vp printing Presses in priuate houses and iustified their idolatrous meetings as if the Masse meant to outface the Gospel of Iesus Christ frequented the Embassadours houses with much immodest iustificatioÌ„ of their Conuenticles threatned zealous Ministers for their inuectiues against Antichrist continued priuate inhibitions that no man should speake write preach or practise any thing against their designes insomuch that diuers haue beene imprisoned for discouering the Spaniards pride and hypocrisie and many put out of countenance for inuectiues against the Kings friends as the terme went Abroad I am ashamed to name the sundry pictures they haue published both in Antwerp and Brussels for all the peace and treaty with Spaine against the King and his children against our Countrey and Religion against God and his Annointed yea it is wonderfull to reade the infamous and scandalous lies they haue exposed as if his Maiesty had gone with his Councell to Masse to please the Pope and the King of Spaine as is apparant in Gallo Belgico What say you to â—oronâ— Regiâ— a booke printed in Brussels against his Maiesties royall person an Invectiue against Holland by laughing at her neer nosse vnto hell as being low ground and traducing the vertuous Queene Elizabeth most maliciously Iohn Kings Legacle Bishop of London the Gag for the Gospell the vneasing of heresie with diuers others all which though they be hellish and damnable yet are sold by the Diuels factor or a Spanish Iohn and in a maner winked at in the State whereas other relations tending onely to the discouery of errors and abuses in the Church are not onely suppressed but the authors punished and imprisoned to no other purpose but to discouer our feare that wee should be found guilty in Gods sight so that one hath beene imprisoned for writing a letter to the then Marquis of Buckingham against the Spanish march another for making or publishing a booke wherein Gondomar apprehended himselfe mockt derided a third for preaching a Sermon Be not vnequally yoked with Infidels a fourth for discouering the incestuous mariages of the house of Austria a fifth for reuealing the secrets of that tyrannous Inquisition in Spaine a sixt for applying to the present Ezechias folly in shewing the Baby lonish Embassadours the treasures of the Temple and the riches of the Pallace a seuenth for making a prayer to be deliuered from all infectious Spanish sheep by reason you had once a great rot of sheep in England by an infectious Ewe brought out of Spaine and diuers others for putting the axe to the roote of the tree and applying other texts contrary to your Bishops minds and some other Lords who affected Spaines greatnesse But such is your misfortune 〈…〉 pâ—oâ—â—â—nely abuse Gods prouidence with such â— chaâ—â—cteâ— or the malignitie of time that hauing two facâ—tâ— and befitting pictures as your aduersaries deserued they were both suppressed the plates cut in pâ—eces and the sellers imprisoned one was of the Kings holding the Popeâ— nose to a grind stone with the two Archbishops turning the same another was made by M r Ward of Ipswich concerning 88. and the powder treason and both for Gods glory and Englands honour yet neither they nor any thing else against the Pope or Spaine would be to eraâ—ed yea when your reuerend and honorable Archbishop whose Statue deserues to be set vp in gold proued the Lords Champion against some Papisticall motiues and mixtures to be made amongst you some prophane tongue calld him Puritan Bishop and wicked stomacks belched contradiction in his face but we will vrge this matter no further onely pray that God will protect such as protect true Religion and assure your Honours that the Spirit of God will make them of the synagogue of Satan which call themselues Iewes and are not but such as keep the word of his patience shall be deliuered from the houre of temptation which must come vpon all the world Wee could name other seuerall conferences and disputations since this treaty with Spaine of which with diuellish arrogancie they haue boasted that Fisher the Iesuite so preuailed against Doctor White that many hearers turned Catholicks and how the illuminations of the Priests were diuine from heauen and the Papists Preachers had an Euangelicall spirit oh horrible impudencie and Spanish blasphemie Wee will not be preiudicate most honorable Lords and say it was a iudgement of God in that fatall Vosper of the Blackfriers to kill a hundred people with the fall of a loft and giue you all warning that God will not be mocked that blasphemies shall be reuenged that there is no such enemy to God and his Church as apostacie but wee will be bold to tell you that this disaster is turned vpon your owne heads for at Rome there hath been solemne Procession and from Rome letters of discouery that in England God hath beene so angrie with the hereticks meaning the Protestants that Churches and lofts haue ouerwhelmed many of them in their ominous falls If the diuell now be the father of lies who could inuent such vntruths You had a tempest of lightning and thunder in Iuly last and it spared not the gate-house in the Pallace of Saint Iames we will not say it was to chide you for building a Chappell to Idolatry and swearing to strange articles for the