Swerd thorow the which they haue so long a tyme defendid them selues that it is to late for the church to seke for , or call home hir children again whiche haue alredy forgotten ther mother . Yf the turkysh sect , do not sufficientlye declare vnto you the greatnes & hougenes of the perill which I haue spoken of before . Germany it felfe doth shew it aboundantly if thou doest consider wyth thy selfe how quiet , how peaceable , and religious a prounce it hath bene in tymes paste , and finallye howe plentifull and aboundant it was in all thinges , so long as it contynwed in the vnytye of the church . Contrarywyse yf you do marke these late dais or times in the which it is vexed and troubled with intestine and cyuyle warres after that it had refused & reiectid the head of the church it is so tossed & troubled that all hope of recouery or end of there myschiefs is vtterly past except ( as god graunt they may ) they do retorne again to thee vnity of ther head and church . Verely this acknowleging of one hed or Gouernour hath alwais benethe moste sure and strong fort and defence of the church . This the herytikes aboue all thinges do chyefly assaille & inuade this same the catholykes do alwais defend , yea and Cesar him self . like wise of late was it also defendid in England euen , of the nobles being the children of the chuch in so murch that thei thought it better to offer ther maked bodyes vnto the weapons of their enemyes rather then they wold forsake that only fort and strong hold the which being once subdewed & ouercome th enemyes of christ myghty haue easy passage to assail & ouerthrow the church Notwithstanding they haue vaanquissed and slayne diuerse myghty men children of the church which sought to with stand them . The which thing it is no ▪ maruaill though it com so to passe for so much as tehnemys haue a king to bether gwyde and Capytaine . As yet in all the great myseries and calamyties which haue happened vnto the church ther was neuer no kinge which had conceiuid anny peruerse or contagious opinion against the same , but now it hath so inuadid the hart of our kinge that he doth defende and mayntaine this his secte euen by thee very same meanes as the turk doth mahumet shewyng & shaking his nakid and drawenswerd vnto al such as dare once dissent or disagre from hym . Nether doth he so muche desyre any thyng as that he myght haue tyme and space to confyrme and establyshe hym self that he myght bring a greater myschief and plague vpon the church then hath at any tyme before bene wrought by any turke and suerley he wyll do nolesse yf he obtayne that which he doth desire and goo about .

Wylt thow then o Cesar : which sayest that thou bereste such a zeale and loue vnto the christian comon welth that thou wylt do althinges for thee louee therof , graunt or gyue hym this time & space , Seing this parte of the Comon wealthe thus vexed crieng and calling for thy helpe ayd & socour seing their ruyne so nere that remedi can not be any more prolonged yf yt shulde any thing at all profit .

But you couert your hole force and poure another wais so that what thorow your far dystance & absence and your doubtfull warres against so myghty an enemye all hope is vtterly taken away that you can by any meanes help or succour vs in seson as them whome you go now to deliuer out of bondage , wylt thou then o Cesar frustrate th expectacion of all thy frindes especially seing that the truste and confidence which thy haue in you is th only cause whye the haue not as yett tryed ther owen force and pouer at home nether haue attemptid to defend them selues by their owne strength . do not hinke Cesar that all the noble spirytes and Courages ar gone out of the english mens harts nether Iudge that al the loue of sincere & pure religion is vtterlye extinct in them . A sure coniectour & tryall you maye haue her of by the death of them which wil nigly haue yeldyd them selues to their enemyeis to be offred vp for relygions sake . If god in the tyme of helias the prophete preseruide seuen thousand men which had not bowed their knes vnto baal from thee wycked Achab when they shuld haue bene slayn thorough the perswasion of his wicked wyfe Iezabel , do not think that in this tyme in the which the grace of the holye gost is muche more spred abrode that this wycked Iezabel though she be neuer so swyft vnto slaughter coulde haue put to death all the trew worshipers of religion . Beleue me ther remayn yet hole legions in England of those which haue not bowed their knees vnto Baall whome , whollye and altogether yf thou do come God hym self whiche hath preseruid them will bring them vnto you . The Englyshmen o Cesar ar euen the very same which for a muche lighter cause euen them selues wihout any external help or ayd haue taken vengeance on their owen kinges for the euil administration of the comon wealth . They which also haue called ther kinges to accompt for the wastfull spending of ther mony to thee domage of the comon wealth and when they could not approue & iustify the same they compellid them to resigne both croune and strepter whose coragions and stout stomacks for so much as they do yet remain nothing doth stay nether hath stayd them a great while from reuenging thinium of their king but only the hope & expectation which they had in you . vnto whome they thought this matter so muche to pertayn , that except you wold defraud your , owne nature , which by many your worthi actes thei wer persuadid to be most noble or els that you wolde set a syde all loue of religion the which it hath aperid you to be moste studions & desirous of : that they wer assured that you could not but you must neds take this mater or cause vpon you . For they suppose vereley that throughe you their euell mai much more easili withe lesse trouble and danger , vnto the kingdome be remedyed and withstand , then yf they them selues shuld haue attemptid it with their owen pouer & ther in suerly they Iudge well and worthely do loke for you . But whether now o Cesar doest thou fley so fare from them , what thing doth draw the away so farr from thy frindes leuing so great an ocasion ministred the at home and to go wher ther is lesse danger . do thy souldiars draw the that way ? Or is their willes more bent towarde thee affaires of th east parte wher their auncient enemyes are then to ward the west wher new enemys are Rysen ?

