¶
Orations
,
of
Arsanes
agaynst
Philip
the
trecherous
kyng
of
Macedone
:
of
the
Embassadors
of
Venice
against
the
Prince
that
vnder
crafty
league
with
Scanderbeg
,
layed
snares
for
Christendome
:
and
of
Scanderbeg
prayeng
ayde
of
Christian
Princes
agaynst
periurous
murderyng
Mahumet
and
agaynst
the
old
false
Christian
Duke
Mahumetes
confederate
.
With
a
notable
example
of
Gods
vengeance
vppon
a
faithlesse
Kyng
,
Quene
,
and
her
children
.
¶
Imprinted
at
London
,
by
Iohn
Daye
.
GReat
is
the
pleasure
of
readyng
histories
.
So
naturall
is
to
man
the
delite
&
desire
of
knowlege
.
And
as
in
all
other
affections
wherewith
we
are
led
by
instinct
of
nature
,
the
wise
or
vnwise
appliance
therof
by
the
rule
of
reason
and
learning
or
by
the
vnruly
sway
of
will
and
fansie
,
doe
make
the
same
tend
either
to
vices
or
vertues
,
to
hurt
or
to
profite
,
&
with
the
clothing
of
vse
&
circumstance
they
take
vppon
them
the
shew
and
name
of
good
or
bad
:
so
in
desirous
hearing
or
reding
the
actes
of
men
and
monumentes
of
times
,
the
employeng
and
directing
of
knowledge
therby
gotten
,
in
wise
or
vaine
forme
,
to
good
or
euill
endes
,
maketh
the
difference
of
time
wel
or
ill
bestowed
,
of
profit
or
disprofite
,
and
of
deseruyng
praise
or
dispraise
.
He
that
redeth
histories
of
farre
distant
contreyes
or
farre
passed
ages
,
with
an
idle
vayne
lust
to
heare
newes
,
or
to
tell
tales
,
or
as
it
were
to
spend
out
time
,
or
to
do
as
those
that
know
no
other
vse
of
redyng
but
after
surfet
to
winne
slepe
,
hath
lost
both
his
leasure
and
his
labour
,
&
hath
spent
them
both
like
a
drane
that
flyeth
about
the
fieldes
gazing
vppon
floures
but
gathering
no
hony
of
them
,
and
after
the
fayre
day
fondly
wasted
is
fayne
to
be
susteined
by
the
labours
of
other
,
him selfe
a
frutelesse
burden
to
the
common
weale
.
But
he
that
followyng
the
right
rule
of
wisedome
,
gathereth
profit
of
euery
lawfull
pleasure
,
taketh
not
onely
the
beautious
sight
of
the
varietie
fairenesse
proportion
forme
and
order
of
those
ornaments
of
the
earth
the
her●es
,
leaues
,
floures
and
frutes
that
garnish
the
fieldes
and
gardens
,
but
also
vseth
to
his
comfort
and
health
the
swéetnesse
of
their
sauor
,
and
worketh
out
of
them
to
the
benefite
of
his
own
life
&
of
the
common
weale
the
swete
tasting
,
the
pleasant
smelling
,
the
holesome
feding
&
healing
honey
.
By
that
he
is
him selfe
susteined
,
his
neigbours
releued
,
his
posteritie
preserued
,
&
by
common
conference
the
whole
societie
mainteined
,
with
obedience
to
their
owne
naturall
kyng
the
minister
of
iustice
and
enemie
of
idlenesse
.
Such
a
reader
of
hystories
digesteth
euery
mater
into
hys
right
place
and
to
his
right
purpose
,
&
thereof
hee
layeth
vp
the
store
of
wisedome
for
him selfe
,
and
counsell
for
other
,
and
is
made
able
to
shew
the
true
difference
of
a
man
from
a
beast
,
in
that
he
is
not
carried
by
sense
alone
to
that
which
either
present
sight
doth
offer
him
,
or
present
hunger
or
other
néede
enforce
him
,
but
of
his
own
experience
remembreth
,
or
by
hearyng
of
other
or
readyng
of
bookes
hee
learneth
the
state
of
times
past
,
the
doyngs
of
men
,
their
counsels
,
their
gouernance
,
and
lastly
their
successes
.
By
beholdyng
of
those
,
as
in
a
glasse
,
he
discerneth
and
iudgeth
rightly
of
thinges
present
,
and
foreséeth
wisely
of
thinges
to
come
.
Toward
the
furniture
of
a
man
thus
disposed
,
histories
not
onely
many
but
in
sondry
wise
haue
bene
written
,
and
of
that
diuersitie
in
forme
of
writing
names
haue
ben
geuen
to
such
workes
&
treatises
.
Some
haue
set
forth
brief
notes
by
yeares
and
dayes
called
Annales
,
diaries
and
iournales
,
expressing
shortly
what
thinges
haue
happened
in
those
yeres
or
dayes
,
with
onely
notyng
the
persones
tymes
places
&
factes
.
Some
for
their
own
remembrance
or
aduertising
their
frendes
haue
kept
commentaries
or
memorialles
,
wherin
they
haue
dealt
largelier
or
breflier
as
their
disposition
to
labour
or
their
leasure
haue
serued
thē
.
Some
haue
written
treatises
or
discourses
vpon
some
special
factes
,
by
way
of
gathering
other
thinges
to
the
conformitie
of
that
which
they
treate
of
,
and
applieng
both
it
and
the
other
to
some
end
of
persuasion
,
as
some
present
occasion
of
their
cause
or
time
hath
required
.
Some
comming
to
that
worke
furnished
with
vnderstanding
and
learning
haue
written
such
bookes
as
we
call
iust
and
perfect
hystories
,
either
of
all
times
and
places
,
or
of
all
places
for
some
time
,
or
of
some
place
throughout
all
times
,
or
of
some
singular
contrey
,
common
weale
,
place
,
or
person
,
or
of
some
speciall
warre
,
enterprise
,
gouernance
,
or
mater
.
Those
as
their
purpose
hath
ledde
them
,
haue
not
onely
with
faithfulnesse
set
out
what
hath
bene
done
,
but
with
great
art
and
wisedome
haue
layed
open
the
secret
intentes
,
counsels
,
meanings
,
&
groundes
of
doynges
conceiued
by
those
whoes
actes
are
there
expressed
.
They
haue
described
the
contreyes
,
the
persons
,
the
state
,
the
forme
of
rule
,
the
lawes
,
the
affaires
and
managing
therof
,
the
order
of
warre
and
peace
,
the
quiet
calmenesse
of
some
times
,
the
troublesomnesse
of
other
seasons
,
either
by
warre
or
sedition
,
the
raysing
of
the
one
or
other
or
appeasing
of
both
,
by
the
ambition
or
violence
of
some
wittes
or
the
discretion
and
policie
of
other
,
the
negligence
in
some
,
the
wantonnesse
in
some
,
the
foule
vices
in
some
,
the
follie
in
some
,
the
want
of
counsell
and
assistance
in
some
,
the
varietie
of
successes
,
and
vpon
what
occasions
,
and
what
effectes
haue
folowed
vppon
sondry
causes
,
as
safeties
,
destructions
,
rising
falling
,
good
bap
or
miserie
,
either
by
pleasing
or
offendyng
God
,
by
takyng
fit
auantages
or
neglecting
good
seasons
and
occasions
,
by
foreseyng
in
time
or
hedelesly
drawing
of
mischeues
,
by
forsakyng
frendes
and
neighbours
in
necessitie
or
by
tymely
and
frendly
assistance
thereby
both
bindyng
kindnesse
&
gatheryng
assuraunce
,
by
caring
for
no
warnynges
or
listening
to
good
vnderstandyng
ere
it
be
to
late
,
by
hangyng
vpon
Gods
miracles
onely
or
seruyng
hym
with
due
trauaile
and
policie
,
by
trusting
to
humane
wisedome
and
borrowing
vpon
the
will
of
God
or
subiectyng
all
deuises
to
the
rule
of
Gods
pleasure
,
by
doyng
not
enough
,
by
trustyng
to
much
,
by
egall
or
vnegal
distribution
of
ryght
,
by
cunnyng
dissemblyng
or
playne
true
dealyng
and
by
infinite
other
meanes
dispositions
and
appliances
of
tymes
persones
maters
doynges
and
chaunces
in
this
mortall
life
.
Such
writers
haue
beside
this
also
some
time
for
encouragyng
to
souldiars
,
some
time
for
appeasing
troubles
,
sometyme
for
counsell
either
for
mater
of
iustice
or
of
policie
,
or
for
deliberation
to
prouide
for
atteyning
of
benefites
or
eschuyng
of
mischieues
to
come
,
or
for
other
wise
purposes
,
set
forth
Orations
in
the
names
of
those
persons
whom
they
make
to
speake
them
,
wherof
are
plentie
to
be
found
in
the
Gréeke
authours
Thucidides
,
Xenophon
and
other
,
and
the
Latines
Caesar
,
Salust
,
Liuie
,
and
the
rest
.
And
in
the
same
they
seme
as
in
their
whole
historie
to
haue
serued
the
vse
of
posteritie
,
in
true
declaration
of
the
factes
to
lay
a
grounde
for
the
iugement
of
the
wise
reader
,
least
by
misreporting
of
the
mater
,
the
vnderstanding
of
the
considerer
should
be
seduced
in
pronouncing
vpon
the
successe
.
And
agayne
in
the
large
explication
of
spech
and
Oration
,
both
the
vse
of
eloquence
in
common
weale
should
appeare
,
and
the
maner
of
applyeng
of
hystories
in
consultation
should
be
layed
abrode
for
an
example
to
the
wise
readers
of
hystories
,
not
onely
howe
to
furnishe
theyr
owne
knowlege
,
but
also
howe
profitably
to
deliuer
the
same
to
the
information
warnyng
or
aduise
of
other
.
Such
hystories
be
glasses
of
experience
,
scholehouses
of
wisedome
,
very
prophecies
of
tymes
and
chaunces
,
gouernesses
to
vertue
,
terrible
threateners
and
warners
to
flée
vice
and
follie
.
In
such
histories
written
to
such
endes
,
I
doe
not
thinke
that
all
the
Orations
were
so
spoken
by
the
parties
as
they
were
penned
by
the
reporters
,
but
that
suche
wryters
seruyng
trueth
in
the
factes
,
haue
in
the
maner
of
speches
serued
wisedome
and
teachyng
,
and
&
not
so
much
told
what
in
what
forme
was
sayd
in
déede
,
as
(
all
true
circumstances
of
factes
considered
)
what
such
a
person
might
haue
fittly
spoken
,
the
author
respectyng
therin
both
what
such
a
man
might
with
good
seruyng
hys
purpose
then
say
,
and
what
in
his
saying
the
readers
in
tyme
to
come
were
also
to
be
taught
&
might
wel
learne
.
This
kinde
of
exercise
is
both
pleasant
&
profitable
.
And
for
some
example
thereof
,
it
hath
semed
to
tend
to
good
purpose
to
publish
in
our
tong
these
Orations
folowyng
,
wherein
is
conteined
mater
&
president
of
good
admonition
,
&
a
meane
of
great
efficacie
to
awaken
Christians
,
&
a
substantiall
teaching
to
trust
in
God
and
to
feare
shrinkyng
from
the
defense
of
his
cause
and
Church
.
The
arguments
are
seuerally
set
before
the
Orations
.
The
first
,
of
Arsanes
the
Persian
,
is
made
after
the
mater
of
the
hystorie
as
it
is
reported
in
Iustines
Epitome
of
the
hystorie
written
by
Trogus
Pompeius
.
Wherein
as
Iustine
hath
shortly
knit
vp
what
Trogus
had
sette
out
at
large
,
so
here
is
largely
dilated
what
Iustine
had
abriged
,
the
truth
of
the
fact
and
decorum
or
conuenient
agréement
of
the
persons
and
circumstances
alway
iustly
obserued
.
The
second
conteyning
two
Orations
,
one
of
the
Ueneciā
Embassadour
,
the
other
of
the
Archbishop
of
Durasso
,
are
faithfully
translated
out
of
Marinus
Barletius
.
The
last
,
of
Scanderbeg
to
Christian
Princes
,
is
made
as
the
first
is
,
as
we
thought
hee
might
then
aptly
haue
sayd
,
&
as
he
so
saying
,
should
both
haue
agréed
with
his
cause
and
person
&
with
our
case
&
learnyng
.
All
is
warranted
by
the
history
in
effect
,
though
not
in
forme
of
euery
sillable
or
sentence
.
As
where
it
is
sayd
by
Barletius
that
Mahumet
beyng
a
Prince
Principes
Rasciae
contra
fidem
datam
perfide
obtruncauit
,
did
agaynst
his
fayth
geuen
periurously
slaughter
the
Princes
of
Rascia
,
we
take
it
frée
for
detestation
of
falshed
&
warnyng
to
posteritie
,
to
set
out
at
large
any
most
periurous
manner
of
murdering
of
noblemen
agaynst
fayth
geuen
,
hauyng
alway
regard
that
it
be
such
as
might
be
truely
reported
of
Mahumet
.
