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A20596	The masque of the League and the Spanyard discouered wherein, 1. The League is painted forth in all her collours. 2. Is shown, that it is not lawfull for a subiect to arme himselfe against his king, for what pretence so euer it be. 3. That but few noblemen take part with the enemy: an aduertisement to them co[n]cerning their dutie. To my Lord, the Cardinall of Burbon. Faythfully translated out of the French coppie: printed at Toures by Iamet Mettayer, ordinarie printer to the king.; Masque de la Ligue et de l'Hispagnol decouvert. English	L. T. A., fl. 1592.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1592 (1592)	STC 7; ESTC S100421	72,125	152

to increase and make vp the number of thy newe Spanish Armie the League of Arragon against theyr King rayse vp the vsurpers of Zaell in the Realme of Valencia I will propose no other Rebels to thee then onely of the Spanish Nation confederates Nursses of thy Fore-fathers extreame cruell and agreeable to thy humours The Rebels of Gallicia who cast off Ramis the third King of Leon The coniuring Bishops that scaffolded theyr King of Arragon and made him pay an honourable fine because hee had taken the reuenewes of the Churches whereto hee was constrained by necessitie to satis-fie the charges of the wars against the Moores in the yeere one hundred foure-score and two Get to thee also by the same enchauntments the Rebels of Sallamanca against the King of Leon Of the Nauarrets by whom neuerthelesse these seditious were besieged taken and chastised Of the Lords of Lara who mooued great threatnings and attempts in the raigne of King Henrie of Castile An Almorand quarrellous and sedicious against the estate of Nauarre The mutinous of Ebora hauing for their cheefe leaders Gonsallo and Vincent Ianes If the Spanish Tyrant Phillip if his sonne in lawe the Duke of Sauoy if the Duke of Parma who is come to thy succour for his owne profit and his maisters suffice not with theyr forces in steede of them which haue beene vanquished by our inuincible Hercules and his valiant Noblemen call vppe to thy ayde by thy charmes the predecessours of thy King no lesse cruell and bloody to wit Alphonsus King of Castile and Leon vnhappie vicious and most tyrannous Almundir desirous to raigne Berenger the murtherer of his brother Remond whervpon hee dyed very miserably Bermond the 21. King of Leon Henry the fourth of Castile Eringo who poysoned the King Bamba and raigned ouer the Gothes Don Alphonso the 11. who caused his brother the infant of Castile to bee smothered Ferdinand of Arragon who conspired with the Duke of Ferrara to poyson the King Don Ferdinand Garcia King of Leon Mahomet the fourth King of Granado and many others besides If the women that beare thee company haue not their wits sharpe enough to aduance both thine their own affaires withdraw thy selfe to hell and there consort thee with that wicked Queene of Metz Brunechilde the Sorceresse by nation of a Spanish Goth daughter to Atanagilde the twelfth King of the Gothes whom Sigibert King of Mets married for the plague of France And if thou wilt for company ioyne with her Goswind the Gotthish Queene who conspired against King Richard very troublesomely take likewise Brunehault Fredegonde and all the deuillish women of the world Ayde thy selfe yet if thou pleasest with Cerberus the Sisters Eumenides and with all the horrible route of hell because thy selfe art very hell in-deede Reuiue againe all the Monsters vanquished by auncient Hercules but being thy selfe so monstrous thou hadst neede fortefie thee well with the Monsters already subiected by the force of the aduenterous Thebane Doost thou trauaile thy selfe to seeke on the earth and vnder the earth all that is an emie pernicious monstrous cruell turbulent bloody barbarous odious horrible and contrary to vertue knowing the same to bide in thine owne selfe Needest thou any other assistance then thine owne other forces or other horrours Thou surpassest all the horrours of earth and hell all the malices of the ayre and neuer was any crueltie or treason exercised but thine hath surmounted them Canst thou not content thy selfe to haue thys Geryon of Spayne thy succourer Are not these thy fathers strong enough to maintaine thee in thy greatnesse But when thou shalt be thus assisted with all that I haue spoken of can all these forces all these cruelties treasons charmes Magical-arts Fryers frocks and hoodes these Monsters the horrours infernall these Furies ouer-throw our Alcides The body is stronger then the shadowe and trueth more forcible then falsehoode Thou groundest thy selfe on an vniust cause on humaine strength and exceeding violence our Hercules in his iust cause buildeth not on fleshly forces but on GOD onely that established him the vertue equity and right of hys claime thy in-iustice and ambition are the enemies that hetherto haue disgraced and defiled thee Thinkest thou to conquer by flattering and embracing thy foe the spye that betrayes thee and discouers all thy enterprises Would God thou hadst beene smothered in thy byrth then had not this estate beene in such combustion where thou raignest but thou hast gyuen him the fayre collours which beguileth thee and strengtheneth vs thou hast honoured and shaddowed him with the goodly titles of