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A20435	The coppie of the Anti-Spaniard made at Paris by a French man, a Catholique. Wherein is directly proued how the Spanish King is the onely cause of all the troubles in France. Translated out of French into English.; Coppie de l'Anti-Espagnol. English.	Arnauld, Antoine, 1560-1619, attributed name.; Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1590 (1590)	STC 684.5; ESTC S120875	29,822	46

and of a sickely person who if he dye which is the desire and vow of all the Spaniards then are we in the hands of a yong woman a Wench What shall Fraunce be subiect vnto a Distaffe as a member dependance of Spaine And shal these Alexanders and Cesars of Fraunce whose auncestors the Merouees the Clodions the Charlemaines the Phillippes worthely surnamed Augusti and Valloys Shall Charles the eight Francis the first and Henry the second who were neuer able to extinguish their thirst of fighting shall all these Marciall mindes be subiect vnto such and so sillie a woman as a daughter of Spaine and vnto him whom she pleaseth to chuse and adopt for her husband No no Fraunce is not so easily gotten Fraunce is not giuien as a dowrie he that will be King of Fraunce must be borne King of Fraunce Vitam tibi contulit idem imperiumque dies the Countrie of Fraunce is the Minion and Darline of Nature it is the portion which shee hath reserued for her selfe alone to dispose as best shee pleaseth with whom no contract or condition of any man shall bee admitted to deale withall Fraunce can not be gotten with one nightes lying with a Wench If the Daughter of Spaine will not marrie vnlesse she make her husband King of Fraunce she may vow virginitie for euer As farre as I see then the King of Spaine is not so much moued by a godly zeale and due regard of our religion as by a desire he hath to haue a sonne in law to be Uiceroy of Fraunce to swaie and tyrannize ouer vs vnder the name of his Maiestie vntill he haue gotten all our Fortresses and holdes into the handes of his Castillians and then shall hee be remoued and chaunge place with the Uiceroy of Naples That is the zeale that is the desire those be the burning thoughtes of Phillip King of Spaine who neuer waxeth old who faileth not though in respect of his age he seeme not to aime at Fraunce and at the crowne thereof but to content him selfe with the Kingdomes Dukedomes and Counties which hetherto he hath so wrongfully alienated and dismembred from it to goe about by all possible meanes to cosm and deceaue vs as whilome hee did the Portingals for wee know that Couetousnesse and Ambition haue this peculiar condition to encrease proportionablye as other passions diminish And that Youth by reason of other pleasures and vanityes is drawen and distraughted from them but as riper age doth by little and little weaken and enfeeble them ambition especially in those that are high borne entreth in their place and daily encreasing doth in time take greater holdfast Suppose we did not apparantly perceiue the insatiable desire that this Spaniard hath to growe great and aduance himselfe vnder what colour and pretence soeuer suppose we knew not the care which of necessity he muste haue of his children and the feare and apprehension he féeleth if he leaue them so great and mighty an enemy standing and therewithall so noble and so puissant a king as ours is do we thinke in conscience that it doth not touche and pricke him as neare the hart as any other particular consideration Shall we yet a little more enter into the view and consideration of his holy and sacred zeale woulde he for any thing in the world I beséech you that ther were no difference nor controuersie of Religion throughout all Christendome and that all men were at peace And that we liued quietly vnder the obedience of so great a King as ours is and that he were in quiet possession of France no I warrant you for were not this controuersie of Religion and our troubles of France he would not thinke him selfe safe in the middest of all his kingdoms of Spaine would he not feare yea tremble if our King should once reobtayne that which the Spaniard hath heretofore so fraudulently vsurped from him in his kingdome of Nauarre least he shold one day prouoked thereunto by a iust reuenge and lawfull right of war victoriously vndertake the recouery of his right and ioin Scepter to Scepter and Crown to Crown For is not he that great and polliticke commander and leader of armies he who in counsell is a graue Nestor and in the midst of larums and battailes a stoute Achilles who hath sooner surprised Citties then other men can take the vew of them Who in the space of two moneths in the very hart of winter hath with the dint of sword conquered one hundreth leagues of Countrey in length and fifty in bredth Is not he that al-daring French Alexander