And
where
he
sayth
that
Mahumet
so
did
against
faith
geuen
,
he
can
not
meane
any
other
but
sayth
geuen
by
Mahumet
.
And
Mahumet
beyng
a
Prince
,
that
faith
can
be
no
other
but
fayth
royall
and
the
word
of
a
Prince
,
the
breache
whereof
is
for
the
rarenesse
,
and
for
the
mighty
abilitie
to
doe
hurt
,
iustly
most
odious
,
and
of
necessitie
in
wise
policie
most
strongly
to
be
resisted
and
repressed
with
most
terrible
example
,
or
elles
the
fall
of
that
estate
or
destruction
of
mankynde
to
bee
shortly
looked
for
.
If
this
shall
doe
good
,
either
in
teaching
how
to
applie
,
or
warning
what
to
feate
,
or
aduising
how
to
do
,
the
labour
is
well
bestowed
.
If
other
captious
constrctions
be
gathered
,
their
fault
is
it
,
and
their
blame
be
it
,
for
whom
it
was
neuer
prouided
.
Let
such
cauillous
expounders
&
wresters
leaue
it
to
truer
men
to
read
it
,
to
wiser
men
to
iudge
vpon
it
,
&
to
honester
men
to
take
profit
of
it
.
Who
so
will
draw
hystories
of
times
past
further
than
he
ought
,
in
racking
an
other
mans
mynde
he
hath
ouerstretched
his
owne
conscience
.
Who
so
truely
touched
in
like
faultes
wil
think
him selfe
to
be
charged
,
chargeth
hym selfe
.
Who
so
findyng
truth
&
aduise
for
his
safetie
will
not
thereto
applie
it
,
or
espieng
mater
for
his
instruction
will
take
no
frute
of
it
,
shall
perishe
neuerthelesse
miserably
but
a
greate
deale
more
worthily
.
Finally
good
reader
take
this
rule
,
that
God
made
al
things
for
his
glorie
,
God
foreséeth
and
disposeth
the
very
fall
of
a
sparow
.
Therfore
all
actes
of
men
&
all
successes
are
to
be
referred
to
his
honor
.
Him
let
vs
serue
and
trust
vpon
,
him
let
vs
thank
and
to
him
let
vs
pray
for
our
most
gracious
soueraigne
,
that
she
may
long
reigne
,
&
ouerlyue
Gods
enemies
and
hers
,
and
specially
those
whiche
enuye
her
state
,
and
would
her
place
to
be
occupyed
by
them selues
or
any
other
that
hate
the
word
and
flocke
of
God
:
and
that
it
will
please
God
(
if
it
be
his
will
)
to
stablishe
our
soueraigne
Ladyes
throne
in
long
peace
,
and
either
by
his
owne
mightie
hand
,
or
by
hys
worke
in
her
hart
for
doyng
of
iustice
,
to
destroye
the
rod
of
foreine
and
Popish
tyrannie
that
he
in
danger
of
succéedyng
shaketh
ouer
hys
Churche
,
that
no
enemie
of
Christ
nor
childe
of
Antichrist
may
lyue
to
bryng
the
thraldome
of
Mariane
crueltie
,
Sylla
.
Mar.
Car
.
nor
Caracallaes
royall
periurie
,
nor
any
of
such
faythlesse
kyndes
or
races
to
oppresse
the
poore
Realme
of
England
:
and
that
no
Prince
fearyng
God
euer
trust
the
vntrusty
,
specially
those
whoes
Antichristian
Popish
doctrine
pronounceth
open
allowrance
of
breach
of
fayth
to
Christians
whome
they
call
heretikes
,
and
who
es
Mahumetane
factes
proclayme
what
is
to
be
looked
for
at
their
handes
,
and
whereto
their
counselles
are
directed
,
which
God
confounde
.
¶
The
Argument
of
the
Oration
of
Arsanes
the
Persian
.
THe
Phocoeans
,
Lacedemonians
and
Atheniens
,
beyng
driuen
thereto
by
the
outrageous
dealynges
of
the
Thebanes
,
spoyled
the
Temple
of
the
Idoll
Apollo
.
Wherupon
the
whole
realme
of
Greece
was
diuided
into
two
seuerall
factions
:
of
the
which
the
Thebanes
and
their
allyes
termed
them selues
the
holie
league
,
and
Phocoeans
,
Lacedemonians
,
Athenians
and
their
partakers
were
termed
the
confederates
agaynst
the
league
.
The
Thebanes
mistrustyng
their
own
state
,
commit
them selues
and
their
case
to
the
tuition
of
the
kyng
,
whose
name
was
Philip
of
the
house
of
Macedonie
.
Philip
hauing
erst
layed
a
platforme
and
alreadie
practised
certeine
secret
attemptes
for
the
conqueryng
of
the
kyngdome
of
Persia
,
and
now
thinkyng
this
to
be
a
fit
occasion
,
as
well
to
reuendge
the
displeasure
that
he
bare
to
certeine
noble
houses
,
as
also
to
dispatch
all
lets
and
incomberances
at
home
,
that
he
might
the
freelyer
go
foreward
with
his
intended
enterprise
,
taketh
vpon
him
the
defence
and
maintenance
of
the
holie
league
,
whereby
he
gate
hym selfe
great
allyances
and
frendshyp
at
the
first
.
Neuertheles
keepyng
neither
promises
,
fidelitie
,
nor
othe
,
he
violateth
all
right
and
law
of
God
and
man
,
murtheryng
and
spoylyng
as
well
such
as
he
had
taken
into
hys
protection
as
those
that
had
submitted
them selues
to
him
vppon
assuraunce
of
safetie
,
by
reason
whereof
the
confederates
drawe
them selues
to
armes
agayne
.
Wherfore
Arsanes
the
Lieutenant
of
the
lesser
Asia
for
the
kyng
of
Persia
,
hauyng
perfect
intelligence
of
all
Philips
attemptes
and
priuie
practises
,
and
foreseyng
the
imminent
perill
that
was
like
to
in
sew
to
the
kyngdome
of
Persia
,
aduertiseth
the
kyng
therof
,
and
after
leaue
giuen
vnto
hym
,
propoundeth
his
aduise
in
Counsell
as
foloweth
.
MY
Lordes
vppon
whose
vigilant
foresight
&
prouident
care
dependeth
the
wellfare
of
this
most
happie
and
prosperous
state
of
Persia
,
it
is
not
vnknowen
vnto
your
wisedomes
,
that
the
preseruation
and
mayntenance
of
Royall
states
and
Empyres
,
consist
not
only
in
largenesse
of
populous
Countries
,
in
abundance
of
treasure
,
in
howgenesse
of
hostes
,
in
faythfulnesse
of
fréendes
,
allies
and
subiectes
,
in
valeauntnesse
of
souldiours
,
in
knowledge
and
corage
of
expext
Captaines
,
in
politike
,
spéedie
,
&
stoute
execution
of
thynges
concluded
in
strength
of
townes
&
fortifications
,
nor
in
the
store
of
armour
,
vitell
,
&
artillerie
(
howbéeit
that
without
theis
thinges
no
Empyre
can
continue
)
but
also
and
chéefly
in
foreseeing
&
preuenting
of
mischéeues
that
are
likely
or
possible
too
ensue
,
and
in
accepting
and
folowing
of
oportunities
when
they
be
profered
.
The
cunnyng
pylote
perceiueth
the
pirries
a
farre
of
,
&
striketh
his
mayne
sheate
before
the
storme
come
,
and
when
he
findeth
the
wether
fauorable
,
he
clappeth
on
all
his
sayles
,
and
taketh
the
full
benefite
of
the
present
gale
.
This
hath
bin
the
policie
of
our
famous
predecessors
,
and
specially
of
our
péerlesse
princes
Cyrus
&
Darius
the
founders
of
this
moste
renowmed
Empyre
:
and
this
must
bée
the
policie
of
all
such
as
mind
to
kéepe
that
which
they
themselues
haue
gotten
,
or
which
hathe
ben
left
them
by
the
purchace
of
others
.
And
doutlesse
,
not
without
good
cause
hathe
it
alwayes
bin
counted
a
greater
matter
too
kéepe
,
than
too
get
:
for
too
win
is
the
benefite
of
fortune
,
but
to
kéepe
is
the
only
power
of
wisedome
.
Wée
néede
not
to
séeke
out
old
examples
for
proofe
hereof
,
let
vs
but
cast
our
eye
ouer
the
narrow
seas
into
Europe
,
and
looke
vppon
our
next
neighbours
the
Grecians
.
The
matter
is
yet
fresh
in
our
eyes
,
&
their
wound
is
yet
raw
and
not
growen
too
a
scarre
.
The
one
side
(
as
wée
see
)
hauing
gotten
the
vpper
hand
of
their
aduersaries
,
and
set
themselues
in
good
suretie
as
they
thought
,
were
sodeinly
,
through
too
much
credulitie
and
trust
of
the
parties
whom
they
had
most
cause
to
beware
of
,
put
too
the
sword
after
peace
&
faithful
promis
of
safty
giuen
in
the
word
of
a
prince
,
and
now
lately
again
put
to
newe
spoyle
and
vtter
subuersion
for
want
of
eschewing
their
former
ouersight
.
Which
lamentable
example
leadeth
me
as
it
were
by
the
hand
to
the
matter
that
we
haue
presently
to
treate
of
,
and
is
the
very
ground
therof
.
For
when
I
behold
the
thickening
of
the
ayre
in
those
quarters
,
and
the
gathering
togither
of
the
cloudes
in
the
coastes
of
Europe
,
considering
how
small
a
gale
of
wynd
may
bring
them
hither
,
and
the
disposition
of
those
climates
too
powre
out
their
stormes
vpon
the
feeldes
of
Asia
,
I
can
none
otherwise
coniecture
,
but
there
is
some
great
tempest
a
brewyng
towardes
vs
,
which
doutlesse
will
light
vppon
vs
,
if
some
contrarie
wynde
doo
not
eyther
disperse
it
abrode
,
or
hold
it
backe
among
them selues
at
home
.
The
house
of
Macedonie
créeping
foreward
by
little
and
little
(
as
all
of
vs
know
)
hathe
in
continuance
of
time
gotten
into
their
possession
the
most
part
of
the
auncient
Grecia
,
in
so
much
that
at
this
day
it
beareth
the
cheef
renowme
in
the
hither
part
of
Europe
,
and
is
becomme
terrible
or
at
leastwise
too
bée
mistrusted
of
all
his
neighbours
.
And
surely
none
haue
more
cause
,
if
not
too
feare
the
Gréekes
,
yet
to
beware
of
them
,
than
wée
haue
.
For
in
the
tyme
of
our
aunceters
wée
haue
oftentymes
greatly
anoyed
them
both
at
home
and
abrode
:
we
haue
slayne
their
people
,
wonne
their
holdes
,
sacked
and
burned
theyr
cities
,
taken
their
kings
,
possessed
their
countries
,
and
bereft
them
of
their
dominions
both
by
sea
and
land
.
They
haue
done
the
like
with
vs
in
all
things
,
sauing
for
taking
of
our
kings
,
&
dispossessing
vs
of
our
Empyre
.
By
meanes
whereof
,
there
is
growen
as
it
were
a
naturall
hatred
betwene
the
two
realmes
of
Persia
and
Grece
.
And
although
there
haue
béene
diuerse
leagues
and
alyances
by
mariage
made
betwene
vs
:
yet
notwithstanding
forasmuch
as
no
particular
salue
can
remedie
a
common
sore
,
the
mischiefe
is
rather
couered
than
cured
.
Olde
hatred
thirsteth
alwayes
new
reuenge
,
and
the
rooted
rancor
that
is
once
throughly
setled
betwene
countries
do●th
so
shed
it selfe
into
the
veynes
of
all
posteritie
,
as
it
may
sometimes
be
dissembled
for
aduantage
or
for
want
of
abilitie
,
but
neuer
forgotten
.
For
it
is
like
the
smoldring
fyer
of
mount
Chymera
,
which
boyling
long
tyme
with
great
buskling
in
the
bowels
of
the
earth
,
dooth
at
length
burst
out
with
violent
rage
to
the
hurt
of
the
fieldes
wherinto
it
casteth
it self
.
Againe
,
whereas
in
the
present
diuision
of
Gréece
,
wherein
Philippe
of
Macedonie
now
kyng
of
Gréece
taketh
vpon
hym
as
protector
of
the
Thebanes
,
and
defender
of
the
holy
league
(
for
so
dooth
he
terme
himself
and
all
those
that
take
his
part
against
the
houses
of
Lacedaemon
,
Athens
,
&
Phocis
&
other
noble
men
that
spoyled
the
temple
of
their
Idol
Apollo
)
:
the
confederates
haue
ben
reléeued
by
our
souereignes
subiectes
(
though
not
by
his
graces
commaundement
or
consent
)
&
the
fugitiue
&
banyshed
people
are
for
pitie
&
humanities
sake
receiued
and
cherished
in
this
Realme
:
we
may
assure
our selues
that
kyng
Philip
being
both
a
suttle
,
ambitious
,
&
cruel
Prince
,
doth
horde
vp
these
thinges
in
his
hart
,
as
fyerbrondes
to
kindle
his
intent
of
reuenge
,
whensoeuer
oportunitie
shall
serue
.
