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A03115	Popish pietie, or The first part of the historie of that horrible and barbarous conspiracie, commonly called the powder-treason nefariously plotted against Iames King of great Britaine, Prince Henrie, and the whole state of that realme assembled in Parliament; and happily disc[ou]ered, disappointed, and frustrated by the powerfull and sole arme of the Almightie, the fifth of Nouember, anno 1605. Written first in Latin verse by F. H. [...] in physicke: and translated into [En]glish by A.P.; Pietas pontificia. English	Herring, Francis, d. 1628.; A. P., fl. 1610.	1610 (1610)	STC 13246; ESTC S119034	15,892	51

their leud intent The maine foundation of that sacred place Which they so leudly labour'd to deface 47 ●ercie meane while a celler doth espie More fitting for their vse because indeed Right ouer it that ancient house did lie With hope of spoile whereof themselues they feed This for his mony he did hire or buy And therein laid what should their purpose speed But made a shew that he the same did hire To lay in beere and wood and coales for fire 48 These things thus happening to their minds so fit They make no doubt but all will well succeed The close of all to False they do commit For hee 's the man that vndertakes the deed Mans name's too good for he deserues not it But Diuell should I call this hellish weed Night-walking goblin master of his skill Falshood and fearfull mischiefe working still 49 Gun-powder store this fellow closely brought Into their hired celler and the same In powder barrels fully stuft and fraught Some here some there he placed as it came This did not serue his turne but still he sought Which way he might some new-found mischiefe frame Two barrels more he brought full fraught likewise With cables ropes and such like merchandise 50 These things he puts right vnderneath the throne Whereas the King himselfe in state should sit Next many barres of iron he layes thereon And piles of wo●d againe layes ouer it Of diuellish meanes be slips not any one That might their diuellish cursed purpose fit But all things ●●e with like deuice and skill He did contriue to worke their wicked will 51 These things in their disorderd order done This fellow thus possest with harmfull heart Nouembers fift when Parliament begun With longing lookes for readie for his part To act such mischiefe as ne'er saw the Sun The thought whereof would make a good man start Old Romes bad member wicked Catiline And Iewish Haman may to these resigne 52 They neuer thought on such a villanie Nay tosse and turne the monuments of old All bookes that write of any crueltie Yea looke to Barbarie yet I le be bold Thus much to say and to assure it thee That all these histories will not vnfold So great so horrible so vile a fact Nor such as odious hatefull cruell act 53 The King Queene Prince and royall progenie The gallant Lords and Nobles of estate The buds and branches of Nobilitie Graue Fathers of the Law that sit in seate Of iustice and the reuerend Clergie The flower of English gentrie and that great And famous Senate-house yea all the land Had perisht all with turning of a hand 54 From Percies house one cruell piercing blow Should spoile them all euen as the silly Hare Securely sitting in her forme so low One with his club doth kill her vnaware The name and nation of the Brittons so This cruell Dragon sodainly prepares Quite to suppresse and English Christians all To swallow vp at once both great and small 55 Such huge wide swallowes throates insatiate Haue these Italian monsters and admit They had at once both vs and all our State Brought to confusion as they purposd it Who should haue told the storie or relate That dayes destruction who could once befit Amid those ruffling ruffians to bewray The cities ruines and the Realmes decay 56 Had I an hundreth tongues they all would faile And to my tongues an hundreth wits withall All would not serue to tell the dolefull tale Of all the sorrowes that on vs should fall By this their enterprise that worke would quaile Homer himselfe the Prince of Poets all If now he lift'd his worke he much would feare To take in hand as ouer-hard to beare 57 For now me thinkes I once againe behold That famous Troy in flaming fier burne And there where earst were pleasures manifold All to tumultuous noise and horror turne And gallant London gay and rich in gold Me thinkes I see all sad and set to mourne London the Empires seate and Europes mart Of furious flames me thinkes doth feele the smart 58 Me thinkes the wals are broke and battred sore The streets with armed angry souldiers fild Dead corps disperst abroad all rent and tore Streames running full of bloud vntimely spild Streets Churches houses neuer like before Such fierce laments nor can nor will be stild No place me thinkes is free but all resound Sighes sobs and teares for losses lately found 59 Poore wofull mothers by their houses gay Wonder me thinks embracing in their armes Their tender babes with woe and well a day Wailing their owne and all the cities harmes Giuing their babes sweet kisses but by th' way Salt teares among as thicke as Bees in swarmes The houses they in gentle sympathie Suite womens