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A19644	Belgiaes troubles, and triumphs VVherein are truly and historically related all the most famous occurrences, which haue happened betweene the Spaniards, and Hollanders in these last foure yeares warres of the Netherlands, with other accidents, which haue had relation vnto them, as the battels of Fleurie, and Statloo, the losse of Gulicke and Breda, the sieges of Sluce and Bergen, the conquest of St. Saluador in Brasilia, and the taking of Gosse by Charles Lambert, &c. Written by William Crosse ...	Crosse, William, b. 1589 or 90.	1625 (1625)	STC 6072; ESTC S109106	45,855	80

BELGIAES TROVBLES AND TRIVMPHS WHEREIN ARE TRVLY and Historically related all the most famous Occurrences which haue happened betweene the Spaniards and Hollanders in these last foure yeares Warres of the Netherlands with other Accidents which haue had relation vnto them as the Battels of Fleurie and Statloo the losse of Gulicke and Breda the Sieges of Sluce and Bergen the Conquest of St. Saluador in Brasilia and the taking of Goffe by Charles Lambert c. Written by WILLIAM CROSSE master of Arts of St. Mary Hall in Oxford and sometimes Chaplaine vnto Colonell Ogle in the Netherlands LONDON Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEVVES and IOHN NORTON 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND TRVELY noble Lords the Earle of ESSEX and my Lord MOVNTIOY William Crosse wisheth the increase of Temporal and the fulnesse of Spirituall happinesse MOst Illustrious Lords amongst all the List of our Time-VVorthies I could find none to whom I might consecrate this First part of Belgiaes Troubles and Triumphs sooner then to your Honoured selues as being the Sonnes of two so Noble and high-deseruing Fathers the Mirrours of these latter Ages whose Examples concurring with the inbred vertue of your owne Dispositions inuite you to the Patronage of Arts to the Profession and Exercise of Armes the former you haue manifested by your Munificence the latter by the free aduenture of your owne Persons as you my Lord of Essex at your first ascent into the Palatinate for your Ingagements in the Seruice of the Netherlands your and last attending with much Constancy and Valour in the troublesome Leaguers of Meede and Rosendale And you my Lord Montioy for your worth and Noblenesse exemplified at the Siege of Bergen op Zoom for the rescuing of Monsieur Breoutees Bodie from the Spaniards at Meede Leaguer neere Breda and for the continuall perseuerance in your Noble Resolutions and heroycall Indeauours The Authour doubts that malicious Criticisme may haunt and ghost this impartiall Poeme which glorifies our English Nation according to their condigne merits a thing omitted by the Dutch and French VVriters who giue ynough vnto themselues but vnto vs too little attributes of Honour For these causes he seeks to shelter this Fraught vnder the Lee of your Protections which if hee obtaines by meanes of your Noble Graunts hee shall for euer rest The deuoted Seruant of your Lordships William Crosse BELGIA'S TROVBLES AND TRIVMPHS The first Booke THE ARGVMENT IN this part continued from the beginning of the yeare of our Lord God 1621 vnto the Ascension of our Sauiour in the yeare 1622 are contained the expiration of the last Truce with a Proposition of a new Treatie which the States reiect because the Spaniards would not acknowledge them for free States in this Treatie The preparations of both sides for warre The meeting of our Troups at Skenckesconce Their cruell March from thence to Dornicke The terrible Sicknes which raigned in our Army The imbattailing of our Foot-Companies on the North side of Dornicke Graue Henricks fortunate escape from foure Cornets of the enemies Horse The burning of his Lodgings and Stables by a casuall fire Spinolaes opposition against the Prince of Oranges forces Vanderbercks taking of Gulicke and Inigoes repulse at Sluce together with the burning of 50 Dorps in little Brabant by the States Armie and the taking of the Gouernour of Angola Prisoner by the Flushingers AFter the calmes of sweet-contenting Peace Well passed were and that luxurious ease Had griped on those Armes which fighting were Imbru'd with blood with danger death feare Bellona storming with a fatall rage Out of th' Infernall Cells calls forth a Page Fell Discord hight with whom shee thus doth treat Doe not thy trembling vaines deare Discord sweat Whole stormes of wrath for that neglected warre Crest-fallen mournes in peace and that that barre Of milk-sop Treaties stoppes our raging Armes Stain'd with