pleasure of the Spaniard but may affirme that if any Bishop was consenting to such a worke is it any other then when the Leuite became Priest to Micha and consecrated his idoll Come come be not deceiued if God be God let him be God if Baal be God serue him and if Spaine will match with England let it be done without fearfull conclusions and be not ouermatched with a prodigious treaty We are the bolder most gracious Lords to enter into these termes with you and to prostrate our selues before the throne of our dread Soueraigne with teares in our eyes and drops of blood from our heart because we desire that he would but consider the many and sundry inconveniences the Country hath endured since the peace with Spaine and with what particulars of disgraces and scorne wee haue all been branded since this last treaty about a mariage let vs then craue pardon great Lords if we make a mixture of triuiall and solid businesse together or are carelesse of method precedencie of time or not ranking the most eminent things in the first place shall wee begin with the complaints of the whole Land the swarming and increase of the poore the decay of trades insomuch that in London there are at least a thousand seuerall houses to be let and in the principal streets inferiour occupations are intruded to the disgrace of that great and famous Citie the exportation of our gold the carying away of our ordnance the anticipation of the benefit of our Virginia commodities by selling vnderhand Spanish Tobacco and such like and the slack eventing of our cloth and cottons by reason Spaine and Italy haue proclaimed inhibitions for bringing
you of Pauls instructions to Timothy concerning the doctrines of diuels speaking through hypocrisie hauing their consciences burned with a hot iron forbidding meates and mariages and giuing heed to the spirit of errors to be seduced so that you see there must be a doctrine amongst professors of Gods word prescribing things abominable to the truth and it shall be perspicuous to the world and plainly reuealed and when it is discouered and made knowne the conclusion followes without distinction or exception that it is the doctrine of the diuel answer then a Gods name you that must answer before the throne of the Lambe is not this Papistrie and who would be thus defiled Oh marke the goodnes of God when the guests made excuses and would not come to the feast the Master sent about into the high wayes and hedges for the poore the blind the halt and the lame yea hee compelled some to come that knew not what that hospitalitie meant and yet for all this when hee discouered a man in the bride-chamber that had not on his wedding garment he cast him forth and his ministers threw him into vtter desolation what then will become of Papists can you conceiue that the Popes triple crowne his vestments embrodred with pearle and gold the Cardinals bloody scarlet gownes the Priests stately and pompous copes the altar-hangings of rich arras with all those proud and pompous attires are wedding garments fit to come into Christs bride-chamber No no. It is true humiliation and the washing of our sins with his precious blood must make vs fit for admission What is Calamus Benimmi or Storax says the Prophet or a thousand riuers of oile to make vs delicately cleane and smell of perfumes except the Lord purge and cleanse vs and by the operation of his holy Spirit wipe away our leprous spots of iniquitie and purifie vs by a new sanctification not by the Purgatory of Papistry the intercession of Saints the Masses of Priests the merits of works the Indulgences of the Pope the trentals dirges of cozening Friers nor in a word the trumperies and fooleries of processions and puppet playes Now come to the hammer that strikes all home to the stone that pushed the golden image in peeces to the iron rod that bruiseth Gods enemies to powder the Apocalips I meane and he that hath eares to heare let him heare I saw vnder the altar the soules of them that were killed for the word of God and for the testimonie which they maintained Oh the bloody massacres of France and the crueltie of the Romane Bishops oh the tyrannie of the Inquisition and the searches of Iesuites and Priests all ouer Europe oh the fiery trials persecutions in Queen Maries dayes and those blood-thirsty enemies of God Gardner and Bonner with the rest of Satans instruments worse then Adonibeseck the tyrant who cut off the hands and feet of 70 Kings But vnderstand what followes both to them and all the rest that forget God And the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chiefe Captaines and the mightie men and the bond-man and euery freeman hid themselues in dens and among the rocks of the mountaines and said to the mountaines and rocks Fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. And he opened the bottomlesse pit and there arose the smoake of the pit and the smoake of a great fornace and the Sunne and the aire were darkned by the smoake of the pit And there came out of the smoake Locusts vpon the earth and vnto them was giuen power as the Scorpions of the earth haue power What is all this and much more that followes but Popish Priests false teachers hereticks indeed and such as would eclipse and darken the glory of Gods word and peruert the