What Souldyars bee they o Cesar ? If thei be the Spaniards to whome of Ryght thou doest much trust whose glory also in dyuerse battaills hath largely apearid : Truly yf they hard or sawe that noble progeny or ofspringe of Isabel oppressed with mysery and calamytye in a most Iust cause desyring or requiring their help and ayd I know Cesar that the memory of that most worthy woman is not yet so fare out of their mind that they wold vtterly frustrate the desyres and requestes of her most worthy doughter . I know ther is nothing so acceptable vnto them which they wold not wyllingly refuse and Leue of to healp this noble woman whome th only honor of the knygdome of spayne ▪ which herin is chyefly sought wold sufficyently moue ther vnto yf they dyd but only heare or vnderstand , that the king of spain his doughter being by the space of .xx. yeres coupled in mariage to be thrust out of the kinges palaice for a harlottes cause as though she had bene the doughter of some light person or of some boure or els had come bi stealth from the futher parts of barbarye vnto the kinges chamber & not to haue had so noble a kinge to her parent Or that she had ryghfully bene geuen him to wyfe out of so noble a kingdome , wolde they with a quiet mind suffer so great a iniury which scarsly man of the basest sort wold beare or suffer . And wher as ther cane scarsly any man be found of so couerdly a stomack which wold not by all means possible euen with the perill of his lyfe seke to reuenge suche an opprobri done vnto his doughter : wold not the Spanyards , whose valiant courages hath bene experimētid the semani yeres in sondri victoryes reuenge the iniurye of their kinges doughter , how I say can the noble nation of the spainyardes neglect or think any thing to bee preferrid before this so great an iniurye which doth both deface ther victories and most manyfestly assault your honour and the glory & renowne of spain . what thing can be more ignominious or slaunderous vnto you then so muche to esteme other nations that spain ether wyll not or can not reuenge such a contumelious iniuri done , vnto them . But truly yt can not so bee thought . The whiche that thou maist euydently know suffer me ( o Cesar ) only to speak vnto thy souldiars and thou shalt see them all with one accorde as sone as they shall here the doughter of quene Izabell and thy neuew once named desiringe ther ayd and healpe redy yf thou wilt suffer them to alter their , course and iourney . But I ( Cesar ) require or desire nothing of the nor of thi souldiars for thy cosynne katherines sake . Nether will she anye thing to be spoken in her behalfe complainyng nothing at al of her vnfortunate estate but willingli bearith the vnstability of fortune that which hathe so shewid her cruelty vpon her that euen in the tyme in the which thou dydest most florysh & she ought to hau floryshed & she was cast downe into a most myserable state & condicion , iea & by how much thy affaires dyd most succede and go forward with the : so much the more iniuriously and greuuosly she was handled and oppressid . But of her self priuatly she doth nothing complain or say nether of her one cause , it is for england o Cesar that she complaynyth to whome it is geuen into the which as a noble plant or graft she is translatid & grafted that whiche contrey also she ought to loue as her owne & truli doeth it . For this Contrey she doth entreate for so much as her cause is so knit bi al meanes possible with that cause of this most noble & her derly be loued prouince , and countrey , that her cause beyng neglectid it must nedes folow thee contrey also to be in most euil estate . More ouer what a peasable and quiet prouince she found at her commyng thyther , and now how yt is vexid with seditious and inward warres , thee whiche can not happen without her great hurt and detriment , for so muche as her cause is so vnited and knyte with religion : So that yf she be forsaken , it must nedes folow religion to be destitute , thee ancyent fayth of the churche to be abolished and new sectes to spring and rise , not only in the Iland which she found most religious and holy : but also thorough the contagion of the same to infect and spred ouer all other countreys & prouinces , and therby finalli al the hole church to be perturbed and troubled . If this myschief be such that none can be more greuous , in the which alone all other myschiefs ar conteynid and is sene , not by coniecture or gesse as a tempest hanging our our heads , but perseaued to be euen at hand and to bee growen vnto this point that no mans estate or condition is more dangerous in england than such as be most relyons and holy the which do retain and kepe the auncyent costume & faith of the church ( who can be in safegard there where as such examples of cruelty hath bene sheued vppon those most holy men Rochester and More ) yf fynally all these thinges ( o Cesar ) be such that yt wold moue and styr the hartes of all princes and noble men to redresse and amend the same she therefore dooth requir the help and socour be not longer delay or kept backe from the comon wealth