For
thyngs
done
betwéene
states
and
nations
,
are
commonly
construed
,
not
accordyng
to
the
intent
of
the
doers
,
but
as
he
lysteth
to
take
them
which
séeketh
matter
of
quarell
.
Let
vs
then
looke
into
hym
,
and
into
his
present
doinges
,
and
consider
whereto
they
tende
.
First
he
is
a
Gréeke
borne
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
deadly
&
vnreconcileable
enemy
to
the
realme
of
Persia
by
nature
.
Secondly
he
is
of
the
house
of
Macedonie
,
which
hath
alwayes
maligned
the
Persians
for
clayming
the
crowne
of
Gréece
,
whereto
they
entitle
themselues
by
stile
,
whyle
he
holdeth
the
thing
in
possession
.
Thirdly
he
is
of
a
proude
&
ambitious
minde
,
desirous
to
aspyre
,
insatiably
eagre
of
reuenge
,
and
thirstie
of
bloud
beyond
all
measure
or
beliefe
,
and
an
exceeding
déepe
dissembler
.
Adde
hereunto
that
there
want
no
solliciters
to
pricke
hym
forward
,
by
flattering
him
with
the
successe
of
his
late
exploytes
atchieued
by
most
shamefull
and
odious
trecherie
,
now
coloured
with
the
name
of
princely
policie
.
Besides
this
the
state
of
Persia
wanteth
no
hartburning
against
it
.
The
Gods
immortall
haue
geuen
vs
long
prosperitie
,
and
peace
hath
greatly
increased
our
wealth
:
our
good
fortune
is
an
eyesore
,
yea
rather
a
hartsore
to
hym
:
enuye
shooteth
alwayes
at
highe
markes
:
and
couetousnes
can
be
staunched
with
no
small
thynges
.
To
the
compassing
of
his
desire
he
wanteth
no
power
:
for
the
Realme
of
Gréece
which
was
deuided
in
olde
time
,
is
now
wholy
vnder
his
dominion
:
the
countryes
of
Thrace
and
Thessaly
which
sometyme
were
belonging
to
the
Empyre
of
Persia
,
are
now
recoucred
to
the
crowne
of
Gréece
:
and
we
haue
forgone
all
our
townes
which
we
had
on
that
side
of
the
Sea
.
Finally
,
what
shall
we
thinke
of
thys
that
insueth
?
He
hymselfe
is
in
person
in
the
fielde
,
with
so
huge
a
power
,
as
the
lyke
hath
not
ben
raysed
heretofore
but
to
anoye
some
mightie
potentate
.
He
hath
sent
a
great
nauie
of
ships
and
Gallyes
to
the
sea
,
he
hath
stablished
peace
with
his
neighbors
,
he
hath
alyed
himself
with
our
vtter
enemies
,
he
hath
made
tecrete
chalenges
to
the
Empyre
of
Persia
,
he
hath
sent
priuie
spyes
into
the
bowels
of
Asia
,
he
hath
indirectly
sollicited
our
souereines
subiectes
&
alyes
agaynst
him
,
he
hath
murthered
our
welwillers
,
he
hath
succored
our
offenders
,
he
dayly
wageth
forrein
souldyers
,
he
leuyeth
still
great
masses
of
money
,
he
is
euer
sending
of
Capteines
and
men
of
warre
into
Cappadocia
,
&
(
which
is
the
finest
cloke
of
all
his
deuices
)
he
professeth
him selfe
the
defender
and
maynteyner
of
the
Thebanes
and
their
holy
leage
.
Whereto
serueth
all
this
furniture
?
who
bée
the
aduersaries
of
this
holie
leage
?
Is
it
the
house
of
Phocis
?
The
Lord
therof
is
shamefully
slayne
,
and
his
children
are
able
too
worke
no
reuenge
.
Is
it
the
king
of
Lacedoemon
&
the
prince
of
Athens
?
They
are
becomme
his
vassalles
.
Is
it
the
Towne
of
Byzance
and
the
other
fewe
townes
of
Gréece
that
hold
with
the
Lordes
of
the
confederacie
ageinst
the
Thebane
holy
leage
?
Alas
what
are
they
too
so
mightie
a
prince
?
they
cannot
hold
out
long
if
they
haue
not
helpe
.
Both
the
confederates
and
these
townes
would
fayne
submit
themselues
to
hym
and
serue
him
,
if
they
might
be
sure
but
only
of
their
liues
,
and
too
escape
the
imminent
destruction
with
safetie
of
their
auncient
libertie
.
Seing
thē
that
the
Grekes
being
either
in
leage
or
at
peace
with
all
their
neighbours
round
about
them
haue
not
as
now
any
knowen
enemy
but
Philip
himselfe
,
&
that
of
those
he
is
not
in
any
feare
but
well
knoweth
that
they
wil
be
quyet
if
he
assaile
them
not
:
it
is
manifest
that
in
taking
vpon
him
the
defence
of
the
Thebane
leage
,
and
so
quarelling
with
the
confederates
,
he
both
reuiueth
the
old
grudge
and
welnéere
foreworne
hatred
betweene
the
Realmes
of
Persia
and
Gréece
,
and
also
couertly
pricketh
,
not
only
at
all
such
as
resisted
the
Thebanes
,
or
haue
had
alyance
and
confederacie
with
their
aduersaries
,
but
also
at
all
such
as
by
any
meanes
haue
succored
or
releeued
them
,
by
sauing
them
from
his
vnmercifull
and
faithlesse
handes
.
Of
whom
bycause
wee
bee
the
cheef
,
therfore
he
beareth
the
more
malice
ageinst
vs.
For
the
nature
of
Tyranny
is
,
not
only
too
oppresse
,
to
spoyle
,
and
too
murther
innocentes
,
but
also
to
hate
all
such
as
are
not
of
the
same
disposition
.
And
surely
where
soeuer
cankerd
hatred
,
desire
of
dominion
,
abilitie
too
giue
the
attempt
,
and
sufficient
recompence
of
cost
and
trauell
doo
méete
,
it
is
not
too
bée
supposed
but
that
oportunitie
shal
be
sought
.
No
dout
therfore
,
but
that
what
soeuer
countenance
Philip
make
,
and
vnder
what
pretences
soeuer
he
shroud
himselfe
,
his
very
intent
and
drift
is
to
giue
a
push
for
the
kyngdome
of
Persia
.
Let
none
of
vs
beguile
himselfe
:
let
vs
not
imagine
that
the
stale
alyances
and
late
leages
betweene
our
prince
&
the
house
of
Macedonie
,
are
able
too
extinguish
the
old
emnitie
and
new
kindled
displeasure
of
the
twoo
Realmes
of
Persland
and
Gréece
:
least
our
eyes
bée
so
dazeled
with
the
fond
ouerlikyng
of
present
peace
,
as
the
mischeef
light
vppon
our
heades
,
before
we
perceiue
it
comming
towardes
vs.
What
account
so
euer
wée
on
our
part
make
of
leages
,
(
as
certesse
wee
haue
from
auncient
tyme
had
alwayes
a
singular
religion
and
conscience
in
obseruing
them
,
and
so
would
I
wish
wee
should
do
still
,
for
there
cannot
bée
to
much
honour
and
reuerence
giuen
to
faithfull
alyances
and
trew
meaning
leages
)
surely
he
sheweth
him selfe
to
make
none
account
at
all
,
nor
to
passe
further
of
them
than
to
serue
his
owne
turne
.
Hath
he
not
twice
within
theis
twelue
yeares
plighted
his
fayth
before
the
Gods
immortall
,
and
made
faythfull
promis
afore
men
,
that
the
confederates
ageynst
the
Thebanes
shoulde
with
free
forgettyng
of
all
former
quarelles
inioy
lyfe
,
libertie
and
goods
,
as
if
there
had
neuer
béene
any
iarre
betwixte
them
?
How
well
he
holdeth
his
couenaunt
,
our
hartes
lament
to
sée
,
and
all
men
that
haue
any
péece
of
common
humanitie
in
them
abhorre
to
heare
.
For
(
as
it
is
well
knowen
)
he
set
not
vppon
them
like
a
valyaunt
champion
in
the
fielde
,
for
he
durst
not
doe
that
:
neyther
did
he
charge
them
with
any
crime
to
execute
them
by
way
of
iustice
like
an
vpright
iudge
,
for
they
had
done
no
fault
:
but
as
a
butcher
that
gathereth
shéepe
into
a
pinfolde
to
the
slaughter
,
or
as
a
Wolfe
that
falles
vpon
a
flocke
when
they
be
folded
:
and
as
a
fowler
that
allureth
byrdes
into
his
nets
with
baytes
and
pyping
:
so
did
he
foade
hys
noble
men
into
securitie
wyth
vayne
promises
and
dissembling
lookes
,
and
cruelly
murthered
them
without
mercie
,
when
they
thought
themselues
in
most
suretie
,
yea
and
he
spared
not
the
grayheaded
,
he
pytied
not
the
sillie
infants
,
he
reuerenced
not
the
chaste
matrones
,
he
had
no
regarde
of
the
younge
Damsels
:
but
as
it
were
in
contempt
of
Gods
&
men
,
and
to
the
vtter
derogation
of
princely
maiestie
,
he
imbrued
his
wicked
hands
with
the
slaughter
of
hys
most
faithfull
and
trusty
subiectes
,
onely
bicause
they
were
too
good
and
vertuous
for
so
vnnaturall
a
Monster
to
reigne
ouer
.
Moreouer
,
triumphing
in
hys
outragious
crueltie
,
he
layed
the
dead
bodyes
of
noblemen
,
gentlemen
,
inferior
sort
,
men
and
women
(
a
horrible
,
vnkyndly
,
and
beastly
spectacle
)
wounded
,
mangled
,
defiled
,
bemyred
,
and
naked
,
vppon
a
heape
before
hys
palace
,
lyke
a
quarrie
of
Déere
at
a
generall
hunting
,
for
all
the
worlde
to
gase
vppon
.
Now
then
,
may
we
hope
that
he
wil
be
a
faythfull
leaguefellowe
towardes
vs
,
who
hath
béene
so
faythlesse
&
cruell
towardes
his
owne
?
May
we
thinke
he
will
stand
in
feare
of
vs
,
who
despiseth
the
Gods
immortall
?
or
may
we
beléeue
that
the
hungrie
Lyon
wyll
lye
still
when
he
séeth
a
fitte
pray
before
his
face
?
I
coulde
the
easlyer
be
induced
to
that
opinion
,
if
he
had
not
of
late
(
for
all
the
league
that
is
betwixt
vs
)
sent
Captaynes
and
men
of
warre
priuilye
into
Cappadocia
,
to
annoy
the
frountyres
of
this
kyngdome
.
Now
then
,
séeing
that
there
is
no
trust
in
him
with
whom
we
haue
to
deale
:
séeing
that
he
séketh
priuie
practises
to
annoy
:
séeing
he
woundeth
our
common
weale
indirectly
through
the
sides
of
our
neyghbours
:
shall
we
sitte
a
fléepe
til
the
fowlar
haue
cast
his
nette
ouer
vs
?
shal
our
league
serue
him
to
cut
our
throtes
,
and
shall
it
not
serue
vs
to
defend
our
lyues
?
Unwise
are
they
that
ende
their
matters
with
had
I
wist
,
specially
in
matters
of
state
:
It
is
too
late
to
shutte
the
stable
doore
when
the
stéede
is
stolne
.
Let
vs
preuent
the
mischiefe
in
hys
pryme
before
it
grow
too
farre
and
become
vncurable
.
He
is
no
good
Phisition
which
trusteth
so
much
eyther
to
his
cunnyng
or
to
his
good
fortune
,
that
when
he
séth
a
canker
bréeding
in
the
bodie
,
destroyeth
it
not
at
the
first
,
but
letteth
it
runne
till
it
haue
taken
roote
,
to
winne
himselfe
the
more
prayse
by
healing
it
afterwarde
.
There
commeth
more
harme
to
kyngdomes
by
too
much
sufferance
,
than
by
too
much
warenesse
.
This
sore
is
already
waxed
proude
,
it
swelleth
,
it
is
growen
to
a
head
,
and
dayly
it
will
fester
more
and
more
,
and
if
it
be
not
looked
to
betimes
,
it
wyll
(
I
feare
become
incurable
.
There
is
none
other
lykelyhoode
but
that
early
or
late
we
must
haue
warre
wyth
the
Gréeks
.
