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The fall and euill successe of rebellion from time to time wherein is contained matter, moste meete for all estates to vewe. Written in old Englishe verse, by VVilfride Holme.
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Holme, Wilfrid.
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1572
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STC 13602; ESTC S106195
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Of Prester Iohn nor the Cane nor their lawes of damnation Yet peraduenture they would consult in one To persecute for their lawes and make indagacion To mixt them with Christes to make their faith more prone But if they had once their purpose obteined As to conuert the great Turke or any such potestate Were it reason that then the Prince shuld be constrained To relinque and forsake the power of his principate No for reason would this he should be onustate To commaund and sée Christes lawes in execution And to kéepe temporal iustice by his lawes inueterate So they repugne not from Gods constitution To this may resemble the Apostles vsage As to electe Mathias and other for certaine And to mixe with Moises lawe the people to encorage Commaunding from strangled and bloud to abstaine And Timothe was circumcised this doth apeare plaine And Paule made a Iewish vowe at Iames request Thus diuersly they wrought their purpose to obtaine Sometime depriuing lawes to bring all to the best Paule saith among Iewes he became as a Iewe And a Gentile with Gentiles thus was his direction But when he perceiued the men firme and true Conuerted to Christ with faith and perfection He vsed no cautel nor no suche suggestion This is euident where to his fréend Timothée He commaunded for kings to make intercession And to Titus to obey to power and aucthoritie To the Romaines he saith let euery soule submit Him selfe to the aucthoritie of the higher powers Concluding of God constitute is it And who as it resisteth Gods ordinance deuoures To his owne damnation and he saith gouernors Beare not a sweard for naught nor onely to take vengeance Of the iricund and ill which be malefactors But also must be feared as touching vnto conscience For this cause pay yée tribute further there saith he For they are Gods ministers for the same seruing And Peter all this with woordes of facunditie In his Epistle doth expresse without a word swaruing Further commaunding by a Paraphrase speaking To honor their king now these things iterate Do proue all powers of God from beginning Without any question or any thing excusable Now all powers béeing by the Apostles approbate These indoct dulbarts with senses obtusate In the Bible may see how fathers alway As Abraham Isaac Iacob and Iuda In the lawe of nature ruled ouer circumcision And in the lawe written Iudges of habitacle As Moyses Iosue Samson and Gedeon Commaunded priest and Leuite to rule in the tabernacle And in tabernacle temple kings had the duction Of Prophet Priest and Leuite and euery thing sacrate Saule had not onely this but by Gods instruction The vertuous had the same as Dauid veterate Ezechie Iosias and Iosaphat sanctificate Salomon and all after the captiuitie The imperiall gentiles ruled the Church dedicate And ofte by the prophets confuted much heresie Nabuchodonosor was one and Darius also At Daniels intercession destroying false Baall Searche the Bible through and ye shall finde mo Authorities than these by a thousands cléere seuerall Yet if the gréedy Griffons and vile todes terrestiall Which feareth the world by their auiditie Beléeue expositers more than truthe canonicall Then let them looke Hamo for their securitie Et Epistola Gregorij ad Mauricium Et Epistola Gregorij ad Theodorum Et descriptio Augustini contra Cresconium Et Epistola Augustini ad Bonifacium Et diuus Thomas de regimine principum And the writing of Isidore with Origens declaration And many mo than these too long to shew or summe Unso mefull and sourrill to length such protestation What can they saye now but by a Counsell generall Contrary was determined with great sagacitie The which cannot erre and there was all scrutal To them I respond and their naughtie semitie That Counsell had not the spirite of veritie For then they beléeued not Chrystes iustification But mixed it with workes the which made properly Their Counsell to be naught to Christes derogation For that not in scripture it is naught but sinne Ergo it is naught their Counsell is vacuate From the left nor the ryght hand they maye not beginne Nor ad nor detray from Gods lawe most dedicate All plants that he planteth not they must be eradicate