moanes with mournfull melodie 60 Me thinkes the fire consumes and burnes vp all The ancient seates of iudgement where of old Graue reuerend Iudges sate Westminster hall The tombes where former kings lie clad in mold Those tombes me thinkes by fire to ruine fall And stately monuments bedeckt with gold Which in that famous Church and Chappell be And many yeares haue stood vntoucht and free 61 Nay more the funerall and buriall day Of countrey citie London now the seate Of English Kings that Brittish Scepter sway So politicke their plot their gall so great They meant not one behind aliue should stay To celebrate the same or mourne thereat The King the States and court of Parliament Once being gone thus was their mischiefe bent 62 Their purpose was the fault themselues had done To turne the same vpon their enemie And with the Puritanes to haue begun To make them authors of the villanie And to proclaime that they were those had spun The wicked we●● or that vile treacherie And so to banish kill and roote them out By fire and sword through all the Realme about 63 These be the diuels arts and cunning sleight No mans deuice but forg'd in fire of hell An odious fact that dare not bide the light To hide and couer with a fact more fell To trouble and traduce the harmlesse wight And him by what he may to ouerquell Whole kingdomes to subuert and glut his throate With guiltlesse bloud by him vntimely sought 64 Either blacke Plutoes darke affrighting cell Is voide of ghosts or this is Satans deed Plotted by man though sprung and nurst in hell In humane forme and shape of Adams seed But great Iehoua who on 's throne doth dwell Hath care of his and from their foes hath freed His watchfull eye each corner doth vnfold His neuer winking lampe the seas behold 65 The blindest corner cannot him bereaue Of piercing sight who doth the waues make still To whom a guilefull heart thoughts to deceiue Are knowne and eke disclosed by his will To him are rebels hatefull that do weaue We be to destroy poore infants free from ill But God approues of all things iust and right And seeing our King now in a dangerous plight 66 Our State in danger

POPISH PIETIE OR The first part of the Historie of that horrible and barbarous conspiracie commonly called the Powder-treason Nefariously plotted against Iames King of great Britaine Prince Henrie and the whole state of that Realme assembled in Parliament and happily disc●●ered disappointed and frustrated by the powerfull and sole arme of the Almightie the fifth of Nouember Anno 1605. Written first in Latin verse by F.H. 〈◊〉 in Physicke and translated into ●●glish by ● P. LONDON Printed for William Ione 1610. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS AND MOST VERTVOVS PRINCESSE THE LADY Elizabeth onely daughter of the Kings most excellent Maiestie I Haue presumed to offer vnto your Grace most gracious Princesse an old Historie clad in a new English coate But why do I call that old which ought to be alwayes new and fresh in euery true English heart while the world lasteth We haue a vulgar saying that fish and guests are stale in a few dayes And who seeth not that the greatest and strangest workes of God wrought amongst vs are but wonders of nine dayes Our English nation is iustly taxed as too Athenian-like euer eagerly and curiously listening after nouelties and ouer slightly and lightly passing by the most remarkable and memorable accidents and occurrents This is a generall and as I may terme it a nationall fault which ought to be acknowledged and amended Now howsoeuer many passages may without any great dishonour vnto God or detriment to the State be buried in the darke pit of obliuion yet the Powder-treason that monstrous birth of the Romish harlot cannot be forgotten without great impietie and iniurie to our selues The Israelites were commanded to celebrate yearely the memoriall of their deliuerance from Egypt often to inculcate vnto their childrē t● 〈…〉 workes which the Lord wrought f● 〈…〉 in drying the red sea in deuiding t● 〈…〉 of Iordan in subduing the Canaan 〈…〉 expelling them before their faces T●…s in the time of Hester by a solemne 〈…〉 ●dained an annuall remembrance of 〈…〉 ●ance from the cruell designe of Haman 〈◊〉 Agagite The like course hath bene honorably taken in the Powder-Conspiracie by the great Counsell of our State and 〈◊〉 on most iust and weightie considera● 〈◊〉 For this hellish plot being as it were 〈◊〉 ●nt-essence of Sathans policie the fur● 〈◊〉 ●th and straine of humane malice and 〈◊〉 not to be paralleld among the sauage Turks the barbarous Indians nor as I am perswaded among the more then brutish Cannibals the deliuerance being wrought without any humane helpe by the great watchman of Israel who neither slumbreth nor sleepeth so as our enemies must needs acknowledge with the Egyptian sorcerers Certè hic Dei digitus est we shall be guiltie of horrible ingratitude the foulest of all vices if we do not embrace all meanes of perpetuating the memory of so great so gracious and wonderfull a preseruation Nunquam nimis inculcatur quod non satis discitur Besides we cannot forget this maruellous deliuerāce without apparent danger vnto our selues and our posteritie Improbe Neptunum accusat qui bis