Thou doest transfygnre thy self into an angel of lyght be cause thou goest about to low most deadly poison .

This is the general & natural sense of all the popysh secte to count all them which haue professed the gospell for turkes and worse then turkes for ther Paule . 3. is a bryeff ( as they call it carted ) about of paulus the .iii. vnto th emperour and king of the Romains in the which the very same thing is affirmed so that who soeuer doeth consider this oration shall easily presaeue that that also was made bi the same cardinall

The Soules which ar taken out of the lappe and tyranye of the popysh church and restoryd vnto the trew church of Cryst such as ar all they whome thou falsly callest Turkes can be in no maner of perill and danger of Saluation but all such ar in great danger the whiche agre and consent with the popysh sect in so much that all hope of their saluation is past except thei be drawen a way from thence by the myghty power of god

Thou callest the preching of the gospell a great myschief by cause you feare that the power and existimation of your popes shuld be theirby be dymynyshed for as touching the Saluation or perdytion of Soules what doth that partain vnto you .

Art thou not ashamid to call the most noble kinges of england demmarke and gothia and so manye famous princes of germani both for their byrth auctoryty & god lynes so many consulles and rulers of the free cytyes and fynali so many good and learnyd men seruantes of Iesus Chryst and mynisters of the gospel new turkes only vpon this occasion bycause they hauing reseauid that pure knowledg and vnderstandinge of the word of God haue forsaken all your superstitions and idolatrys , doth the truthe and charytye The king which haue embrosis . the gospell . of the Sonne of god which thou faygnest to be so abundant in thy hart that thou canste not lay it awa ? teach or persuade the herunto .

Christ lefte none to be the head of the churche but only hym self vnto whome onely we most sticke and cleaue & vtterli reiecte & refuse this your fained hed thee pope .

Albeit thou haddest nat expressid it thy selfe who dyd not plainly se that all those opprobryes and tauntes which in thy rage and madnes thou hast obiectid and cast against the king of england to redounde also to the great ignomyny and shame of the most noble princes of germany the whiche also with him haue withe drawen them selues from the yoke and obedience of thee popes , The turkish sede is pestiferous & fals . notwithestandinge thou like a most modest and sober Cardinall euen of th aboundance of thy hart woldest also by name taunt and teare this contrey of germany , darest thou be so bold to afirme the holy gospell of Iesu Chryst the which we preach & teach in our churches to be the adulterous and pestiferous turkish sede ? do you thinke that we haue so much for saken & cast awai the catholike veriti , yf these thinges be treue which thou doest falsli affirme then truli the apostles & al the primitiue church had not the catholyke fayth but that pestiferous and adulterous sede . Art thou not ashamed to affirme and fett these thinges in thy bokes , and wheras thou-saist thou doest hope that this nation wyll abiect and cast of the pure and syncere doctrine of thee gospell and retorne again vnto your coruption and ydolatry thou art muche deceauid or that I think rather trew , you do but fain your self so to beleue or thinke .

I do verely graunt that it is the turkysh maner to answer with the swerd against all such as speke in the name of chryst & I do verely graunt & acknowledge that their secte and relygyonis therby agmentyd and incresid but I pray you see how prudent an orator you ar to propoun this mater in your oration seing thee pope hym self doth dayly answer the children of God and such as do professe christ with the sword galows & fyer & you your self in your oration go about nothinge els then to moue or styre th emperour to warts and to shede the blode of good and holy men haue you not wisely declared herin the pope to play a ryght turkes parte and you yourself to haue a turkish mynd or stomak ? The pope pla●●h the turkes part . The lyk wordes and to the same veri effect we haue Red in the bryeff which I spake of before So that now we do nott dowbt but that you did also sett forth that most cruell sentence the which we once suposid to haue bene done by Cardinall Ceruimus when he was embassador with Card cer. th emperour & as tutor of Cardinall farnesius but in the maene tyme thou doest pretend and shew forth such a modesty in those thy foure bokes in thee whiche thou doest bost thye selfe to abhorre all contentions neuer to haue bene at controuersy withe any man and to haue the loue & Charity of God abondantly in thy mynd the which thing in dede many haue often supposid & thought to be in you but ther is nothinge hiden whiche shall not be opened , for thou hast betraied thy self & hast vttrid that which thow hast long kept secrct in thy mynd .