Catholique zealous the enemie of the Heretiques and Pollitiques the Freende of the Common-wealth and the holie Vnitie These couertures are too slender and feeble to blinde the eyes of our Lynceus and are no other to thee then Nets to wrappe thee in as Venus with Mars by the cunning of Vulcane or as ambuscadoes on suddaine to surprise thee Thou flyest fayre with thy enemie after thee following at thy heeles and euer-more to our great aduantage he spurres thee and yet as I haue said keepes thee companie albeit thou hast deckt him with so many double Crosses and bought Pater nosters after the fashion Castillane and Albanois as hee seemes to thee thy speciall friende thus louest thou thy fraudulent coulloured enemy and hatest and pursuest vs to thy vttermost And albeit so many learned pennes haue discouered him for a bold-faced shamelesse beast defacing his faire glistering collours where-with like a Peacock hee makes thee follow him about let vs once againe lift vppe this counterfeite Masque and wee shall see wyth what Chymaera and with what Hydra our Hercules hath to deale He that vnder thy Ensigne makes open war vppon vs and couert warre vppon thee or rather this enemie that fights for vs against thee for he neede not doubt but the faithlesse ambition which thou hast brought foorth and begunne will bring both thee and thy other Coniurers to a miserable end decks himselfe with feigned loue to the Common-weale the holy vnitie VVhat publique-weale what holy vnitie meanes he Callest thou it cōmon-good to ruinate so many Countreyes and Citties is this detestable League this coniuration so pernicious to the estate and the Catholique Religion a holy vnitie If it be the effects doe publish themselues VVas neuer seene such out-rages such impieties wracke of Religion corruption licentiousnesse and Atheisme as since thou thus exaltedst thy selfe and hast trode both iustice and Religion vnder foote thy Armes haue brought in thys dysorder and generally hath dyspersed bothe bloode and fyre Thou prophanest iustice thou forcest and slaue-like leadest it vnder thy irregular and most indirect Lawes thou makest the Catholique Religion the Goddesse of warre that strikes spoyles and kylles Hast thou no shame Knowest thou not that Religion is full of peace and makes it her glorie to suffer and endure torments and not to torment any Knowest thou not that

and men of good behauiour So this olde Foxe seeing himselfe readie to succeede his forefathers hath practised and doth practise the like in the vsurpation of this Crowne hoping to make a bootie of it and to tyrannize therein at his owne pleasure but that our noble Prince makes him let goe his holde and surrender vp the estates he proudlie vsurpeth namely the Realme and estate of Nauarre sometime troden down by Ferdinand of Castile and Arragon one of thy Grandfathers This Ferdinand vsurped on D. Iohn of Albret the thirtie fiue King of Nauarre who espoused Katherine Sister to King Phoebus the thirtie foure who died without issue whereby she came to the Crowne in the yeere one thousand foure hundred eyghtie-three Then Henrie of Albret the second the Sonne to Iohn of Albret succeeded in the right of Nauarre the yere one thousand fiue hundred and seauenteene espoused Margaret of Fraunce the Sister to K. Fraunces the first Of this marriage came Ione whom Bertrand Helie calleth Charlotte who succeeded in the right of her Father the yeere one thousand fiue hundred fifty-fiue and was married to the most puissant and magnanimous Duke Anthonie of Vendosme of the most illustrious and royall house of Burbon whereof is left this Mars in earth Henrie the thirde of that name the true succeeder in the rights of Nauar now by lawfull succession the most Christian and most victorious King of Fraunce the fourth of that name These effects make knowne thy pretence to the verie ignorant thy disloyaltie thy ingratitude thy impietie in many places hath made the people wise they know that the dotage and simplicitie of men is the assured foster nurse of Tyrants The bountie and clemencie of our King towardes his Subiects yea euen his enemies hath from a great number taken away the frontlet of ignoraunce the Christian Catholique Religion florisheth more among his faithfull Subiects then els where obedience there maintaineth it where cōtrariwise such disobedience as thou vsest hatcheth nought els but rebellion breach of faith and lastly vtter ruine and confusion Thy Masque cannot hide thee from beeing noted for a most disloyall and infernall Furie thou hast brauely extolled thy selfe like a God thou hast smoothly beguiled the people wyth outward shewe of Religion and holinesse these make thee known for such a one as thou art that thou doost but lye when thou tearmest thy selfe a Christian and a Saint The mercinarie tongues of thy false Preachers with all theyr cosenages and impostures are other sophisticall wares of slender valewe in that they cannot maintaine thy health albeit they haue broken and altered the humours of a great number of thy folowers to make them like and conformable to thine owne Who sees not that the Sermons which thou causest them to make are Phillippicall Appologies and inuectiues Where is the Gospell of peace concord charitie and loue Where is the office christian brotherly kindnesse humilitie deuotion and obedience Where is