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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13109	The discouerie of a gaping gulf vvhereinto England is like to be swallovved by another French mariage, if the Lord forbid not the banes, by letting her Maiestie see the sin and punishment thereof	Stubbes, John, 1543-1591.	1579 (1579)	STC 23400; ESTC S117921	68,725	88

THE DISCOVERIE OF A GAPING GVLF VVHEREINTO ENGLAND IS LIKE TO BE SWALLOvved by an other French mariage if the Lord forbid not the banes by letting her Maiestie see the sin and punishment thereof Saue Lord let the King here vs in the day that vve call Psal. 20. verse 9. Mense Augusti Anno. 1579. IN all delibrations of moste priuate actions the very heathen are wont first to consider honesty and then profit Some of theÌ„ also many times not without some blind regard to a certain diuine nature which they vvorshipped before the altar of the vnknovven god Oh the strange Christianity of some men in our age vvho in their state consultations haue not so much respecte to Pietie as those first men had to honesty nor so much regarde to honestie as they had to profit are therfore iustly giuen vp of the Lord our God to seeke profit vvhere in deed it is not and deceiued by theyr lusts to embrace a shewing false Good in stead of that vvhich is the good End of a vvise man Yea vvho neglecting the holy and sure vvisedome of God in his vvord vvherein are the onely honorable enstructions for polytyques and honestest rules of gouering our houses and ovvne person do beate their braines in other bookes of vvicked vile Atheistes and sette before them the example of Turkish and Italian practises wherby the Lorde many times thrustes theyr hands into the neste of vvaspes and hornets vvhile they seek the hony of the svvete bee Thys sicknes of mynd haue the french dravven from those Easteern partes of the vvorld as they did that other horrible disease of the body and hauing alreadie too far VVestvvard communicated the one contagion doe novv seeke notably to infecte our minds vvith the other And because this infection spreeds it selfe after an other maner from the first they haue sent vs hither not Satan in body of a serpent but the old serpent in shape of a maÌ„ vvhos sting is in his mouth and vvho doth his endeuour to seduce our Eue that shee and vve may lose this Englishe Paradise VVho because she is also our Adam soueraigne Lord or lordly Lady of this Land it is so much the more daungerous therfore he so much the more busily bestirres him Novv although the truth be that vppon further ripping vp of this serpentine attempt vve shall find the Church notably vnder mined by the Pope the verye foundations of our common vveall dangerously digged at by the french our deere Queene Elizabeth I shake to speake ledd blyndfold as a poore Lambe to the slaughter yet should not my feare be so great knovving her Maiesties vvisedome sufficient to teach her in such a matter as this neither to trovv a Frenche man nor once here speake a dayly hearer of masse for she may knovv him by his hissing and lisping but that some English mouthes professing Christ are also persvvaders of the same And though this ship fraughte vvyth Englands bane vvere already vndercrossed saile vvith the freshest gale of winde in her sterne that can blovv in the skye for our best port yet had vve counter puffes and counterbuffes ynough to keepe him aloofe and to send him backe againe into the deepes if he had none but onely french maryners and onely french tackle But alas this ship of vnhappy loade hath emong vs of our selues I vvould not in Princes Court those vvho with all theyr might and maine helpe to hale it in and as though the blustring vvindes of our enemies malice and the broade sayles of our sins were not sufficient to giue it a speedy passage hither our ovvne men vvalke on thys shoare and lay to theyr shoulders with fastened lynes and cables to draw it in This is our mischiefe thys is the swallowing Gulfe of our bottomles destruction els myght vve thinke our selues impregnable It is not the feeble assault of this carpet squire that vvold make vs come to the vvalles or once shut the gates against him Therefore albeit I wote vvell you vnderstand already in generall what is that great calamitie thus imminent ouer our heades whereof I speake and albeit the bare consideration of some fevv apparant circuÌ„stances of thys strange sought mariage by Fraunce vvith England do suffyciently moue and affecte euerye Christian hart in respect of the hurt to the Church of Christ euery English hart in respect of the detriment to England and euery honest