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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06678	An ansvver to the vntruthes, published and printed in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie atchieued against our English Navie, and the Right Honorable Charles Lord Howard, Lord high Admiral of England, &c. Sir Francis Drake, and the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, captaines, and soldiers of our said navie. First written and published in Spanish by a Spanish gentleman; who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of Parma, with his wife and familie, since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada, forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion; as by this treatise (against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards; and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie) may appeere. Faithfully translated by I.L.; Respuesta y desengano contra las falsedades publicadas en España enbituperio de la armada Inglesa. English	D. F. R. de M.; Lea, James, fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 17132; ESTC S109021	42,817	64

awaie for wel imploied for the love of truth which abideth for ever David preferring truth before al worldly matters saith Take not ô Lord thy truth out of my mouth In ancient histories we read that Simandrus prince of Egypt commanded his picture to be engraved on his tombe and a jewell on his breast with his eies fixed thereon which jewell was the image of truth as recordeth Diodor. Sicul. Elianus saith that Pithagoras called truth a thing divine And of the same Pitha it is written that he said that for a man to make himselfe a God he ought to speake the truth Truth is a centre where vertues repose the north star of the vertuous the balme of the wounded and finally it is the butte whereat many shoote and the white that fewe do hitte All these I bring renowmed Queene that they who shall reade my answere may knowe that in the defense I make of the truth which hapned in both Navies that my intent is to deale in truth and not to flatter your Majesty you being an enimy to adulation and I knowing it to be as far from the princely nature of your Majestie to heare it as from mine to write it And that you have in memorie the saieng of S. Hierome that he that would be accounted woorthy of true praise should not seek it of men That which heer I meane to speake of are certaine truths so cleere and manifest that they publish themselves For who seeth not the great regard in your Majestie of divine woorship the great devocion to the sacred scripture the fulnes of Religion that shineth in your Majestie the alwaies opened large hand to the poore And who seeth not more clearely with his eies then I can utter with my words the singuler prudencie of your Majestie your sound justice your excellent fortitude your marvellous temperancie your firme truth your clemencie your benignitie your good government your royall condition and the shining of your works enterlaced with divine love Your Majestie may be said to be a coffer wherein nature hath laide up hir treasure and hir gathering togither of those perfections which were repartederst amongst manie Such finites answer well to the trunck from whence your Majestie descends even from that invincible king and most christian prince Henrie the 8. whose woorthie deeds live in the remembrance of this present age and shall never die in the times to come These and many such perfect vertues of your Majestie have wrought in me such love that I have bin verie desirous to do you some service determining to effectuat these my desires which long I have bread in my breast I purposed to offer to your Majesty this my answer but I chanced to meet with a new fear which made me doubt For perceiving it not to deserve to appeer before so excellent a Queene I stood in suspence what to do being driven into many and sundrie thoughts as having experience that boldnes without deliberation most commonly causeth repentance At length the one and the other considerations felt waied togither I found love to overcharge and waie downe respect Thorow which I determined to dedicate it to your Majestie thereby as well to shewe the desire I have to serve you as also that this short answer and poore woorke belonging to your Majestie may receive that auctoritie which it cannot have in being mine and the darke mist which it hath on my part may be banished by the resplendent shining that it shall receive from your Majestie whose Royall person the Lord Almightie preserve and prosper in his blessed service Amen Your Majesties humble and loyall servant which kisseth your Royall feete and hands D F. R. de M. The Answer I Marvell good Sir to see a man of so noble a linage and no lesse indued with the gifts of nature than others should have your eares so opened to heare the rumors and lies which the scoffing gibing flatterers do write you and I woonder not so much in that you credit them as at the speede wherewith your Honor doth write them Truly I am sorie for it Looke into your selfe and you shall see that they who write you such novelties do but fill your sides with sharp darts Your Honor writeth to Spaine that it is a matter most true that the Lord high Admirall of England was come running away with 25. or 26. ships unto London and that he had lost his ship that was Admirall and that this was written for a matter most certaine by persons of credit from London I knowe not what men of credit they should be that wrote a matter of so great discredit But at leastwise this I know that if your Honor were in London we might sing unto you the song of Don Pedro More enimies than friends have compassed his person For in truth I know not so much as one in that citie that is your friend You saie farther in your letter that the Admirall was lost hardly may a ship be lost that had for hir governor so noble a captain as is that noble gentleman my L. Charles Howard who when fortune should haue bin so wholy his enimie would rather have chosen to dy than flie But both the Admiral and his ship that was Admirall entred both togither as togither they erst went forth into the river of London triūphing in the victorie that the Lord vouchsafed to give them unto whom they yeeld all praise and thanks Your Honor saith farther that Drake is prisoner I demand by whom Know you not that from the Dragon the Lion flies the Beare feares the Oliphant hides himselfe the Lybard trembles the Tygre retires the Ounce dismaieth and the rest of the beasts tremble If then this be so who should he be that should take Drake that the venome and poison of his sword bereft him not of his life It was then an unbridled boldnes in him that wrote your Honor this matter Concerning which read a short letter which I make in answer of that of Diego Perez postmaster of Logronio and therin although I deale softly with him you may see who Drake is and what he hath done in the Indies and in Spaine and chawing it in the cud you shall know some part of his valor Your honor saith that if he be not prisoner he is slaine in these words Drake is either taken or dead The Ginets in Spaine deliver themselves flieng and hurt the more so that they do more harme flieng then assaulting but on the sea it is contrary For if his enimie fled from him who tooke him or slue him If your Honor in saieng Drake is prisoner or dead had added he is prisoner to hir Majestie then would I be silent for that he is so loyall a subiect unto hir that though free yet alwaies in hir prison and sacrificed day and night to do hir service and for and in all to accomplish hir will And in saieng dead had your Honor named the disease whereof