the blood of Belgiaes former harmes Behold that swelling State obserue and looke How proudly shee hauing the chaines off shooke Of Castiles thraldome liues in pleas●●g rest And roaues from Holland to the farthest West Spreading her tayle vnto The West Indies were first discouered by Columbus that Indian Maine Found by Columbus for Gold-thirsting Spaine I long to drinke her blood and to intombe Her goared carkeise in my gaping wombe Rather let heapes of men let millions die Then my blood-thirstie soule should want supply Think'st thou that Turnholts field where These three places in the Netherlands were famous for those fights which haue been made in them thousands fell Of slaughtred bodies could my longing quell Or famous Ostend which for three yeares space Maintain'd that siege which did the world amaze Or that same blood which fertiliz'd the sand That Mountaine like doth rise on Newports Strand These were but drops vnto my dropsie soule Which drinking still doth thirst goe fill my bowle Brim full with vengeance which I meane to powre In stormes of blood on Belgiaes fruitfull shore There 's liquor yet within the sacred vaines Of great heroicke Spirits that remaines An obiect for my lust there are the My Lord of Oxford Sir Horace and Sir Edward Vere Veares Three thunder-bolts of warre whose courage dares T' affront whole Squadrons there is Cecill braue These would I haue to make the fielde their graue With these time-honour'd The Ogles of Lincolneshire came from the Ogles of Northumberland Ogle let mee place A Branch sprung from Northumbrian Ogles race And valiant Mountioy who to Blunts great house Fresh glory giues with these then ioyne and rouse Saintleger Conway Burrowes and the rest Whose daring valour fitly may contest With Romes old Minions let their whetted Armes Vpon thy summons take on fresh Alarmes And since for richer streames of Princes blood My soule doth long to drinke a crimson flood A Horslee● or Bloodsu● Hirudo-like faine would I sucke the vaines Of great Nassaw which with their mouing straines Giue life vnto the members of that State Who with their power the Spanish pride doe mate With this fierce Discord moou'd breaks all the barres Of sleeping Peace and sets discordant Iarres Doubtfull suspitions iealous lurking feares Fresh boyling in the breasts of Belgia sig●●fies the N●therlands Belgiaes Peeres Nor doth shee rest but to increase the fire Addes fuell to the flames ioynes pride with ire Malice with false but yet pretended wrong With which shee makes the Spaniard to prolong Treaties in shew but yet inflames his sprite With force to tame th' vnited Cantons might The cause grew thus there were of colder blood Who aym'd at Peace and at the publike good Vnwilling that the Christians ciuill Iarres Should breed domesticke and intestine warres These men perswade a parle both condiscend But dissonant remou'd from concords end For Philip deeming that the twelue yeares truce The King 〈◊〉 Spaine Did but the lustre of his Right abuse And that the webbe of Barneuelts designe Prou'd Fortunes scorne an vnsprung fruitlesse Mine Besides being vrg'don by

Incursion of Horse Sconces from the foes whose trembling hands Make good the Ports for Nassaws sure commands Besides our Horse a Little Forts much vsed by the Dutch An Incursion of Horse Caualgado make Close vnto Brussels whose burnt Suburbs take Impressions of our wrath th' Archdutchesse sees The frowning face of these sad miseries Yet cannot shee redresse them for mans will Proiected resolutions cannot fill Without iust meanes of power which Heauen sends As Instruments t' accomplish humane ends Thus this incursion past our men retire Thorough the smoaking flames of Brabants fire Vnto Breda rewarded for their paines With honours Crowne and conquerd Spanish gaines Nor thus alone the Land with slaughter bleeds But vnto Neptunes Maine Bellona speeds With Engines of destruction where shee staines With streames of blood the Sea-gods watry plaines Those vast Armadaes which commanded lay Neere to Baioun and Saint Sebastians Bay Their Galeouns houering neere to Lisbones walls Where Tagus into Thetis bosome falls Their nimble Gallies slicing with their Oares Those billowing waues which beat on Affrickes shores Sometimes on th' Oceans Maine incountring meet With Amsterdams or Flushings warlike Fleet Which homewards bound from Venice or Ligorne From Scanderoun or Aegypt rich in Corne Doe proudly plow the Mediterran Maine Swelling with profit and full fraught with gaine Sometimes againe Moy Lambert or L' Hermite Willeks or fierce Hugen this losse requite Who trauersing