naufragium fecerit We haue had many faire warnings from these Romish Amalekites if we hereafter fall into their hands we shall not be pitied but laughed at by a ●o●r neighbour nations I hope therefore your Grace who should haue acted a wofull and yet principall part in the catastrophé of this Tragedie will vouchsafe the acceptance and perusing of this short Poeme written by my selfe in Latine and translated into English by a friend of mine wherein you may be ●old as in a cristall glasse the irefull faces of your greatest enemies and the gracious and amiable countenance of the Almightie watching ouer the King your father the Queene your mother that Prince of admirable hope your brother and your selfe for your deliuerance from those snares and nets which were so secretly and craftily laid to haue entangled all your selues together and to haue put out and quite extinguished the lights of Israel in one day The same almightie Lord grant that as he hath bene the sole author of your preseruation and reseruation as we all hope for some excellent worke which he hath to accomplish by your hands so you may be worthy instruments in your places of the aduancement of his Gospell here in earth to his glorie and your owne eternall happinesse in the life to come Your Graces to be commanded in all dutifull seruices Fr. Hering POPISH PIETY OR The first part of the historie of that horrible and barbarous conspiracie commonly called the Powder treason 1 A Rise my Muse to studies quite forlorne And intermitted ouermuch retire The wals with hang'd vp armes no more adorne But snatch them thence herein to shew desire If thou refuse the posts and stones will scorne Nature in them should silence still require Each thing that 's void of sense if thou wilt not Will to the world resound this barbarous plot 2 This barbarous plot then which th'al-seeing Sunne A more outragious fact did ne're behold Not to be matcht since the first age begun In marble records fit to be inrold O thou whose dole of grace is neuer done Vnworthy vs that doest aliue vphold O grant vs life to celebrate thy praise Almightie Father fauour our iust layes 3 I sing a strange blacke monster rude and fell Late on that Whore which doth the world besot In grosse thicke darknesse vtmost caues of hell In cursed coupling Lucifer begot A fearfull monster all our world to quell The purple strumpet soone againe he got Sent backe to Lerney lake where with close mirth She was deliuered of her monstrous birth 4 Which she nurst vp with Romish milke a space This Snake the prodigie of humane kind More dangerous then Hydra waxt apace Whom when the damme did well perceiue in mind To swell in deadly venime and to outface In divellish guile all others and did find Instructed fully in all hellish arts Thus she bespake and thus to him imparts 5 There is a people that are Brittons hight If elsewhere any they to me do beare No goodwill thy great Father too they spight And haue much damage done to Peters chaire And Peters kingdome once a Realme of might Nor lesser yet they go about I feare What rich rewards O how great reuenues This wealthy nation yearely once did vse 6 To pay the Sea Apostolicke how trim How gallantly it made our chimneys smoke For which our greatest zeale hath alwayes bin The truth to thee my sonne I list not cloke What ere we did pretend their eyes to dim What swarmes of Friers linkt in holy yoke Did it maintaine what stately monastries ' What goodly Temples menacing the skies 7 Did that same nation build and consecrate Vnto the Virgine that diuinely bred And to some other heauenly ones of late Whom we among the starres haue saintified There was no place as then behold our fate Where our colonies not inhabited No place of wealth of honor or renowne Were it in

citie countrey field or towne 8 Through the whole Iland did mine honours ring This wealthie Prouince England of it selfe Although but small by dayly suites did bring The Romane treasury more store of pelfe Then any else France though a greater thing Or Germanie though large not like this elfe Short tale to make the profits got thereby Did farre exceed the kings owne treasury 9 Perhaps t is strange I speake but t is most true And doest thou thinke that I can patiently Endure so rich a prey by Luthers crew Should be bereft me I le not easily Pocket this wrong lo I le reuenge pursue Reuenge that onely sweetens iniurie After that Luther that vile run-agate That Church-robber that spoiler of our State 10 Our battels and campes Catholicke forsooke O with what troubles with what sodaine stormes The gorgeous triple mitred kingdome shooke Saint Peters holy body he deformes And rends for with himselfe away he tooke Germaines and Frenchmen many and reformes Almost all those that liue in Brittons Ile English and Scots now Brittains both in style 11 I am a mightie Queene I once did say No alteration shall I euer find No times shall see my Monarchie decay My state shall haue no period assign'd No age to come shall euer see the day When desolation makes me come behind But haste with too long speech I weary thee Now come I to the point my sonne quoth slie 12 Our state declining dayly doth compell Vs to aske counsell and to hammer out On Platoes