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A09609	An humble petition offered to the right reuerend, honourable, and vvorshipfull estates of this present Parliament assembled ar [sic] Westminster Pallace wherein the wandring ghost of the late pyramis demolished lately in París, discourseth his hard fortunes, trauailes, and strange accidents to the new Brittaine monarchie, to whom he wisheth all peace, wealth, and prosperitie. Written by Philopatris, pittying his downfall, and perswading his new erecting, and building vp againe in Westminster.	Philopatris, fl. 1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 19884; ESTC S115283	18,010	50

leaues over he finds the whole discourse of my life which pondering to and fro in his mind he begins to looke on mee more nearly circumspectly the architecture of my stately building being yet fresh in his memorie he fell somwhat to blesse himselfe after to craue pardon of the oversight as hee said of his duty to me by whō he had receaved so many curtesies for his Country mē other strāgers while I stood aliue in credit with the great Princes Peeres of the Realm of France then both of thē with a laughing countenance striving which of them should first embrace welcom me were so astonished at my presence as they stood in doubt whither they should reioyce at my cōming over or lament for my exile and hard fortune I was fallen into But yet vpon better advise they reioyced rather that it had pleased the mightie Jehouah to bring me safe into this famous Island and that I had arrived in the best opportunitie that ever could haue beene wished affirming that Gods great and miraculous providence was so favourable vnto me that wheras my sworne cruell Esauiticall enemies hoped to haue triumphed in my late down-cast consequently haue buried me in everlasting oblivion they should now be frustrate of their vngodly hopes saying thus vnto me Be of good comfort renowned Pyramis thou shalt bee more welcome to this our newe Monarchie then were thy enemies to their home-caller and restorer and whereas thou wert permitted there to stande scarce the space of the fourth part of an age in thy glorious Trophee as a witnesse of two teeth strucken out of the mouth of the Lordes annointed and for preserving one King which their novice and parricide Chattell had intended to haue killed and for putting but one Kingdome in danger of forfaiture to the Pope their Creator which before in colour of a false presupposed right hee pretended he had given to the holy Leaguers and their coniured adherents by excommunicating that your sacred Monarch we doubt not but heere thou shalt shortly serue for a greater vse and more glorious end to bee erected as a witnesse and perpetuall Record of the wonderfull thrice happie deliverie of our great and sacred King the rarest most learned King that ever bare Scepter either in this Island or in any age present or past of his most gratious Queene that shall be by the loving favour of the Almightie the ioyfull and blessed mother of many Kings Queenes his tender deare sonne heire a Prince of the greatest hope of his age the rest of his royall Progenie all the reverend Bishops graue Counsailours and Iudges all the ancient Nobility Gentillity Burgesses chosen and deputed for Commissioners to a solemne Parliament and of many thousand moe that were attendant to that solemnity and of a number of forraine Embassadours if they had come thither as was supposed they should All these and many moe which were all in a moment to haue beene blowne vp by a false and cruell Foxe for so was his name sent forth out of some of the Popes dennes or rather Plutoes dungeons to kill rent and blow vp all the innocent simple sheepe of Christes Fold in this new established Monarchie at one blow This was one of the Popes Cannons that hath been making this yeare halfe by his finest most subtile-pated Artificers which he had hired for this horrible worke of his and this blow should haue beene given by such a small Cannon that was charged with no more then 34 great barrels of pouder and with 24 stone of gad Iron for her bullet All the thundring Cānons forged made in the bloudie Counsell of Trent were not so dangerous as this one was And yet true it is that a few of these Cannons of Trent blew vp in Paris in one night one morning tenne thousand people besides 20000 they blewe vp in other Townes a little after where one barrell of powder furnished all those Cannons But the greatest difference was this they there killed but thousands of poore Hugonets but heere they aymed their murdring shot against King Queene Prince Dukes Earles Barons Prelates Counsailours Iudges and Gentillitie of the Land there they preserved Houses Pallaces Chappels and Schooles but here they would haue blowne vp the most statelie buildings Churches Pallaces and Schooles that pertained to the Crown yea the treasure and Records of the Kingdome there they spoiled the living onely but heere they would haue burnt and blowne vp the sacred and dead bodies of the famous Kings Cōquerours Queenes Princes sleeping in their sumptuous Toombs as the rich and costly beds of their last honours they had heere vpon the earth There they imagined by killing of King Henry the third and wounding the fourth Henry to haue wrought the overthrow