whome the twinne-headed imperiall Eagle séeing already adorned and beautified with two Royall Crownes beginneth to cherish and embrace desiring to conioine these two inuincible nations in one and brotherly forces together To conclude is not he that glorions King of the Floure de Luse with the long visage with the great nose who by auncient prophesies is called to be the Monarch of the world And is not this that great King who hath so often bin promised vnto vs Yes verely it is euen he The Monarch whose vndanted lookes and neuer conquered arme Shall force the furie of his foe to flie the threatned harme Fore-runne shall victory his steps About his azurd shield Of terror and of wasting war which represents the field Shall laurell boughs and palme the trophes of his triumph spring When through the world his tried fame and high renowne shall ring Then shall he make the knights of France each where to vnderstand The greatnes of that honour which is got by armed hand No wight this King shall ouercome in courtesie and grace Yet when he takes in hand his neuer-yelding cortelace No Prince or wordly Emperour how mightie that he be The angry furie shall of this most christian Hector flye It is therefore as far as I perceiue to hinder the succesfull victories of so worthy a King and to empeach the conquests that els he should haue on the Spaniard that these Frenche Castillians or Castillian Frenchmen doe so trouble the state of France it is therefore that so many do daily séeke to perswade vs that hee which neuer failed his word will neuer kéepe that which hee hath promised vs in his late declaration wherein as a good father he hath with teares of pitty and meare compassion of our miseries clean washed and wholly blotted out of his remembrance all our forepassed faults and trespasses onely fiue or sixe trecherous Spanyolised villeins excepted who haue engored the name of France in blood with the most proditorious traiterous parricide that euer the Sunne saw yet a parricide committed and perpetrated in the person of him for the preseruation of whom all true French men should neuer refuse to die a thousand deaths Is it not for this occasion that the Spaniard doth daily cause so many to whisper in our eares that our King is fallen into the relaps he that neuer profest any other Religion but that

many millions of true French men as will if neede require encounter you with an hundreth and an hundreth battailes before they will become Spaniards What shal those Marranos yea those impious Atheiests raigne ouer vs as Kings and Princes Shall the Countrie of France become seruile to the commandement of the Spaniard shal France be added to the titles of this King of Maiorica Of this demie Moore demie Iew yea demie Saracine Shall it be made knowen to the worlde that France is no more a kingdome that France is become Spaine and that all to the riuer Rhene contayneth nothing else but prouinces of Spaine and that the thrée flowers de Luce are as an honor annexed to the py-balde and barrie-armes of this vniuersall King Oh that the earth would rather open and the Sea breake out his limites then we doe die and neuer remedie these outrages Oh let vs die rather then proue such traitors to our natiue Country and that we subiect our selues to the yoke of the Spaniards Let vs die rather yea let vs die with our swords in our hands thicke and thrée folde one vppon another like the naturall and true children of our forefathers who for the honor of France and for the preseruation of theyr owne libertie haue couered the plaines of Saint Quintines those of Rantie and so many others with the slaughtered bodies of these accursed Spaniards What are we brought to that exigent that we must néeds be subiect to these Castillians Haue we not yet an hundreth Lordes in France who will choose to die a thousand times rather then yéelde the right they haue or hereafter may haue to the crowne of France after the bloud Roiall vnto anie stranger whatsoeuer An hundreth Lords I saie who cannot reade anie one Chapter of our histories but they shall finde sundry notable exploites and déeds of armes of theyr ancestors who valiantly haue dyed in fight against the Spaniards and others theyr enemies who alwaies haue bene the very props and stayes whereon the state and Crowne of France haue depended who with the losse of their bloud and by theyr meanes and valor haue gotten preserued and conquered the greatest part of this most goodly and famous Realme and who haue left vnto theyr children all the right interest and possibilitie they had after the bloud royall in those thinges which with such pains and trauaile they haue holpen both to get and preserue There is no question but that theyr title will be most auaileable agaynst all straungers whatsoeuer who vnder pretext and coulour of aide haue a long time laboured