doctrine of holy Scripture Marke the rest we beseech you And when they haue finished their testimonie the Beast that cometh out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shall ouercome them and kill them and their corpse shall lie in the streets of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt where our Lord also was crucified And there appeared another great wonder in heauen for behold a great red Dragon hauing seuen heads and ten hornes and there was a battell in heauen Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon And the great Dragon that old Serpent called the Diuell and Satan was cast out which deceiueth all the world And I saw a Beast rise out of the Sea with seuen heads and ten hornes and he opened his mouth vnto blasphemy against God And I saw three vnclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet And great Babylon came in remembrance before God to giue vnto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath Come I will shew thee the damnation of the great Whore that sitteth vpon many waters with whom haue committed fornication the Kings of the earth And I saw a Woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy Oh reade the whole Chapter with all that followeth concerning Romes prophesie and then consider with your selues who would either be a Papist or allow of Papistry in any Christian gouernment for either you must discredit this prophesie or think the holy Ghost very vnmannerly in these epithâ—tes and titles or be ashamed of your profession and so turne to the Lord if be possible by true contrition and reformation of life But most gracious Lords we will come nearer home to you you know what letters haue passed from your Bishops to inferiour Ministers concerning what and how they shall preach with certaine limitation of handsome language toward the Papists that none of these fearfull characters in Scriptures shall be once mentioned against them you know how the Lord Keeper would faine haue moderated the charges of the Iudges of Assise at their solemne Sessions and Assemblies as if there were a full determination in the gouernment to repeale all the Statutes of Queen Elizabeth yea the King himselfe against Papists Priests and Iesuites You know how audacious they haue been euen of late dayes to iustifie their bad dispositions toward the State and make a publicke protestation of their inficious wilfulnesse insomuch that some of them dared to say when we reioyced with bonfires at the Princes returne that they were sory to see so much wood spent in vain for there would not be fagots enough left to burne the Hereticks in London What then hath our gracious Soueraigne gotten by this partiall charitie or conniuencie at Papists but at home a generall feare lest the Diuell should lay hold vpon the latch of the doore and so take aduantage of no bodies
Boanerges OR THE HVMBLE SVPPLICATION OF THE MINISTERS OF SCOTLAND TO THE HIGH COVRT OF PARIAMENT IN ENGLAND 2. COR. 4. 13. We beleeue and therefore haue we spoken Printed in Edenburgh 1624. 2. CHRON. 19. 6. Take heed what you doe for you execute not the iudgement of man but of the Lord and he shall be with you in the cause and iudgement A Preface or Introduction to the Supplication THere is a common saying among ours and Gods enemies the Papists that the Christian Church must be knowne by these Characters Visibility Antiquity Vniuersality and Consent but the Spirit of God sayes that all these are the marks of the Beast and persecution and paucitie the infallible signes of the true Church thus began the first prophesie I will put enmity betweene thee and the woman and betweene thy seed and her seed thus it continued in Iohns Reuelation Then the Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went and made warre with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandements of God and haue the testimony of Iesus Christ And thus could we spread the testimonies of Scripture like a mantle exposed to your view full of delicate resemblances wherein you might behold how the true Church of God hath been euer without any cessation subiect to scornes opprobry the malignant circumstances of time or fearfull persecution But withall we pray you remember that we make not our approches from Nebuchadnezars heating the oven seuen times hotter but the Dragons watching the Woman the Man that sitteth in the Temple of God as God those that be in Moses chaire such as were invested with Aarons ornaments and in plaine termes the continued persecution which we meane must arise out of the hate and malice of Christians yea Preachers themselues that are opposites to zealous professors and this we complaine of Oh reade reade for Gods sake the story of Ieremie and marke his persecutions and who were his greatest enemies Shemaiah a false Prophet and Zephaniah the chiefe Priest in stead of Iehoiada yea if you step a litle further you shal find that the king Zedekiah durst not iustifie his conference with Ieremie as being afraid of the Princes and Priests so that in truth he had no friends but Baruch the Prophet and Ebedmelech the Moore And as it was with him so it continued with all the rest vntill the comming of Christ and then wherfore did he call them generation of Vipers or who were those hypocrites that