desolation of one ancient Kingdome but here of three severall most ancient and warlike Kingdomes of Christendome But having not leasure to stand on more particulers what shall I say to thee O thou thrice happy exiled Pyramis of these their never before invented cruelties Talia horret meminisse animus O this wicked treacherie and false periurie of theirs O cruell conspiracie and Graecian perfidie O Sathanicall enimitie more then Neronian crueltie O Scythian barbarity and Iudaisme infidelity O Gentilisme vanity more thē Heathenish impietie and finally O poysoned Papisticall idolatry of theirs proceeding frō their blind devilish devotion the ground of their abhominable hellish treasō The treacherous conspiracie of wicked Hāmon that he wrought against the Iewes to haue had them all killed in one day wheresoever they should be found in the vast Dominions of the great Monarch Assuerus is not cōparable to this Nor the crueltie of Mithridates who in one night a day killed thirtie thousand Romanes Nor the tyrannie of wicked Nero who killed his mother his master that burnt almost whole Rome the chiefe Citie of the world with a number of other cruelties that hee committed Nor the bloud-thirstie mind wicked desire to raigne of Caligula who wished the whole Senate and chiefe men of the Romane Empire to haue had but one necke that hee might haue strucken it off at one blowe Neither the secret and bloudie conspiracie of treacherous Catiline who had privilie plotted not onelie the death of the whole Senate and chiefe men of name in Rome but also had destinated the most of his owne kindred to that cruell slaughter Neither the damnable Sicilians evening sacrifices committed by them vpon the French men Nor the Mattens of Paris performed by the French themselues in massacring their owne Country men and dearest friends can in no degree be matched with this vnnaturall crueltie of theirs And which is most strange how it could be all this their whole pernitious detestable enterprise of our tyrannous Traytors and cruell bloud-sucking Papists that had been more then a yeare in hatching was so cunninglie secretly contrived

anie thing I perceaved betwixt mee and the skie beeing then the dawning of the day before Phoebus had sent abroade his rayes for the clearing of the ayre with vniuersall light the whole companie of the sacred Muses adorned with their ever flourishing greene Lawrel Garlands who holding in their hands sundry severall instruments of musique made the hils valleyes and groues to resound with their heavenly harmonie melodious Songs sweet sonnets and shrill Ecchoes of their learned Poeticall inventions in all languages and all this they did to signifie the exceeding ioy they had lately conceaved of the thrice happie deliverance of that their great friend darling favourer the most wise prudent learned mightie worthie and in all heroicall vertues and valour the most rare and great Apollo whom Mars that sterne God of bloudie battaile evermore envied and hated even to the death for no other cause as can bee coniectured or as I could learne out of their rare Ditties and Sonnets then onelie for that he was entred into a sincere league and sweete societie of the caelestiall Graces the devine Muses and sacred Peace whereto hee was preordayned at the verie houre of his nativitie and thereby and by meanes of the common tranquillitie thereof ensuing had brought and deduced from aboue into this little world from thence derived to all the most famous parts of the great world such manifold and exceeding rich gifts bounteous favours and invaluable benefits blessings as the like had either seldome or not at all beene enioyed in anie former age for which he was as he well deserved vniuersallie admired honoured and blessed over all And therfore the greater indignation boiled in the breast of angrie Mars who ever more grudging at humane felicitie left no meanes or waies vnsought or vnattēpted whereby to bring our great Patron Benefactor and consequentlie this little world to confusion And such was his innated hatred against him even when he was yet in his Mothers bellie knowing by the favourable aspects of Sol Venus that he should proue a most potent prudent wise blessed Prince of Peace beloved both of Gods mē that he this wicked Mars set on his cruell Sergeant the elder Gowrie to haue murdered that most noble Heroine the Queene his mother this blessed fruit of her womb at one stab And being prevented by divine providence of his malignitie in this his abhominable intention after manie other mischievous plots and practises all of them as all other shall ever be made frustrate by the high hand of iust Joue he conspired with that variable Aeolus GOD of the windes who either by faire meanes or sharpe menaces of anie great Power is lightlie wonne to worke the worst mischiefe he can to giue full scope and free licence to his turbulent and vnrulie windes at such time as our bright day-starre Apollo having accomplished the notable solemnitie of those famous nuptialls in the strong Dacian Kingdome the middle Region of Europa with his peerelesse Paragon of all rich perfection the divine Cynthia otherwise then by himselfe immatchable had imbarqued him with his most lovelie beloved above all other sailing from thence through the Ocean towards his