and sworne our vtter ruine and subuersion This is the reason for which we sée the Spaniards trecherous procéedings against the Princes and whole nobilitie of France agaynst whom he laboreth by all means possible to enflame the people dayly more and more knowing well that he cannot laie anie sure foundation for to establish the state which he goeth about to vsurpe from vs but by theyr vtter ruine whoby no meanes can neuer brooke him or his tyrannie For hee knowes full well that our Gentlemen of France will neuer be brought euerie New yéeres daie to purchase a license from a Castillian whereby they may bee authorised if so they please to weare a weapon by theyr side as it is notoriously knowen that those fewe which remaine of the Nobilitie of Naples are inforced to doe at this daie the vse being that if anie man be noted throughout the whole yéere not to haue sufficiently humbled himselfe to the basest pesant that is a Spaniarde borne they may doe him this disgrace and dishonor as at the yéeres end to depriue him of his Rapier without yéelding anie reason wherefore Well wots he that our Nobilitie can neuer endure to sée the Castles Townes and fortresses of France to be in the hands and at the disposition of the Castillians As it is most manifest that they must all be by the Maximes of Estate which hetherto he hath most diligently practised who can neuer be induced to reuerence and worshippe such his Uize-roies as it shall please him to send vs one after another Who in conclusion will rather haue theyr throates cut then that theyr bodyes should containe Spanish soules And here may wee note the reason why our Preachers dazeled with the brightnesse of his golde and bewitched with the hope they haue that the Abbeis and Bishoprickes shall by the spoyle of those which presently possesse them be bestowed on them grounding this doctrine of theyrs vpon the Councell of Trent proclayme and pronounce nought else to vs nor trouble vs with anie other thing but this that the whole nobilitie is vtterly to be defaced and rooted out as seruing to no other vse nor purpose but to braue and ouer-crow vs at theyr pleasure and that wee shall neuer bée at rest till it bée cleane consumed What shal we then destroy the race and of-spring of those who haue made the French standard to flourish euen in the farthest partes of the Estate and haue placed the name and honour of the French in the heauens Shall we so vnnaturally massacre those in whome nature hath séemed to frame the verie perfection of true valour and prowesse And shall we be-die our natiue soile with the proper bloud of her owne children onely to please theyr humors who haue practised the like in Flanders Beginning with the two Earles Eigmont and Horne whome an hundreth thousande men knowe well and can witnesse to haue died good Catholikes bearing the crosse in theyr handes and confessing themselues to a Priest euen in the view of the whole world The cause of whose death was naught else but their heartie affection and naturall loue to theyr Countrie and kinde good will to theyr Countrie-men as those which could not tollerate the execution of a most execrable Spanish tyrannie and that a base Spanish swaine should so outragiously rauish euen before theyr eyes a young damzell left worth in substaunce aboue an hundreth thousand Crownes Which extreamest crueltie was no whit alayd by the death of those two noble Gentlemen but hath rather bene increased more and more euen to the extirpation of the whole Nobilitie For in truth what is now become of them throughout all the Prouinces of Flanders that are vnder the Spanishe gouernement Where are now so many great and famous houses wherewith all histories of former ages are teplenished Oh poore nobilitie of France must it néeds be that the time shal come when thine vtter ruine and ouerthrow shall serue as an example to other nations to beware of the Spanish tyrannie And will not the successe of these thy next neighbors at this day any whit moue or warne thée Here some wil say what néed we be so careful for the good estate of our nobility séeing that if it be once destroied we shall peraduenture remayne frée from being any more taxed and pouled no without doubt we shalbe taxed no more then those of Naples and of

