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A20435	The coppie of the Anti-Spaniard made at Paris by a French man, a Catholique. Wherein is directly proued how the Spanish King is the onely cause of all the troubles in France. Translated out of French into English.; Coppie de l'Anti-Espagnol. English.	Arnauld, Antoine, 1560-1619, attributed name.; Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1590 (1590)	STC 684.5; ESTC S120875	29,822	46

now passe we must strik home at the head the blow is mortall Sée howe the English men haue already pearsed euen the very life-vaines of his golden vent in a maner clean shut him out of the sea He durst not before Lisbone wals stand to fight with Norris the general of a small English armie how wil he then dare to encounter a mightie King of France a Prince of so great puissance he durst not once assaile the English infantery how wil he then be able to withstand and escape the furie of the French Cauallerie backt and fortified with all the forces of the Countries and Prouinces that are on this side of him Chéere vp your selues adde will vnto your courage the true adopted children of Bellona let not the dreade of our King kéepe anie of you backe the gates of his clemencie stand wide open for to receiue all his mercie is mightie his grace is greater in forgiuing then our gracelesnes hath bin guiltie in offending Yea beholde he holdeth out his royall hand vnto vs all he is our Father our naturall and lawfull Father wée are all his children but if we shew coldnes in confessing him if we despise his bountie if wee mocke his mildnes miserable wretches what can wee expect but the sharpe effectes of the rodde of his indignation as the rightful and deserued reward of our execrable offences that our iust suffering may serue for others example Yet if we can take no pitty of our selues let vs at least haue some compassion of our wiues and children whose condition is so much the more miserable by how much they haue yet no féeling of their miseries Well let it now yea euen now appeare if in vs there be yet remayning anie relique of true French men let the desire of preseruing our libertie and the hatefull apprehension of such miserable feruitude cleane wash out of our memorie the remembrance of our fore-conceiued and priuate quarrels and let vs burie our olde broyles and ciuil dissention in the entire affection of our deare Countrie There are now no more nor any other factions but the French and Spanish Oh omnipotent God that hast euer held the eyes of thy commiseration open to France and hast euer plentiously filled her with thy bountifull blessings It is now yea verie now that we haue néede of thy heauenly helpe and aboue all that it will please thée to giue sight vnto our sealed eyen that we may haue power to perceiue and discerne our true enimies what the Spaniarde is what his gouernment what his pretence to our poore desolate and oppressed Countrie Good Lord leaue vs not now in the exigent of our extremitie being vpon the point eyther presently to precipitate our selues into euerlasting bondage or prosperously to purchase our eternall fréedome Assist our King protect our Princes animate our nobles strengthen our souldiers send thy holy Angels to aide them inspire them with an ardent zeale to maintain thy quarrell let theyr foreheads be fraught with fearefulnesse and theyr armes filled with force Comfort this consanguinitie continue to lighten with thy grace this line of that holy Lewes that holy Saint that ceaseth not to pray vnto thée for his posteritie that thou wilt not blot them out of thy booke of lyfe that thou wilt not take from them the comfort of thy countenance that thou wilt not destroye them that thou wilt not put in theyr place theyr enemie the enemie of theyr forefathers but rather that thou wilt be pleased to preserue vnto his posteritie the inheritance of his patrimonie and restore his France to her former prosperitie to the ende that after we shall haue subiected to the yoke of our gouernment those that threaten vs with the rod of their vsurping rule we may take in hand the accomplishment of his holy vowes and the pursuite of his religious warres agaynst the Infidels vnder the conduct of this Christian Conquerour Henrie his eldest sonne who is borne to aduance the honour of his house and for euer to eternize the name of the French and that the auri-flame now ioyned with the Eagle may be the guiding of so great a King so Augustius an Emperour ouerthrowe the Ensignes of that proude Mahomet and free thy people from captiuitie who faythfully affying to thy neuer failing promises haue long attended the comming of that happie daie An extract of the Spanishe Kings declaration which hee sent to the Princes of France and others the partakers of the Catholique Religion against the Heretiques of that Countrey their fauourers and adherents THe Catholique King now growen old and crazed contenteth him selfe with such kingdomes dukedomes and seigneuries as are at this present vnder his obeisance neither hath his Maiesty any need of that of France But forasmuch as hee séeth the kingdome of Fraunce afflicted with Heretiques whome the Catholiques of that Countrey albeit they be in nomber twelue to one are not able to master his Highnes hath alwayes offered him selfe to succor and assiste them and in deede hath both in theyr first and second troubles ayded and assisted them as well with men as with money without intention to receiue any recompence in lew thereof All which notwithstanding they haue alwaies