Christ exprobrated but the Scribes and Pharises who sat in Moses chaire and at last condemned the Sauiour of the world to an ignominious death so that it is apparant here was nothing but persecution And for visibility did not Eliah crie out he was alone and those that were the true seruants of God durst not iustifie their profession And after-terward he that was the Author of all truth was reputed an impostor and deceiuer of the world Oh marke what the Apostle saith For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles as men appointed to death for we are made a gazing-stocke vnto the world vnto the Angels and to men Which place of Scripture driues vs to amaze when we consider the disparitie betweene the flourishing Churches ambitious Prelacie exalted Bishops and maiesticke glory of Clergie men in Europe and the pouerty persecution and disreputation of the true Church of God indeed as either it was in the time of the Apostles or must be according to this prophesie to the worlds end Reconcile vs then we pray you whether the Apostle onely meant the present time or from the Spirit of God by way of prediction had reference to after ages yea the end of the world but doe not come too neare our eyes to dim our sight or deafe our eares with the fearfull sound of the prerogatiue of Princes the high commanding voices of authoritie or the seeming flourishes of the orders of a Church but plainly out of coherence of Scripture rectifie our vnderstanding in this point For if the Apostles haue prophetically set downe and indefinitely concluded that this must be the estate of the true Church of God we shall neuer beleeue but that outward pomp pride wealth eminencie and the ill sounding accent of supereoritie ouer their brethren can decipher any other thing then Antichrist and so must loue such in our soules as either out of Pauls humilitie content themselues with that portion which God hath allotted or Dauids patience endure the Micols of the world to call them fooles THE SVPPLICATION OR PETITION IT SELFE Most gracious Lords WHen Paul came to preach at Ephesus and bring as it were the Arke of God into the Temple of Dagon that hee might breake his necke it is said the whole Citie was moued and Demetrius a siluer-smith who got his liuing by making of Images raised such a hurliburly amongst the people that they would not endure any motiue for their conuersion to Christianitie but cried out Great is Diana of the Ephesians Whereupon the Apostle afterward exclaimed vpon them that he had fought with beasts at Ephesus Thus is it with all kingdomes and setled gouernments though neuer so many thornes and thistles grow vp to choke the good seed yet if there be a desire to set a crowne of gold on the Priests head and take away his rags and deformed garments to bring some leprous offender to publicke view that it may be discerned whether he be vnclean or no to make the Priests to cleanse the Temple of filth and pigeons dung as you reade of Hercules who let in the riuer to cary away the ordure of Angens stable to search the vnswept corners of vicious mens soules and in a word to reforme the abuses of a Cōmon-wealth then shall some Amasiah tell Amos Bethel is the Kings Court and the Kings Chappell there is no preaching there then shall some Prince or Lord tell Zedechiah that Ieremy weakens the kingdome and disheartens the souldiers then shall Sandolet and the rest affright Nehemiah when hee attempts the discouery of foule enormities in a word then shall your great men and officers for feare some charming arme of Hecate turne their inside outward crie out of innouation sedition turbulencie or some hare-braind spirit But most gracious Lords we beseech you remember how worthily King Philip of Macedon entertained a petitioners presumption when a certaine woman kneeled before him to deliuer a supplication he reiected her suite and turned away in scorne from her the woman amazed yet boldly answered Then cease to be a King if thou deniest to heare thy subiects petitions The King hearing her voice but not vnderstanding what she said returned againe and askt her what she meant The vndaunted woman repeated the words againe and the magnanimous Prince not onely pardoned her but tooke her vp in his armes and as you shall reade that Dauid blessed Abigail for keeping him from shedding of blood so did King Philip blesse the woman
the will of our great King or pleasure of the Prince if hee haue taken any pleasure in his iourney to Spaine but to put you in mind what you must trust vnto if you merchandize for any Babylonish trumperies or meane to trafficke with Spaine or Rome for mens traditions and policies nor are wee presumptuous in any aduice but onely to remember you how the blood of the Saints lies crying for vengeance and mourning for their redemption before the throne of the Lambe what Rome hath done to Gods seruants wherefore Spaine hath abused most of the countries of Europe and with what enforcements the whole world complaines of them all and then no doubt the God that hath bin so merciful to you and vs in these discoueries will be as mercifull in opening the doores of your hearts to preuent future mischiefes by exposing vnto you present inconueniences and assuring you according to that Machiuilian positioÌ„ of