which his mother held and who was neuer in any of our Churches but once and that in daunger to haue his throat cutte Is it not for denying the omnipotency of God that he is called impenitent as if that God could neuer touch his hart Is not that the cause that all those which goe about to instruct or conuert hym are called Heretiques least that in shewing him the truth he should be brought vnto the mother Church againe not to assure him selfe of his two rightfull earthly Crownes but also of the thirde and glorious Crowne of Heauen Thus must we say and thus it be houeth vs to cry if we will faithfully serue the King of Spaine our good Lord and maister otherwise his Maiesties affayres wil prosper but sclenderly if the Frenche should once agree and come to an vnity together Oh poore and silly miserable French men that wee are shall we suffer our selues to be deceaued and enueagled by these false traytours who are duely paid their pensions euery moneth for the paines which they take to fleshe and prouoke vs one against another and to make vs abhorre the meanes giuen vs by God from aboue to cut off al heresies with his bright-shining sword that is his word which our forefathers haue vsed thrée or foure times to cut off and roote out one selfe same error and which all Europ déemeth necessary and expedient for to bring Christendome and the states therof vnto an agréement and conformity therby to shunne the vtter ruine of it which otherwise is iminent and near at hād and to auoid the Turks inuasion which cannot by meanes of so many diuisions bee deferred or withstood These be the same pencioners that would faine make vs beléeue that al France wilbe of the Hugonots Religion neuer remembring that there are not so many ministers in all the world as may suffice to alow for euery forty miles of ground one onely Do you thinke that those of the Nobility which are Catholiques all the strong townes that professe no other Religion but the Catholique all our Princes al our Croune officers all the Frenche Cardinals that follow our King as the true and lawfull heire of France and of the Floures de Luse and al Catholiques els wil euer sette theyr helping hand to the ouerthrow of our auncient true Catholique Religion and that he who neuer detested any thinge so much as to winne and compell soules with the sword wil in any sort compell and constrain our consciences Euen he who in the middest of the most violent wars that wee haue waged against him had more then the one halfe of his own houshold seruants followers and officers Catholiques yea true Catholiques who no doubt might if they had pleased haue bene otherwise It is therfore most manifest and apparant that Phillip king of Spaine hath caused these tidings to bee preached vnto vs rather to make his slaues to engage vs in a perpetual warre against our naturall liege King which may well be tearmed an ineuitable perdition then for anie motion of Christian charitie that remaines in him And to saie truth when did wee euer perceiue anie sparke of charitie to appeare in the Spaniard Is not this that Catholike charitie which with so notorious and trecherous treasons hath wrongfully depriued vs of Cicilie the fertilest fayrest Iland of the world and matchlesse price and marke At which those two vndanted nations did in all theyr noble warres shoote at Is not this the same charitie that hath in lyke manner depriued vs of the flourishing kingdom of Naples and of the rich Dukedome of Millaine both auncient and lawfull Patrimonies of the house of Angiou and Orleans which earst cost France the price of so much golde and losse of so much bloud Is not this that charitie which so vnlawfully detayneth the principalitie of Flanders and of the Countie of Burgondie from vs that hath vsurped new France from vs yea fayre France which the fayre riuers of Loyre Beine and Sōme doe wash and runne alongst Is not this the verie same Catholike charitie that with large promises and a little siluer suborned the confessour of one of our Kings by whose fonde perswasions the Countie of Roussillion was so subtillie dismembred from the Crowne and Demaines of France Is not this also that charitie that Catholike humilitie with which he hath presumed to dispossesse vs of our right of precedence and to take place before vs Alas what an indignitie is this Is it not a shame for France that this newe vpstart this new come Christian whom not yet long since we haue drawen from the Alcoran and from Paganisme who had not we bene should yet be a Saracen a Barbarian a Iew should so much as dare to think much lesse to attempt to march and take place before our most Christian Kings who successiuely are the successors of the mightiest and most auncient Kings of the world But miserable and silly wretches as we are what doe we dispute and call our place and standing in question It is not that wee must stande vppon now they are other matters and of greater consequence that this Saracin Castillian or Castillian Saracin doeth so busily goe about He would fain be our maister and make vs all his subiects his subiects sayd I What shall France that hath heretofore euer bene so mightie in armes France that hath euer bene a terour to all nations faire France that yet was neuer subdued but through a necessitie of the prouidence of God who thought it expedient that his Sonne our Lord should be borne vnder one greate Monarchie at what time it was diuided into