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truth_n	devil_n	father_n	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15033	The English myrror A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy: containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, vnto which is adioyned, enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, and lastly a fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred Scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales: wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation. A worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. By George Whetstones Gent. Seene and allowed.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1586 (1586)	STC 25336; ESTC S111678	158,442	230

deathes of any of their enimies certainly if the forward Gentleman Master Iohn Cheeke had not receiued his death more of voluntary then néedful boldnesse it had béene in reckoning as well as reputation a right mayden victory This ouerthrow dismayed the Pope and brake the hearts of the English fugitiues whereupon the seconde supplie was stayed and the souldiers were dismissed I was in Rome when Rome was occupied with other news the first made not the Englishmen so Iocund as the second made them pensiue they honge downe their heads and had not as the prouerbe goeth a word to speake what mine owne eyes behelde I boldly set downe to their shame Thus the daungerous intention of the king of Spaine the Pope the Duke of Guise her Maiesties forraine enimies which tended to the inuasion of England Ireland and Scotland 1580. to the glory of God and great honour of her Maiestie was peaceablie defeated and since this Chapiter chiefely concerneth the action of Ireland to diswade others from rebellion I thinke it necessarie to shewe the easie confusion of the Irish Traitours that tooke the Popes part Iames Fitzmoris death is alredie showne Not long after this sound ouerthrowe of the Popes forces in Ireland which was Malum omen to all his confederates The Earle of Desmond after that he had secreatlie wandred a season without sucker like a myserable beggar was in his Caben taken by one of the Irishrie and in an Irish sort after his accustomed sauage manner his head was cut from his shoulders an ende due to such an Archrebell Doctor Saunders the Popes Irish legate in the like extremitie wandring in the mountaines in Ireland without sucker dyed in a phrensie The fourth man of singular note was Sir Iohn of Desmond brother to the Earle a very bloodie faithlesse traitour and a notable murtherer of his familyar friends who also wandring to séeke some pray like a Woolfe in the woods was taken and beheaded after his owne vsage being as he thought sufficiently armed with the Popes buls and certaine Agnus dei and a notable ring about his necke sent from the Popes finger as it was said but he saw these saued not his life The Pope may well perswade that there are much vertue and strength in holy presents but his myserable instruments féele that their onely strength is in bringing of themselues to confusion This yere 1580. Iohn Stow Crownacleth that the 17. day of Iune in the parish of Blamsdon in Yorke-shire after a great tempest of lightning and thunder a woman of the age of 80. yeares named Ales Perin was deliuered of a straunge and hidious monster whose head was like vnto a sallet or head peece the face like vnto a mans face except the mouth which was like vnto the mouth of a Mouse the fore part of the body was like vnto a man hauing eight féete and not one like vnto another and a taile of halfe a yard long which monster saith he brought into the world no other newes but an admiration of the deuine workes of God but certainly Almightie God who since the comming of his sonne in whose sacred Gospel whatsoeuer is necessary for mans saluation is contained hath left familiarly to talke with men as in the time of the Prophets yet he sendeth prodigious signes to acquaint the worlde with some offensiue matter to his diuine Maiestie which his vengeaunce not long after for the most part punisheth and in my opinion leauing the knowne trueth to God and euery mans censure to himselfe this monster is a right figure of the Popes estate who being the Whore of Babylon in her old age and wane of her glorie hath brought foorth a visible monster The heade which resembleth a helmet sheweth his malitious desire to vpholde his kingdome by Paules sworde synce that hée findeth no strength in Peters Keyes His mouth that was wont to feare all Christendome with threateninges and cursing by the symilitude of a Mouses sheweth that for all his mallice hée hath no more might then a Mouse His eight Legges not one like another s●…eweth as I before haue showen that his kingdome is now in the case that Mahomets was in the beginning sustained by the Atheist Traitors Murtherers and discontented persons of all Nations The tayle which is naturall to a beast sheweth that his Murders and barborous impieties declare him to bée a visible beast and monster and that hée thus appeared in the North is a faire warning vnto those people howe they bée seduced by his painted and hypocriticall deuises for from those partes hée expecteth great sucker which God defende him from and open the eyes of all her Maiesties subiectes vnderstanding that they may deserne the truth from falsehood and then next the diuell they shall vnderstande him to be the father of all lyes whom shame and confusion followeth as also those that are associates in his vnrighteousnesse CHAP. 12. The daungerous and seditious practises of Edmond Campion and other English Iesuites by Gods prouidence frustrated their worthy confusion and their apparant slaunders of her Maiestie and godly gouernement reproued AMong a number whose iudgementes reach no farther then their eyes and opinion is setled that Campion and his fellow Iesuites by reason of their peaceable profession were executed with too seueere Iustice and charged with treason vnpossible for them to compasse as ciuill rebellion and forraigne inuasion it is set downe in a booke published by authoritie which effectually maintaineth the Iustice of England that Persons and Campion had faculties graunted by Pope Gregorie the 13. the 14. of Aprill 1580. That the Bul of Pius quintus should alwayes binde Queene Elizabeth and the heretikes but the Catholikes it should by no meanes bind Who so shal herein consideratly way the pollicy of the Pope and the diligence of his traiterous instruments may plainely sée a great likelyhood of rebellion and a wonderfull daunger by Gods prouidence preuented To draw men from obedience towards her Maiestie they had this large warrant from the Pope which figuratiuely imported a blessing to those that would strengthen their rebellion and with this Pope holy colour if you ioyne the hypocritical subtill and alluring feaches of these Iesuites you shall easily perceiue that they came rightly armed for rebellion and in their schollers habit procured more daunger to her Maiesties person than could an armed Armie with twentie thousand Launces The multitude as Sophocles saith is a monster with many heads and euery head gréedily followeth alteration of Gouernment If they be in prosperitie they grow insolent if in pouertie they murmure a religion that pleaseth their eye is far more welcome than that which instructeth their soule they beare a naturall enuy vnto their superiours and easily beléeue all the slaunders that are raised of their Prince and principall Maiestrates To deceiue the ignorant with a painted holynesse some of these seditious Iesuites tooke Geneua in their way and arrogantly offered to