ancient Kingdom the lesser Albion lying to the north of Albion maior now both by his Highnes happilie reduced to one Monarchie then was seene the boisterous rage of blustring Boreas and his rude companions domineering with might and maine vncontroled in Neptunes maine dominion but without that great Gods assent or knowledge as somtime by the like permission of their flexible Master Aeolus at the request of angrie Juno they practised the like peremptorie pranks vnwitting to Neptune vpon the vertuous and valorous Prince Aeneas in the Tyrrhene Seas So that colleaguing themselues with that great Sorceresse Circe and a great number of her most impious and detestable impes all practising to drowne and destroy our Apollo and his fairest Cynthia with all their noble traine as after vpon their conviction they freely confessed they sturdilie heaved tossed and tumbled the fearefull billowes hoysing one while his drearie ships vpon the high-raised waues almost to the azure skie and then throwing them downe againe as lowe as the foundations of the earth Yet notwithstanding all their furious tumults and violent commotions Almightie Joue whose name be therefore magnified for ever beholding this outragious tempest and knowing the wicked occasion thereof brought them safe and sound to their own desired continent Country Which when Mars vnderstood he stāped stared foming at the mouth and his eyes sparkling like fire for verie anger that his conspiracie prevailed not he fared like a mad man and vowing still to pursue him with immortall hatred swore by the black river of Stix that his day of Mars wheron he was born should ever proue the most fatall day of all other vnto him And for that purpose he combined himselfe with Pluto that dreadful Prince of Erebus who complotting together brought it so to passe vnder cunning pollicies and faire shewes of great matters that cōcerned his own person state and Kingdome to bring him by the earnest labour of one of his deare favourites to the dishonourable and disloyall house of the other Sergeant of Mars the younger last Gowry the bloudie nephew of a cruel trayterous Grandsire where having locked him vp in a close roome in the hands of their sworne friends his mortal enemies he had no way nor meanes to escape but even miraculously by his own stout manhood or rather Heroick magnamitie the succour of a few of his faithful servants but chiefly againe by the almightie providence of high Joue waiting over him at all times and places for his safeguard hee was also delivered out of that danger Then were Mars Pluto more enraged then ever before gnashing their teeth and cursing and banning the fiends and furies that had no more pollicie or power to accomplish their infernall plot they were almost at a point to haue giuen over anie lōger pursuit of their cōspiracies but that Pluto bethought himselfe of his deare son the red bloudy Dragon who throgh long continual practise for manie ages of all sorts of hellish stratagems horrible massacres blacke murders deceitfull lies and false miracles was growne to bee as much famed and feared in the world as himselfe so as it might be a question disputable in Schooles whether Sathan the roaring and devouring Lyon or his sonne the Pope that red bloudie Dragon was to be held for the greatest and chiefest lier and murtherer Pluto therefore crying out Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta mouebo they began to be recomforted in his deare sonne of their wicked hopes divellish drifts for the acting of their bloudie Tragedie as the last hope of all their mischiefes And so adioyning themselues to this other great enemie of mans welfare who was exceeding proude to haue the mannaging of that action referred to him wherein the Prince of Devils

had failed conceaued presently a more horrible plot then all the Stygian furies called together in a common Counsell could haue devised not onely against the sacred person life of Apollo but also his divine Cynthia and all their Godlike progenie all the Heroes Prelates Nobles Statesmen and chiefe Gentrie vnder his Domination all whom and manie moe by force of his invention he made sure account to haue destroyed vpon that ominous day of Mars with one blow of his fatall engine Which complot hee gaue in charge for the more suretie to certaine of his trustie Enginers the Esauiticall band whose charge profession and practise is nothing else but the vndermining and blowing vp of Princes great States and Kingdomes to see the same with all secret conveyance and diligence put in execution Never before was heard of the like inhumane stratagem though manie cunning cruell conspiracies proceeding from this terrible Dragon had often been attempted against our Apolloes Predecessour his most honoured and hallowed virgin sister the great mightie Diana whom hee most maliced and hated deadlie aboue anie other Potentate on the earth for that she as a most vertuous and couragious Princesse and Faiths valorous Championesse had not onelie given to him a wide dangerous wound that still still shall ever to his dying day put him to most grievous paine but also destroyed a great number of mischievous monsters that were conceaved and crept forth out of his foule mouth All his practises notwithstanding and though he did the verie worst he could