anvill some new wiles of hell To weaue some plots with riddles wrapt about Mine onely hope 's in thee thou knowest well Thy fathers lore and all my purpose stout Go to faire England luckily reduce That rebel kingdome to our Scepters vse 13 He takes his iourney onward and with speed He went about his cursed mothers will And to the Brittons comes with equall heed The Brittons who a second world do fill Diuided from the other by his weed A Catholicke 't hath bene the custome still Of Satan that being clad in truths attire Closer he might deceiue and play the lier 14 Here he was called Fawkes or False I find Elsewhere his names were Ionston Foster Browne A second Proteus that could easly wind And turne himselfe to all the shapes i' th towne Fitting the place he to himselfe assign'd New names in each new coast the old laid downe But still the selfe same wicked mind he keepes His harmfull heart still wakes and neuer sleepes 15 He euery where solicites many men In loue to Rome too seruent and too bold Who in their secret murmurings long agen For Egypts flesh pots and the cups of gold Of her that was a mightie Empresse then When by her selfe she rul'd the world of old Such male-contents she stirreth vp amaine And sets their hopes on cockhorse though in vaine 16 And tels them how th' ineuitable time And fatall dayes do now post on apace Wherein the Caluinists no more shall clime Nor those whom Beza brought to state of grace And that the time 's at hand and in full prime When they may build Romes wals without disgrace Punish their foes and Catholicke faith restore To th' ancient splendor that it had before 17 These men receiue with gaping greedinesse The hony words that this false Sinon spake And hid them in their minds with ioyfulnesse And of their owne free will for Romes sweet sake Promise themselues and all the readinesse That they or theirs by any meanes can make Yea they will pray and that with feruencie For iust euent to this his prophecie 18 Thus being proud of this his good successe He doth inuade the Princes royall place Where ioyfully he walkes amid the presse Of Englands Peeres and gentlemen of race Where Iames the mightie monarch with no lesse Powerfull hand doth sway the Scepters mace Iames who with one applause and full consent Sits on that throne God his Ancestors lent 19 Whos 's clemencie at his first entrance here Did spread it selfe to all of euery kind This noble Prince by such meanes thought it cleare That he could supple their rebellious mind And bow their stiffe neckes that hold Rome so deare But now farre otherwise he doth it find For they abusing his most princely grace Began herein t' aduance their combes apace 20 And euery where to swell with such disdaine As was outragious and to lay a plot For new garboiles and then to spread amaine Amongst th'vnstable commons who knew not The course of state some odious speeches vaine Tending to set Seditions barke on flote And openly to take offensiue armes Euermore thirsting after others harmes 21 First Watson an old craftie Popish sage Dared to trouble this our peacefull state Fond Lancashire I know not with what rage Blinded did second him Wales after that But better t is to come to that slie page That subtill Sinon whom we lest of late Walking along the stately sumptuous court Where all the gallants of the land resort 22 Who hauing pondred in his plotting mind The subtill stratagemes that there were fram'd He meets with Percie Percie most vnkind Who by his style a Pensioner was nam'd Yet a firme vassall to the Pope combin'd To him he vtters all and neuer sham'd Euen all the businesse he had in charge With hels commission thereunto at large 23 Percie both man and message doth embrace And with affection entertaines them both Though he nor Percie had nor 〈◊〉 nor grace Yet each to other gaue their 〈◊〉 troth Not to disclose what spee●●●●at place Had past betweene the 〈◊〉 unto an oath Was added and 〈◊〉 ●ng hand in hand They sweare th● 〈◊〉 ●erate league for ay should stand 24 Marke how you cherish in your laps great States Fell vipers whilest the Papists ye admit Though but within the entries of your gates Vnder their faire shew doth a serpent sit Infamous treason with her hellish mates Damned rebellion murders most vnfit Once to be nam'd with poysonous dregs that smell And sauour all of the deceits of hell 25 These are the studies of the Romish traine Publisht abroad for all the world to view And these the lasting monuments of fame Erected by the Catholicke Sect and crew These are their holy merites by these same They clime to heauen and claime it as their due Hereby they thinke they shall supply a roame In heauens Starre chamber free from other do●●●e 26 Eftsoones this shifter Faulkes hath chang'd his name Commonly taken to be Percies man And in that forme vnknowne himselfe doth frame To belch out deadly venime all he can Securely void of feare bereft of shame And by degrees he afterwards began To draw on many who with full consent Consorted with him in his leud intent 27 Beyond sea then he closely packes againe And to his holy Mother doth relate Both what and how and all in order plaine She likes it well and straight at any rate Wils them go on and spare nor cost nor paine