Whether
to
our
owne
behoofe
or
to
theirs
,
there
standes
the
case
.
The
choice
is
yet
in
our
owne
hand
:
either
to
purchase
peace
&
mainteine
quietnesse
to
our selues
and
to
all
our
posteritie
,
or
to
make
our
enemies
lords
ouer
vs.
Phillip
is
now
at
variance
(
as
we
sée
)
with
his
owne
countrymen
:
he
is
worthely
behated
of
them
for
his
monsterous
crueltie
,
and
trustlesse
infidelitie
:
all
kynges
detest
him
as
the
disparagement
of
their
state
:
all
his
neyghbours
lothe
hym
as
a
mishapen
wretche
against
nature
:
and
the
Gods
are
angry
with
him
for
violating
their
sacred
maiesties
.
If
we
sende
a
power
into
hys
countrie
,
he
shall
not
be
able
to
resiste
vs
:
for
the
freshe
remembraunce
of
hys
horrible
doinges
shall
dismay
hym
,
the
fallyng
away
of
his
owne
people
shall
discourage
hym
,
the
reuolting
of
hys
Cities
and
fortresses
shal
weaken
him
,
and
the
vengeaance
of
the
Gods
shall
hunt
him
from
place
to
place
till
it
haue
consumed
him
.
His
subiectes
beyng
wearye
of
his
intollerable
yoke
,
pray
nyght
and
day
to
the
Gods
for
delyuerance
,
and
wayte
for
some
good
Prince
to
take
them
into
his
tuition
.
And
who
shal
be
so
welcome
to
them
as
our
king
,
in
whose
dominions
they
haue
had
safe
refuge
from
the
sword
of
their
homebred
enemy
,
and
whose
clemency
they
know
to
be
farre
passing
all
expectation
?
Agayne
diuers
of
the
Regions
hauing
tasted
of
the
swéetnesse
of
our
Persian
libertie
in
the
time
that
we
had
souereintie
ouer
them
,
&
finding
our
gouernment
to
be
lighter
thē
a
fether
in
comparison
of
their
present
bondage
,
doe
long
to
be
vnder
our
iurisdiction
agayne
,
the
rather
for
the
continuall
felicitie
which
they
perceiue
vs
Persians
to
liue
in
.
Thus
are
all
things
ready
to
make
with
vs
,
&
to
make
against
him
,
&
we
may
confound
him
with
his
owne
weapons
.
For
how
can
he
looke
for
trustinesse
at
theyr
handes
,
whose
trust
he
hath
so
often
disappointed
by
treason
?
But
if
it
séeme
not
good
to
worke
this
way
,
for
infringing
the
league
that
is
not
yet
openly
broken
,
as
I
will
not
greatly
vrge
that
poynt
,
though
it
would
be
most
for
our
profite
:
yet
may
we
play
the
Cretanes
with
Cretanes
(
as
their
owne
prouerb
sayth
,
and
as
we
commonly
say
)
:
Let
vs
set
the
Hares
head
against
the
Gooses
giblet
:
He
workes
wyles
with
vs
:
Let
vs
worke
wysely
with
him
.
And
now
whyle
the
Pig
is
proffered
let
vs
holde
open
the
poke
.
No
league
can
or
ought
to
barre
Princes
from
succouring
the
oppressed
,
or
from
ayding
such
as
willingly
yéelde
themselues
into
their
protection
,
and
specially
from
doing
those
thinges
which
being
left
vndone
there
is
left
no
likely
possibilitie
of
safetie
to
those
Princes
that
shoulde
haue
taken
better
héede
in
tyme
.
Those
sort
of
men
whome
he
now
pursueth
with
fire
and
sworde
,
are
our
deare
frendes
,
and
we
haue
hetherto
mainteined
them
.
Their
case
is
common
to
vs
,
and
so
is
taken
to
be
by
their
Prince
.
If
they
smart
,
let
not
vs
looke
to
laugh
:
If
they
decay
,
let
not
vs
looke
to
stand
:
If
they
be
ouerthrowen
,
then
haue
at
vs
,
our
staffe
standes
next
the
doore
.
When
perils
are
common
,
they
woulde
be
repulsed
with
common
power
,
because
they
bréede
common
mischiefe
.
I
lyke
not
to
haue
that
fier
spred
ouer
into
Asia
for
want
of
fewell
to
féede
vppon
at
home
.
We
are
not
vnacquainted
with
the
nature
of
the
Gréekes
,
we
haue
had
too
long
experience
of
them
.
Geeue
them
leaue
to
contende
with
vs
out
of
their
owne
countrey
,
and
we
shall
neuer
brydle
them
.
But
let
vs
holde
them
play
at
home
by
succouring
the
oppressed
part
:
and
then
shall
we
be
sure
to
kéepe
them
alwayes
at
so
low
an
ebbe
,
as
they
shall
not
be
able
to
annoy
vs
,
and
we
shall
continually
be
arbytrers
of
peace
and
warre
at
our
pleasure
,
to
the
benefite
of
both
the
Countreis
.
The
like
occasion
was
offered
and
taken
in
the
tyme
of
our
great
grandfathers
by
the
valeant
Artaxerxes
surnamed
the
long
hand
.
The
two
noble
houses
of
Lacedoemon
&
Athens
fell
at
debate
&
mortall
warre
,
wherein
the
house
of
Athens
being
ouermatched
and
brought
vtterly
vnder
foote
,
sought
refuge
and
succour
at
our
kyngs
hand
:
&
he
releeued
the
Athenians
both
with
men
&
monye
abundantly
,
where
through
it
insewed
that
he
both
diuersed
the
warre
that
was
intended
and
alredy
begonne
by
the
kyng
of
Lacedoemon
against
the
Realme
of
Persia
,
and
also
in
the
ende
had
all
Greece
in
such
wise
at
his
commaundement
,
as
hee
made
peace
at
his
owne
pleasure
.
In
which
deede
of
his
this
is
worthie
to
bee
remembered
to
his
perpetuall
fame
,
that
as
hee
ouerslipped
not
any
oportunitie
which
might
make
for
the
safetie
of
his
owne
state
,
so
hee
oppressed
not
the
countrie
with
any
bondage
,
but
left
it
in
such
peasible
libertie
,
as
we
haue
had
the
lesse
annoyance
&
better
neighbourhode
of
those
euer
since
vnto
this
day
.
My
counsell
therfore
is
,
that
wee
should
lay
our
purses
togither
,
that
we
should
ioyne
handes
with
the
confederates
,
that
we
should
spare
no
cost
nor
eschew
any
peynes
for
the
suppressyng
and
quenchyng
of
this
comon
fire
.
Necessitie
inforceth
vs
to
this
warre
,
except
we
wil
séeke
our
owne
destruction
,
and
betray
our
trustie
freendes
to
their
and
our
common
truthlesse
foe
.
And
therwith
all
it
is
iust
,
&
honorable
,
yea
and
also
easie
.
We
shall
stand
in
the
defence
of
faithfull
and
loyall
folke
agaynst
a
kynd
of
people
in
whom
there
is
neither
fayth
,
nor
troth
,
nor
regard
of
common
humanitie
,
so
passyng
malicious
and
spytefull
,
as
they
can
finde
in
their
hartes
too
indure
any
miserie
,
rather
than
to
suffer
their
aduersaries
too
liue
in
rest
,
(
their
aduersaries
are
all
good
and
godly
men
,
yea
and
euen
the
Gods
themselues
)
and
are
of
farre
more
furious
and
bloudthirstie
nature
,
than
the
hungerstaruen
tyger
of
Armenie
,
or
the
shée
beare
that
is
robbed
of
her
,
whelpes
.
Wée
shall
stand
in
defence
of
innocentes
,
against
a
most
cruell
and
mercilesse
Tyrant
,
against
a
deceitfull
and
double
dealyng
for
,
against
at
trothlesse
truce
breaker
and
false
for
swearing
kaytif
,
against
a
captious
spye
nother
trusting
nor
trustie
,
against
one
that
weyeth
frendshyp
by
profit
and
not
by
faythfulnesse
,
a
betrayer
of
his
owne
subiectes
,
and
a
hater
of
honour
and
honestie
,
an
enemy
of
vertue
,
a
stayne
and
canker
woorme
of
princely
maiestie
,
a
very
helhound
and
monster
of
nature
,
fraught
with
all
wickednesse
&
woorse
than
wickednesse
it selfe
.
The
intelligence
of
these
thinges
commeth
not
by
vncertein
report
from
a
farre
,
neither
is
it
gathered
by
gessing
coniectures
:
he
is
héere
at
hand
and
hard
vnder
our
noses
,
wee
behold
his
dooinges
with
our
eyes
,
and
wee
may
in
maner
féele
and
grope
them
with
our
fingars
endes
.
They
can
not
bee
denyed
,
the
whole
world
seeth
them
,
and
wisedome
willeth
vs
to
impugne
them
.
It
is
the
comon
cace
of
all
princes
and
all
people
,
to
set
hand
to
the
suppressing
of
Tyrantes
,
if
they
wil
bee
counted
iust
and
rightuous
.
For
if
faythfulnesse
bee
taken
away
,
if
troth
shall
serue
too
woorke
trecherie
,
if
the
word
of
a
prince
bee
but
wynd
,
if
will
may
go
for
law
:
what
shall
becomme
of
the
world
?
Must
not
comon
weales
néedes
decay
?
Must
not
mankynd
needs
come
to
confusion
?
For
if
the
head
which
is
the
lyfe
and
stay
of
the
bodie
,
betray
the
members
,
must
not
the
members
also
needes
betray
one
another
,
&
so
the
whole
bodie
and
head
go
all
togither
to
vtter
wrecke
and
destruction
?
The
renowmed
Darius
the
sonne
of
Histaspis
,
the
repayrer
of
the
drowpyng
empyre
of
Persia
,
thought
it
not
inough
to
minister
iustice
to
his
owne
subiectes
,
but
also
(
to
his
euerlasting
glorie
)
made
warre
vpon
Polycrates
the
Tyrant
of
Samos
(
who
in
those
dayes
was
infamous
for
crueltie
and
outrageous
doynges
though
not
comparable
to
our
feendly
Philip
)
and
takyng
him
alyue
hung
hym
the
same
day
in
the
place
where
he
had
committed
his
cruelties
:
a
notable
example
of
Iustice
for
all
iust
princes
to
followe
.
Also
the
Greekes
them selues
do
boast
of
certeine
princes
of
theirs
as
of
Theseus
,
Hercules
,
and
Agamemnon
,
&
commend
them
with
immortal
prayses
for
taking
away
and
for
executyng
of
wicked
Tyrantes
.
Let
vs
not
be
ashamed
nor
holde
scorne
to
follow
the
Counsel
and
example
of
our
enemies
where
it
may
do
vs
good
.
Whither
we
be
mynded
to
prouide
for
our
fafetie
by
inuadyng
the
tyrant
or
els
by
ayding
the
confederates
,
or
both
,
the
way
is
easie
for
vs
and
the
Gods
haue
set
vs
open
a
brode
gate
.
For
on
our
enemyes
behalfe
,
it
appeareth
sufficiently
alredy
by
the
former
processe
of
this
whole
discourse
,
that
although
he
haue
great
numbers
of
people
,
yet
hath
he
few
hartes
,
and
consequently
little
strength
:
the
best
of
his
Capteines
are
in
armes
agaynst
him
,
the
wisest
of
his
Counsellers
wote
not
which
way
to
turne
them
.
For
they
know
that
the
haynouser
that
mens
offences
are
,
and
the
greater
that
their
contempt
is
agaynst
the
Gods
,
the
sorer
is
the
wrath
of
the
Gods
agaynst
them
:
and
the
sorer
that
the
Gods
are
displeased
,
the
lesse
power
haue
men
agaynst
the
Gods
.
Philip
and
his
complices
shall
bryng
with
them
into
the
field
a
stingyng
remorse
at
the
remembrance
of
their
former
wickednesse
,
and
the
Ghostes
of
them
whom
they
haue
trayterously
murthered
shal
flyng
the
feare
of
vengeance
continually
in
their
faces
,
so
as
they
shall
finde
no
meanes
to
shift
them
from
the
hell
of
their
giltie
consciences
within
,
nor
lurkinghole
to
hyde
them
from
the
terrour
of
the
heauenly
wrath
from
aboue
,
nor
way
to
scape
from
the
sword
of
Iustice
pursuyng
them
by
the
hand
of
man
.
Finally
which
way
soeuer
they
turne
them
,
heauen
and
earth
,
them selues
&
theirs
shal
be
agaynst
them
.
But
vnto
vs
on
the
contrarie
side
all
thinges
are
fauorable
.
Our
souerein
is
singularly
beloued
for
excellent
clemencie
&
other
princely
vertues
,
not
only
of
our
souereines
owne
subiectes
,
but
also
of
all
forein
nations
.
The
Gods
do
tender
him
as
their
deare
frend
and
child
,
as
by
many
their
miraculous
preseruations
hath
appeared
.
