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A16303	Tvvo letters or embassies The one sent by the states of Bohemia, to the Elector of Saxony: the other from the Popes Holines to the Emperour, concerning the troubles of Germany.	Bohemia (Země). Sněm.; Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621. aut; Barlow, William, of Amsterdam.; Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, 1585-1656.; Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637.	1620 (1620)	STC 3215; ESTC S102769	21,755	45

the whole body and for any thing I see remediles vnlesse wee could cut off that poysoned ioynt where it began Againe if their commotions and Convulsions of the Empire it selfe haue thriued with aduantages of victory and preuailing then haue they dared to publish the right of their Cause and exclaime against Rome for Babilon against our Holines for the man of Sinne against our Church for Antechristian against our Sonnes the Catholicke Princes for the Kinges that haue drunke of the Cup of abhomination and against your Imperiall Maiesty as the Beast with 10. hornes spoken of in the aenigmaticall Prophesie of St. Iohn nay these thinges are so imprinted in the mindes of most men and Nations that euery man is almost so farre from retraction or a seeming sorrow of doing amisse that so they may haue the name of Religion in their mouthes they are ready to take vp Armes against their natiue Lords and thinke it a glory to colour their hipocriticall disobedience with maintaining the cause of the Gospell and taking part as a new deuise of Rebellion with the Princes of the Vnion And so much for Religion 3 Concerning the Prouinces I cannot now compare them better then to a Wall set vp with vntempered morter ready to fall a sunder for lacke of cementing For alas such is the impetuosity of rumor at this houre against you that it is more fearefull and terrible then the winde that shooke the foure corners of Iobs houses and threw them downe on the heads of his Children To begin with the North if we name Saxony and his neighbour Bishops to assist you they counterprize Denmarke Sweden Brandenburg Brunswick and many of that side If we talke of Poland they tell you that all that way there is Lusatia Silesia Morauia as a hedge betweene Bohemia and it nay they drawe a longer shaft and a stronger bowe of Hungary Transiluania and the Turkes confederacy and combination If wee mention your Vnckle the Arch-Duke or more familiarly the Marquesse Spinola his Liefetenant they stop the gap with the Truce with the Peace with England or else with the Armies of the States the affinity of the Prince of Orenge and the indissoluble loue of a King to his Daughter which I onely feare is vnanswerable and must needes say vnpossible to be resisted if hee either remember what a Sonne in Law he hath or what Subiects proportionable to his Greatnes that without imposition if hee giue them leaue long to be tampering with the Indyes themselues If wee expect Collen and the Bishops belonging to our obedience they present vs the Lantsgraue of Hesse Franconia and the Palatinate it selfe If we relye vpon Bauaria they neighbour him with Wittenberg and other Protestant Princes If wee resolue vpon Austria they cry alas what is that to Bohemia and the deuided Countries of your inheritance If wee boast of money they answer directly there is no want in their Army but your Soldiers repine for lacke of pay If we whisper of France they talke aloude there is enough to doe to answer their owne proportions For Queene King and Princes gaze vpon one another in the behalfe of Fauorites factions and people If wee reioyce for Spaine they depresse the insulting with alas what can Spaine doe Spaine is too remote Spaine can spare no men Spaine hath many Garisons to tend as so many Nurse Children to pay for Spaine hath many yrons in the fire but as fast as one heates another cooles Spaine is tyred with the multiplicity of busines and must be more then tyr'd if hee could come ouer the Alpes Spaine is in hazard of loue and good opinion in the world as rather enuyed then feared and maligned then obserued In a word Spaine hath many millions and great Treasure but I may well compare him to a glorious Steward of a House who must defray the charge of a 1000.l a yeare expences but the Lord will but allow his seruant 800. toward it If we recken vp our own Prouinces I cannot liken them better then to Argos his eyes whereof the one halfe wakes while the other sleepes For Sauoy neither dares trust Spaine nor truly loue vs must keepe his Frontiers and watch Geneua lookes vpon the Marquisate of Salusse with soare eyes and vpon Prouince with a hungry heart dares not speake aloude against France though he whisper for some indignities receiued but either to succour you or our selues he is both vnwilling and vnprouided Mantua and Modena runne the same course but with slower pace and indeed because no body regards them as able to doe either hurt or good they are made the wiser to looke to themselues and not to meddle with other folkes busines Millaine is like a bird in a golden Cage that may sing to answer proportion with nature but if the casement be open shee will take the benefit of her liberty so that howeuer they seeme Religious yet hath Spaine much adoe to ouer-watch them Genoa is not worth the naming for your busines for if it were as rich againe it hath much a doe to pay the Marchants debts Venice is a fearefull and polliticke State maketh vse of our Religion but loueth her owne Greatnes so well that shee is both jealious of Spaine and loathsome to Vs for wee feare her reuolt dayly and because she is got into the number of the Princes of the Vnion will not number a man nor a peece of Gold for your reliefe Florence and Leuca will lend you what money they can but alas they haue neither men nor Gallyes and if they had the Venetian is so dogged he will not let them passe into the Gulph Naples and Sicilia could spare you men though they want money and many of their Nobles are willing to assist you but to come through the Grison passages it is a long and terrible iourney and to passe into Histria puls the Venetian Dust into their eyes The Swisse are very indifferent and for money will serue either party but considering their combination and confederacy with the Protestants I doe not see how they are to be trusted or relyed vpon In a word wee our selues are yours and yee shall haue our Men if we knewe which way our Money as it comes euery way our Prayers as true deuotion inciteth our Curses against your enemies as their Contentions increaseth our Priests amongst your Subiects as their affection decayeth our Pardon 's for your sinnes as holy Church instituteth and our Benediction for your busines as your affaires concurreth Onely bee patient and ouercome your disasters with wisdome For to that end were Vertues framed or else why doe we name Fortitude Magnanimity Patience Temperance and such like Concomitants of glory and blessednes Seeing then your case so stands and that Bohemia hath put a tricke of reuolt vpon you First grounding vpon some fundamentall positions of an Electiue Prouince making the world beleeue they haue a purpose to reduce it to her pristinate Gouernment Secondly relying vpon