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The Belgick souldier vvarre vvas a blessing.
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Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.
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1624
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to the dangers threatning her triumphs and although the souldiers played the fiery meteors on euery side with mischiefe and terror with afflicting the townes with exacting disbursements and other inconueniences of a cruell misery yet did the warre keep Bauaria Tilley Leopoldus and the Catholike Bishops in awe and might haue procured a blessing to the much humbled Prince Palatine if the Fox had not brought the Lion into a trance or if you will a labourinth For no sooner were the armies recalled and the Princes remoued but Bauaria for himselfe and Tilley for Bauaria ranne in fury to extinguish his brand of light and put out the glory of the Palatine So that I may well conclude Warre was a blessing and the dissemblings of peace haue with Iacobs subtiltie preuented Esau from Isacks benediction who once thought it meete that the first borne should haue the preheminence of being fortunate And thus for Germany Shall we step into France and that with easie paces to take the better suruey of those times and actions Beleeue it then the crueltie of persecution and variety of turmoiles haue dragged Religion by the haire and brought her out as forlorne and contemptible before the people of purpose to stone her as if Susanna had committed folly in Israel but those eyes that burned with reuenge vpon her approued innocencie were turned to compassion those hearts which murmured at her hypocrisie were leniated with a more iustifiable triable and those hands which had stones ready to dash out her braines returned them vpon her accusers and made them repent the warres and curse Spaine whose trechery and ambition onely weakned France by intestine combustions that France might not weaken Spaine by publicke hostilitie I will not deale with the French inventory nor make the long shadowes of story make you beleeue there is some ill lucke behinde you but that you may see how many worthy men have taken vp perspectives to shew the true harted French man a far off upon surmises of Spaines coadjutement or augmentation of his owne territories For the Spaniards would serve him as they once did the Duke of Calabria against Charles the fift to forsake him in his extremitie And when Francis the first sent an army to recover Nauarre and Fonteraby upon Spanish instigation in the tumultuous times of divers insurrections in Arragon and Castile the troubles were soone appeased and the French driven out of the Land But let vs come to the tripping Pheries of all times whereby Princes are seduced to flattery and priuate respect How hath Spaine delt with all Kings and their Minions ever since the Duke of Guises tyrannous Massacree at Vasti and that unfortunate marriage of Navarre and the cunning baites of the King of Spaines Pensioners in the Court of France which I am afraid are still so venemous to all Nations that they will corrupt the soundest hearts let there be never so great pollicy or conveniency at their admission What say you to the house of Loraine the Cardinall and Dukes of Guise What thinke you of the Duke De Maine and the Holy League Shall I name Hespernon and the advancing of his Family Shall I recount the fearefull story of Birone The life and death of the Marquis De Ancre The falls of Luisnes and Cadinet his Brother With divers other whose lives made France afraid and actions were so many tortures to the hearts of sollid Christians and loyall Protestants Were not all these the instruments of Spaines to keep France busied at home though fortune geered at the temerarious proceedings of the Princes against their owne subjects and divert the severall Kings from looking toward Navarre Millane Naples the succoring of the Switzers Grizons and those territories yea if you will the patronizing of the Palatinate it selfe which was once under the covert of the French confedracy Thus hath the cannon battered their owne townes and the mis-led Kings unsheathed their owne swords of vengeance to sheath them in the bowells of naturall and loyall subjects wherein yet they have prevailed no further then to increase an internall hate and jealousie against Rome Spaine the Inquisition Iesuites Priests and all the rablement of Locusts who like vermine in a standing stincking water infect the aire with fulsome and ill vapours If you reade the life of Henry the fourth you shall see how famous were his actions and remarkeable his renowne all the while the warres lasted insomuch that the attribute of greatnesse was made a Trophe of his everlasting fame and yet stood like an impregnable rocke against which the waues did rush impetuously but to the breaking of themselues in peeces but when peace was contracted his honour was distracted his Countrey defiled his Townes vitiated his faith violated his Preachers shed teares and Molines wept over him for temporizing his great officer Biron fell into the snare of perfidiousnesse the Protestants hung their heads for his luke-warmenesse the Papists gnashed their teeth for his pollices the newters feared him the Atheists abhored him his Wife dissembled and an Italian vpstart contrived his destruction as for his Sonne and his unlimited youthfulnesse that must needs cast a chain over the necks of Rochell Monpelier Montalbon Nismes Chartres and other Protestants Provinces and townes what did those attemps beget but the faire birth of increase of religion and firme opposition against unprincely cruelty and unnaturall enforcement and he went away affrighted at his owne handiworke and cursing the motives and setters on of his presumption which abated his malice and taught him to know there was a God aboue princes which could make the warre as a blessing to propagate trve Religion and augment the glory of the Church So that I may well say that peace to France proved like the Aspes of Ethiopea who doe not sting at all but by licking and tickling breake their bladders of poyson which from itches grow to ranckle the flesh til at last it exaestuates and by burning heates proves incurable Why then should we be afraid of warre or for any cause temporize with Gods enemies and a dangerous Nation for whose sake we have suffered the Palatinate to be lost and seene a Noble Prince dejected as if we were glad that by such courses there should no enuy be raised for his thriving in greatnesse or going to fast in his race of Soveraignitie and powerfull Majesty But I dare say that the Angel did cursse Meros for not assisting of Israel Concerning the Low Countries I cannot compare them better then to Camomile which the more it is troden the more it springeth For whether warre hath been a blessing unto them iudge your selues considering they haue augmented their fame and renown abroad and increased their wealth and territories at home Abroad the West Indies haue been frequented with their Navies and the stormes at seas are not so formidable to the mariners as their approches to the Spaniard insomuch that his plate Fleets are many times detained in harbour from their