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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

AN HVMBLE Petition offered to the right reuerend honourable and vvorshipfull estates of this present Parliament assembled at Westminster Pallace Wherein the wandring Ghost of the late Pyramis demolished lately in Paris 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 At London Printed for Matthew Lownes 1606. To ancient and famous Troynovant WIth sunburnd Afrike Europe bore debate And France with fertile Egipt did cōtend With Memphis old Lutetia stroue of late For Monuments but now that strife hath end The Pyramies of Paris doo decay But Memphis stones remaine stand for aye Shall Afrike thus tryumph in Europes shame Can Brittaine braue endure so great disgrace No Troynovant flie thou on wings of fame From Memphis both and Paris take thou place Build monuments in spight of Popish fire Which Afrike both and Asia may admire To the high Court of Parliament AFter that my suddaine downfall vnexpected overthrow most ancient and famous great Brittaine was plotted secretly in Rome prepared cunningly in France and executed ignominiously not long since by publique aucthoritie in the chiefe Cittie of the French Kingdome This favour yet I had for my continuall and faithfull service done to so great a King and State that some of my dearest friends and favourers whose long pleadings in Lawe strong reasons in equitie and earnest sute in Court nothing prevailing for the saving of my faultlesse and innocent life should bee permitted at last after my death to gather together the fatall reliques and ruines of my sumptuous builded corps to be secretly laid vp in some sure place there to be shrouded vnto a better and more favourable age following from the cruell persecution of my bloudie Esauiticall enemies seeking and pursuing like vnto Herod through all Iuda from corner to corner for the anatomie of my brused bones to be offred vp as a sweete smelling sacrifice to that Antichristian bloudie Dragon who daily thirsteth for the poore lyues of such harmlesse creatures as I am manifesting to the world his foule shame and monstrous parts But may it not seeme ouer-strange and meruailous to the eyes and eares of the world that dumbe and insensible creatures should speake and crie out of cruell iniustice vsed against them Mervailous indeed it is because against nature but not therfore vntrue nor yet vnlikely considering what the Prophets haue truly fore-told howe in the latter dayes there should many miraculous thinges fall out and wonderfull visions appeare both in heaven earth And surely thou new Monarchie the eclipse of the Sunne seene here of late with the new starre but more likelie a prodigious Cōmet in thy Hemisphere the extraordinarie rednes of the firmament like to bloud the continuall raines and land flouds the monstrous births of children and beastes on the earth and of fishes in the Sea but more notable that a new and vnknowne Astrologer in his Prognostication set out in our Cittie of Paris should fore-shew such strange and incredible matters to come to passe three moneths before this wonderfull accident was knowne among you to wit that this yeare 1605 heere should bee a turbulent Parliament a black Christmas and a bloudie Lent Did not all these things agreeing as it were and conspiring together speake and fore-warne you beloved great Brittaine even as they had beene reasonable creatures of the great disastre likely to fall out comming to my eares Mervaile not then if I that had my erection established by the sound advisement and firme decree of the gravest wisest and most learned Parliament of the world perfected by the sacred influence and infusion of all the Muses through every member of my bodie life given to mee by my Soveraigne King to witnesse the safetie of his life should not as wel speake at least my Ghost as did the counterfet spirit of Samuel and rather to bee better thought of then it because both my warrant and cause is approovedly good But while I stoode long time in a muse pondering betwixt hope and dispaire what should become of my wandring soule and at length thinking with my selfe to finde out some Pythagorean Philosophers if anie were yet aliue for consulting what bodie should be fittest for my receptacle certaine my loving friends in this time inspired as the sequell shall testifie with some divine instinct convayed me safely to great Brittaines Ocean Sea where Neptune receaving me courteouslie at their hands commaunded Aeolus with his fairest and readiest windes safelie and speedilie to transport me from that dangerous shore I was on to the famous Microcosme of ancient Brittaine the great Conquerour somtime of my ingrate Countrie as to the chiefe harbour of all poore distressed Pilgrimes But while Aeolus was preparing all things necessarie for my safe conduct Neptune willed me brieflie to report the causes of my suddaine flight and departure from my native Countrie which though at first I was in doubt what to doe as fearing that hee might either bewray me to mine enemies when I had told him all or might stop my passage if I told him not at last I resolved vpon all hazards that might follow to satisfie his demaund as farre foorth as the shortnes of the time and perill