couertly maintained wars against him as well in Flanders as Portingal whereof neuertheles he hath neuer bin willing to take reuenge nor euer would consent to frame any thing againste Fraunce since the peace concluded betwixt them Hereafter follow the conditions demaunded by the Catholiques of France and by hys Maiesty assented vnto 1 First that his Highnes shall haue the title of Protector of the Realme and Croune of France and the Cardinall of Bourbon to remain their King whom his Maiesty shal helpe to deliuer out of captiuity and cause to be consecrated King 2 That his Maiesty may if he please mary one of his daughters to one of the Princes of the bloud of France who after the disease of the said Lord Cardinall shal be crowned King and in respect of such mariage to be had his Highnes shall giue the counties of Flanders and Burgundy to bee ioyned and vnited to the Realme of France 3 That the ministers of the Gallicane church shalbe reformed according to the counsell of Trent 4 That no Spaniard shalbe endowed with any benefice or beare iudiciall office in this Realm nor be admitted to the gouernement of any townes or bordering places 5 That the offices of iustice shall not be made mercenary but be fréely bestowed vppon good and honest persons such as shall haue bestowed theyr time in study and in the practise of the bar 6 But as for such as not being answerable to these sayde conditions shall haue already purchased any such places of dignity or office being men of behauiour and Catholiques in regard that they haue paide for them and many of them yet owe rents and fines for the same It shalbe lawfull for them at this time to resigne vnto others that shalbe capable of them being Catholiques and men learned and of good and honest reputation who afterwards néede not make any other resignation 7 That his Maiesty shall make a banke or stock of two millions of gold to be kept in Paris and employed for the paiment of the arrerages of the rents of the chamber of the Citty and that his saide Maiesty shall at his proper cost and charges and with that which it shall please our holy father the Pope to contribuite entretain the warres that now we haue in hand 8 And as for tallage money and impositions that to bee reserued and employed towards the paiments of the debts of the Crowne and not to any other vse and the debts once discharged the said impositions to be remitted except onely one tallage wherewith shalbe entertayned a certaine number of men of warre as well horsemen as footemen for the gard and conseruation of the Realme 9 That from hence forth the souldiers of the Kings ordinaunces shalbe gentlemen and shall make their musters and receiue theyr pay quarterly as well in time of peace as warre 10 That the French men shall haue frée liberty to commerce and haue recourse of trafique and negotiation to the lands of Peru and other the new conquered countries of hys Maiesty with frée election either to associate with the Spaniards and Portingalls or if they thinke good to saile alone by them selues By vertue of the articles here aboue agréed on his Highnes for a beginning of the sayd stocke or bank of two millions of gold hath caused already to bee deliuered into the City of Paris the sum of foure hundreth thousand crownes FINIS

if the one would vsurpe ouer the other who should procure an agréement betwéene them Oh rare imaginations Is it possible the world should haue two Sunnes or one Estate two Soueraines And if it be néedfull as in déed it is most necessarie that the one should be vnder the other whether in reasonable sence is likely to be the greater commander the Preseruour or Protector or he who shadowed and protected vnder a greater power then his owne Alas doth he not alreadie by these articles take vpon him the name of his Maiestie without any addition thereunto What difference is there betwéene the name of Maiestie and King but that the first is a name of greater pride and more arrogancie Let vs say if so much liberty be left vnto vs and that we be not already become his slaues let vs boldly say that which euery man doth know That the King of Spaine will be our maister for a time vnder the name of Maiestie and of Protector enterchaungeably but in the end for euer vnder the name of King He will haue his Lieutenant or Uiceroy of Fraunce as he hath of Naples and for a while he will vse them that presently aide and assist him to serue his owne turne but at last destroy or at least banish them fearing least they will not humbly enough obey him in Fraunce and then shall we haue a Don Ferdinando amongst vs as well as his other subiects it is expedient that we speake thus boldly Haue we not beene long enough deluded with these fantasies haue we not often beene told that in sooth there is some intelligence and entercourse of dealing with y e Spaniard but not of such consequence as some imagine peraduenture he expects and that is necessarie to retaine him in expectation of some great good but that in the end he is vndoubtedly to be deceiued forasmuch as he knowes not how to make his owne bargain and take good assuraunce of vs Is it not a good while since the state of France is secretly bought and solde especially at this present time when with all manner of open hostilitie it is suriously assaulted Must wee still dissemble and hide the cause of our miserie or rather must we néedes please our owne humours therein seduced with a vaine hope of coine and siluer As though anie thing could happen more miserable to a minde of anie courage and valor then to be