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A14783	Albions England a continued historie of the same kingdome, from the originals of the first inhabitants thereof: and most the chiefe alterations and accidents there hapning: vnto, and in, the happie raigne of our now most gracious soueraigne Queene Elizabeth. VVith varietie of inuentiue and historicall intermixtures. First penned and published by VVilliam VVarner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same author.; Albions England. Book 1-12	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1597 (1597)	STC 25082A; ESTC S119589	216,235	354

gadde But better course than either weare secure at home to staye And theare with loyall hearts attend what Subiects should obaye Wheare no tyrannizing is ore the Conscience though it straye And Men of ciuill Carriage though in bodies not imployde Win good Report they shiftles shame that wish their Home distroyde Young English Fooles for cause too trew we pittie you in deede First for ye are our Countriemen then for that ye proceede Gainst Scripture Lawe and Nature and Fooles palpable in that Ye note not how your Follies make our English Foxes fat Allen at Rome Others els-wheare that liue hand-ouer-heade By tasking you to broach those Faultes for which themselues be feade Whilst these lie burrowed safe frō skath mongst you adoptiue Cubs They doe obserue the pregnanst witte whom Discontentment rubs Of Atheist factious desprate or vaine-glorious him they schoole And then transport to England thear to play the dangerous Foole Seduciugly insisting on performance of their vow That doth Rebellion Regecide and breach of Othes allow Though Dauid knew his Soueraigne Saul disfauored of God And might haue kild and then bin crownd such sin his soule for-bod Which of the Pa●riarks Prophets or Gods People whilst they saru'd Euen Ethnicks traytrously vnto their owne Affections caru'd But thus do ye nay worser for your Darnell giddeth so As Gods Annoynted and Belou'd ye censure for his Foe But woorst of all by murthring her to merite Heauen ye troe Put case the diulish Act were done to scape yeat lacks your Charter And dead with Tormēts not the pain but cause doth make the Marter Say that the Pope lacks Malice Say your selues doe loue the State Too grosly yeat your Doctrine faults in things of greatest wate Which your Absurdities do our Diuines confute I wot Ye say his Popeship cannot erre We proue ye erre in Not. Nor in the Sacrament that Christ is really we hold Your Transubstantiation we iustly haue controld Yours for the Liuing and Deceast Propitiatorie Masses And Purgatorie should we graunt ye might conclude vs Asses Your Worshipping of Images and Inuocating Saints And Supererogation vs with your Defects acquaints Besides the Supper of our Lord and Baptisme we reiect Moe Sacraments Howbeit ye Fiue other doe erect As Confirmation Penance with Priest-Order Marrage too And extreame Vnction Ouer more too much applause ye doe Works Meritorious Of the Cup the Laye ye do bereaue And of translated Scriptures so vnspied to deceaue D●●ges Vowes Indulgences Confession in the eare Dissoluing Subiects from the Faith they should their Princes beare Dispensing with the Scriptures for Reuenge to please or gaine Your Pardons Pilgrimages and your halowed Paltries vaine Pope and what-so is Papistrie well may we call profaine Ambitious Rome that for thy Pompe not sparest Soules to baine Once weart thou truly Catholique corrupted fouly now Not outed quite the Church A Sparke in her we thee allow And wish thou weart as then thou weart when as the Fathers good As touching Anti-christ and whence in both mis-vnderstood No Maruell euen to Daniels-selfe in Mysterie it was And dye did those good Fathers ere that Scripture came to pas But now who-so can Anti-christ but etymologize And knowes the Pope and Rome the Place and Man of sinne descries Sheep-clothed Wolues Christs Pro-contra the Popes haue bin be No place but Rome for Anti-christ none but the Pope is he CHAP. LII BVt humaine Purenes none is such but it to err● is knowne Thinke not we labour here your Faults and o●uer-leape our Owne For in the best of men the Flesh and Spirit combat still One thing the Spirit and the Flesh the contrarie doth will We Vertue praise but practise Vice possessed weale we flye And tract off woe At Heauen we ayme but with a worldly Eye Our selues we loue yeat than our selues we haue no crosser Foe For peace we warre a peruerse warre that doth our selues ore-throe At once we burne and are key-cold We seeme to stand that fall To heale that hutt We brag of bad We dye ere death doth call We triumph while we are subdude We blisse our proper baine We gladly doe subiect our selues vnto each giddie Vaine Our gadding Thoughts conceite the Cloudes our selues meane while for got Our Nay is Yea our Yea is Nay we will and then will not Our Soules like this our Flesh lusts that As Proteus changeth so Doe our Affections and our Thoughts be shifting too and fro Euen Hydra-like we flesh our Faults our Mindes doe wauer still Our selfe-Conceits be winged and we flie from good to ill Our Peace with Discorde breedes our woe the Contrarie our Ease We neuer doe but plague