of the place would permit Then thus I spake vnto him The causes that haue compeld mee O great Neptune thou great God of the Ocean to seeke thy favour in this my miserie are trulie and vpon my alleagiance vnto thee the extreame and more then inhumane persecutions of my bloudie enemies the Iesuites both before and since my lamentable and vndeserved death overthrow procured for no other cause then for truly witnessing to the world but more particularly to true Catholique Hugonets and to all forraine Strangers who might dailie beholde mee in the prime of my tryumphant estate in the most famous Cittie and place of the vniuersall world how this mightie King martial Monarch Henry the fourth that now raigneth was treacherously wounded but yet miraculously preserved of his life frō the Esauitical plot executed by Chattell one of the novices trayned vp in their tragicall Schoole erected latelie for teaching of bloudie precepts for the killing of all such Kings and Princes as being either Romanists or true Christians shall be stumbling blocks to hinder the politick courses of their new established Machiavillian Government Me miserûm vox faucibus haeret I cannot vtter the one halfe I would say such hast I haue to be gone for the feare danger I am in by the furious pursute of my professed enemies who tyrannouslie triumphing in mine overthrow mangled all the members of my bodie as was pittifull to see and yet not so satisfied will not suffer my broken bones no nor my verie Ghost to remaine in rest or safetie within anie part of this ample Kingdom These men or to

perswading themselues in this meane time that seeing it had pleased God to haue blest you by all other Nations and Kingdomes of the earth with so wise learned and religious a King so graue godlie expert foreseeing a Parliamēt wherein I wish Abrahams faith Salomons wisedome Davids zeale Jonathans faithfulnes Iosuahs courage and Judiths spirit and resolution may appeare in everie one of you at this present having also so faithfull and obeysant Magistrates and Subiects to execute whatsoever your sacred King and three Estates shal decree in this present Parliament expecting in this meane time at your hands such godlie necessarie and strict lawes with their due execution without delay acception of persons as Christes Church and true religion may be without all feare of danger and on the other part the Papists your enemies may be in such sure guard with a care to disarme them and inable them of all such meanes whatsoever as in anie way heereafter may giue but the least suspition of anie thing that may indanger his Maiesties persō succession Kingdoms either by thēselues heere at home or otherwise abroad by their favourers and associates And so consider with thy selfe beloved great Brittaine the singuler goodnes of thy God towards thee and thine annointed King in delivering you both who were appointed as Sheepe to the slaughter from that most barbarous savage imminent massacre and vnnaturall conspiracie no age ever yeelding example of like cruelty that thy deliverie safetie came not of thy merit but of Gods great mercie not thy foresight but his providence not thy loue to God but his to thine annointed King and his chosen people Forget not therefore to praise thank and glorifie the Lord of Hostes continuallie for his mervailous and most mercifull work of thy preservation and safetie for his mercie endureth for ever Which that thou and thy faithfull people and their seed after them may not onelie the better remember and be taught to doe but learne also to abhorre the odious hainousnes of so foule a fact Let it be as it is most worthie to be written and engraven in my Piller of lasting Marble ad perpetuam rei memoriam And so praying the most High to blesse our good proceedings and well intended indevours with happie prosperous successe to his glorie the good of his Church our owne comforts and the conversion if it may be or else the confusion of his and our enemies I conclude with this my last request that such obdurate stiffe-necked Papists as will not be yoaked or reclaimed from their grosse abhominable idolatries and wicked superstitions but still like Swine swill and swell themselues with the filthie dregs that the great whore of Romish Babilon giveth vnto them refusing to be cured by the healthie and wholsome potion of Gods most holie truth may not bee suffred to dwell together with mee in this land for neither is it lawfull for such to liue amidst Gods chosen Heritage to defile the Land with their filthines nor if they should can my life bee without continuall hazard and danger by their secret and villainous attempts Call vpon thy King therefore to execute iustice iudgment in cutting off these workers of iniquitie whose religion is rebellion whose faith is faction whose pietie is wicked pollicie and practise of murdring both soules bodies of Kings and all estates of people and to roote and rid them cleane out of the confines and limits of thy whole Monarchie which being clearely purged of them may ever heereafter growe vp prosper and flourish in quiet safetie sound health and invincible strength in everie member of the whole bodie of all true and truly devoted subiects with their righteous and religious Head and Soveraigne Deo soli gratia laus