He
is
riche
of
treasure
,
strong
in
men
,
prouident
in
care
,
wise
in
gouernement
,
garded
,
with
faythfull
hartes
and
sage
counsell
,
at
peace
with
his
neighbours
,
in
rest
at
home
,
so
well
stored
wich
armour
,
vittell
,
munition
,
artillerie
,
as
none
of
his
predecessours
hath
ben
the
like
,
so
as
there
resteth
nothyng
but
resolute
constancie
in
noble
&
necessarie
actions
.
The
kyng
of
Cappadocia
is
very
yong
,
&
they
that
haue
the
gouernement
of
him
are
our
frends
.
The
former
competitors
of
that
countrie
are
in
our
own
custodie
,
and
the
faction
of
the
Armenian
rebellion
is
extinquished
.
The
Capteines
of
the
confederates
are
either
with
vs
here
to
vse
as
fitte
instrumentes
for
our
purpose
,
or
practising
alredy
in
the
enemyes
land
to
anoy
him
:
&
besides
the
poore
exiles
that
are
escaped
hither
,
we
haue
moe
trustie
frendes
and
moe
good
hartes
in
our
enemyes
owne
Court
,
than
our
enemy
himselfe
hath
.
Thus
haue
the
Gods
offered
all
oportunities
into
our
handes
,
&
in
a
maner
put
victorie
in
our
mouthes
:
there
wanteth
nothing
but
expedition
on
our
behalfe
.
It
is
a
true
prouerbe
,
that
a
man
may
bring
a
horse
to
the
water
,
but
he
can
not
make
hym
drinke
.
Let
vs
not
be
as
horses
&
mules
that
must
be
spurred
and
whipped
forward
by
the
ryder
.
Let
vs
strike
while
the
yron
is
whote
,
the
tyde
taryeth
no
man
,
and
the
nature
of
occasion
is
to
steale
away
vnwares
,
not
without
leauing
of
a
continuall
hartsore
,
yea
and
sometymes
of
an
incurable
wounde
behynde
her
,
specially
in
matters
of
state
.
If
we
suffer
this
gate
to
be
shut
vp
,
behold
what
a
number
of
inconueniences
are
lyke
to
insue
of
it
.
First
our
present
welwillers
which
by
our
ayding
of
them
myght
haue
ben
made
our
continuall
frendes
,
shal
be
abandoned
to
the
spoyle
,
&
therfore
iustly
crye
out
agaynst
vs
as
betrayers
of
them
into
their
deadly
enemyes
handes
,
a
fitte
meane
to
prouoke
the
indignation
of
the
Gods
against
vs.
Hereupon
it
will
followe
that
other
nations
will
trust
lesse
to
our
frendship
,
&
ware
weary
of
our
alyance
,
so
as
if
we
stand
in
néede
of
succour
at
their
handes
(
as
who
standes
vppon
so
sure
grounde
that
he
may
not
slyde
,
or
who
is
so
strong
and
mightie
as
he
may
not
haue
neede
,
yea
euen
of
his
inferior
?
)
we
shal
make
them
eyther
to
forsake
vs
vtterly
and
to
be
agaynst
vs
,
or
to
ayde
vs
so
faintly
and
skantly
,
as
it
shall
turne
finally
to
our
benefite
,
because
we
so
scantly
ayded
them
.
Herewithall
it
wil
come
to
passe
,
that
the
whole
company
of
the
confederates
,
(
who
being
now
offended
with
the
present
wrongs
,
and
with
the
oppression
of
their
auncient
&
glorious
liberty
,
could
wel
find
in
their
hartes
to
shake
of
the
yoke
of
tyranny
,
if
they
had
a
sure
staffe
to
stande
by
)
hereafter
being
subdewed
by
force
,
or
perswaded
vpon
good
assurance
of
safetie
,
shall
willingly
consent
with
Philippe
to
séeke
the
asswagement
of
their
present
griefes
,
in
the
reuengement
of
their
olde
harmes
and
late
renued
vnkindnesse
.
The
Athenians
shall
call
to
minde
againe
the
battaile
of
Marathon
and
the
destruction
of
their
countrie
&
citie
by
Xerxes
and
Mardonius
.
The
Thebanes
,
Plateans
,
and
Phoceans
will
bethinke
them
of
the
burnyng
of
their
Cities
by
the
Persians
,
and
of
the
miserie
whereby
some
of
them
were
fayne
to
séeke
new
soyle
to
dwell
in
.
The
Lacedemonians
and
Achaeans
,
will
looke
backe
to
the
mayme
of
their
owne
state
,
and
to
the
restitution
of
Athenes
by
the
puissant
Artaxerxes
.
The
Macedonians
,
Thracians
,
and
Thessalians
wil
disdaine
at
the
former
subiection
of
their
countryes
to
the
Crowne
of
Persia
.
Finally
,
all
the
Gréekes
will
renue
the
remembrance
of
the
displeasures
that
we
haue
done
them
in
olde
tyme
,
and
therewithall
long
to
be
reuenged
of
vs
for
leauyng
them
so
lately
in
the
bryers
.
Thus
shal
we
bring
the
whole
house
(
the
whole
mischiefe
I
meane
)
vppon
our
owne
heades
.
For
may
we
thinke
that
Philippe
(
whose
vngracious
fingars
itche
to
be
doing
wyth
vs
already
)
will
holde
himselfe
within
the
boundes
of
Grecia
,
when
he
shall
haue
neither
inward
nor
outwarde
enemy
to
kéepe
hym
play
on
that
side
of
the
sea
?
May
we
hope
that
the
long
continued
hatred
of
Gréece
will
then
die
,
when
it
shall
be
of
most
babilitie
and
finde
fittest
oportunitie
of
aduendgement
?
Shall
we
beleue
that
so
many
thousand
men
of
warre
that
haue
been
inured
to
the
spoyle
,
noseled
in
bloud
,
&
alwayes
enuious
of
our
state
,
will
then
forbeare
the
swéete
soyle
of
Asia
,
when
they
shall
perceiue
them selues
in
best
possibilitie
to
obteine
it
to
their
profite
and
honor
?
Beleue
it
who
list
,
I
can
not
,
for
I
sée
to
many
thinges
in
our
state
wherewith
to
allure
an
aspiryng
mynde
,
&
the
kyngdome
of
Persia
is
a
sufficient
reward
for
a
conquerour
.
And
therfore
when
soeuer
Philip
hath
pacified
his
owne
Realme
,
so
as
he
may
leaue
no
backefrendes
behind
him
:
then
will
he
surely
poure
out
the
tempest
of
his
wrath
vpon
our
land
,
like
as
the
great
riuer
of
Nilus
beyng
sodeinly
increased
with
the
molten
snow
from
the
hils
of
Aethyope
,
breaketh
out
of
his
bankes
,
and
ouerfloweth
the
whole
land
of
Aegypt
.
For
it
is
not
the
subduyng
of
the
confederates
nor
the
wynnyng
of
Bizance
and
the
other
townes
of
Thrace
,
that
can
satisfie
so
vnsatiable
a
cormorant
.
Great
foules
looke
after
great
prayes
.
It
is
the
kingdome
of
Persia
,
beleue
me
it
is
the
kingdome
of
Persia
,
that
Philippe
ameth
at
,
and
which
he
will
one
day
giue
a
push
for
if
he
can
.
And
in
what
case
shal
we
be
then
?
We
shal
be
fayne
(
which
the
Gods
forbid
)
if
the
warre
be
drawen
hether
and
not
diuerted
,
to
behold
the
burning
of
our
villages
,
the
sacking
of
our
cities
,
the
spoyling
of
our
countries
,
the
slaughters
of
our
gentlemen
,
the
slauerie
of
our
comons
,
the
rauishyng
of
our
maydens
and
matrones
,
the
destruction
of
our
dearest
thynges
,
and
a
thousand
other
displeasures
and
vilanies
,
which
shall
inforce
men
to
say
(
though
all
to
late
)
would
God
the
counsell
of
Arianes
had
ben
folowed
.
And
if
we
happen
to
ouercome
in
the
field
,
the
warre
beyng
in
our
owne
contrey
,
then
fare
well
our
good
dayes
.
We
haue
no
holdes
nor
fortresses
of
strength
to
flée
vnto
till
we
may
recouer
a
new
power
.
Our
neighbours
whom
our
vnfrendly
dealyng
shall
haue
alienated
from
vs
,
will
peraduenture
receiue
vs
for
humanities
sake
,
but
not
releue
vs
that
we
may
recouer
.
So
shall
we
be
left
desolate
of
frendes
,
and
either
come
into
most
miserable
bondage
with
our
contrie
,
or
at
least
wise
lyue
in
sorowfull
exile
which
is
litle
better
.
Moreouer
,
our
owne
subiectes
and
cities
in
such
case
being
appalled
with
the
misfortune
of
the
time
,
shall
either
for
feare
or
for
hope
of
fauour
,
reuolt
to
the
enemy
,
accordyng
as
it
comonly
falleth
out
,
that
looke
which
way
fortune
swayeth
,
that
way
do
the
multitude
inclyne
,
as
the
réede
that
is
beaten
vpon
with
a
vehement
wynde
.
And
I
pray
the
Gods
that
in
so
great
&
populous
a
countrie
as
this
is
,
there
may
not
be
found
any
that
will
prefer
the
filthie
lucre
of
a
little
gold
before
honest
loue
of
their
countrie
.
But
admit
we
ouercome
him
in
battell
in
our
owne
countrey
:
will
he
cease
his
enterprise
for
the
losse
of
two
or
thrée
fieldes
?
will
he
come
so
slenderly
accompanyed
,
as
to
be
driuen
away
for
one
or
two
discomfitures
?
will
he
assayle
vs
but
onely
in
some
one
place
at
once
?
Do
ye
thinke
that
our
old
enuiers
the
Cappadocians
shall
not
be
sollicited
agaynst
vs
?
Yes
,
and
all
others
that
may
by
any
meanes
anoy
vs.
We
shal
haue
our
handes
ful
,
and
to
full
.
And
although
that
at
length
we
ouercome
them
all
and
driue
them
quite
away
(
as
if
it
should
come
to
that
poynt
I
pray
the
Gods
we
might
,
and
I
hope
we
shoulde
)
yet
would
they
leaue
some
print
of
their
being
here
behynde
them
.
There
was
neuer
yet
any
great
wounde
so
throughly
healed
,
but
there
remayned
some
scarre
of
it
a
good
while
after
.
Thus
your
Lordshippes
haue
heard
mine
aduice
concerning
the
broyles
in
Gréece
,
and
concerning
our
present
state
,
which
I
doubt
not
but
your
wisdomes
will
so
prouide
for
,
as
it
may
continue
long
tyme
in
honour
and
safetie
.
Onely
this
I
repeate
for
a
conclusion
,
that
in
such
weightie
cases
,
delay
bréedeth
daunger
,
and
it
is
not
good
to
be
carelesse
when
our
next
neighbours
house
is
on
fier
.
It
is
farre
better
to
be
enuied
than
to
be
pytied
.
I
would
not
haue
our
Realme
to
rew
afterclappes
.
I
had
leuer
oportunitie
should
be
taken
,
than
wished
it
had
béen
taken
.
I
haue
sayd
.
PHilip
king
of
Macedone
hauing
ben
made
Protector
of
the
Thebanes
holy
league
,
pursued
the
benefite
of
that
occasion
,
till
he
had
so
yoked
all
Grecia
that
he
left
them
vnable
to
recouer
their
auncient
estate
and
libertie
.
Toward
the
atcheuing
of
which
his
suttle
enterprise
,
he
was
not
a
little
holpen
by
the
flattering
and
salable
tongues
of
sundry
corrupted
orators
and
traytors
,
preferring
their
own
ambitions
and
gaines
before
their
due
zeale
&
loue
to
their
contreyes
.
The
honest
and
eloquent
Demosthenes
that
gaue
warning
and
disclosed
the
suttle
purposes
of
King
Philip
,
was
not
regarded
.
The
Grecians
themselues
gaue
ayde
and
seruice
to
their
own
destruction
.
And
while
the
one
ioyning
against
the
other
,
vnder
distracted
opinions
of
honor
to
their
false
gods
and
idoles
,
and
with
deceaued
gréedinesse
to
reuenge
old
displeasures
and
quarels
,
and
with
some
vaine
hope
of
some
small
encreases
by
part
of
the
spoyle
,
they
raged
in
ciuile
and
mutuall
warres
,
neglecting
all
aduises
and
warninges
,
reiecting
all
true
meanes
of
firme
peace
,
and
(
that
worst
was
)
hauing
by
many
breaches
of
promise
and
by
vntrue
dealing
,
left
no
possibilitie
of
credite
wherupon
any
assured
reconcilement
might
be
stablished
,
both
fondly
and
wretchedly
put
their
owne
neckes
in
the
halter
of
seruitude
,
together
with
the
poore
Phocoeans
and
the
other
confederates
,
who
were
enforced
for
lacke
of
power
in
them selues
,
or
ayd
from
other
,
to
yelde
to
the
craftie
and
cruell
victors
fraude
and
outrage
.