enforced euen to sell himselfe for méere want and penurie Are we so poore and néedie Here let me aske a question or two what is become of those great and infinte summes of mony which not long since were founde in many houses of this Citie Where are those huge summes that were leuied of so many ransomes lones beneuolences and imprests where was that money imployed which was made of the sale of all our plate of all our chaines and of all our iewels Is the greatest parte thereof transported out of the Realme Haue not certaine as it were hunger staruen pesants and gréedie varlets so enriched themselues with the remainder that they are now as demie Princes Haue not some of them so sumptuously adorned themselues therewith that they iet it vp and downe rather lyke new married bridegromes then souldiers sit for the field Haue not many of our best and richest widdowes of Roane and Paris bene seduced and beguiled with some part of it In conclusion haue our treasuries beene so well managed and our reuenues so well husbanded that for néede and pouertie we should in the end be inforced to seeke vs new Maisters Was this the reason that Roland our Treasurer could neuer be brought to anie account for feare we should sée the infinite yea bottomlesse depth of our reuenues and therewithall perceiue that it is not in the power of the Spaniard to furnish vs with the twentéeth parte of such and so great summes Alas good man where shoulde he leauie so great store of siluer Are we ignorant howe before he lost his great fléete foolishly by him baptised the Inuincible of which long before we sawe so many arrogant Catologues both written and printed whose miserable slaues wée afterwards receiued into our portes permitted them in pitty to be reléeued by begging from doore to doore he brake and was banquerout with his creditours of Genoua But shall we better discouer and make his penurie more manifest Let vs sell our selues to him séeing we desire it so much alwayes prouided that without faile he make vs readie paiment not posting vs ouer with bonds promises delayes and Spanish bragges for if we be once his seruants what action may we haue against our maister What plea may we commence against him Shall our purse be at his commandement or his at our disposition Let vs resigne all these fertile fieldes vnto him these beautifull riuers let vs deliuer al these strong and mightie townes vnto him these goodly and stately buildings To conclude let vs surrender all France vnto him which is the verie eie and beautie of the world and that for nothing Let vs fréely and frankly giue him all the riches and treasures that are contained therein Let vs giue him our wiues our childen and whatsoeuer els wee haue and all for nothing oh griefe and intollerable misery to think vpon let him buy nothing but our selues and that at the lowest price And the chepest rate that may be so that he make readie payment Let him disburse but twentie millions of golde for all vs all which will not amount to ten crownes a man But what speake I of twentie millions of gold it béeing so farre from his meaning who neuer intended to giue vs one hundreth thousand crownes Oh how long is it since we are bought sold but no paiment made yet onely two thirtie thousand crownes excepted which lately he deliuered to those sixtéene théeues and that onely to solicite and hasten our deliuerie But where I beséech you shall he leauie so many millions of golde where shal he haue so much mony are they as easie to be found as promised As though wée knowe not that the rebellions of the lowe Countries haue cost him as much golde as euer he receiued from the mines of Peru when he drew them driest Or when he ransacked the whole country murthering aboue two millions of those poore naked and innocent Indians on whome he committed all the execrable cruelties that either antiquitie could inuent or the time present deuise The historie whereof printed in the yere 1584. was wholy smothered by meanes of the Iesuits who buying vp al the copies y t were extant caused y t it shuld be forbidden to be printed any more Oh braue butchers whose fingers ends itch to try whether the French that doth not sufficiently humble himselfe before you will proue so abiect and so base as those poore and naked sauage Indians But rauenous tygers that you are you are not yet come to that passe knowe you not that you must confront so

agoe This goodly King Phillip this iolly King Protector is not he the sonne of Charles the fifth that sworne and mortall enemie of our fathers which agaynst all right and Christianitie did kindle those two bronds in Picardie and in Prouence a thing the Turke nor the Scithian would neuer haue attempted that set a ranseme of thrée millions of golde vppon vs Which huge summe we haue euer since felt and yet to our common griefe doe féele Who framed all his driftes and contriued all his desseines vppon the ruine and ouerthrowe of our poore France Which purposes and intents hee hath by his latter Testament bequeathed vnto his sonne Phillip O you noble Maeedonians that wept for ioy when you sawe your Alexander sitting in Darius chaire and felte no other discontent but y t your forefathers might not participat your great Coment O most miserable as we are we go about to place Darius in Alexanders chayre to enstal the Spaniard in the royall Throne of France and lodge King Phillip in the Louure Francis the first O Henrie the second our good Kings rise vp leaue your graues for a while Doe you not sée your mortal professed enemy prepare himselfe to