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majesty_n	call_v	captain_n	master_n	4,434	5	10.4502	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18742	A lamentable, and pitifull description, of the wofull warres in Flaunders, since the foure last yeares of the Emperor Charles the fifth his raigne With a briefe rehearsall of many things done since that season, vntill this present yeare, and death of Don Iohn. Written by Thomas Churchyarde Gentleman.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1578 (1578)	STC 5239; ESTC S105019	41,870	76

Gētleman of Scorl●…d named Captayne Bassorde lying in a village with his regiment of Scottishmen had suche a hande ouer the Spanyards as they no whit liked and yet they assaulted the Scottishmen whiche at that time were but ill prouided All this season and a long whyle before was the right Honorable Maister Doctor Wilson now Secretary to the Quéenes Maiestie Lorde Embassador in Flanders and two seuer all times was sent in Embassage thither at that time the Captayne of the I le of VVight called Mayster Edward Horssey for to make peace and for suche causes as pleased our Prince Embassadors were sente thither from the Emperoure and from the Electors and States of Germany and in long debating of matters to the which the Bishop of Leeg came a great Segnior and stoute Prelate a peace was concluded and for the ioy thereof I saw a generall Procession in Bruzels where all the Embassadors and States were sauing the Embassador of Englande and all the Nobilitie of Flaunders whiche made such a shewe and reached suche a length in the stréetes and tarried so long there as was a wonder to beholde and the strangest viewe that hadde bin séene in that place many yeares before the number of Gentlemen was so great and the commō people so many But all this reioycing turned to woe lamentatiō within a short term after for whē the Spaniards wer gone there ●…ell out such matter betwéene the States and Don Iohn that the Spaniards came agayne but not to Antwerp for that the States had politikely possessed many other Townes before of great importance strength and Don Iohn and his people were assembled in Namure much businesse was set abroche betwéene these two sides after Don Iohn had bin triūphātly receiued into Bruzels and either of these parties armed thēselues wrought for their aduātage what pleased best their fancies some sending into Spaine some sending otherwhere the necessitie of both their causes so required the troublous time they felt enforced those causes The estates nowe beganne to leane to the Prince of Orange and deale throughly and playnely with him whyche was a greate strength vnto them and an occasion to reforme the rest of the nobilitie to drawe one kinde of way if they determined to withstande Don Iohn as they made shew they would But some that made promise there vnto brake suddayncly and turned to Don Iohn who was leauying of a power to inuade Flaunders and had togither both footemen and Horsemen a very gallante company and those were auntient and perfite Souldioures that had serued many yeares in great aduentures and hazards And to speake as the common fame wente and right wise and noble men did report Don Iohn for his owne person was a wise and most famous noble man that well was worthie for many good partes in him to haue had the leading of a Camp as great as King Alexanders army of Macedonie whose men of warre were at the conquering of most parte of the worlde Thus was Don Iohn and his power in a manner readie to marche and lay aboute Namure to tarrie the comming of some such bands of Horsemen as he looked for and be fully furnished of such things as he wanted The States had in like sorte assembled a very great armie and were as readie to marche as occasion fell out and knowing that their enimies must haue much adoe before they could winne any Towne of credite the States determined to wéerie Don Iohn and so by policie and practise to striue with him rather than with playne force and fight to encounter him for their mightie walled Townes were a great blocke in Don Iohns way whiche neyther coulde bée wonne by their enimies nor yet well could be beséeged but that the States hadde a meane to aide the Townes and power ynough to rayse the seege and could at any aduantage giue Don Iohn battell without whiche aduantage it were no wisedome to deale with a strong and stout enimie And on that resolution stande the noblest Souldioures now liuing And woulde to God that towardly Prince and good Gentleman the King of Portingall had stoode on that poynte whiche shall be spoken of in another matter God sparing me life But now to my purpose I procéede But as the States looked to take Don Iohn at aduantage or awéerie him and his Souldioures with long warres and much labour Don Iohn and his company were so well experimented with paynes and accustomed so often to suffer the miserie of warres that they had such able mindes and bodies to endure and beare off the burthen of aduersitie that the states should not easily that way haue had their willes ouer them although that the Spanyardes by long rest and delicacie of Flaunders were become some what slouthfull and effeminate yet are they of such courage and complexion when force doth compell them to trudge to toyle that straightwayes theyr nature is conuerted to their old maner and custome and they coulde for a néede frame themselues to a new trade of trauell Whiche shewes them as well armed within their mindes where the man is beste knowen as clad and defenced without where nothing is good if the minde set it not forwarde and maintaine it to the vttermost And the opinion of some souldiers is both at home and abroade that who so euer is daintie and vnseasoned and can not martch in hardnesse without a bagge and a bottle were better be by a warme fire thā in a cold field will do more harme in a little péece of béefe than he cā to good in a great battaile he is so loaded with his trinkets mindes so much his meat And although in a splene I haue spoken of the Spaniard yet no other than he deserues so haue I séene both Frenchman and Borgonyon and somé of our owne nation besydes that in the féelde are more gréedy of glorie than hungry in the house when a banquet is on the table I must leaue off this spéech and follow another humor So Don Iohn the states as you haue heard deuised how the one might deceiue the other and yet neyther of them both ventured further than good occasion commanded them And in this colde kind of seruice the souldiours remayned amyd the heate of Sommer a long season till Don Iohns power began to bidde the bace and by a great mischaunce tooke the power of the states at aduantage and slewe some of them and hadde the reste in chace as farre as they durste followe and so that byckering ended The states vpon this little ouerthrow wherin the Scottish bands had the most hurt attended both horsemen and footemen out of Germanie gaue Don Iohn leaue a while to march about a péece of the Countrey minding as soone as the Cassemeer came down to goe to the fielde agayne And in the mean time the states put their people in garrisons Their enemies hauing a little leasure romth giuen thē more for some