the Christian catechizing or the exercise of Gods commaundements Thou by them prescribest a cleane contrary matter for thou hast hired theyr tongues to thunder foorth a Gospell of blood vengeance disobedience and rebellion such Trouch-men and Trumpeters of sedition haue learned of thee to speake so to distill into French-mens harts thy golden poyson whereof already the Rebels feele the bitter taste and deadly operation Thou hast thrust into theyr hands the flaming firebrande wherewith they haue circled the foure corners and very midst of Fraunce and all was wel neere lost without the succour of our Alcides who ranne to the water and would not suffer his House and Heritage to be consumed in the violence of thys fire They haue annimated the simple who now are wexen to be deuilish partakers and tearme themselues zealous Catholiques to the spoyle massacre and totall ruine of theyr Parents freends and Countrimen to receyue therefore in the end with them the earnest of diuine iustice on the Iibbets and Gallowes the spectacles and witnesses whereof are continually before theyr eyes for theyr notorious crimes and offences By these kindled fires hast thou already murdered one King and by the same pursuest him that now raigneth that he beeing slaine and all his race cut off the estate might be trans-ferred to thy selfe a horrible most lamentable case that Ecclesiasticall persons will pertake in such enormous foule deedes and treasons One Iohn de Prochite chiefe Authour of the conspiracie against the French-men in the Realme of Scicilie performed the same beeing disguised in the habite of a Gray Fryar and so sollicited and induced the Scicilians to the massacre of the French which by them was doone one euening in the Easter holy-daies So thou like these Prochites couered wyth the habites of penitence Religion diddest compasse thy villanie and treason against our late King whom thou murderedst by a Iacobine Monke or rather to tearme him righter A hoodded deuil so continuest against the Princes of his house and blood of whom thou hast sworne the destruction Thus by Monkes thou iniurest the estate which thou wouldest dismember and deuide among those Coniurers albeit thy craftie Authour pretendeth otherwise and thus are the faithfull subiects to the Crowne abused Vnder this Masque what impieties are cōmitted thorow all Fraunce by Monkish Souldiours who haue changed their former simplicity pouerty and humility into audacious trechery and presumption And because the Spanish hypocrisie the shadow of their Atheisme is one of the principall pillers of thy contriued conspiracie and that thou makest our men beleeue by the introduction thou hast made to the K. of Spaine who at thys day raiseth warre in the heart of Fraunce to destroy thee together with the King if he can after hee hath first serued hys owne turne with thee that these Moores are good Catholiques and theyr followers religious If any such were to be founde it were shame to deny it then looke a little on theyr deuotion and whether the Monachall rage kindled not a notable sedition in Lisbone in the yeere one thousande fyue hundred and nine when two bloodie Iacobines parted from theyr Cloyster with a Crosse in theyr hands a tricke at this day practised among our fyring Monkish Souldiours that beare a Crosse in the one hand and a sword in the other with Corslets on theyr banks vnder theyr ●owles as if Iesus Christ and warre-weapons agreed together when neuer was he seene harnessed or weaponed amongst hys Apostles and Disciples and so dyd they enflame the people against certaine that were newly conuerted to Christianitie that they altogether gouerned by their malice and enuie crying they were but dogs and heretiques slewe forthwith more then foure thousand thys beeing the principall spurre of thys mercilesse butchery that the sedicious might spoyle and make hauocke of the others goods The King who was named Emanuell beeing aduertised of this exceeding Massacre caused the two aforenamed plagues of the Cloyster and the Common-wealth to be

shee defends her-selfe by Martyrs by Fayth Humilitie Obedience yea all the other Vertues and not by mortall Armes The Church is millitant but with what warre hurts and woundes euen those of her Spouse CHRIST IESVS who so giues Religion anie other Armes then those that Christ Iesus gaue to hys Church in stedde of aduauncing dooth ruinate it The Armes gyuen by GOD to a Christian are iustice in sted of a Corselet the Helmet of Health the inexpugnable Target of Equitie the Shield of Fayth the Sworde of the Spirit which is the worde of GOD. Heere-vpon Saint Paule sayth Let vs which are of the daie bee sober putting on the Breast-plate of Fayth and Charitie and the hope of Saluation for our Helmet For God hath not appointed vs to wrath but to obtaine Saluation by our Lord Iesus Christ. And to the Ephesians he sayth Finally my Bretheren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on all the Armour of GOD that yee may stande against the assaults of the deuill For wee wrestle not against fleshe and bloode but against Rulers against powers against worldly Gouernours of the darkenesse of this world against spirituall wickednesse in heauenly places For this cause take vnto you the whole Armour of GOD that yee may be able to resist the euill daie and hauing fynished all things