occupy and vsurpe your Estate your Crowne your Citie of Paris your Pallace your Louure Who by his Embassador alredy taketh the possession therof Do not you perceiue how he goeth about to insult and triumph ouer your graues and to violate and breake the same as he hath alreadie done that of your Constable Be ye well assured that hee who hath so villainously brought your two last children the verie and liuely images of your selues to theyr longest home will neuer parden your Statues of Marble O worthie and noble minded Phillip Prince of Spain although fortune hath not aduanced thée to be Emperor as thy Father was yet hast thou gone beyond him far in his valiant exploits to consume and extinguish our noble Princes of France He neuer durst imploy any other poison but that of his de monte Cucullo that was executed at Lions And yet not withstanding left vs one of our great king Frances his thrée children But thou hast with thy valor vtterly rooted out al the race of them for the performance whereof thou hast vnto the secrete poyson of thy Salcedes by meanes of thine Embassador added and imployed the poysoned knife of a damned Iacobine But why shoulde he spare them vnder the colour of méere allyance Hath not he most vnnaturally caused his owne wife theyr proper sister to bee poysoned and his naturall eldest sonne to be strangled Courage then O noble Frenchmen adde valour to your strength and valyantly take armes in hand for to follow the iust lawful and euer victorious armes of our great Henrie whom God hath euen frō aboue chosen for to reuenge the bloud of the Valois so traiterously spilt and which continuallie craues iustice at his handes Why doe you followe so brauely the Standarde ofithat but cherlie homicide of your Princes Why doe you followe the colours of that empoysoner and hereditarie murtherer of the house of France Will you put your selues euen in the mouth of the Cannon of your King Will you besprinkle France with your blood that in the ende it may become all Spanish Or will you but keepe some portion of it for the Infant of Spaine And good reason because shee is the eldest and that her youngest sister hath alreadie the Marguisate of Saluzzo strong Salluzzo that footing and holde-fast which wée had left in Italie and that hath béene giuen hir for the increase of her dowrie which was the Arsenall and Store-house of munition that our Kings had beyonde the mountains wherin were more then four hundreth péeces of ordinance which Arsenall made al things tremble vnder the name of France which made the strongest walls to stoupe and fall before it that Arsenall which had already danted the chiefest rampard or hould which the Spaniard had in Italy against the strength of France and which wee helde as a meane and gage forto recouer ere long both Naples and Millane again Alas poor France what potion hath so depriued thée of thy sences that thou dost not féel how by litle and little thou art disabled and disarmed that thy weapones are taken frō thée that thou art tied in chains with purpose to be cast into a galey ther miserably to perish and die vnder the stripes and cruelty of thine enemies and if thou haue any féeling sence or sight oh my poore Fraunce what charmes haue so besotted thy spirites or what illusions haue so dazeled thée that thou darest seeke thy wellfare and protection among those which gape and seeke for nothing els so much as thine ouerthrowe and vtter ruine who like false traitours that they may the better and with more ease yoke and at theyr pleasure binde thee hand and foote doe daily whisper thee in the eare that when thou please thou shalt be frée again and whensoeuer thou wilt thou shalt be able to expell and chase the Spaniard out of Fraunce as if a man could by any examples proue that euer they would or coulde be remoued from any place where once they haue had footing as if they could not erect Citadels great and stately Citadels cimented with the bloud and built with the goods and wealth of the poore people and Citizens as though they were to learne how to tirannise in all Cittyes with theyr blood-thirsty garisons and to affright poore men with the erecting of so many gibbets wheeles and scaffoldes with which they keepe men in such awe that none dare so much as frowne vppon them those of Portingall of Naples of Millane and of Flanders can with griefe and experience witnes what I say but to come nearer home what is hee amongst vs that dares be so bold as to say aloude in the Greue of Paris that he is no Spaniard but a true French man and escape present hanging ipso facto for an Heretique and hainous offendour against the lawes of God and man all these robbers all these spoilers all these bloud-suckers and destroyers of christians these sixteene Caualieros and their adherents which liue but by the spoile of vs which glutte themselues with our bloud euen our hart blood are they not the ministers and officers of the Spanish tiranny Ministers as yet but weake officers as yet but easye to be withstood and punished for their faults if there were any sparke of y t auncient corage of France remaining in vs but alas if we so fondly suffer our selues to be enueagled and luld a sleepe with their superficiall faire wordes which wée haue payd full deare and ready money for what griefe and harts-sorrowe shall we feele when we shall wake and rise out of our slomber againe when we shall finde our selues fast chained and hembd in roūd about so that we shal not be able to stir no not so much as complaine when we shal feel the proud Castillians