affectionate hart of anye her maiesties louing true seruant in regard of the greate daunger thereby comming to her royall Person yet to th ende our mindes may be the more earnestlye stirred vp by more particularly vveighing the euills of this matter vve vvill enter into the partes of thys practise and gage the verye bellye of this great horse of hidden mischiefes falshoode meant to vs And according as those not halfe taughte Christians and halfe harted Englishmen vvhiche persvvade and sollicite thys french mariage haue in theyr mouthes nothing but the churche and common weale pretending hereby eyther against their own conscience or of some other humor that blindeth them to bring greate aduauncement to religion and aduauntage to the state vvith many smooth wordes of I wot vvhat assurance to her maiesties person I will likewise dravv al my reasons to those chiefe heads of Religion and the Pollicie shevving prouing I hope that this is a counsaile against the Church of Christ an endeuor of no vvell aduised Englishman as vvell in regard of the commoÌ„ state as of her maiesties good estate to euery of which it is pernitious and capitall In the ende I vvill aunsvvere such of they re aduerse or peruerse reasons as shall be lefte vndisproued in thys my proofe And first if a man vvould here bring in the Church to speake for her selfe standing vpon the doctrine of her Prophetes and Christ the Lord leaning vpon the piller of truth vvhose crovvne and garlond is to suffer rather then to vse any vayne helpe of maÌ„ against Gods lavve mild thoughe she be without all gale in her hart and haue no vvords in her hony swete mouth but of a most louing mother yet vvould she with sharpe reproofe take vp these goodly procurers of her vvelth as very practisers of her vvoe she vvoulde call them to account vvhy they take her holy name in their mouthes and she vvould scarce repute them for her chyldren vvho vvill nedes forsoth be her fathers for to reason vvith these Politiques in their ovvne professyon can they thinke anye counsaile holesome to the state or becomming good counsailours which can not be once deliberated of much les put in execution without both despising of the Prince and contemptuous breach of the country lavves they must needes say noe if they haue any sincerity or playne dealing left at least they wyll saye nay for feare And think they that any their vayneglorious deuise can proue to the lyfe or health of the church which is offered her with shamefull

occasion to shew the strange aunswer that is made thereunto by these persvvaders who in theyr common discourse and talke for this mariage obiecting a gainst themselues this danger of his absence doe yet agayn bring in K. Phillip as theyr example that Monsieur need not be long absent from his wife no more then vvas K. Phillip First all that they can say herein is that he neede not belong absent Then can vve say that thys K. Phillip was so long away that his absence pinched Qu. Maries hart and killed hir with vnkindnes But in deed I feare not this inconuenient for his being chosen king any vvhere One head reason yet remaines which perhaps you think long for and me thinks I haue sayd nothing in this last part till I haue vsed it That is the danger to her maiesties person many wayes namely and aboue the rest lest this should be but a frandulent se king of hir by him the more easely to possesse an other afterward Of which meaning there is such apparant presumption and the great peril ensuing hath such euidence of being ineuitable as we may not rest in the credulous security of these smoth dangerous words that in good sooth it is not so to be thought of by a christiaÌ„ prince but to be reiected as a senceles conceipt once to suspect that he wold seeke to any other so far inferior to our Queen in Godlines vertue vvisedom beauty and vvhose peere in many respects is not to he found This is but Reinards flattering of our kingly byrd and vvell natured Chanticlere in his goodly svveete voyce and fayre fethers VVhen noble men and princes in Fraunce stoode on theyr honor for all theyr actions and vvould say nothing but true they vvere vvorthely beleeued in the honorable vvord of a noble maÌ„ Now that they haue degenerate from the honor of auncient noble meÌ„ their othes ben traps to deceiue it vvere foolishnes ioined with peril to clad such Idolnoblemen vvith that purple garment of credit in their honorable vvord which is due onely to true Nobility Yea we are derely taught not to heleeue them in theyr oth And this rule that they presse vs vvith of not suspecting lightly holds more streightly emong priuate men in their