to stand fast hauing your feete shodde with the preparation of the Gospell of Peace Aboue all taking the Shielde of Fayth where-with you maie quenche all the fierie Dartes of the Wicked Take also the Helmet of Saluation and the Sworde of the Spirite which is the Woorde of GOD. These Armes are commendable meete for a Christian and hee is forbidden to vse other materiall Armes where he goes for Religion and for hys conscience vvhich are no proper meanes to maintayne and defende them withall And nowe at thys instant comes to my memorie an example well worthie noting shewing that Religion ought not to be debated or prooued by corporall Armes The Hystorie is taken from the faythfull Corriualles of Spayne The Maister of Acantara D. Martin Ianes de la Barduba of the Portugall Nation entred in quarrell with the King of Granado about Religion and woulde make proofe of the trueth of his Religion by Armes Heereupon at the motion of a certaine Hermit vvho had promised hym victorie against the Infidell Moore King in despight of the King of Castile to whom he was subiect and had forbidde him to enter war on this occasion he brought an Armie to the Fielde gaue Battaile to the Moore King and there by the iust iudgement of God was worthily punished For there was he slaine and hys Armie vanquished driuen to flight by the Granadanes In thys case he vsed no manner of collour or pretence the trueth was that he tooke Armes for the maintenaunce of the Christian Religion and yet neuerthelesse was ouer-come Then thou that vnder cloake of Religion hast raised these Armes and perpetrated so manie sundry euils what thinkest thou will become of thee That it is not lawfull for a Subiect to Arme himselfe against his King for what pretence so euer it bee IS it not permitted thē sayst thou to bandie our forces against an hereticall Prince Albeit thou hadst such a one yet is it not for a Subiect to Arme himselfe against his King and that the Catholique Noble men which follow him may well gyue thee to vnderstand Tush this is nothing els but thy deceit it sits thee well to haue such a colloured pretext although thou hast no hereticall Prince For the good life and behauiour of his Maiestie with the desire hee hath to be better instructed without obstinacie if he were in errour as he is not exempts him from that infamous name and renowneth him wyth the most Christian King The tree is knowne by his fruite good reason then that thy barbarous actions shoulde shewe thee to be plunged in the bottomlesse depth of Atheisme For if thou didst beleeue in GOD or but loue him thou wouldest folow his word and obey thy Prince what euer he be in hys conscience he seeketh not to constraine thine He is a Christian most Christian King further of from the infidelitie and impietie that raignes in thee then thou or thy helpers are neere your tyrannous willes to despoile him of hys Crowne I would particulerly aunswer to all thy false inductions placed in a rancke vnder thys slye pretence if others better able then I had not doone it before mee wherein there is not anie thing forgotten This is to bee granted that a soueraigne Prince is not to be violate and hys Subiects are bound to obey him whatsoeuer he be without doing that which is contrarie to the honour of God If the King command me to goe to war in his seruice to mount my horse and to giue a charge vppon the enemies of his estate I will doe it most gladly and am bound in duetie so to doe If he commaund me to change my Religion I will not doe it neither is there any such duetie to be exacted on me But his Highnesse is so wise as he well knowes that his power tendeth not that way at his descretion and appointment remaines our bodies and goods the conscience onely appertaineth to God He can not force it and if perchaunce he should offer the meanes of constraint I would withstand him by sufferance and giue ouer force not resist againe by force I will change my Countrey to shunne this compulsion or I will dye in the defence of my Religion notwithstanding our good Kings thoughts are farre from this he wil not make warre against God to take from hym his kingdome which is our conscience soule he being inspyred with him and burning in the zeale of his loue Hauing deuided the French Empire with God thinkest thou hee will take from him his part or but enterprise vppon hys estate Hee is no Tyrant to doe so like thee that wouldest vsurpe and teare it altogether out of his handes but hee shall well enough defende thee thou hast a puissant and vnconquerable aduersarie against thee hee that with him hath part of this Empire And when thou hast presented all thy humaine forces those that thou hast gathered together of lost men and strange Spanyards equall in number with the Armie of Xerxes yet shalt thou not be able I will not say to fight but onely to hold head against our Alcides hauing hys Maister the most mighty King of Kings to be hys helper who holds him by the hand who in thys estate established him and the predecessours of hy srace for the space of sixe hundred yeeres and more commaundeth vs to obey him thou to thy extreame damage hast prooued hys force more then Herculean Hys Edicts and holy ordinaunces be obeyed and most expresly already proposed by manie pennes and sundry Doctors of diuinitie for our perfection which consisteth in the obedience due to