those Seas whose rougher Tide From Magellanus Streights doth Northwest glide Neere to th' Honduras Gulfe Domingoes Ile Or the Terceraes famous for the foyle Of valiant Strossy meet some Spanish Hulke Or some swift Caruell whose full fraughted bulke Is loaden with that rich At Petosi in Peru are most rich Mines of Gold Potosian Oare Which Lima sends from Perues wealthy shoare Sometimes againe neere the Balsoran Sound Or Teneriffaes pike where Amber's found Of th' highest price some of their armed Ships Incounter with some Carracke whose strong ribs Are ballast with those drugs which Chinaes plaines Send from their fruitfull Aromatique vaines Or with those Spices which for barter'd Gold Are by the The Inhabitants of Iaua and the Moluccoes A place in Africke subiect to the Portugals Iauans and Moluccoies sold Amongst the rest great Angolaes Viceroy For Andaluzia bound with smiling ioy Th' Atlantique Ocean cuts and proudly sailes Thorough the Maine till some Dutch Sea-man hailes And bids him strike then as th' Hircanian beast Whom the pursuing Hunter doth inuest With 's knottie Toyles first seekes to scape the danger But that being vaine he turnes his feare to anger And fiercely coaping with th'incountring foe Doth th' vtmost deuoir of his courage show The Portugueze vnequall to sustaine The Flushingers incounter plies amaine Both Helme and Yard and forwards led by feare Swifter then any wind doth nimbly steere Ouer the ridge of those high-breaking waues Whose beating surge Terceraes foreland lanes But this being labour lost he turnes his head Vnto the combate with a side-wind sped Then their Canoniers with the An Engine which Gūners vse to charge Ordinance Carteridge ply Their great and lesser siz'd Artillery Larboord and Starboord readie for the charge Their Langrell and their Crosse-barre shot discharge Great shot vsed at Sea The Muskettiers standing vpon a Range Behind the Wast-cloaths doe their bullets change Granado balls from th' hand or Bombard sent With vaprous smoake obscure the Firmament So that suruaying water land or ayre Death dread and danger swarmed eu'ry where The Sea-nimphs were afraid and Neptune hid His forked Mase with feare astonished The trembling Mermayds did for horrour quake As when th'inclosed winds the waters shake Thinking Prometheus hauing broke those bands Which manacled his Vultur-griped hands And manumiz'd from his tormenting paine Did imitate Ioues Thunderbolts againe But when that both sides to their close fights came And tryed the last chance of this martiall Game From out the Scuttle-holes spouted streames of blood Which clotted on the curled Ocean stood The Murderers from out their higher Tires Discharged dreadfull flakes of sulphrous fires Whose strong emissiue power with Tarlin kill'd Whole hundreds and with slaughtred carnage fill'd Their vpper Decks which straight blowne vp did flye Through the vast extent of th'inameld skie But at the length the Portugalls pursued With danger of all hands for Quarter sued Vnto the Dutch who from the farthest South Th' Angolians brought to The Riuer of Flushing Scheldis watrie mouth Inriched for their hazard with that Gold Which heaped lay within that Galeouns hold BELGIAES TROVBLES AND TRIVMPHS The Second Booke WHEREIN ARE RELAted all the most famous Occurrences which haue happened in the Netherlands from the Ascension of our Sauiour 1622. vnto this present time 1625. LONDON Printed by Augustine Matthewes and Iohn Norton 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE EDVVARD LORD CONVVAY Baron of Raggely and one of his Maiesties principall Secretaries of State And Sir HORACE VEARE Col. Generall of the English in the Netherlands WILLIAM CROSSE wisheth that happinesse which they themselues desire RIght Honourable your knowne loues to the Vnited Prouinces of the Netherlands and their Cause sealed by your Honours with the free expence of your dearest blood and the frequent hazard of your liues haue besides those other motiues of your knowledge iudgement and experience in Subiects of this nature inuited mee to this Dedication The first Part of Belgiaes Troubles and Triumphs belongs to the Earle of Essex and my Lord Montioy the second part is consecrated to your Honored selues Both these are rather a Discourse then a Poeme as truely and Historically relating the most remarkable and time-neerer Exployts which haue passed betweene the Dutch and the Spaniards in these last foure yeeres Warres of the Netherlands In this List the Siege of Bergen and that of Breda the Battels of Flewry and Statloo with the taking of Saint Saluadour in