And thirdly Princes thinking it was good deuotion To haue Gods lawes from worldly things sequestrate They consented to a Gouernour vppon a small motion This was done conditionally the fayth to refirme And not for traditious and false Ipocrisye And if there were no more for the whole aphorisme This was sufficient to defeate the false papacie And Iames of Hierusalem was the first Byshop verily And who so lyst to search in the Counsels of Neceyne Among foure Patriarkes Rome had the lest Auncientie As of Antiochia and of Alexandrine Constantinople sayde they were superiour When Focas the Emperour elect the fourth Boneface Questionlesse Rome was rather inferioure To this vsurped power al ryght dyd deface Who lyst to knowe the truth reade the storie of â—ocas â–ª And we haue no authors but by Apocripha That do testifie that euer Peter was At Rome in his life but at Antiochia And Paul recordeth to the Gentiles he preached And also Ananias in the actes doth declare How the Kings of the gentiles by Paul should be teached Now what can the Locustes aleage or yet pare Except a wrong custome who wil contemplare For after Christes dayes this is plaine manifest Sixe hundred yéere the custome was contrary Therfore haue they plaine confirmed their Antichrist Of Holidayes In an other thing than this our Prelates haue deuotion That is to haue dayes for Halowes sabbatizate Who wold think such acts nebulous to be of gods motioÌ„ When the Saboth day for god which was only preparate Séemeth by Paule to be more than semilacerate For he saith it is a shadow of certain things future And Christ said he was Lord ouer the Saboth figurate And affirmeth it made for man and man not for it sure And this is plaine who giueth honor spiritual To any creature but vnto God alone He breaketh the commaundemeÌ„t the which is most principal And to fast and kéepe Saboth but vnto him in throne From the Metaphore of Christ theÌ„selues they do sepone For to the yongman which said to Christ good maister What shall I doe to get heauen Christ answered There is no man good but in heauen my only father And if men wil aleage with reasons rubiginous As to honor God in Saintes with such turpiloque Their reasons are nought but diuelish words rixous The Apocalips is plaine against their aucthoritie For the Angel said to Iohn knéeling in humilitie Take héede thou do it not but honor God he saide Now this is sufficient at a bréefe micrologie All Sillogismes and reasons shortly to persuade Of Purgatorie Also for polling they haue picked vp a Purgatorie Spoiling Christes bloud and his misericorde And by Machabeus they make such
by Nigromancie Gerebert had answere To sing at Ierusalem a Masse or euer he dyed And the Puppet sang at Rome in a Church or a Quere Called by that name or euer the spirite he espied And one Stephin of Angeo by a spirite had specified That he should dye in Pluma by which words ociabund He was resident from fethers and might them not abide And in a Castle so named he died like a vacabund One Alberice also Earle of Northumberlande Had answere by a diuell Grecia to obtayne Which made him resulte and ioyous to take in hande To conquere all Grece to his ligitious payne And made him to pampereske and to returne agayne To the countrey of Normandie where he had pollicite By king Henry of Englande a widowe for certayne A wife called Grecia thus was his chaunce finite Pirrhus of Appolline had suche a like responcion With diuers mo than these ouer long determinable But other wayes than this there is muche preuention By the figure sayd before as a spirite ineffable Might say to a maried man these words comfortable Thou shalt haue to thy wife lady Rosa or thou dye Here were a doubt whether he should wed the flore venerable Or to haue hir to his associate wife company Also one might say thou shalt haue viuacitie As many yeres as this yard wand is inches of length Now some would mete the inches and think no duplicitie Yet one might sure pernoske another way such strength As to rumpe or burne the yarde or to burne it to dust For then were the yarde not an inche of length at all And it not inches long then might a man proue iuste The destenie may be done by this color duall Also if a woman solde géese in the faire To one called Pecock and another swan nominate I had Géese Swans and Pecocks she might well declare Also one might by this color figurate Of a man called Foxe buy Turues parate And say I bought Turues which I thought to leide The which was Foxes thus double words ornate Wil make a false sense true and a true a lye in déede Ouer this prophesies by true declaration Doth more resemble to nature than to words