In
the
meane
time
,
the
king
of
Persia
not
regarding
the
aduises
to
the
effect
abouesayd
,
neither
remembring
both
the
old
&
also
late
quarells
that
Philip
did
beare
in
hart
agaynst
hym
,
nor
fearing
the
Macedons
ouergrowing
in
strength
,
sate
negligent
with
his
wanton
court
at
home
,
while
Philip
by
augmentation
of
victories
armed
his
will
with
power
,
to
procéede
with
the
plotte
that
he
had
long
before
layde
for
inuading
of
Asia
.
Afterward
Philip
him self
the
vntrue
and
vniust
prince
,
through
high
indignation
conceaued
agaynst
him
for
not
doing
of
iustice
,
and
for
maintayning
villanie
of
life
vnpunished
in
one
of
hys
capitaines
and
ministers
of
hys
cruelties
,
was
in
his
greatest
securitie
and
glory
,
most
worthily
in
him
that
suffred
it
,
though
traiterously
in
him
that
did
it
,
sodeinly
and
openly
slaine
,
euen
in
the
presence
of
those
whom
he
most
hyely
trusted
,
in
the
middest
betwéene
hys
sonne
&
his
sonne
in
law
,
and
not
without
suspicion
of
their
good
liking
,
and
specially
of
his
next
heire
and
successor
,
to
an
eternall
document
that
a
traitorous
tyrant
can
haue
none
to
trust
vnto
,
and
hath
euer
those
most
vntrusty
whose
seruice
he
hath
vsed
to
vnfaythfull
and
vnmercifull
doings
.
But
although
Philip
him self
was
so
preuented
by
slaughter
,
yet
his
nexte
heire
pursued
the
enterprise
.
Alexander
the
great
being
heir
to
the
same
Philip
,
now
frée
from
feare
and
accombraunce
of
Grecia
at
home
,
set
vpon
the
kingdome
of
Persia
,
the
king
whereof
had
now
by
not
ayding
of
Grecia
pulled
the
whole
weight
of
the
warre
and
of
all
the
Macedonians
freshe
and
proude
violence
vpon
him selfe
and
his
owne
Empyre
in
Asia
,
where
he
might
haue
diuerted
it
to
haue
béen
spent
to
Alexanders
greater
hardnesse
,
and
hys
owne
good
assuraunce
in
Europe
.
Which
bicause
he
did
not
in
time
,
his
land
was
destroyed
,
his
wife
and
children
taken
,
his
crowne
lost
,
him selfe
slaine
,
all
Persia
brought
to
ruine
and
slauerie
.
An
euerlasting
lesson
to
Princes
to
kéepe
perill
farre
of
if
they
may
,
to
succour
their
distressed
neighbors
,
to
beware
of
those
that
haue
geuen
examples
of
infidelitie
and
of
déepe
reachyng
dissimulation
,
and
to
take
héede
to
them selues
betymes
.
GEorge
Castriot
,
sonne
of
Iohn
Castriot
,
was
afterward
for
his
valiantnesse
surnamed
Scanderbeg
,
which
in
our
tong
signifieth
Alexander
the
Lord
,
or
Alexander
the
Great
:
not
much
varieng
from
the
lyke
sound
of
our
owne
language
.
For
in
some
part
of
this
realme
,
Alexander
is
called
by
corrupt
contraction
Saunder
.
And
Beg
among
the
Turkes
signifieth
great
,
and
a
Lord
or
a
great
man
,
as
in
the
office
of
Bellerbeg
:
and
with
vs
big
is
also
great
.
This
Scanderbeg
breaking
from
the
Turkes
seruice
,
recouered
his
fathers
dominion
in
Epirus
otherwise
called
Albanie
,
which
contrey
is
it
of
which
sometime
Pirrhus
was
,
and
of
which
are
those
Albanois
that
we
haue
seen
in
this
realme
,
of
whom
some
dyd
serue
kyng
Henrie
the
viij
.
at
the
warre
in
France
,
when
Boleine
was
conquered
.
Hauing
so
in
short
tyme
with
incredible
industrie
wonne
agayne
his
inheritance
,
he
was
for
his
excellent
prowesse
by
common
consent
of
all
the
Lordes
of
Epirus
chosen
their
chefe
Prince
&
soueraigne
.
He
florished
about
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.
1543.
and
a
good
sort
of
yeres
both
before
and
after
.
He
long
continued
warre
with
the
great
Turkes
,
Amurathes
the
father
and
Mahumet
the
sonne
.
He
slew
diuerse
of
the
great
Bassaes
and
capitaines
of
the
Turke
,
with
infinite
multitudes
of
their
people
.
He
twise
expelled
Amurathes
out
of
Epirus
,
and
at
the
later
time
enforced
that
great
tyrant
to
dye
for
sorrow
,
bicause
he
could
not
winne
Croia
,
but
was
fayne
to
leaue
it
with
dishonour
.
He
droue
out
Mahumet
also
with
shame
,
not
only
at
both
the
sayd
iorneyes
when
he
came
with
his
father
,
but
also
when
him selfe
inuaded
Epirus
,
at
all
which
three
voyages
the
Turkes
army
when
it
was
least
was
aboue
C.
thousand
men
.
He
continued
the
warre
aboue
xl
.
yeres
.
He
prepared
to
haue
ioyned
his
forces
with
the
kyng
of
Hungarie
and
noble
Iohn
Huniades
.
But
hauyng
the
passage
denyed
and
stopped
by
George
the
traitorous
Despote
of
Mysia
otherwise
called
Rascia
,
through
whose
contrey
his
way
did
lye
of
necessitie
into
Hungarie
,
he
could
not
come
in
tyme
,
but
that
in
meane
season
the
Christians
ioyning
battel
before
his
commyng
to
them
receiued
the
great
&
lamentable
ouerthrow
at
Varna
,
but
with
so
bloudy
a
victorie
to
the
Turke
him selfe
that
the
Turke
was
enforced
to
sit
quiet
a
good
while
after
,
with
most
plaine
proofe
of
great
likelyhode
of
auoydyng
that
great
calamitie
if
Scanderbegs
power
might
also
haue
been
present
to
their
assistance
.
The
life
and
doyngs
of
this
noble
Prince
Scanderbeg
are
set
out
in
Latine
by
Marinus
Barletius
of
Scodra
,
out
of
whom
foloweth
here
translated
into
English
the
discourse
of
a
suttle
practise
of
Mahomet
the
Turke
intendyng
mischef
agaynst
Christendome
:
how
he
fearing
the
force
of
Scanderbeg
to
interrupte
his
other
attemptes
if
he
should
ioyne
with
other
Christian
Princes
,
first
by
crafty
meanes
promises
and
persuasions
of
good
and
peaceable
meanynges
not
onely
to
Scanderbeg
,
but
to
all
other
Princes
the
professors
of
Christian
fayth
,
he
obteined
to
make
peace
and
league
with
Scanderbeg
.
And
the
same
once
obteined
he
dyd
in
dede
surcesse
to
make
open
warre
vpon
Epyrus
,
but
fetched
a
further
compasse
about
,
he
assayled
Scanderbegs
neighbours
and
those
whom
Scanderbeg
in
time
past
had
defended
,
and
from
whom
Scanderbeg
also
in
tyme
of
neede
was
to
looke
for
societie
and
succour
,
&
by
whom
(
if
they
were
subdued
)
Scanderbeg
was
without
all
dout
to
be
most
perislously
accombred
and
endangered
.
Thus
peace
was
gotten
with
this
fraude
,
that
howsoeuer
Scanderbeg
did
not
expresly
capitulate
for
other
Christians
,
yet
bicause
the
Turke
made
the
cause
of
his
sekyng
that
peace
to
be
his
werrinesse
of
warre
with
Christians
and
his
desire
to
lyue
in
quyet
with
them
,
and
that
Christians
were
the
instrumentes
to
procure
it
,
Scanderbeg
could
not
be
persuaded
but
that
not
hym selfe
onely
but
also
his
Christian
neighbours
by
whom
he
receiued
and
was
to
receaue
ayde
in
all
necessities
shoulde
enioy
the
fruite
of
the
same
peace
,
whome
otherwise
no
doubt
he
woulde
neuer
haue
betrayed
and
lefte
destitute
,
both
for
the
common
faythes
sake
,
&
for
necessarye
policie
,
knowyng
in
what
likelyhoode
he
stoode
to
neede
them
an
other
time
,
who
either
subdued
must
in
time
to
come
enuiron
hym
as
enemies
,
or
vpon
articles
of
peace
be
lykewise
tyed
from
relieuing
hym
,
or
departing
on
euen
hand
or
victors
recompence
hym
with
the
like
vnkyndnesse
.
So
was
the
peace
like
Cydippes
apple
,
a
snare
in
form
to
an
entrapped
mynde
,
conceiuyng
the
peace
intended
farre
more
generally
and
largely
than
it
was
by
the
letter
expressed
,
or
by
the
tyraunt
pursued
.
For
whyle
by
that
peace
Scanderbeg
deceaued
,
was
made
a
looker
on
of
his
neighbours
harmes
and
his
owne
daungers
,
while
he
held
hymselfe
agaynst
the
meaning
of
the
league
to
be
tyed
by
the
sillables
of
the
league
,
from
seruing
Christ
and
defending
his
Church
and
people
,
the
Turke
made
warre
vppon
those
dominions
of
the
Venetians
that
bordered
next
vpon
Scanderbeg
,
&
by
which
Scanderbeg
was
to
be
enclosed
in
perill
,
and
forclosed
from
succour
.
And
the
Turke
caryed
with
a
forewynde
in
that
course
agaynst
the
territories
of
the
Venecians
in
Epyrus
and
Dalmatia
,
and
hardly
conteyning
his
malicious
courage
agaynst
Scanderbeg
till
sitte
oportunitie
,
dyd
still
now
&
then
by
aduise
of
olde
Duke
George
the
Despote
,
pinche
Scanderbegs
frendes
,
sowe
hym
quarelles
at
home
,
&
so
diuert
hys
mynde
to
other
necessities
,
and
specially
prepared
matter
to
occupy
hym
vpon
other
borderers
&
neighbours
.
And
the
Turkes
subiectes
caryed
wyth
incklinges
of
their
maysters
affection
,
had
made
a
roade
into
the
vtter
part
of
Scanderbegs
dominions
,
and
ministred
secret
ayde
to
his
enemyes
,
whereof
Scanderbeg
complayned
.
The
Turke
finding
his
purposes
not
yet
rype
to
be
broached
,
and
seeing
that
because
he
had
yet
wonne
no
land
from
the
Venecians
whereby
he
myght
beset
Scanderbeg
as
he
intended
,
he
dissembled
for
the
tyme
,
and
gaue
Scanderbeg
fayre
wordes
,
wyth
laying
all
the
blame
from
hymselfe
vpon
his
subiectes
,
saying
that
it
was
done
wythout
his
knowledge
,
and
by
certayne
about
hym
wythout
hys
assent
.
The
case
standing
thus
,
while
Scanderbeg
saw
the
perill
,
&
in
doubtfull
amaze
betweene
construction
of
wordes
&
apparance
of
meanyng
,
wythdrewe
hys
power
from
doyng
any
thyng
to
the
eschuyng
of
the
common
perill
,
the
Venecians
sent
their
Ambassadours
to
treate
wyth
hym
to
take
part
in
the
warre
with
the
rest
of
Christendome
,
whom
he
meant
in
the
league
to
haue
partakers
wyth
hym
of
the
fruites
of
the
peace
.
According
to
which
true
meanyng
,
beyng
not
hidde
,
but
the
euident
semblance
to
the
whole
worlde
on
both
partes
at
the
tyme
of
the
makyng
of
the
same
league
,
so
many
wayes
so
apparant
,
as
it
needed
no
expressing
in
letters
,
nor
can
now
be
compted
a
deuised
cauill
,
the
league
ought
in
truth
(
sayd
they
)
to
haue
on
both
sides
been
kept
,
and
so
to
bee
expounded
:
beside
occasions
of
breach
on
the
Turkes
part
well
knowen
to
Scanderbeg
.
The
maner
of
dealyng
herein
,
as
it
was
done
in
deede
,
and
the
orations
of
the
Venetian
Embassadours
,
and
of
the
Archbyshop
of
Durazzo
,
whom
for
his
great
credit
with
Scanderbeg
,
they
had
entreated
to
ioyne
with
them
to
perswade
hym
,
do
here
truely
follow
in
English
as
Barletius
hath
written
the
same
in
Latine
.
KYng
Mahumetes
Ambassadour
,
who
had
béen
with
Scanderbeg
in
fortie
dayes
afore
to
treate
for
peace
,
returned
to
him
agayne
with
his
Princes
letters
for
the
confirmyng
and
stablishyng
therof
accordyng
to
Scanderbeges
owne
mynde
and
demaundes
.