Brasilia challenge aboue the rest the chiefest place and prerogatiue The rest are minor gests and deeds of lesse consequence yet worthy for their worths to bee kept in the closet of Remembrance In all th●se as in a representing Glasse you may see the mercie of God extended from time to time to this Estate first erected from the Inforcements of the Spanish tyrannie since supported by the Auxiliary meanes of the English French and Scots and maintained at this present in that greatnesse which the world sees and admires by Policie Power and Religion If publike censure bee as impartiall as is the Poeme the Authour shall thinke his endeuours fortunate As for your Noble selues he doth presume vpon the candour and integritie of your Estimations vndoubtedly knowing that you accept a mite as respectiuely as a talent and esteeme the freedome of the Giuer more then the value of the gift Vpon this assurance hee doth rest and so doth for euer rest Your Honours most deuoted Seruant William Crosse BELGIA'S TROVBLES AND TRIVMPHS The second Booke THE ARGVMENT IN this second part continued from

From th'vpper world vnto th' Infernall maine But O thou scourge of Armies why shouldst thou To Mars his steelie traine destruction vowe Why should Bellonaes votaries indure Thy bloodie fluxe thy madding Callenture Why should the swelling botch the watrie blaine That seate of valour with contagion staine And tainte that purer consecrated bloud Which vow'd it selfe for Belgiaes publicke good Was 't not inough to powre thy malice forth Vpon the colder All those Northerene Countries were this last yeere much annoyed with the Plague Regions of the North To plague the warrelike Danes the sturdie Swecians The Rugians Lappians and the slow Norwegians Was 't not inough for thy death miniond selfe To Golgothize the streetes of stately Delfe And make faire Leidens trembling students flie From learnings once now deaths Academie Was 't not enough to lay west Frieseland waste And waste Vtrocht Traiectum but with winged hast Thou must inuade the Princes warrelike Campe And thousands kill with that obnoxious dampe Which first infects the Subtle poared Aire And from thence doth our vitall strength impaire By tainting those vermillion flowing vaines Those life-conducts with thy contagious staines And could not heere plebeian bloud asswage The boundles bounds of thy Luxuriant rage But must South-hamptons Earle must Oxfords selfe Dye by the darts of this accursed Else Must My Lord Wriothesly eldest sonne to th' Earle of Southampton Wriothsley VVindham Chester Halswell dye Slaine by the shafts of dire mortalitie But deade they are whether that angrie nature Enuied to earth their moore diuiner feature Or being malignant both to Armes and Arts Skornd this Sublunar should possesse those parts Those seates of wonder which with such a measure Were powred forth of great Pandoraes treasure Yet these being gone Sir Iohn Ratcliffe ●●pulsed Pompeio and Branch●s●● as they thought to passe ouer the Waal vnder the conduct of Bucquoy Ratcliffe reputed dead For Pompeyes repulse Fame-eternized Liues and suruiues new Honours to attaine From the defeated Colonels of Spaine And since that they are dead O that my Verse Could giue but life to their thrice-honour'd Herse Then sooner should the Northerne Coachman steepe His falling Teeme within the Russian deepe Sooner should Thames forsake his Easterne course And sliding backe runne Westward to his sourse Then that their Lawrell-consecrated praise Should want the Crowne of such suruiuing Layes VVhich might giue life in death and make that last Beyond Times power and cankred Enuies blast And as for thee sweet Breda which dost stand Vpon the Merkaes peeble bordred strand Since thou beleagred art with sundry Legions Which came from those From Spaine sun-scorched western Regions So that no store of victualls no supply Can bring reliefe to thy necessitie And if the Spaniard still so strongly lies That neither Nassaws force nor slie deuice Can raise the siege if those new leuied Bands Which Brunswicks Duke and Cromwels selfe commands VVhich vnder Maunsfields conduct Rich and Lincolne Which Burroughs leads which Doncaster and Hopton Cannot inforce th' Jberian Troupes to rise Nor gaine their way by Spinolaes surprise Then could I wish that all that large extent VVhich lies within the Rauelins Continent VVere full of Indian A strange kind of f●uit which growes in Peru. Cocoes which doe grow Vpon those Plaines where Perues streames doe flow Whose strong oppletiue power doth strangely fill And swallowed doth both thirst and hunger kill