our selues whilste that our selues we please We would be we as if not we Vs Plentie maketh poore We partiall blame inable and disable vs eremore All these and wilfull Sinnes besides to vs with you and all Too common we confesse But of our Doctrine speake we shall Propitious be to vs O God that Faith haue practise too Which we omit as Publicanes as Pharisies ye doe Our Doctrine though is Gospell yours Traditions but of Men Enough of Yours Examine Ours by Touch of Scripture then VPon the onely Scriptures doth our Church Foundation lay Let Patriarchs Prophets Gospell and th'Apostles for vs say For Soule and Body we affirme are all sufficient thay Yeat ye adde Canons part corrupt some Bookes ye quite denaye We by the Hebrew and the Greeke their primer Pennes expounde Each Scripture by the eldest Clarks whē doubtful Textes be found Not by the Latin onely as ye would that all weare bounde So farforth yeat the Fathers and the Councels we approue As doe their Expositions tende to sincere Faith and Loue. Els fully Scriptures in themselues explaine themselues say we I● searched with that humble Spirit by which they written be Through which is ofte from literall speech a spirituall sense set free Vpon which sense the Catholique Church did doth and must agree Nor doth our Church admit at least allow of those in her That teach not Faith sincerely winne to Heauen from Hell deter That with new Glozes tainte the Text or such as be vnreade In that sweete Promise of the Seede should broose the Serpents head The Alpha and Omega of all Scriptures and whereby Of grace through faith in Christ our Soules reuiue and Sin doth die Our Church affects how so effects such pure Theologie And Guides and to our Naturall Prince graunts sole Supremacie Gods Cou'nant with the Patriarchs and extending to the Seede Vs Gentiles to coequall is a Primate in our Creede And Christ we know the ende of it In Circumcisions place Is Baptisme And intirely we the Tables Two imbrace Which God himselfe in Synai wrote and gaue to Moses then To publish to the people Two Commandements in Ten Scriptures Idea couched in our Loue to God and men Th'Apostles Athanasian Nice and Bizain Creeds we hold Autentick by the holy Spirit in sacred Writ inrowld One Godhead of three Persons in

liue To fault is then their murdrous fact that first defect doth giue He had not faulted or I falne hadst thou hild faith to mee Ah little feele we in regard of Plagues prepar'd for thee Thus sayd he and for thus he sayd I for the ruth of this Did vow that who so once were mine I would be onely his Well Madame quoth the Gentleman be this so or a shift I see to frustrate my demaund is honestly your drift Then so or not so or what so you shall inferre of this It matters not Perkin is yours and be you onely his For sooth to say weare all saide false it were indeed a hell To haue a Loues-Coryuall and as none could brooke it well So none should aske and none should yeeld to alter loue begun Therefore sweet Ladie I conclude such il is well vndun Mine amorous sute hath here an end and would you might preuaile With Perken too that proudly striues to beare too high a sayle So may you if perhaps you haue for him so apta tayle As this you tould to me for mee although more hardly trew As this which I shall tell that doth include a morall view Of matter worth the note for him the rather tould by you Then heare it for our leisure and the order of my Q CHAP. XXXVII SVppose for so must be suppos'd that Birdes and Beasts did speake The Cuckooe sometimes lou'd the Owle and so with her did breake Then flew the Owle by day so did the Cuckooe all the yeare So did the Swallow and the Batte but howe it hapned heare The Cu●kooe by the Swallow then the Swallow was his Page Did send the Owle a sucking Mouse a tydie for the age The Bat the Bat then seru'd the Owle preferd the Bringer and The Present to her Mistres sight that in her Tod did stand My maister to your Owleship quoth the Swallow sends by me This Modicum desiring you to take the same in gree The Owle that neuer till that day had tasted flesh of Mouse Had quickly lopte a Limbe or two and feasteth in her house The Swallow with a cut see of her then disgorged wheat When talking of the daintie flesh and elswhat as they eate The Bat then waiting at the boorde fetcht sighes a two or three The Owle did aske the cause And doe you aske the cause quoth she Why thus I sigh when thus in sight my kindred murthred be My selfe was sometimes such and such am still saue now I fly With that she freshly wept and thus proceeded by and by A fresh quoth she now comes to minde mine Auncestors ill hap Whō pride made praies to Kestrels Kites Cats Weasels Baē trap My Grandsier for wheare Nature failes in strength she adds in wit Was full of Science But insooth he misapplied it The Weasell Prince of Vermen though besides a vertuous Beast By shrewdnes of my Grandsiers wit his Holes with hoords increaste And seem'd to conn him thankes whō none besides had cause to thank For Princes Fauors often make the fauored too cranke Not only Mice but Lobsters Cats and noble Vermen paide In comming Coram Nobis for some crime against them laide But God it is a world to see when purposes