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A10165 Prosopopoeia. Or, A conference held at Angelo Castle, between the Pope, the Emperor, and the King of Spaine Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.; Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, 1557-1619.; Philip, II, King of Spain, 1578-1621. 1619 (1619) STC 20443; ESTC S115438 2,717 8

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PROSOPOPOEIA Or A CONFERENCE held at Angelo Castle between the Pope the Emperor and the King of Spaine Pope VVElcome deare Sonnes vnto our court of Rome blessing Apostolique and holy doome sheild all the house of Austria from mischanee And both their fortunes and your crownes advance Emperour Thy feet most holy Father doe I kisse Of Church benediction if I misse th' Imperiall Crowne from Austria will be gone which heav'n forbid for then w' are all vndone Bohemias rebells with Hungaria joyne the Hereticks from Danow to the Rhine their heades their armes their forces they combine ' gainst Rome and Austria Oh the Palatine that cursed Calvinist with his partakers those damned Schismaticks the Church forsakers vpon our ruynes seeke to build their fortune which makes me thus your Holines importune Pope The keyes of Peter and the sword of Paul shall shut and open cutt in sunder all the gates of heaven nations lawes and rights and turne cleere daies into the darkest nights ere one of Caluines or of Luthers sect with Romaine Bayes or Aegles shall be deckt Emperour The threates and curses of the Catholiques are now despis'd by these vile Heretiques help by your counsell therefore Holy Sir and shew us meanes to quiet all this stir Pope Thou maist by reasons and Embassages by questions answers and like passages winne time a while but these are out of date Now swordes not wordes doe Kingdomes arbitrate To neighbour friends and subjects quickly send that from surprise thou maist thy selfe defend My Nuntios and my Legats I le dispatch more forces'mongst the Catholiques to hatch Ments Colen Trier Catholique Baviere hast thou in Germany with other there Thy vncle Albert and the Polish King vnto thee quickly may their forces bring And though my selfe with Florence may not send our armes so soone yet money will we lend The Cantons of the Switzers shall be wag'd which to our See doe holde themselves engag'd so is the Saxon Duke with his estate to thee in Dresden and th' Electorate whose elder cosins hopes will make him feare and to thy fortunes and thy house adhere I le also send to Savoy and to Venice to France our eldest sonne and to S. Dennice I le fetch the saints from heav'n The fiends from hell Flectere si nequeo sisperos A●…eronta mouebe but I le those drunken Germane traytors quell Besides thy Spanish cosin present here whome Europe and the new found world doe feare the Churches Atlas and the Empires prop by strength by wit by friends or golde will stop these proud attempts and darings of the Dutch and break their forces cost it nere so much K. of Spaine If Caesar and your Holines have donne obserue the answer of your Spanish sonne Not Germane Prelates nor Bavarie can nor King of Pole your selfe nor any man nor Tuskans Duke nor Albert my poore brother nor Cantons Catholique nor any other bring timely succours gainst the conjuration those Almaigne Graves have made in every Nation Expect not help from Savoy nor Venetia who feare and deadly hate the house of Austria I looke for nothing from my sonne of France for if he saw vs downe hee 'd sing and dance And why should you from Saxon hope for more then Charles my grandsire reap'd from his before who gave him all and more then you doe mention yet shortly after in the great contention twixt him and Germane rebels he forsooke his Benefactor and against him tooke And Caesar if at home thou look'st for ayde thy Kingdomes both are lost thy strength decayde Thine Austrian subjects also are infected with Luthers heresie and have rejected the Papall dignitie and may doe thine and with their fellow Lutherans combine and if for succour thou doe send to Thracia the faithlesse Turkes thou know'st doe not loue Austria Spayne then must help or what will Caesar doe and how shall Spaine helpe Rome and Caesar too Shall Indian armies be recall'd from thence Italian forces march away from hence leave Millaine Naples and our siluer fountaines vngarded naked to march ore the mountaines Through Grisons countrey lead the strength of Spaine or venture our Armada once againe to narrow Seas and so at once loose more then we haue got in sixscore yeares before So thou at Auspourgh I in Arragon may shave our crownes turne Monks and liue alone You count your friends but count not all your foes whose strength whose number you cannot oppose The Northern tract of Europe from Britania tending to East as farre as Transilvania save Poleland and some trifles is their owne aye me in fourescore yeres how they are growne Their Kingdomes England Scotland Ireland bee with Denmarke Norway Sweden six you see besides those two which they have wonne from thee being eight in all and our Kings are but three The number of their Princes Dukes and Countes with their free Lords and States ours farre surmounts besides their many Palsgraves and Burghgraves with all their Lantgraves Reingraves and Markgraves And as their numbers so their spirits are made great with hopes 〈◊〉 1618. by the Prodigious starre which Blazed over Almaigne last December portending change of states and I remember their expositions and their calculations of times of Scriptures and of situations of Rome of Babel and of hilles and dales of beasts and dragons and such fearefull tales wherewith they cheare themselves and their new King as if they Victors were and bells doe ring Alas for Rome alas for Ferdinand Alas for Philip must he needes withstand his owne the Empires and the Churches foes and so himselfe the Church and Empire lose Haue all my Ancestors to fiue descents by Conquest wedlock and like ligaments ty'de Earledomes Dukedomes Crownes and Empire fast hoping for Westerne Monarchie at last and is the period of our greatnes past and our declyning now begin to hast Ah Nassau Nassau hatefull Sonne and Father Curst be your name and house you you did gather the hatefull rebells into warlike bands who now doe State it in our Netherlands There there you wrote nil Vltra once againe and set vp Esterne pillars barres to Spaine Emperour Thus are our dangers thus our feares related thus be our mindes perplext our hearts amated If Rome haue any secret wisedome hid layd vp for wicked times or euer did make wicked heretiques feele Churches power then Father now 's the time and this the houre Remember how two Fredericks heretofore ' frighted thy predecessors this may more hazard thy fortunes vtterly suppresse the Romane Church thy selfe and vs vnlesse by some prime Stratageme fetcht from the deepe thou dost thy selfe and friends from danger keepe Pope And are our friends so few and so vntrustie and be our foes so many and so lustie One Innocent of ●ome in former ages hath us'd three Kings for lackeys and for pages And dare they now against our liking make both Kings and Kaesars then you furies wake Help me to store of pistols poysons knives to fyre and powder manacles and gives Bid Ravilltack and Clement hye them hither Let Gerad Faux and Garnet come togither Come ye Ignatians bring Assasinates left handed Ehuds that doe rule the fates and cut the threds of Princes lives a sunder these Romane Scauola's shall make men wonder to see the upstart King with his partakers in euery nation slaughtred by massacres I le raise up Swarez 3. Famous Iesuites Parsons Bellar mine Loyallas-selfe their father and refine all humane witt to one pure quintessence against whose vertue shal be no defence Therefore fayre Sonnes at nothing be dismay'd remember what your Father now hath sayd You to Vienna you to Civil goe helpe as you may to giue the fatall blowe K. of Spaine Come LLerma looke not sadly on thy friend But let 's with Spanish patience waite the end