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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69343	A report and discourse written by Roger Ascham, of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there	Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.	1570 (1570)	STC 830; ESTC S100282	38,134	76

you so vnfrendly to looke for so much from me But that you may know that I haue not bene altogether idle in this my absence and that I will not come home as one that can say nothing of that he hath sene and heard abroad I will homely and rudely yet not altogether disorderly part priuately vnto you such notes of affaires as I priuately marked for my selfe which I either felt and saw or learned in such place and of such persōs as had willes to seeke for and wayes to come by and wittes to way the greatest matters that were to be marked in all these affaires For no wieke almost hath past in the which there hath not commonly come to my hand for the most part of the notable thynges that haue bene attempted in Turky Hungary Italy Fraunce and Germany In declaryng to you these thyngs I will obserue onely the first two pointes of our wont communication that is to my writyng I will set forward nothyng that is false nor yet keepe backe any thyng that is true For I playing no part of no one side but littyng downe as indifferent looker on neither Imperiall nor Frēch but flat English do purpose with troth to report the matter And seyng I shall lyue vnder such a Prince as kyng Edward is and in such a countrey as Englād is I thanke God I shall haue neither neede to flatter the one side for profite nor cause to feare the other side for displeasure Therefore let my purpose of reportyng the troth as much content you as the meane handlyng of the matter may mislike you Yet speakyng thus much of trouth I meane not such a hid trouth as was onely in the brest of Monsieur d'Arras on the Emperours side or in Baron Hadeck on Duke Maurice side with whom and with on other of his counsell he onely conferred all his purposes three yeares before he brake out with the Emperour but I meane such a troth as by conference and common cōsent amongest all the Ambassadors and Agentes in this Court and other witty indifferent heades beside was generally conferred and agreed vpō What better cōmoditie to know the trouth any writer in Greeke Latine or other toung hath had I can not perceiue except onely Xenophon Caesar and Phillip Comines which two first worthy writers wrote their owne actes so wisely and so without all suspicion of parcialitie as no mā hetherto by mine opinion hath borne him selfe so vprightly in writyng the histories of others The thyrd hauyng in a maner the like oportunitie hath not deserued lyke commendations at least as I suppose Englād hath matter Englād hath mē furnished with all abilitie to write who if they would might bryng both lyke prayse vnto them selues like profite to others as these two noble mē haue done They lay for their excuse the lacke of leysure which is true in deede But if we cōsider the great affaires of Caesar we may iudge hee was worthy to winne all praise that was so willing wittie to winne such time when his head his handes night and day were euer most full would to God that these out mē as they are ready to prayse hym were euen as willyng to follow hym and so to wynne like prayse them selues And to keepe you no longer with my priuate talke from the matter it selfe I will begyn at the spryng of the matter from whence all these mischiefes dyd flow the which now hath so ouerflowed the most part of Christendome as God onely from heauen must make an end of this miserable tragedie wherein these two great Princes take such pleasure still to play In Religion libertie were sayd to be of many men the very causes of all these sturres yet in myne opinion as the matter it selfe shall well proue it vnkyndnes was the very sede whereof all these troubles dyd grow A Knight of England of worthy memorie for wit learnyng and experience old Syr Thomas Wiat wrote to his sonne that the greatest mischief amongest men and least punished is vnkyndnes the greatest mischief truly least punished also by any ordinary law sentence yet as I haue sene here by experience vnkyndnes hath so wrought with men as the meane were not affrayd to attempt their reuēge nor the Emperour able to withstand their displease Yea vnkyndnes was onely the hoke which Henry the French kyng hath vsed these late yeares to plucke from the Emperour and draw to hym selfe so many Princes and great cōmodities as he hath with this hoke bayted with money the bayte of all mischief the French kyng hath not ceased to angle at as many harts in Italy and Germany as he knew any matter of vnkyndnes to bee ministred vnto by the Emperour There be few Princes in all the Empire but if I had leysure I could particularly proue and when I come home in our priuate talke I wil fully declare that some good big matter of vnkindnes hath bene offred vnto them by the Emperour Yea Ferdinando his brother Maximilian his nephew and sonne in law the Dukes of Bauarie and Cleues which haue maried his nieces haue bene shrewdly touched therwith Also the Papisticall Byshops as Mentz Pamburge Herbipolis Saltzburge and diuers others haue felt their part herein Few Princes or states Protestantes or Papistes but haue bene troubled therwith But euen as a quaterne in the begynnyng is a wanderyng disease in the body vnknowne what it wil turne vnto and yet at last it draweth to certaine dayes houres euen so these grieues in the whole body of the Empire dyd first worke secretly and not appeare openly vntill this melancholy vnkyndnes did so swell in mens stomaches that at length in Insburgh it brast out into a shrewdsicknes whereof the first fit was felt to be so daūgerous that if the Emperour and we had not more spedely chaunged the ayre I am affrayed and sure I am we were wel affrayd then the sickenes would haue proued also to vs that were present with hym very contagious Well this grief growyng this to certaine fittes and I my selfe beyng not greatly greued at the hart with it but had leysure enough with small ieoperdy I thanke God to looke quietly vpon them that were sicke because I would not be idle amongst them I began dayly to note the workyng of this sickenes and namely from the xix of May. 1552. when we ranne from Insburgh till the first of next Ianuary whē the siege of Metz was abādoned Neuertheles before I come to these ordinary dayes I will shortly touch how the Emperour beyng in peace with all the world 1550. when we came to his Court had soone after so many enemyes as hee knew not which way to turne hym ¶ The Turke THe date of peace betwixt the Emperour and the Turke had to expire an .1551 The Emperour hearyng what preparation the Turke had made the yeare before for warre and specially by Sea which must needes be agaynst