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A19644	Belgiaes troubles, and triumphs VVherein are truly and historically related all the most famous occurrences, which haue happened betweene the Spaniards, and Hollanders in these last foure yeares warres of the Netherlands, with other accidents, which haue had relation vnto them, as the battels of Fleurie, and Statloo, the losse of Gulicke and Breda, the sieges of Sluce and Bergen, the conquest of St. Saluador in Brasilia, and the taking of Gosse by Charles Lambert, &c. Written by William Crosse ...	Crosse, William, b. 1589 or 90.	1625 (1625)	STC 6072; ESTC S109106	45,855	80

Incursion of Horse Sconces from the foes whose trembling hands Make good the Ports for Nassaws sure commands Besides our Horse a Little Forts much vsed by the Dutch An Incursion of Horse Caualgado make Close vnto Brussels whose burnt Suburbs take Impressions of our wrath th' Archdutchesse sees The frowning face of these sad miseries Yet cannot shee redresse them for mans will Proiected resolutions cannot fill Without iust meanes of power which Heauen sends As Instruments t' accomplish humane ends Thus this incursion past our men retire Thorough the smoaking flames of Brabants fire Vnto Breda rewarded for their paines With honours Crowne and conquerd Spanish gaines Nor thus alone the Land with slaughter bleeds But vnto Neptunes Maine Bellona speeds With Engines of destruction where shee staines With streames of blood the Sea-gods watry plaines Those vast Armadaes which commanded lay Neere to Baioun and Saint Sebastians Bay Their Galeouns houering neere to Lisbones walls Where Tagus into Thetis bosome falls Their nimble Gallies slicing with their Oares Those billowing waues which beat on Affrickes shores Sometimes on th' Oceans Maine incountring meet With Amsterdams or Flushings warlike Fleet Which homewards bound from Venice or Ligorne From Scanderoun or Aegypt rich in Corne Doe proudly plow the Mediterran Maine Swelling with profit and full fraught with gaine Sometimes againe Moy Lambert or L' Hermite Willeks or fierce Hugen this losse requite Who trauersing those Seas whose rougher Tide From Magellanus Streights doth Northwest glide Neere to th' Honduras Gulfe Domingoes Ile Or the Terceraes famous for the foyle Of valiant Strossy meet some Spanish Hulke Or some swift Caruell whose full fraughted bulke Is loaden with that rich At Petosi in Peru are most rich Mines of Gold Potosian Oare Which Lima sends from Perues wealthy shoare Sometimes againe neere the Balsoran Sound Or Teneriffaes pike where Amber's found Of th' highest price some of their armed Ships Incounter with some Carracke whose strong ribs Are ballast with those drugs which Chinaes plaines Send from their fruitfull Aromatique vaines Or with those Spices which for barter'd Gold Are by the The Inhabitants of Iaua and the Moluccoes A place in Africke subiect to the Portugals Iauans and Moluccoies sold Amongst the rest great Angolaes Viceroy For Andaluzia bound with smiling ioy Th' Atlantique Ocean cuts and proudly sailes Thorough the Maine till some Dutch Sea-man hailes And bids him strike then as th' Hircanian beast Whom the pursuing Hunter doth inuest With 's knottie Toyles first seekes to scape the danger But that being vaine he turnes his feare to anger And fiercely coaping with th'incountring foe Doth th' vtmost deuoir of his courage show The Portugueze vnequall to sustaine The Flushingers incounter plies amaine Both Helme and Yard and forwards led by feare Swifter then any wind doth nimbly steere Ouer the ridge of those high-breaking waues Whose beating surge Terceraes foreland lanes But this being labour lost he turnes his head Vnto the combate with a side-wind sped Then their Canoniers with the An Engine which Gūners vse to charge Ordinance Carteridge ply Their great and lesser siz'd Artillery Larboord and Starboord readie for the charge Their Langrell and their Crosse-barre shot discharge Great shot vsed at Sea The Muskettiers standing vpon a Range Behind the Wast-cloaths doe their bullets change Granado balls from th' hand or Bombard sent With vaprous smoake obscure the Firmament So that suruaying water land or ayre Death dread and danger swarmed eu'ry where The Sea-nimphs were afraid and Neptune hid His forked Mase with feare astonished The trembling Mermayds did for horrour quake As when th'inclosed winds the waters shake Thinking Prometheus hauing broke those bands Which manacled his Vultur-griped hands And manumiz'd from his tormenting paine Did imitate Ioues Thunderbolts againe But when that both sides to their close fights came And tryed the last chance of this martiall Game From out the Scuttle-holes spouted streames of blood Which clotted on the curled Ocean stood The Murderers from out their higher Tires Discharged dreadfull flakes of sulphrous fires Whose strong emissiue power with Tarlin kill'd Whole hundreds and with slaughtred carnage fill'd Their vpper Decks which straight blowne vp did flye Through the vast extent of th'inameld skie But at the length the Portugalls pursued With danger of all hands for Quarter sued Vnto the Dutch who from the farthest South Th' Angolians brought to The Riuer of Flushing Scheldis watrie mouth Inriched for their hazard with that Gold Which heaped lay within that Galeouns hold BELGIAES TROVBLES AND TRIVMPHS The Second Booke WHEREIN ARE RELAted all the most famous Occurrences which haue happened in the Netherlands from the Ascension of our Sauiour 1622. vnto this present time 1625. LONDON Printed by Augustine Matthewes and Iohn Norton 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE EDVVARD LORD CONVVAY Baron of Raggely and one of his Maiesties principall Secretaries of State And Sir HORACE VEARE Col. Generall of the English in the Netherlands WILLIAM CROSSE wisheth that happinesse which they themselues desire RIght Honourable your knowne loues to the Vnited Prouinces of the Netherlands and their Cause sealed by your Honours with the free expence of your dearest blood and the frequent hazard of your liues haue besides those other motiues of your knowledge iudgement and experience in Subiects of this nature inuited mee to this Dedication The first Part of Belgiaes Troubles and Triumphs belongs to the Earle of Essex and my Lord Montioy the second part is consecrated to your Honored selues Both these are rather a Discourse then a Poeme as truely and Historically relating the most remarkable and time-neerer Exployts which haue passed betweene the Dutch and the Spaniards in these last foure yeeres Warres of the Netherlands In this List the Siege of Bergen and that of Breda the Battels of Flewry and Statloo with the taking of Saint Saluadour in Brasilia challenge aboue the rest the chiefest place and prerogatiue The rest are minor gests and deeds of lesse consequence yet worthy for their worths to bee kept in the closet of Remembrance In all th●se as in a representing Glasse you may see the mercie of God extended from time to time to this Estate first erected from the Inforcements of the Spanish tyrannie since supported by the Auxiliary meanes of the English French and Scots and maintained at this present in that greatnesse which the world sees and admires by Policie Power and Religion If publike censure bee as impartiall as is the Poeme the Authour shall thinke his endeuours fortunate As for your Noble selues he doth presume vpon the candour and integritie of your Estimations vndoubtedly knowing that you accept a mite as respectiuely as a talent and esteeme the freedome of the Giuer more then the value of the gift Vpon this assurance hee doth rest and so doth for euer rest Your Honours most deuoted Seruant William Crosse BELGIA'S TROVBLES AND TRIVMPHS The second Booke THE ARGVMENT IN this second part continued from