Upon
the
receit
of
which
letters
Scanderbeg
calling
his
Capteines
and
officers
about
him
,
read
them
openly
vnto
them
.
Who
gaue
their
consent
togither
to
stablish
peace
with
Ottoman
,
auouching
the
same
to
be
both
honorable
to
Scanderbeg
,
and
also
very
behoffull
&
profitable
for
his
Realme
.
Wherfore
a
league
was
made
betwene
Scanderbeg
and
the
Turke
,
and
peace
euery
where
proclaymed
through
both
their
kyngdomes
to
the
reioycement
of
all
their
subiectes
.
And
the
same
league
was
kept
faythfully
on
either
part
for
a
certeine
tyme
.
But
afterward
the
truce-breaking
Turkes
,
in
whom
there
is
neuer
any
trustinesse
,
gaue
occasion
of
a
breach
of
the
peace
.
For
they
first
inuaded
the
marches
of
Scanderbeg
,
and
draue
away
a
great
bootie
with
them
.
Of
the
which
deede
Scanderbeg
complayned
to
Mahumet
by
letters
&
messengers
:
who
answered
that
he
was
not
priuie
to
it
,
and
in
excuse
séemed
to
be
very
sore
displeased
with
the
matter
,
that
his
men
of
warre
had
done
it
without
his
commaundement
or
consent
:
&
therfore
he
made
him
restitution
of
many
thynges
agayne
.
About
the
same
tyme
the
Turkes
wasted
the
borders
of
the
Uenetians
in
Morea
.
Wherupon
,
the
Uenetians
,
who
were
Scanderberges
confederates
and
very
deare
frendes
,
sent
vnto
him
their
Ambassadour
Gabriel
of
Trinisa
,
exhortyng
and
intreatyng
him
to
make
warre
vppon
Mahumet
,
which
thyng
he
might
iustly
do
for
somuch
as
the
Turke
had
alreadie
broken
the
league
and
violated
his
fayth
.
This
Gabriel
commyng
before
Scanderbeg
,
spake
thus
in
the
presence
of
him
and
of
his
Lordes
.
RIght
high
and
mightie
prince
,
our
comming
vnto
you
is
not
,
(
after
the
maner
almost
of
all
such
as
come
of
Ambassade
,
)
to
exalt
you
with
prayses
,
nor
to
aduaunce
the
worthinesse
of
your
countrie
,
the
antiquitie
of
your
progenie
,
and
the
excellencie
of
your
noble
doyngs
with
deserued
commendacions
:
for
neither
do
I
thinke
that
any
man
,
were
he
neuer
so
eloquent
,
could
easily
do
that
:
neither
doth
the
state
of
the
present
tyme
séeme
to
suffer
the
same
to
be
done
with
comlynesse
.
But
our
comming
is
rather
to
exhort
and
persuade
you
,
and
moreouer
to
intreate
you
,
to
cast
and
bend
the
sight
of
your
mynde
(
which
is
alwayes
wont
to
espye
a
far
of
,
and
to
looke
&
perce
through
thynges
to
come
that
lye
yet
in
couert
)
vpon
the
perill
that
hangeth
ouer
Christendome
,
and
vpon
the
mischief
that
alreadie
begynneth
to
bud
&
burst
out
,
&
is
lyke
to
ouerspred
all
Europe
within
a
while
,
if
it
be
not
met
withall
betimes
.
For
you
may
be
well
assured
&
out
of
all
doubt
,
most
noble
prince
,
that
wheras
the
trecherous
and
wylye
Tyrant
could
pretend
no
naturall
intercourse
of
loue
betwene
the
Turkes
&
Albanes
,
his
making
of
peace
with
you
is
nothyng
els
but
vtter
falshede
&
dissimulation
,
that
when
he
had
first
subdued
the
residue
of
the
Christen
Kynges
and
Princes
that
are
your
neighbours
,
(
for
he
saw
him selfe
to
be
held
at
the
staues
end
,
yea
&
ouermatched
by
your
maiesties
puissance
)
he
might
aduaunce
his
power
&
dominion
further
,
&
turne
his
warres
vpon
vs
also
:
We
sée
already
that
after
this
barbarous
Prince
had
once
made
peace
with
you
,
and
saw
him selfe
safe
and
quyet
from
warre
and
anoyance
at
your
hand
,
by
and
by
he
turned
his
force
agaynst
the
Rascians
and
Triballes
,
&
put
them
to
wrecke
.
That
done
he
conquered
the
Sclauons
&
ouerthrew
the
Thracians
,
and
deposing
the
Gréekes
from
their
Empire
,
wonne
the
kyngdome
of
Trebizond
increasing
still
hys
strength
,
and
aduauncing
his
dominion
further
and
further
.
And
now
breakyng
the
couenaunt
of
peace
,
and
violatyng
all
right
,
he
wageth
warre
agaynst
vs.
He
hath
forrayed
both
your
countrie
&
ours
farre
and
wyde
.
Behold
Prince
Scanderbeg
,
how
well
the
barbarous
Turke
kepeth
promise
with
you
.
He
hath
réered
warre
,
he
is
entered
into
armes
,
he
prouoketh
you
alreadie
to
battell
,
and
vttereth
his
meanyng
and
outrage
without
couerture
.
Are
theis
thinges
to
be
quietly
put
vp
?
should
you
yet
still
held
your
peace
?
must
you
yet
still
trust
the
Turke
?
must
you
yet
still
trust
to
his
courtesie
,
while
he
maketh
hauocke
of
Christendome
and
vtterly
destroyeth
vs
,
whereas
vnluckye
warre
were
better
than
so
dishonorable
a
peace
?
Thinke
you
that
the
infidell
hath
so
soone
forgotten
the
shamefull
death
whereunto
you
draue
his
father
to
his
great
dishonour
?
match
herewithall
the
slaughters
&
calamities
of
his
armyes
Capteines
and
Lieutenantes
whiche
you
haue
put
him
to
.
The
sauage
and
cruell
Mahumet
thinketh
of
all
theis
thinges
,
he
myndeth
them
continually
,
he
setteth
them
day
and
night
afore
his
eyes
,
and
he
desireth
and
longeth
to
be
reuenged
.
But
alas
most
noble
prince
,
he
worketh
wyles
,
beleue
me
he
worketh
wyles
,
he
vseth
the
sleight
of
his
aunceters
,
he
practiseth
dayly
how
to
wynd
about
you
and
to
catch
you
by
his
deceites
and
policies
.
Hetherto
he
hath
flattered
you
to
ceasse
from
warre
and
to
lay
away
weapon
,
that
he
might
go
through
with
his
owne
warres
,
and
oppresse
&
cast
downe
the
rest
of
the
Christen
Kinges
and
Princes
that
are
about
you
,
of
whom
he
saw
none
able
to
withstand
his
force
but
onely
you
.
And
now
after
he
hath
subdued
all
the
others
vnto
hym
,
and
all
thynges
are
fallen
out
as
he
desired
,
he
turneth
vnto
you
.
He
bendeth
his
battailes
at
you
,
to
make
cleane
riddance
of
you
and
all
your
subiectes
and
kyngdome
,
and
then
to
swallow
vp
vs
,
and
to
satisfie
his
owne
barbarous
rage
.
Therfore
most
gracious
prince
,
what
should
you
linger
any
longer
?
The
matter
is
come
to
that
poynt
,
that
you
must
haue
Mahumet
●either
your
enemy
or
your
Lord
.
Let
vs
also
enter
into
armes
agaynst
hym
,
let
vs
incounter
force
with
force
,
let
vs
ioyne
battell
with
him
.
He
prouoketh
vs
to
warre
,
let
vs
giue
him
his
handes
full
of
it
.
Let
vs
burne
and
spoyle
his
countrie
as
méete
is
we
should
,
and
let
vs
not
suffer
our selues
to
be
intrapped
by
his
wylinesse
&
policies
.
For
the
false
forsworne
kaytif
intendeth
and
practiseth
nothyng
but
to
oppresse
vs
one
by
one
,
til
the
state
of
Christendome
(
which
God
forbyd
)
beyng
bereft
of
counsell
&
comfort
,
may
be
yelded
into
his
hand
without
any
stroke
strikyng
,
and
the
common
libertie
of
all
men
be
past
recouerie
for
euer
:
whereas
if
he
sée
vs
knit
our selues
together
,
he
will
be
afrayd
of
our
force
,
and
shunne
our
power
:
or
if
he
will
néedes
venture
vppon
vs
,
it
may
be
his
chaunce
to
go
away
vanquished
.
But
if
he
finde
vs
separated
,
he
shal
easily
ouerwhelme
vs.
So
ouermightie
is
hee
alone
at
this
day
.
Therfore
let
vs
not
suffer
this
plague
,
this
infection
,
this
sore
to
be
in
Europe
,
whiche
doubtlesse
will
ouerspred
and
fester
the
whole
contrie
if
it
be
not
preuented
before
hand
.
For
you
know
wel
inough
the
wyles
of
the
Ottomannes
,
you
are
well
acquaynted
with
theyr
craftes
and
policies
,
whereby
they
shift
out
all
their
matter
,
and
bryng
all
their
greatest
exploytes
to
passe
.
What
man
is
able
O
most
victorious
prince
,
to
recken
vp
the
wicked
&
haynous
doyinges
of
this
most
cruell
tyrant
,
who
in
that
poynt
farre
surmounteth
all
his
aunceters
,
as
the
person
that
cannot
be
satisfied
with
the
dayly
slaughter
of
his
own
subiectes
and
nerest
frendes
,
and
also
longeth
to
imploy
all
his
force
agaynst
our
state
of
Uenice
,
which
(
as
your
maiestie
knoweth
)
hath
alwayes
bene
a
buttresse
and
bulwarke
of
the
Christen
fayth
,
to
the
intent
that
when
he
had
once
shaken
,
broken
,
and
ouerthrowen
that
,
he
might
also
strike
down
not
onely
the
Albanes
,
but
also
the
other
nations
of
Christendome
,
&
trample
them
vnder
féete
.
But
this
is
not
the
onely
thing
that
the
cruel
&
outrageous
tyrant
intendeth
,
though
it
be
very
great
&
vnable
to
be
abidden
among
men
:
But
also
to
destroy
the
right
fayth
and
to
forbid
men
the
way
of
euerlastyng
saluation
.
For
he
is
in
a
wrong
box
who
soeuer
he
is
that
beleueth
that
Mahumet
desireth
not
rather
to
wast
&
vnpeople
the
countries
of
the
Christians
,
than
to
treade
downe
the
true
faith
,
and
to
roote
it
vtterly
out
of
mens
hartes
.
What
then
?
Good
God
what
may
we
Christians
hope
for
at
this
beastes
hand
,
sith
that
both
in
belefe
and
all
kynde
&
trade
of
lyfe
we
be
vtterly
disagréeyng
and
straungers
from
him
?
Therfore
O
inuincible
prince
Scanderbeg
,
the
champion
&
souldiour
of
Christ
,
make
spéede
,
make
hast
,
away
with
delayes
,
dispatch
the
imminent
mischieues
and
perilles
from
thy selfe
&
from
thy
necke
.
Take
héede
to
thy selfe
,
take
héede
to
thy
state
and
kyngdome
while
you
mayest
(
for
now
thou
mayest
if
thou
wilt
)
before
the
mischieues
&
perils
cast
thée
downe
and
ouerwhelme
thée
.
For
if
they
once
light
vppon
thée
(
which
God
forfend
)
thou
wilt
wishe
and
shalt
not
be
able
.
Therfore
to
my
séemyng
it
is
farre
better
for
you
and
more
for
your
ease
,
to
prouide
before
hand
,
than
to
séeke
remedie
and
redresse
after
the
receit
of
the
wounde
when
the
stroke
hath
hit
you
.
Prouide
therefore
,
prouide
,
most
excellent
Prince
,
out
of
hand
,
that
the
outrage
,
rancor
,
pestilentnesse
,
and
venim
of
Mahomet
may
not
infect
,
defile
,
and
marre
thée
,
who
doubtlesse
séeketh
,
prepareth
,
and
practiseth
nothyng
but
to
toll
you
to
trusting
of
hym
,
&
then
cruelly
to
leade
you
to
death
and
destruction
,
as
who
is
and
alwayes
hath
béen
an
vndermyner
of
Christendome
and
sheader
of
Christen
bloud
,
and
a
deadly
hater
of
the
Christen
and
right
beléeuing
fayth
,
which
he
studieth
and
indeuoreth
night
and
day
to
defile
,
cut
of
,
and
vtterly
destroy
by
all
the
meanes
he
can
.
To
the
maintenaunce
and
defence
wherof
,
agaynst
the
rage
&
crueltie
of
this
wood
and
butcherly
tyrant
,
Christ
(
whose
champion
and
Souldier
your
inuincible
maiestie
is
termed
)
together
with
the
state
of
Uenice
,
who
take
you
for
their
Prince
,
doth
call
&
intreate
you
.