twentie pettie Kingdomes Noble France which Caesar deemed inuincible and neuer to be conquered if euer it might bee reduced to one sole Monarchie and vnder one absolute King And to be briese France which acknowledgeth and holdeth nothing but from God and by the sword which euer was her tenour shall it now be brought into subiection and bondage Shall it nowe bee compeld to liue in seruile slauerie Shal it be made to receiue and admit Uizeroies Lieutenants Generalles and Gouernours and Dons of Spaine that hath of yore beene one of her Prouinces and euer bene readie to stande to the mercie of euerie conquerour and inuadour and is and euer hath bene the finke the puddle and filthie heape of the most lothsome infected and slauish people that euer yet liued on earth O Clouis O our good King Clouis this wicked race of those fals Wisigots with the cation of whose carcases after thou hadst with thine own hand slain theyr King thou didst sprinkle and fatten the fertile plaines of Poictou who neuer thought themselues safe from the furie of thy sworde vntill they had past the Pirency hills againe that verie same trecherous race dare at this daie goe about to sway and dominer ouer thy faire Countrie of France that wicked race would make all thy people theyr slaues But why do we cal on good Clouis dead so long

now passe we must strik home at the head the blow is mortall Sée howe the English men haue already pearsed euen the very life-vaines of his golden vent in a maner clean shut him out of the sea He durst not before Lisbone wals stand to fight with Norris the general of a small English armie how wil he then dare to encounter a mightie King of France a Prince of so great puissance he durst not once assaile the English infantery how wil he then be able to withstand and escape the furie of the French Cauallerie backt and fortified with all the forces of the Countries and Prouinces that are on this side of him Chéere vp your selues adde will vnto your courage the true adopted children of Bellona let not the dreade of our King kéepe anie of you backe the gates of his clemencie stand wide open for to receiue all his mercie is mightie his grace is greater in forgiuing then our gracelesnes hath bin guiltie in offending Yea beholde he holdeth out his royall hand vnto vs all he is our Father our naturall and lawfull Father wée are all his children but if we shew coldnes in confessing him if we despise his bountie if wee mocke his mildnes miserable wretches what can wee expect but the sharpe effectes of the rodde of his indignation as the rightful and deserued reward of our execrable offences that our iust suffering may serue for others example Yet if we can take no pitty of our selues let vs at least haue some compassion of our wiues and children whose condition is so much the more miserable by how much they haue yet no féeling of their miseries Well let it now yea euen now appeare if in vs there be yet remayning anie relique of true French men let the desire of preseruing our libertie and the hatefull apprehension of such miserable feruitude cleane wash out of our memorie the remembrance of our fore-conceiued and priuate quarrels and let vs burie our olde broyles and ciuil dissention in the entire affection of our deare Countrie There are now no more nor any other factions but the French and Spanish Oh omnipotent God that hast euer held the eyes of thy commiseration open to France and hast euer plentiously filled her with thy bountifull blessings It is now yea verie now that we haue néede of thy heauenly helpe and aboue all that it will please thée to giue sight vnto our sealed eyen that we may haue power to perceiue and discerne our true enimies what the Spaniarde is what his gouernment what his pretence to our poore desolate and oppressed Countrie Good Lord leaue vs not now in the exigent of our extremitie being vpon the point eyther presently to precipitate our selues into euerlasting bondage or prosperously to purchase our eternall fréedome Assist our King protect our Princes animate our nobles strengthen our souldiers send thy holy Angels to aide them inspire them with an ardent zeale to maintain thy quarrell let theyr foreheads be fraught with fearefulnesse and theyr armes filled with force Comfort this consanguinitie continue to lighten with thy grace this line of that holy Lewes that holy Saint that ceaseth not to pray vnto thée for his posteritie that thou wilt not blot them out of thy booke of lyfe that thou wilt not take from them the comfort of thy countenance that thou wilt not destroye them that thou wilt not put in theyr place theyr enemie the enemie of theyr forefathers but rather that thou wilt be pleased to preserue vnto his posteritie the inheritance of his patrimonie and restore his France to her former prosperitie to the ende that after we shall haue