be sped How Princes hauing fatted Such are with their fatnes fed The Weasel seru'd my Grandsier so and euery Vermen laught To see himselfe in Snare that had in Snares so many caught Now also liue some wylie Beasts and fatly do they feede Mongst Beasts of chace birds of game with lesse then needfull heed My Graundsier dead my Father was in fauour nerthelesse Nor did his Father more than he for high Promotion presse And though I say it long time he deserued fauors well For quayling Foe men and at home such Vermen as rebell And for the same the Weasell did him mightily preferre But Honors made him haughtie and his haughtines to erre I will be plaine he waxt too prowd and plotted higher drifts Than fitted him or fadged well for who haue thriu'd by shifts Nor will I say because his sonne he wrong'd the Weasell but The Weasell died and that that did succeede to shifts he put For which his Fathers Fortune did oretake him at the last Such fickelnesse in earthly pompe which flowing ebs as fast This double warning might haue i●kt vnto my wit but I Did follow Kinde Nay more I did importune Dis to fly And he did giue me these blacke wings resembling him that gaue the A proper Gift and hardly got to shame me now I haue them But know yee Dis some Pluto him or Limbos God doe call Or aptlier said in Hell of diuels the Chiefe and Principall And somwhat now of him and how I changed say I shall I hapned on a Cranny whilst my Mouse-daies lasted which I entring wandred crooked Nookes and pathes as darke as pitch Theare hauing lost my selfe I sought the open aire in vaine Both wanting foode light and life well neare through travels paine The Moole by chaunce did crosse my way and as ye know her smell Supplies her want of sight and serues her purpose full as well I heard a tracting sownd and skar'd my haire did stand vpright Nor could I see or fly but feare and blesse me from a Spright She had me hild me questions of my being theare the cause And in meane while peruseth me with fauorable clawes I was about to pleade for life when she preuents me thus Ha Cosen Mouse what Fortune giues this meeting heere to vs. Feare not my Sonne I call thee Sonne because I loue thee much Doe hold thy selfe as merry heere as in a Pantlers hutch What know'st not me or see'st thou not with that she leadeth me Into an higher roome wheare her to be mine Eame I see I did my dutie and my heart was lightned when mine eie Encountered a friend whereas I made account to die Before me sets Shee Viands and my stomacke seru'd me well And hauing fed my Grandsiers and my Fathers ends I tell For She enquires for them ere I acquaint her what befell The reuerent Moole then sighing said ah let no Vermine thinke That Fortune euer fauors or that friends will neuer shrinke I did fore-smell their lostie flight would cost them once a fall And therefore Cosen see thou be forewarned therewithall Heere seest thou me I tell thee though I prise not Gentry now Thine Eame and of the elder house that long agoe did vow My selfe a Recluse from the world and celled vnder ground Least that the gould the precious stones and pleasures here be found Might happen to corrupt my minde for blindnes did I pray And so contemplatiuely heere I with contentment stay Admitte the Weasell graceth thee the more he doth the more The other Vermen will maligne and enuy thee therefore Himselfe perhaps will listen to thy ruine for thy store Or thou thy selfe to mount thy selfe maiest runne thy selfe a shore That Vermen that hath reason and his owne Defects

coequall Maiestie Doe we beleeue of whom the Sonne did for Beleeuers die The only Ransome that redeemes from Sathans Tyrannie Euen Christ the Way the Truth the Life not crooked glozed fraile But right for Rule in Promise firme in Guerdon near to faile Who to reproue the bad approue the good and to assure The Wau'ring and against the Diuell our safetie to procure Did giltles die that we lost Soules might liue naught els did make That he his Deitie adiorn'd did humaine Nature take Nor glorifide disclaimes he vs vnles we him forsake And what is fruitles Faith but such Apostasie and what Ensues Apostasie but to be doomed Dam'd for that No Doctrine or Traditions we hold currant saue the same That Gospell or th'Apostles Acts or Pennes include or name Baptisme incorporating vs in Christ and vs in one Christs misticall last Supper whear in Signe his death is knowne Be Sacraments except which twaine doe we accept of none By only Christ our Aduocate we to the Father pray Nor thinke we Saints deceased can our Sutes to him conuay Howbeit still most reuerently of Saints we think and say Vnnecessarie Burthens on our Christian Freedome laide Contrarie these that but beleefe and vertuous life perswaide Yea only Faith doth iustifie say we of Gods free grace By Christ not Faith is idle but doth Charitie imbrace Who may but will not helpe doth hurt we know and curious thay That dribling Almes by Arte disband wel-Meant frō wel-Dons pay And he that questions Ones distresse and doth not helpe indeuour Than he that sees and nothing sayes or cares is lesse Deceiuour Then hope we health when sinne is felt repentantly in heart Adde then new life and we to God God doth to