Do you not thus reason that bycause thee turkish emperour doth much regarde the monkes therfore they do truly worshipp God and Christ ? It is most comely and mete for you to iudge & vse th auctority of that tyrant as most holye , whose example of cruelty against the Children of God you do not only folow but far surmount .

Noman doth beleue the that Moore was put to death for his silence for so much as it is euedent that he was punished for a sedition or cōspirasi raysed bi him but thou veryli art ouerslanderous a person thorough this thy hole boke against the king vnto whom , Moore . thou art not only ioyned by affinyti or kynred but also dydest confesse thy self most bounden who also was ordeined to be thi prince and hed , by god but thou saiest thou woldest correct his errours and vices , Admytt that they were vices , which had bene comeli for the to correcte where I praie you haue you learnid that they ought to be correctid with such slanderous fierse wordes as is in your booke printyd at Rome that which not onley this present age but also the posterity to come shalrede . wold you haue done this thing yf that you had the charyty and loue of God so aboundantly shut vp & enclosed in your hart or mynd ?

We knowe well ynough that you call the. The charter house ●uon●h . Cartuslans those most holy and religious monkes the whiche had enbrased a most diuerse and contrary order from the gospel of Christ and most contaminate and defyled with false kind of worshippings and went about with to the and naill to defend and kepe the same and therfore styrred the people to rebellion against their kinge .

Thow now goest about to teach and persuade that the sect of the turkes is sprong and Rysen the which wold owerthrow the churche , The Po●● by the refusall and deniall of your head of Rome , Mahomet . but harken again what our iugment is here in verely that your worthy head was the cause that Mahomet could not only plant that this most fylthy and wile sect but also bring it to such eficasitie and force . Do you demand the cause whye for so muche as th ambytion and couetousnes of this your head was thonli cause of all those discordes and warres out of the whiche this great myschief sprange and burst out . Further more we affirme that the popes them selues sitting vnder that shadow and colour in the church of God and exalting them selues as it wer aboue all gods to be more hurtfulle and noysome vnto the trew doctrine and faith of Christ then Mahohomet hym self which is an open enemy ther vnto . wherfore it is not for the to go about to driu this dreame into mens heads that the refusall of this most euill and naughty hed hath bred and brought in somani mischiefs into the cristian religion . but we rather thinke that thoze mischiefes which ar alredy roted can by no meanes be taken away excepte that your false head be fyrst abolished as the Rote and spring of all myschief . Germany wheras you do strait annexe that Germani was quiet and peasable and aboundant in all thinges So longe as it continwed vnder th obediens of your popes and that since thei haue reiectid and cast of that yoke of obediens all thinges to be torned into a worse estate th order of the glose doth not suffer vs to answer in mani wordes ( whiche we will do els where ) now we wil briefli shew that you popes you cardinalles and you byshoppes which cannot beare nor suffer the lyght of the gospell to be sheuyd or prechid Popes . Cardinal and byshoppes . but rather desyre to haue yt vtterly extincte and hiden , you , I say both haue bene and at this present ar th only authours and styrrers vp of all sedition dyscorde and mischiefes wherfore lay the faute on your owne neckes and not vpon the doctrine of christ . I prai you tel me wher as you rede often in the gospel and actes of apostels that cytis wer mouid to sedition & that ther was great Vprores & tumultes amongst the people who wer th auctors or mouers of the same was Christ or his apostles or the infideles and enemies of the truth . Suerly the misbeleuers and not Chryst nor his apostles . wherfore you maye be ashamid once to make mention or speke of those warres and myschieffes which you your selues thorough your owne endeuour haue purposeli wrought and causid . Hungary Further more wher as you say that germani is vexid with many inconueniences and euiles bycause yt hath denied your hedwe answer that hungarye is much more tormentid the whiche natwithstanding neuer denied or refused your pope . but do you not know that thorow the afflictions which happen both to the godly and vngodli we can iudge whether we be in the fauour of God or no.