priuate matters then for maiestrates and counsailors vvho in their charges for church and common weale cannot lightly be to chary or suspitious And that vve may not here seeme to forge our selues a doubt but that wee suspect such a thing as is very lyke to be meant by them and the very lyke vvhereof hath ben committed by them heretofore let vs speake of this forrein prince sauing his grace that vvhich othervvise vve could forbeare euen of reuerence to a prince vvere it not that it makes necessarily to the helth and vveale of our naturall princ VVhat then is this Christian prince thus set before vs whose credit must be so sacred as no charity must suspect it he is the brother of the most Christian king so called many foule men haue fayre names All the popes canonized dead saints are not saintes no more are all hys lyuing treschrestiens of the best sort of christians This most christieÌ„ family of kings is that vvhich euer made more deinty to fall out vvith the great Turke then vvith other euen popish Christians and hath held peace with the Turke when others haue ben in vvars vvith out regard of that secrete society vvhich is without speaking contracted betwene men of one religion against a common enemy and vvhich as a former fayth is implicatiuely excepted in any truce vvith an infidel Yea which former fayth ought to be kept though vvith breach of expresse words of any subsequent league and therfore more then treschres tienne heede to be taken in such leagues This is that most Christien Prince vvhose brother not long since accepted a kingdom vvith promise and oth to maintaine therein thopen exercise of Turcisme arrianisme iewisme papisme anabaptisme and such monstruous professions besides the truth of Christes gospel this is that most Christien prince vvhose most christien brother hath sworn to the tolleration of our religion in his owne kingdome vvhich yet he seekes to destroye by slieghte or force vvith out choyse This is that most christien court vvhere Macciauel is theyr nevv Testament and Atheisme is theyr religion yea whose vvhole pollicie and gouernment seemes te set the Turkish tiranny as a patarne and they dravve as neer to it as they re auncient lavves vvill any vvayes suffer in so small time To conclude thys is that treschrestien thron vvhich to the shame of all kinges so much as in them lay by the disceite of an oth in person of a king vvith some hypocrisie in religyon by the bayt of a mariage by hope of assurance in forreine leagues by the base abusing of hys ovvn mouth to speake fayre and personall visiting him in hys sicknes vvhose lyfe he sought stained themselues vvith the blood of a number of theyr subiects vvhich resting vpon theyr kynges fayth came vpon confidence vnder the lee as it vvere of rheyr protection Insomuch as they are novv bankrupt of all credite vvith theyr ovvn subiects and vvith theyr own brother in lavve husband to theyr sisters so as vpon no royal oth they vvil come in â–ª but stand on theyr gard and keepe tovvnes for theyr defence Neither vvould the king of Nauarr trust theyr sister so far as to receiue hir for his vvyfe til her mother rydyng rounde aboute Fraunce caryed her to him and together with her daughter put him in quiet possession of more tovvnes for hys fvrther defence And yet vve may not suspect this Christian prince a brother of the same brother and sister and if vve do suspect him in behalfe of our Queenes sauftie we are streightvvayes sencelesse and suspitious without ground of our conceites and vvho so forsoth deuiseth these doubtes vvill deuise anye thinge that may hinder this mariage This dare I boldly say that he who casts not these doubtes is not vvisely suspitious and he that passeth them ouer being once put in doubt may passe ouer any thing that makes for hir maiestes good estate And a most strange dreame it is of theirs vvho will haue thys match a bridle to the french king a snaffle to Spayn and a stopgamble to all practises of competition for popery or any other trayterous attempt at home or abroad vvheras all the contrary it layes the raynes at randon on the necke of thys horse of hidden treason and sets a rider of choyse vpon him for the nonce yea and opens all the portes to forraine ennemies For to come neere the person of thys our french prince could all his countenances of being restrayned vppon his brothers first returne from Poleland and fallinges out with him aftervvard his ronning from his mother his secrete vvithdravving from the Court and the Queen mothers trotting betwene hir sonnes as a broker of reconcilation win him so much

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