vs conuart Thus Peter vsde his Keyes not thus play Popes S. Peters part For Cleargie-men and Laye our Church hath godly Discipline Lawes worthie better than sometimes are those the Lawes define Our Princes in their Policies and Lawes doe we obay Though God his Cause they seek to crosse yeat we for thē do pray In patience not peruerse Attempts for better times we stay Not as denide but as deuout we doe and should abstaine From Meates euen meete the proude Flesh frō sins excesse to waine Which shuld we skāt yet be dronk with lust or like were vaine Saue also publique Policie doth publique Sparing craue In Fasts or differences of Meates no other keepe we haue Almes deedes and workes of Charitie we practiuely professe And follow Saints as they did Christ leaue whear they trāsgresse Such and so much as sayd are we forgiue vs God if lesse For godly though Religion Prince and Policie they are Yeat things that of themselues be good abuse brings out of square And sundrie Faults in sundrie Folks we sometimes must forbare Howbeit with best gouernd States our State may now compare CHAP. LIII A Wise man liuing like a Drone an old-Man not deuout Youth disobedient Rich-men that are Charitie without A shameles Woman vitious Lords a Poore-man proudly stout Contentious Christians Pastors that their Function doe neglect A wicked King no Discipline no Lawes men to direct Are Twelue the foulest Faults that do all Common-wealths infect In most of all which Twelue erres not or much in any one Our State respecting this of some Lawes not abused none Our God-blest Queene Palladium of our happie publique Weale For worth so farre beyond all words we one only touch in zeale No Realme than ours hath wiser Lawes for euery Right Wrong Nor is through Meed or Meanes the Weake betraied to the Strōg Though of vn-Quaifed Iudges some is sung another song But who the Person not the Cause respecteth hath forgot The Creator of Persons who and Iustice differ not A Councell watchfull for the State Our Benches euery wheare Supplide with Iudges learned iust and such as God doe feare Winke here and there at Auerice Incharitie and Pride And better Cleargie than is ours not Europe hath beside Say me who can whether Extreame hath harm'd Religion more That old of theirs too prodigall or This of ours too poore Then Giuing gaue too slack a Raine now-Gleaning curbs too sore By Slauerie and by Symonie now Church-Preferment comes Like Nabal and to Helies Sonnes get Church-men vp their crōmes Too much too little or a meane sort out alike we see House-keeping nor Humilitie in any of the Three Be hospitalious Churchmen Lay cease sacrilegious sinne Your Soules-sore but their Stores-salue whence euē whiningly they winne By pinching from the Pulpet and their Purses with this note Scarse will their Studies stipend them their wiues and Children cote And verely it is a fault and maimed Learnings Foe That Church-Possessions should amongst the Laye be shared so And verely it is a fault if so the Cleargie liue As theirs to take be thought no Sinne nor Meede to them giue Almightie euerlasting God which only work'st great wonders Amend such Pastors and vnite thy Flock that Sathan sunders No one thing quailes Religion more than foundring Presbytrie Each S●ot impugning Order saieth and doth his Fantasie Our Booke of Common prayer though most sound Diuinitie They will not reade nor can they preach yeat vp the Pulpet towre Thear making tedious Preachments of no edifying powre O learned Seers whose good liues and Doctrine doe agree Not barren is our Land of such heer-hence vn-meant are ye To you in Reuerence and Reward may nothing wanting be T' is only wisht your work from Dolts your Hiues from Drones were free T' is wisht in These in Fugitiues in Papists and more bad Whom to perswade to reason were with reason to be mad In Calophantick Puritaines amisse amendment had THese Hypocrites for these three Gifts to their Lauerna pray Iust to be thought all to beguile That none their Guiles bewray Their Arte is fayning good they want and hiding bad they haue Their Practise is selfe-praise of praise all others to depraue On Loue say some waites Ielosie but Ielosie wants loue When curiously it ouer-plus doth idle Quarrels moue Best Puritaines are so ore-zeal'd But should I terme the rest Inhospitalious Mutinous and Hypocrites the best Insociable Maleparte foxing their priuate good Exiling hence wel-neere al Troth meete Sports Neighbourhood Learnings Foes contemptuously by them be Lawes withstood Self-pleasers Skorners Harlots Drones against the Haire in all Of their extreame whence Atheisme breeds be warning Hackets fall If euer England will in ought preuent her owne Mishap Against these Skommes no terme too grosse let England shut the gap Their giddie heds gaue colour first that Spayne gainst Flaūders arm'd And thē their Coūtries Foes they helpt most their Coūtry harm'd If Hypocrites why Puritaines we terme be ask't in breefe T' is but an Ironized Tearme good-Fellow so spells Theefe Well-working single-hearted Men in silence such be some Will not apply but saintish not in Deede but by the Dromme To Vnion that our stablisht Lawes for publike Prayer ties Not all is wondred and offends