fides non est conseruanda cum haereticis the Pope and all that be his adherents and louers of his Holines will take the first opportunitie and aduantage of any of your weaknesses but let them know from Gods owne mouth there is a feast proclaimed for the birds of the aire and beasts of the field to come and prey vpon the carkeises of Emperors and Kings and gorge themselues with the daintie food of the flesh of Princes As for the supposed causes gracious Lords of your now Assembly at this high Court of Parliament we gesse they may be to redresse the publike grieuances of the people to reforme the enormities of the gouernner to rectifie the disordred liues of particular persons and to supply the Kings wants as is great reason For as the honor of a King consisteth in the multitude of his subiects so the glory of a nation appeareth in nothing more then in the Maiestie Magnificence of a Prince which cannot be done without contributions of the subiect and so by consequence where the people are rich the Prince cannot be poore we pray the God of euerlasting happinesse so to direct and prosper all your proiects and consultations that they may extend to the glory of God the honor of the Kings Maiestie the propagation of the Gospell of Iesus Christ the benefit of the Common-wealth the flourishing of this great and happie Iland the reformation of sin and enormitie and the confusion of Antichrist with all his adherents And the same God that gaue Lawes vnto his people comming in power of feare threatning iudgment when Mount Sinai did shake like an earthquake vnder him spread his wings ouer your house like the Cherubins ouer the Arke keepe you safe from any more Powder plots especially the Arâ—ados and Spanish inuasion of 88 which must neuer be forgotten and would to God it would please his Maiestie as he hath done by the 5 of Noâ—eâ—beâ— to to make a festiuall of that day of their dissipation and set vp a Pillar of brasse vpon Dover peere with insculping the whole occurrences as they chanced that the first worke which strangers vndertook after their landing might be to run to the monument to vnderstand how God protected you from the Spanish pride and oftentation And the same God that appeared to Salomon with a blessed donation of wisdome whereby he prostrated himselfe before the Brasen Alter praying both for himselfe and the people so gouerne guide and preserue the heart of his Maiestie in finishing the worke he now begins opportunity sets forward â—â— at Europe it selfe take a pattern of great Brittaines Royalty be driuen to admiration that true Maiestie religion pietie loue vnion peace plentie and strength of men are met together in one Island and corner of the world And the same God that made the sea his instrument of vengeance vpon Pharoah the heauens to raine downe stones vpon the head of Sisera the stars to fight in their order the Angel to destroy the host of the Assirians the fire to consume the Captaines of fifties hell to open and swallow vp Corah and Abiram the Lions to destroy the idolaters of Samaria the Beares to tear in peeces the mockers of Eliah and the inferior creatures to serue his turne vpon his enemies keepe you from forreine and domesticke aduersaries especially outlandish women who if they haue power to tempt Salomon to Idolatrie are sure to bring a fearefull iudgement vpon him and his posteritie FINIS Gen. 3. 15. Apoc. 12. 17. Dan. 3. Apoc. 12. Ch. 29. Ch. 38. 24. 1. Cor. 4. 9. Isai 3. Exod 18. 21. 2. King 17. 25. 2. Kin. 16. 10. 17 2. Chron. 28. 1. King 20. 36. Gen. 35. Exod. 4. 24. Exod. 32. 2. Thes 2. 3. 4. 7 1. Tim. 4. Apoc. 6. 9. 15 16 9 2 3 Apoc. 11. 7. 8 12. 3 7 9 13. 1 6 13 16. 19 17. 1 2 Reuel 3. 9.
in any English cloth or woollen clothes amongst them Shall wee follow with the losse of the Palatinate the slighting of our Embassadours in Germany the hazard of the Kings children in Prague the bereauing them of their inheritance the bestowing the Electorship vpon Bauaria and all those perils and indignities wee haue endured about that warre when yet we were made to beleeue there should be a more tractable composition or orderly course taken if we would defist from the prosecution Shall wee continue with your disgraces at home how euer many gracious things haue been published to reconcile the peoples opinion to the affecting the Spanish match all which haue yet had the misfortune of diuerting them from it either as disallowing the pamphlets that haue been that way written or esteeming them too triuiall and onely common tricks to get mony With what scorne did a supposed Spanish mad man aduance himselfe into the Chaire of Estate in the presence at White-hall and was onely dismist with a iest from Gondomar and a shipping out of England Was there euer such an abuse offered to a Kings house as the cutting of his pictures in the princely gallery when certaine Spaniards were so kindly entertained to be admitted into such priuat rooms Who could haue had better welcome then that counterfet fugitiue the Archbishop of Spalato and yet in requitall he preached publickly in the Mercers Chappell that the Church of Rome was a true Church of God and in priuate conference argued as if the Ecclesiasticall gouernment of England was but a mongrell Papistry How did Gondomar couzen our