Do you not know that the wyckid idolatres in Ieremye dyd vtter euen the lyke wordes that you now do when as they said . Ieremy ▪ 44. since that we haue left of to offer incence and burnt offringes vnto th engine of heauen we haue had nede & scartytie of al thinges & ar consumid with theswerd & honger , all these thinges you know well ynough and yett you striue against the plain and euident truthe obiectinge those thinges which you now lai befor the people only to diffame and slander the doctrine of our Lorde Iesu Christ as most pestylent and the Rote of all myschief but beleue me thou shalt receue thy reuard for god him self will not suffer this great offence whiche thou hast ministred vnto all Europe to be vnreuengid , few men Iudgid in the that thou haddest such a rancour or madnes in thy mynde as now thow haste vttrid thy selfe to haue by thy fourebokes whiche thou hast set furth for the defence of the pope . do you not remember that chryst doth call and say that who soeuer doth offend but one of these litle ones it wer good for him to haue a mylstone hanged about his neck and to be throuen into the bottome of the see . Offence . we wyll in no wyse suffer our selues to drawen or plucked awai from Christ but ar most fyrmely contentid with this only doctrine and hym to be our onli head and gouernour entending to cleue and styck vnto thee same although you shuld styrre vp a thosand tymes greater warres and myschiefes then you haue hyther to raysed yea although all thee world shulde swarue and fall away , we wold wyllyngly beare the crosse with Christ .

Wher as thou deniest any other king then yours to haue refused this hedd thou art deceauid for I haue alredy remembrid too other which haue done the lyke euen the most holy and vertuous kinges of denmarke & gothia whome thou doest also call turkes I pray you when you dyd write these thinges dyd you not cast in your mynd that there myght happen some man to come forth which might tripe you with a lye wherbi your name and estimation myght be grealty hurt but this is verely the work of God that he might destroye the wysdome of the wyse Again thou reprehendest the turk for shaking his teriblesword vnto all such as dare ones dissentt from him the which suerly you do very well repete renwing in our memory and also reprehending that which your own pope doth euen with much more cruelty and oftener then the turk . The pope the Turke .

Here thou blowest thy trumpet saing vnto Cesar conuert thy nauy put on thy armor and transuereat into brytayne and destroi that kingdome with fyer and sword shed the bloode of the king and his people yea and be most seuerely reuengid vpon them for thei haue for saken the pope to be their head . Is this acomely saing of so sober , & holy man as you ar , haue you learned this out of the gospell of the charitie and loue of god which you say is so aboundantly grafted in your mynde , Christ Peter . wher as christ comandid peter when he drew his sword to put it vp into the sheath agaiē Thou contrary wyse callest vppon Cesar which hath his sword closed in his sheath , draw thy sword kill and slea ? But wotte you what you haue brought to pas by this your oration , wyll you that I shall tell you ? verely that almen may iustli think and Iudge in the , that in this embassade whiche thou now art in vnto th emperour that vnder the pretence of intreating of peace thow soundest none other thing in his eares then those wordes which I haue before mentioned & that thou doest study and go about nothing els but only to moue him and styrr him vp against vs .

So that yf it happen warres to be moued at this season against vs we will impute all the calamity and miseri vnto the alone , and this eternall praise and glorye thou shall receaue therby

O Immortall God how darest thou bee so bold to call that the pure and sincere religion in the which you haue most horribly prophanate and defyled the word of God and the sacraments whiche wer ordeined by Christ verely you could haue vsid no word which myght worse haue agreed to that your romyshe seat and relygion . Sincere relygion . But contrary wyse we may truly call that a sincere and pure religion which we professe which is the very same that the prophetes and Iesus Christe him self and the Apostles haue taught from this we go about with all our pouer and endeuour to purge away the leuen & fylthy dregges with the which it was conntamyants & defyled of your popes & their adherents . But I pray you tel me ar you that call this , your relygion sincere and pure thee same Cardinall Poole whiche made that boke entituled the counsell for the amendement of the church the which also didest write that exhortation whiche was had in the counsel of the fathers at tridentum ? The consell for the amendment of the chuch . it is euen so thou art th auctor of them both . And in them both thou doest wysely affirme that you haue forsaken the springes of the water of lyfe ( which is the true doctrine of Iesus Christ ) and haue digged vnto your selfes Cesternes and pittes not able to hold any water , that is to sai , you haue broūght in mens fainid traditions , morouer thou saist in the same place that the popes hath gotten vnto themselues masters which do tikle them in th eares of whome truly thei learne how to invert and contamynat all good and holy thinges , I demaund of the then , whether thou canst truly call thys asincere and pure relligion or no , woo be vnto the Cardinall pole woo be vnto the for that whiche nowght is thou call est good and contrary wyse the good naught .