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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

sons in sacrifice as the vnnaturall king of Moab did 2. Reg 3. to pacifie his incensed Gods naie The Papists are content to hazard theyr liues for the restoring of the Romishe Religion contented to make your owne liues a prate as the Athenians did when they accorded by casting of lottes to surrender themselues to be deuoured of that hideous monster Minotaurus Those among you that haue rotted in the corruption and wallowed in the filthines of their opinions longing with the dogge to returne to theyr olde vomite deserue to be laughed at for their madnes concerning whome we may cry out with the Prophet Is there no baulme at Gilead Ierem. 8. is there no Phisicion there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people healed And those maie be compared to the Scarabie which beeing bred in the dunghill prospereth there exceeding well but if shée happen to settle vnder the rose trée she dieth incōtinently The other that neuer sawe papistrie in his highest ruffe but through the seducing of their olde maisters haue bene brought to the bent of their bow are to be pitied for their follie of whome we may say with the Orator that they may seeme to haue sucked error out of theyr Nurses brestes with the verie milke of theyr infancie and these are like the foolish flie that dallieth so long with the candle till shee senge her winges in the flame these playe as did the fond Satyre who espying the fire that Prometheus first brought downe from heauen would needes kisse it because it glistered in hys eyes Both these sortes iointly considered resemble that sottish Grillus who when he with the rest of his companions had by the polliticke and ingenious stratageme of Vlisses escaped from out the denne of that deformed Ciclop Polyphemus would needes haue gone back with the hazard of his life to haue recouered his girdle that he left behind him And beeing afterwardes in the same voiage by the inchantments of Circes chaunged into the forme of an hog refused to return to the shape of a man The pope is that monster and astonishment of nature who hath so long inchained christian soules in miserable thraldome and more then Egiptian seruitude The Romish Religion more infected with errors then Augaeus stable was filled with ordure where they haue continued lockt vp in his darkesome dungeon as in the shadow of death which is more replentisht with ordure then Augaeus stable and therefore requireth a mightier and more puissant champion to purge it then Hercules was He is that abhominable strumpet that so long besotted the world with her witchcraftes and sorceries that made The kings and inhabitants of the earth dronken with the wine of her fornication Apocal. 17 But in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full mixt he poureth out of the same Psalme 75. surely all the wicked of the world shal wring out and drinke the dregs therof If all the wicked shall drink of it then of all the most wicked in respect of whom Ieroboam may be reputed for righteous he euen he of all others the most wicked shal haue a large draught for his share he shall turne off a full carouse If ye would but fasten your eyes vpon me a while ye might in my forehead easilie reads what woulde be your own destinies vnder his gouernment For though time hath healed the wounds with which he despitefully mangled my body yet the skars and blemishes remain stil behind My meaning is there yet liueth many a one whose father mother brother sister kinsman or friend this sauage Antichrist hath wrongfully murthered by vntimelydeath abridged the date of theyr days cōfiscating their goods and leauing their posterity not onely fatherles children but also comfortles orphans When I look back to the calamity of those times I féele my poore hart begin to resolue into streams of blood mine eyes melt into flouds of teares at the onely remembrance thereof euen as the carcase of a murtherd man gusheth forth into bléeding at the presence of the murtherer Hercules when he came vp from hel looking back at the wonderful dangers that he had waded through shooke for ioy And how can I but reioyce with trembling before my Lord God who hath takē off my purple garment and clothed me with a white robe who hath wiped away the teares from mine eies and crowned me with ioy and gladnes Therefore blessed be my Lord the hath greeted his spouse with this consolation Behold winter is past Cant. 2. the storm is blown ouer gone awaie Yea for euer magnified he his name that hath respected the lowly essate of hys handmaid How might I now expresse the moitie of grief that I then felt when my bosome was bedewed with the warim blood of guiltles martirs when reuerent old age wanted due obsequies These things are too true to be denied and to apparant to be dissembled when flouring youth was causeles cropt in his prime when womans weaknes was not spared no not the woman with child but O more then barbarous cruelty when the infant springing out of the mothers wombe was thrown againe into the fire what should I speake of burning the hands of persons vncondemned or of priuie slaughters cōmitted in prisons seeing to the former example I doubt whether Phalaris hunself if he had then liued could haue added ame thing for the aggrauating of their tiranny Thinke with your selues how I groned vnder the importable waight of so lamentable distresses which if they did then craze my hart they would now force it to breake in sunder But as Capnio said quum duplicarentur lateres tum venit Moses when Pharao caused the task of brick to be doubled then came Moses And when burdens begin to grow ouergrieuous then ariseth vp deliuerance When the Philistines offred sacrifice to their God Dagon Iudic. 16. scoffing and insulting at the miserie of Samson whose eyes they had before bored out then was their comical pastime interturbed with a tragicall conclusion the house came tumbling on theyr heads God made him their scourge whome they made theyr game Prouerb 16. For pride goeth before destruction and a high mind before a fall Luc. 18. and could it be that God shoulde not auenge his elect which cried daie and night vnto him yea though hee suffered them long When Nessus the Centaure intending to rauish Dianeira had receiued his deathes wound for his hire at Hercules hand he then besought her of pardon and making semblance of great sorrow he gaue her of his blood enioyning her to reserue it as a rare monument and riche treasure the vertue whereof hee said was inualuable for therby shee might at her pleasure reclayme the wandering affection of her husband if hee should chance at any time through distoialtie to estraunge himselfe from her companie Of which thing shee afterward making triall washed