hospitalitie and abuse his Maiesties fauor for after he and his Priests had been welcomed to many noble houses in England and discouered the Ladies humors or dotage vpon their Iesuites after he had fraughted himselfe with the knowledge of our kingdome and diued as it were into the arcana regni after he had drawne on the net of political enforcement concerning the profit and honour of both Nations by this match with the iocundity of the Princes in their vnion and penselled out the excellencies of the Infanta Maria after we say that hee had as it were made a faction in England and knew by name who were Hispaniolized and for their priuate ends as all temporisers do neglected the publicke good either of Church or Common-wealth With what a iollitie did hee returne into Spaine and boasted there how easie it was to deceiue your simplicitie insomuch that wee in Scotland heard more particulars then you in England that his arguments were but Eloâ—chi and wished in our hearts his wisedom might proue Ahitophels and his deuices like Perillus bull of whom Phallaris for his inuention made the first triall Shall we prosecute other matters was it well done thinke you to compose that booke of Rosa Hispanioa and Anglicum punicum and expose it to publike view with an idolatrous and blasphemous frontispeece Christ comming from heauen to marrie them when he himselfe had cursed Israel if they matched with the Canaanites and Nehemiah with pulling their haire from their heads made the people put away their idolatrous wiues and for the booke it selfe the wiser and iudicious sort not onely derided it for the phrase and fantasticall title vnto as fantasticall a man but for the substance and examples which might be euery way and euery one retorted against the other and for the frontispeece the very women in Edenborugh haue made good sport to heare of the iests that haue beene contriued vpon it At the first when a certaine man demanded whom those pictures did personate and answer was made that the one was Charles Prince of Wales and the other the Lady Maria Infanta of Spaine and the third Iesus Christ come from heauen to marry them Not too fast replied the fellow but yet I am glad that Christ is between them for then sure he wil neuer suffer them to ioyn together except God giue her so much grace which seldome happens to a Spaniard to come out of Babilon and not be partakers of her Idolatries After this the book lying long on their stalls and the man ouen angred againe at such lukewarme gospellers and trades-men that care not by what for did meanes and superstitious filthinesse they enrich themselues he asked once againe what those pictures meant and they once againe answered the Prince of Wales and Princesse of Spaine with Christ between them Oh said he that 's impossible For if Christ meant any such matter he would haue dispatcht it before now and questionlesse there would neuer haue been such delayes and rediculous pride amongst them Then followed the Princes iorney into Spaine with rigging out a Nauy and selecting the Commanders to please the King of Spaine as was interpred of some of the principall Catholike Lordes of England who apparrelled their followers honorably and did all things befitting the dignitie of the nation but what followed vpon Brunswicks ouerthrow Spaine with Ixion bosted he must lie with Iuno and the house of Austria swelled so big that if the tumor of pride be not pricked downe it will burst with her own greatnes and presumption that they are not able to raise another Gigantomachia and with Typhon cast the mountaines against heauen for presently the noble Prince found a kind of remisnes and relaxation concerning his first entertainment peraduenture being a pathick to some indignities he and the Navy were all dismist without the Lady or any dispatch of the businesse so that we in Scotland did wonder how so great and so wise a King could either be misinformed or rely on any Temporiser to go forward with vncertainties and yet for all this you in England printed more books of the Princes royall entertainment in Spaine and like childrens wormseed it was trimmed ouer with gold and put into candid stuffe that is it had braue phrases and oratory with some things that sauored of impossibilitie A second booke told you of a second entertainment which the Prince had in Spain and for Spanish businesse had such an exotik phrase that when it came amongst vs we reputed it a very Rhomantidos indeed for the author inuented words neuer in any author before and bestowed as much paines about killing of buls and beasts ioco de cuno and other sports like our countrymen in times past who ran at S. Quintine as Homer did in describing the Troian wars Curtius in Alexanders conquests and Lucan in his Pharsalia Then followed a third booke of the Princes farewell and reciprocall gifts bestowed betweene Spaine and vs and this was as vineger to the teeth and smoake to the eyes of the subiect for had not their hearts been seasoned with the ioy and gladnes for his returne their mouthes had cursed outright and wished such deceiuers the womans reward that for golde betrayed her countrey and so had so much layd vpon her that they pressed her to death These collections most gracious Lords wee haue made not to intercede against