authorised by their wisedomes to giue a Law vnto the people The names of these foure were Vsucast Losocust Salgast and Visogust These foure made the Lawe Salique by which Lawe Emperiall gouernment say they is taken away from the daughters and heires of the Kinges of Fraunce This dead Lawe and many other to as little purpose were reuiued to bury the true and lawfull title of King Edwarde the 3. to the kingdome of Fraunce in the right of Quéene Isabell his mother the daughter heire of King Phylip le bel But King Edward nor his successors would not loose their right vpon such canterburie suggestions And some of them subiected the Frenchmen to English obedience And to this day the Armes and Imperiall title of Fraunce are ioyned to the honour of Englande To what purpose doth the law Mentall in Portugal forbid feminine gouernment King Philip deriueth his title from Marie the daughter of Iohn the third of that name king of Portugal and by that title is possessed of the kingdome It is God that disposeth kingdomes and the works of busie heads that vnlawfully séeke to withstand the law of nature in succession To be briefe this inuectiue prooued but a scare-crow it was indiscreatly written and negligently regarded King Francis or more truely the family of the Gwyses ancored their hope vpon the Popes sentence and in all the kings patents and other instruments caused to be intituled Frances of France Scotland England and Ireland king and in his shield quartered the Armes of England and to conquer the kingdome Come era apparente as Guiccerdine reporteth dyuers french forces were daily conuayed into Scotland who tooke and by force kept the strong townes and fortrises there The inhabitants oppressed thus with straungers were for their owne safegard driuen to sew vnto the Quéenes maiesty of England for aid to expel the french who sought the spoile and subuertion of Scotland The malicious purpose of the Guyses ioyned with commyseration of the daungerous affiction of Scotland the Quéene whereof was married and gouerned in France and so barred to vse the lybertie of her Crowne bound the Queenes Maiesty by the vertue of honour pollicie and charitie to sucker them with expedition To accomplish which matter her Maiestie sent a sufficient power towards Scotland by the Duke of Norfolke as generall who remained at Barwicke and the Lord Greay of Wilton being Liuetenaunt entred into Scotland and with her royall power ioyned with the Scots against the french who were soone weary of the English-mens comming But almightie God had set downe a more milde order to honour her Maiesty with the vanquishment of her enimies then by dynt of sword to accomplish which her highnesse sent Syr William Cycill knight at that time her Maiesties principall Secreatorie and nowe Lord Treasorer of England for the full knowledge of whose excéeding worthynesse I retourne the good reader to the Athenians commendation of the Philosopher Euxin and with him accompanied the learned and graue Gentleman Master Doctor Wotton to treat with the french who with their wisedomes so vanquished the french as to the quietnesse and safetie both of England and Scotland they forced them to depart with this following dishonour as Guicherdine reporteth who if he be pertiall it is in fauour of the french First that the King and Quéene of Fraunce and Scotland should leaue the Armes and title of the King of Englande and Irelande and that within sixe monethes at the furthest they shoulde cancell and renewe all their writings and instruments if there were any so made with the former Armes and Titles Further that the Realme of Scotland should be gouerned by the Counsell of twelue persons of the Nobilitie of the said kingdome whereof seuen shoulde bée nominated by the Scotish Quéene and siue by the thrée estates of the Parliament That the iniuries and trespasses committed on either part during the commotion should be forgotten and for the better assurance should be confirmed by the said Parliament That the Garrisons of french souldiers should retourne into Fraunce sauing onely in two fortes sixtie a péece subiect to the Iustice and paie of the Parliament of Scotlande That euerie man shoulde be rest●…red to his office in the saide Realme and that no french man should haue any more office benefite or administration what so euer in Scotland That the french shoulde not at anie time conuay Munition of warre or souldiers into Scotlande without consent of the saide Parliament with sundrie other straight obseruaunces on the behalfe of the french which Guicherdine concludeth Con grandissimo vantaggio honore della regina Inglese with the greatest aduauntage and honour of the Quéene of Englande a victorie no doubt of great glorie and honour Whereby her Maiestie not onelie deliuered her owne Countrey from the daunger of inuasion but also fréeed Scotlande from the bondage of forraigne Gouernment and thus her enemies hungring after an vnlawfull spoyle lost the disposement of an assured benefite which fortune befall to all those that miswish her Amen CHAP. 9. Of her Maiesties peaceable victorie against the rebels in the North ioyned with her quiet vanquishing of sundry other conspiracies to the vniuersall benefit of England PIus Quartus who succéeded Paulus 4. in the Popedome finding an abasemēt of the glorie with which his predecessours were honoured and fearing with all that the example of England Scotland Denmarke and Germanie would draw other Nations from the obedience of the Romishe erronious Church to the profession and receiuing of the Gospell of our sauiour Iesus Christ the life of the soule and destruction of this accursed Antichrist laboured with the consent of manie Princes to reuiue the Counsell or more properly the conspiracie of Trent A conspiracie I may iustly say the pollicy whereof was to kéepe vnder the glorious merite of our sauiour Iesus and to aduaunce to the highest degrée of reuerence the painted Idolatrie of the Pope And appointing for his Legates 5. Cardinals who with a great number of Bishops and other doctors of their Church the eyght day after Easter 1561. beganne this vnholy Counsell And truely as in the intent of their assembly was séene this saying of the Psalmist The kinges of the earth stande vp and the rulers take consell togither against the Lorde and his annoynted So likewise in their vaine idle successe this continuance of the Psalme is further séene He that