subiected to the yoke of our gouernment those that threaten vs with the rod of their vsurping rule we may take in hand the accomplishment of his holy vowes and the pursuite of his religious warres agaynst the Infidels vnder the conduct of this Christian Conquerour Henrie his eldest sonne who is borne to aduance the honour of his house and for euer to eternize the name of the French and that the auri-flame now ioyned with the Eagle may be the guiding of so great a King so Augustius an Emperour ouerthrowe the Ensignes of that proude Mahomet and free thy people from captiuitie who faythfully affying to thy neuer failing promises haue long attended the comming of that happie daie An extract of the Spanishe Kings declaration which hee sent to the Princes of France and others the partakers of the Catholique Religion against the Heretiques of that Countrey their fauourers and adherents THe Catholique King now growen old and crazed contenteth him selfe with such kingdomes dukedomes and seigneuries as are at this present vnder his obeisance neither hath his Maiesty any need of that of France But forasmuch as hee séeth the kingdome of Fraunce afflicted with Heretiques whome the Catholiques of that Countrey albeit they be in nomber twelue to one are not able to master his Highnes hath alwayes offered him selfe to succor and assiste them and in deede hath both in theyr first and second troubles ayded and assisted them as well with men as with money without intention to receiue any recompence in lew thereof All which notwithstanding they haue alwaies couertly maintained wars against him as well in Flanders as Portingal whereof neuertheles he hath neuer bin willing to take reuenge nor euer would consent to frame any thing againste Fraunce since the peace concluded betwixt them Hereafter follow the conditions demaunded by the Catholiques of France and by hys Maiesty assented vnto 1 First that his Highnes shall haue the title of Protector of the Realme and Croune of France and the Cardinall of Bourbon to remain their King whom his Maiesty shal helpe to deliuer out of captiuity and cause to be consecrated King 2 That his Maiesty may if he please mary one of his daughters to one of the Princes of the bloud of France who after the disease of the said Lord Cardinall shal be crowned King and in respect of such mariage to be had his Highnes shall giue the counties of Flanders and Burgundy to bee ioyned and vnited to the Realme of France 3 That the ministers of the Gallicane church shalbe reformed according to the counsell of Trent 4 That no Spaniard shalbe endowed with any benefice or beare iudiciall office in this Realm nor be admitted to the gouernement of any townes or bordering places 5 That the offices of iustice shall not be made mercenary but be fréely bestowed vppon good and honest persons such as shall haue bestowed theyr time in study and in the practise of the bar 6 But as for such as not being answerable to these sayde conditions shall haue already purchased any such places of dignity or office being men of behauiour and Catholiques in regard that they haue paide for them and many of them yet owe rents and fines for the same It shalbe lawfull for them at this time to resigne vnto others that shalbe capable of them being Catholiques and men learned and of good and honest reputation who afterwards néede not make any other resignation 7 That his Maiesty shall make a banke or stock of two millions of gold to be kept in Paris and employed for the paiment of the arrerages of the rents of the chamber of the Citty and that his saide Maiesty shall at his proper cost and charges and with that which it shall please our holy father the Pope to contribuite entretain the warres that now we haue in hand 8 And as for tallage money and impositions that to bee reserued and employed towards the paiments of the debts of the Crowne and not to any other vse and the debts once discharged the said impositions to be remitted except onely one tallage wherewith shalbe entertayned a certaine number of men of warre as well horsemen as footemen for the gard and conseruation of the Realme 9 That from hence forth the souldiers of the Kings ordinaunces shalbe gentlemen and shall make their musters and receiue theyr pay quarterly as well in time of peace as warre 10 That the French men shall haue frée liberty to commerce and haue recourse of trafique and negotiation to the lands of Peru and other the new conquered countries of hys Maiesty with frée election either to associate with the Spaniards and Portingalls or if they thinke good to saile alone by them selues By vertue of the articles here aboue agréed on his Highnes for a beginning of the sayd stocke or bank of two millions of gold hath caused already to bee deliuered into the City of Paris the sum of foure hundreth thousand crownes FINIS