of vanitie As Daniell figured regions to beasts and variation So may we thinke for rapine the Cleargie And for true noblenesse a Lion to the Laiâ—ie May not Marlin meane thus by his words miraculous â–ª And a Dragon for his venime to compare to the coÌ„montie This doth appeare better than playne reasons linguous A thousand suche wayes in prophesies are contriued And Peter sayth the good hath no priuate exposition Then must the ill with subtiltie and ill be deuised As plaine it doth appeare by many an ill peruersion And specially in Yorkshire at this last commotion For amongst diuers people there was one right profouÌ„d Whose ende to perceiue there can be no direction Howbeit the beginning made diuerse not fremebounde Now this was their prophesie and their nugacitie Without a word added or a worde of minoritie Foorth shall come a worme an Aske with one eye He shall be the chiefe of that meinye He shall gather of chiualrie a full faire flocke Halfe Capon and halfe Cocke The Chicken shall the Capon slay And after that shall be no May. Of the first part of this we may haue some inspiration But the last parte is colored too far from mans minde Thus are diuelish prophesies made by such obiection That falshod in the ende that is their proper kinde Of the Mouldwarpe who wil scrute he shal the same find For thrée of the laste prophesies by Marline pagynate No man can finde true but abscondent and blinde And I can proue them playne bothe past and depopulate For in the English Chronicles who liste to aspicer In the last chapter of king Cadwalader They may perceiue an angel said the wil of god was plaine How the Britons shuld neuer more in Britaine raigne Till the prophesies sayd before by Marlin be fulfilled And that time should neuer be vnto the time future That the reliques of his body into Britaine wer traÌ„slated From Rome with the reliques of other saincts sure That hath ben hyd for the Paynim folkes persecution Which shall be published and found and openly shewed Then should they of that laude haue perfite restitution Here may be noted Marlins prophesies subdued For Henrie the seuenth Cadwalladers bloud renued And the kings grace maketh Britons by the number plural Which is very relikes it cannot be eschued Of flesh bloud and bone of the same stocke paternal Which is from Rome translated and that false obedience As supreme head in earth vnder Christ to sustentande And Gods word the reliques of other sainctes pretence Which for persecution of their sore fire brand Is now openly shewed all heretikes to granand Now thanks be to God for his great largition Now before the seuenth Henrie this doth promulgand The prophesies of Marlin haue ended their condition And this is the meaning of Marlins prophesie Where he saith that the right heirs of England shall end That is to continue shal that genealogie For euermore as the angel did pretend To Cadwalader wheÌ„ he promised his blud again to send â–ª And where Marlin saith sixe of the last kings In that of the last halfe he did comprehend To take where he list these were his meanings And by the seuenth Henry it is plaine manifest As for calling the same to be the land of conquest And it séemeth the fourth Edward the Mouldwarp for to be For diuers causes but for one most specially Which soweth his séede fatherlesse in a strange land That is by the king of his owne procreation which hath lost his Romain father the truth to vnderstaÌ„d Of whom therfore good men haue made declaration This is the Britishe Lion by Sibilla prophesied This is the Egle surmounting which Festome hathe notified This is the king anoynted which S. Thomas specified This is the three folde Bul which Siluester magnified This is the king which S Edward in words glorified Which shuld win Ierusalem with all the holy land And many realmes mo with the crosse that Christ crucified By his abundant fortitude without dint of hand Is not his grace a Lion and accompt his audacitie And a prodigious Egle high volant in things diuine And anointed with faith by the spirite of veritie And of faith hope and charitie a fierce Bul in trine He hath obtained Christes crosse as they did vaticine With the heauenly Ierusalem aboue Ezechias Repairing the true temple in vbertuous wayes to shine Maumetrie destroying as the vertuous Iosias Ye this is he which hath made al the Romain bels to ring Without pul of hand their false tongs papistical Hauing oile in his lampe he is a maiden king Though they take it otherwise by their senses carnal And in the true vale of Iosaphat the scripture canonical There no doubt but his grace is sepelite For doubtlesse all the English prophesies autentical