Then could I wish that some Spring-forced tide Would make Merks current retrograde to glide And when the forced riuer thus doth flow Whole Cockly mountaines it might vpwards throw When Rochell was besiegd great store of shell fish were miraculously cast vp vpon the shoare for the releefe of the Citizens Vpon the strand as when Aniou and Guise Thought Neptune flanked Rochell to Surprise It once befell vpon that sandy shoare Where th' Ocean doth against Coreilles roare And then perhaps might Bredaes siege be such As was Ostends or Bergens and as much The dammagd foe might then and there sustaine As they did in those former sieges gaine When Veare and Morgan brauely did repell That Spanish storme which on their Legions fell But whilst my muse thus Prayes Fame from those cels Where audience rumour and relation dwells Brings vs sad tidings that strong-flankt Breda Reconquerd is by warrelike Spinola Who after eight moneths siege regaind that place Which so much did his Gray haird actions grace For although Maurice by surprising Cleeue By Antwerpes cold attempt sought to releeue Beleaguerd Breda though that Morgan braue Resolu'd to make th' ingaged place his Graue And stood on the defensiue with that troupe Which swoard nor famine could not make to stoope Although without stout Veare and Oxfords Count Most daringly the Spanish workes did mount And wone two Rodoubts whereas Payton Winne Tubbe Dacres Hawley Stanhop got within The Parapetted Rampier brauely fought And death amongst whole armed squadrons sought Yet famine still increasing whose affrounte No courage though death-daring can surmount And eight dayes foode being onely left to feede The greedie Souldiers and the Burgers neede The Spaniards grant a parle our men agree Inforc'd thereto by meere necessitie Conditions to depart were such as we Could hardly looke for from an Enemie With Seroan colours flying matches light Bullets in mouth our waggons Loaden weight With bagge and baggage and a safe conuoy To safeguard our's from all hostile annoy Besides when as our Cohorts all dismarcht From Breda'es ports and through their quarters past The curteous Genouese saluteth all But specially for Morgans selfe doth call Imbraceth him and honouring a foe So worthy doth himselfe thrice worthie show But though Breda be lost reconquerd Goffe By Lambarts valour hath the chaines shooke off Of Castiles thraldome and the taken towne Mannd with a strong Orangian Garrison Makes all South Cleeue-lands Ceres-blessed shoare Where Rhine against strong Grauenweert doth roare Pay contribution eu'n to that same land Where Iuliers on the Roars bankes doth stand This was that Lambart who with Heraugiere From Holland did that famous Turfe-boat steere When they fiue thousand ours but seu'ntie were Who this vnheard of enterprise did dare He waiting on the foes with Argian eyes Discouers by his subtle curious spies That Goffes attempt was facill for the moate Was passable without the corked floate Without the Skiffe or Punt neere to that place VVhich did the VVesterne bulwarkes platforme face For this designe he drawes two thousand men From Arnham Embricke Rees and Nimeghen VVho coue'red with a silent Mooneshine night Arriud two houres before the dawning light At their knowne Randeuouz and from thence marcht To the Townedike which being safely past They scaled all at once the Rampierd wall And from thence on the Spanish guards did fall The fight was bloudie for the vanquisht foe Fiue hundred of their Phalangiers could show Slaine on the place but of the Dutehmens side Scarce two full squadrons in this combate dyed But that which did the victours triumph crosse VVas val●ant Lambarts still deplored losse VVho ouerheated in this toilesome fight Resign'd within eight dayes his honour'd sprite To mightie Ioue his Manes great Nassaw Then whom this Ageno colder Fabius saw Pursued vnto those blest Elisian shades VVhose euerliuing pleasure neuer Fades VVhere all true Patriots which for freedome fight Receiue the Crowne of their deserued right FINIS To my industrious friend Master W. C. VVHat sullen Prose in harshnes did rehearse Smiles through thy soule with a diffusiue light Like the Promethean fire for by thy verse Are wakened from the Chaos of blacke night The worthies of our time that by thy pen Rise from obliuions graue to life agen And for their sakes Mars with a steely Traine Of his vndaunted Sons presents thy brow The guerdon of thy sweet Poeticke vaine A Lawrell of Mineruaes choicest bow Proceede in thy designes and let thy praise Out liue the crooked carping age of dayes Iohn Dowle Bristol