could nothing prevaile against her most blessed life raigne state governement but that for 44 yeares together and vpward while she ruled the famous Kingdome of Albion maior to the high pleasure of Almighty Joue a more flourishing and blessed estate was there seene then was ever heard of in those times when divine Astraea lived and ruled among earthly men And in this meane time while as the Almightie God perceaving this earthly Kingdome of her most happie and gratious Maiestie to bee compassed and clogged with so many daily conspiracies and dangers and that her sacred person having by the due course of nature runne out ended the glasse of her thrice happie and most renowmed government than it pleased him in his great and loving favour and mercie most happily and peaceably without anie danger or disturbance to her well long governed Kingdomes to translate her hence to the highest Emperiall heaven there to live and raigne in the greatest glorie with his Angels to all eternitie Constituting in her place this our Apollo whom hee hath predestinated to vanquish and finally destroy this monstrous red Dragon whereby he shall purchase so much the greater glorie and immortall renowme to himselfe then did the olde Apollo by killing the huge serpent Python by how much this Dragon is a thousand folde more great virulent violent terrible strong and horrible then that was This is the great cause indeede why Mars fretteth Pluto fumeth the Dragon rageth and all iointlie conioyne and conspire with all their forces against the life and state of Apollo for whose most happie preservation from all their intended mischiefes the melodious Muses sang Jo Pean with manie heavenlie notes sweeter farre then the concentfull harmonie of the sphericall Orbes full of ioy and tryumph But reserving the residue of the rarest and secretest matter of their divine songs vntill I shall see the end of my travailes I will briefelie shewe what further befell mee Thus being heereby somewhat more confirmed of the trueth of so woonderfull newes and advauncing my steps forward to see the end and successe of these strange incounters I cast my sleepie eyes here there the day being all spent and blacke and raynie clouds covering the bright starres in the firmament when loe in an instant there appeared to me as it were Vulcan in fierie sparkes shining flames of great burning fires environing me on all parts where I went I misdoubting at first that Vulcan and Pluto had conspired the burning of the whole Island I was entred into resolved with my selfe if it were possible to returne and escape so great and imminent a danger But being soone advertised that the matter was nothing so as I supposed but that these fires were kindled onlie for ioy according to the commendable custome of this Island when any good newes happeneth to the State or Countrie Behold I was no sooner rid of this feare and perplexitie but that I might see three severall Currors of sundrie nations as appeared by their cognizances on their brest going for France Spaine and Jtalie and seemed to bee verie passionate and sad by their countenance and cariage whither it were for the ill successe of the plot then discovered or for that they feared the passages were all stopt so as they could not giue the first advertisement to their Maisters I leaue them to your good and friendly consideration great Brittaine who can better iudge in their matters and tell by the Weathercocke what quarter the wind holdeth thē I poore Pilgrime Yet thus farre I can say of them that their courtesie and favour was such to me a poore stranger that they could not afford me one Aue but making sighes and crosses vpon their faces and breasts looked and beckened so on me as to a Hugonet But I sore fearing that they had beene Sergeants at armes sent after me for my apprehension where soever they might finde me was glad to make a low curtsie and passe by them with as much speed as my wearie feet could carie mee and having posted a mile further without once looking backe It was my good hap to meete with two English Postes bearing the red rampant Lyon on their brests who were so full of indignation as that after my double salutations they could not for anger speake vnto me and shewing a sad sorrowfull countenance whither it were that the stranger Postes had got the start of them or fearing that thorough favour they might get passage before them to carrie the first newes to their Maisters and other forraine Princes or for what other cause I know not nor was it fit for me being a stranger and a bannished Pilgrime to be nimis curiosus in aliena republica Yet staying and viewing one another more nearlie I began to remēber my selfe that I had seene these two English Postes oftentimes not onely passe by me in their going to the Pallace of Paris but that they had bin also accustomed theretofore in pointing out their fingers to me as to a rare myracle to shew to their Coūtrie men newly come over my whole Genealogie birth memorable storie And on the other side one of thē being well travaild in all Countries by his imployment in the service of the late renowned Queene your Ladie given withall to the observations of antiquities abroad drew out his bookes of those matters which hee ever caried about him into forraine parts and turning the