Golde
,
siluer
,
men
of
warre
,
and
whatsoeuer
els
is
needefull
for
such
exploytes
,
wée
promise
&
proffer
vnto
you
aboundantly
.
Wherefore
most
glorious
Prince
,
girde
vp
thy selfe
out
of
hand
,
bring
thy
Souldiers
into
the
field
,
set
thy
battels
in
order
,
draw
thy
sword
,
put
thy
speare
into
the
rest
,
and
géeue
charge
vpon
the
Turkes
,
the
vtterest
enemies
of
the
true
fayth
,
whom
thou
hast
alwayes
easily
ouercome
,
and
whom
lykewyse
to
ouercome
,
there
is
a
fatall
and
heauenly
power
geuen
thée
by
God
from
aboue
.
For
surely
if
we
preuent
hym
not
sooner
,
he
will
out
of
doubt
infecte
and
marre
all
.
For
you
know
alreadye
the
wyles
of
the
Turkishe
kynges
,
you
know
their
craftes
and
policies
wherby
they
shift
out
all
their
matters
,
&
bring
their
greatest
exploytes
to
passe
.
And
agayne
,
O
most
victorious
Prince
,
who
is
able
to
rehearse
the
wicked
and
heynous
factes
of
this
most
cruell
tyrant
,
wherein
he
surmounteth
all
his
aunceters
,
as
one
that
can
neuer
be
satisfied
with
the
slaughter
of
his
trustie
subiects
and
neare
kinsfolke
.
Therefore
to
conclude
,
what
may
we
Christians
who
are
straingers
to
him
in
beléefe
,
and
differ
from
him
in
all
trade
of
lyfe
;
good
Lord
,
what
may
we
hope
for
at
the
hand
of
this
beaste
.
WHen
he
had
made
an
end
of
speakyng
,
Scanderbeg
,
not
that
he
wist
not
what
opinion
to
be
of
,
but
because
he
was
wont
to
doe
nothyng
without
the
aduise
of
his
men
of
warre
,
called
hys
Captaynes
and
officers
together
,
and
debated
a
long
time
at
large
with
them
whether
he
should
consent
to
the
Uenecians
and
make
warre
vpon
the
Turk
,
or
no
.
All
which
were
of
opinion
,
in
any
wise
not
to
make
war
against
him
,
because
he
refused
to
make
open
warre
with
Scanderbeg
,
and
had
restored
the
most
part
of
the
bootie
which
his
souldiers
had
(
as
he
auouched
)
taken
out
of
Scanderbegs
territorie
,
rather
of
wantonnesse
,
and
through
a
certayne
loosenesse
of
souldyerly
libertie
,
than
otherwyse
.
By
reason
wherof
the
Ambassadour
of
Uenice
receiuing
this
answere
,
and
vnderstanding
their
mindes
,
departed
from
Scanderbeg
in
great
heauinesse
for
missing
of
hys
purpose
,
and
in
his
way
went
to
Paule
Angell
Archbyshop
of
Durass●
▪
(
whom
he
knew
to
be
a
man
of
very
great
credit
,
&
that
there
was
nothing
so
great
and
hard
,
which
he
was
not
able
to
winne
them
to
when
he
listed
)
to
trye
if
the●strehbysh
.
would
take
vpon
hym
to
deale
with
Scanderbeg
&
his
officers
,
to
enter
into
armes
agaynst
the
Turke
,
and
to
make
warre
vppon
hym
,
for
he
hoped
vndoubtedly
that
Scanderbeg
and
his
men
of
warre
would
easily
be
wonne
to
the
Uenecians
request
.
The
Archbyshop
beyng
a
very
great
fauorer
of
Uenecians
,
dyd
in
honour
of
their
Senate
goe
immediatly
vnto
Scanderbeg
.
This
Archbishop
was
an
Albane
,
borne
of
the
house
of
Driuast
,
the
sonne
of
Andrew
Angell
aforesaid
.
He
was
a
man
indewed
with
great
wit
,
singular
eloquence
,
and
excellent
learning
,
both
in
diuinitie
and
humanitie
,
very
well
séene
both
in
Gréeke
and
Latin
,
notable
for
the
grauitie
of
his
life
and
conuersation
,
and
excéeding
earnest
in
the
Christen
religion
.
And
Scanderbeg
had
him
in
singular
reuerence
for
his
modestie
,
and
for
the
excellencie
and
great
vprightnes
of
his
life
:
and
all
the
Albanes
&
Epyrots
gaue
eare
to
hym
and
honoured
him
as
an
Oracle
.
Immediatly
vpon
his
comming
to
Scanderbeg
,
all
the
captaines
and
Souldiers
were
called
together
,
whom
he
indeuered
to
persuade
to
take
warre
in
hand
against
Mahomet
,
by
such
an
oration
as
this
following
.
THe
diuine
Plato
,
most
victorious
prince
,
affirmeth
that
common
weales
,
kingdomes
and
Empires
be
then
happie
and
throughly
blissed
,
when
they
chaunce
to
be
gouerned
by
the
best
and
wisest
men
.
Which
thyng
we
sée
in
the
open
light
at
this
tyme
to
be
come
to
passe
among
vs
Albanes
,
who
are
gouerned
by
you
alone
a
most
sage
and
gracious
Prince
and
most
inuincible
Capteine
.
And
therefore
,
not
without
good
cause
,
all
the
Kynges
and
Princes
néere
about
and
borderyng
vppon
you
,
haue
for
your
valeantnesse
and
singular
actiuitie
chosen
you
alone
for
their
capteine
and
generall
,
as
a
man
sent
vnto
them
from
heauen
,
to
defend
their
realmes
and
kyngdomes
from
the
Turkish
outrage
&
barbarous
crueltie
,
who
haue
alwayes
hetherto
béen
singularly
and
honorably
defended
by
your
power
and
wisedome
,
and
by
the
valeantnesse
of
your
Capteines
and
men
of
warre
.
Which
thyng
Mahumet
that
suttle
and
craftie
vndermyner
and
fierce
persecuter
of
the
Christen
religion
perceiuing
,
and
longing
to
satisfie
his
inspeakable
hatred
conceyued
agaynst
the
Christians
,
hath
brought
to
passe
by
his
Turkish
traynes
and
wylinesse
,
that
you
fel
to
composition
with
him
by
makyng
a
league
,
to
the
end
that
you
might
ceasse
your
warres
,
and
he
be
no
more
troubled
by
your
power
,
which
he
was
sore
afrayde
of
,
for
the
dispatch
whereof
he
easily
graunted
what
soeuer
articles
of
peace
liked
you
best
.
But
alas
most
noble
Prince
,
who
séeth
not
that
the
barbarous
tyrant
hath
wrought
all
theis
thynges
with
you
by
barbarous
trecherie
,
and
that
his
making
of
peace
is
but
a
pollicie
,
that
he
might
first
dispatche
the
other
Kynges
and
Princes
that
are
your
neighbours
,
and
then
turne
agayn
vpon
you
as
he
hath
done
already
?
For
where
are
the
Princes
of
Rascia
?
where
are
the
kynges
of
Sclauonie
?
where
is
the
kyngdome
of
Trebizond
which
supplyed
Constantinople
,
become
?
Now
,
euen
now
a
late
he
hath
turned
agaynst
you
,
and
breakyng
his
league
and
faith
,
hath
wasted
your
countrie
farre
and
wyde
.
He
troubleth
and
vexeth
your
league
fellowes
with
continuall
rodes
.
For
who
(
O
noble
Prince
)
is
able
to
vtter
this
most
outrageous
tyrants
vnmeasurable
spyte
agaynst
you
?
Thinke
you
that
he
will
leaue
the
death
of
his
father
Amurathe
,
the
sorowfull
slaughter
of
his
hostes
,
the
sleayng
of
his
Capteines
,
and
the
killing
of
his
generalles
vnreuenged
?
Do
you
trust
the
wordes
&
promises
of
this
beast
?
do
you
admit
his
excuses
?
wil
he
kéep
touch
with
you
?
will
he
kéepe
faith
,
which
he
neuer
had
,
nor
neuer
kept
with
any
man
vnto
this
day
?
Good
God
,
who
is
able
to
rehearse
the
wicked
doynges
of
this
most
cruell
Tyrant
?
Neuerthelesse
I
thinke
it
agaynst
reason
to
wrap
them
vp
in
silence
,
for
somuch
as
it
is
a
certeine
honest
pleasure
to
inuey
agaynst
a
sinfull
and
wicked
person
,
and
to
hale
forth
the
workers
of
mischief
into
the
light
,
and
to
call
them
by
their
names
,
to
the
intent
that
other
men
may
absteine
from
vyce
and
lewdnesse
for
feare
of
shame
.
Therfore
like
as
vertue
is
not
to
be
left
without
prayse
,
so
is
not
vyce
to
be
left
without
disprayse
.
For
like
frute
is
receiued
both
of
praysing
the
good
and
of
dispraysing
the
euill
.
And
therfore
it
is
good
right
and
reason
that
all
naughtie
and
wicked
men
should
be
ill
spoken
of
.
But
so
much
the
more
is
this
Tyrant
Mahumet
to
be
ill
spoken
of
,
bycause
he
excelleth
&
passeth
other
men
in
naughtinesse
,
whose
life
,
maners
and
doinges
I
will
runne
ouer
as
shortly
as
I
can
,
to
the
end
they
may
be
the
better
knowen
vnto
you
,
&
that
you
may
shunne
them
.
Mahumet
was
borne
of
very
base
and
vnhappie
stocke
and
of
very
meane
parentes
,
Mahume●
their
Prophet
.
in
that
nacion
which
beyng
the
worst
of
all
barbarous
nations
is
alwayes
wont
to
fléete
from
place
to
place
.
For
whereas
the
Scythians
aboute
Maeotis
are
the
barbarousest
of
all
barbarous
people
,
he
is
reported
to
haue
béen
borne
in
the
basest
and
dishonorablest
place
among
them
.
For
Scythia
was
hys
countrie
,
and
the
village
of
Otmanach
was
his
birthplace
,
from
whence
the
house
or
familie
of
the
Otmannes
taketh
his
originall
,
whiche
glorie
to
bee
counted
slaues
.
So
is
there
nothynge
more
shamefull
and
vyle
than
his
auncetrie
.
His
father
Amurathe
therefore
,
for
whom
it
was
not
lawfull
to
reigne
by
reason
of
his
auncetrie
,
for
somuch
as
he
was
of
the
house
of
Otman
,
which
was
borne
to
bondage
and
alwayes
giuen
to
slauerie
,
inuaded
the
kyngdome
of
Asia
and
other
Realmes
by
craft
and
wickednesse
,
and
increased
and
inlarged
them
all
,
&
so
farre
aduaunced
his
state
which
procéeded
from
a
beggerly
and
lewde
beginnyng
,
that
as
now
he
is
vnable
to
wéeld
his
owne
greatnesse
.
And
to
the
intent
I
may
also
come
to
his
condicions
:
this
Mahumet
is
of
great
strength
both
of
bodie
and
mynde
,
howbeit
of
an
euill
and
lewde
disposition
,
an
enemy
of
mankynd
,
a
common
foe
to
all
men
,
a
sheader
of
bloud
,
a
workemaister
of
mischief
,
a
wellspryng
of
all
vyces
,
a
furtherer
of
death
,
a
father
of
all
naughtinesse
,
&
an
insatiable
mansleaer
.
Who
beyng
issued
of
such
aunceters
,
and
reteyning
still
his
barbarous
and
vnmeasurable
crueltie
,
hath
euermore
continued
still
one
man
in
his
crabbednes
all
his
lyfe
long
.
From
his
youth
vp
his
pleasure
hath
béen
in
warres
;
slaughters
,
rauishmentes
and
debates
,
and
in
the
same
hath
he
spent
his
yong
yeares
.
Of
courage
he
is
hardie
,
wylye
,
variable
,
a
fine
coater
of
any
maner
thyng
,
a
coueter
of
other
mens
goodes
,
a
burner
in
his
owne
lustes
,
&
a
desirer
of
thyngs
immoderate
,
incredible
,
and
vnmeasurable
.
First
therfore
there
grew
in
hym
a
desire
of
gayne
and
afterward
of
dominion
more
than
can
be
expressed
.
His
mynde
was
stayned
with
euill
tatches
.
Neither
was
hee
cleare
from
wicked
lustes
:
but
was
a
filthy
adulterer
and
a
deuiser
of
vyces
whiche
euen
nature
it selfe
abhorreth
.
This
is
the
same
Mahumet
whiche
for
desire
to
reigne
murthered
his
own
brother
.
The
princes
of
Rascia
▪
and
the
kyng
of
Bosna
he
slew
by
trecherie
,
and
their
kinsfolke
he
partly
caryed
away
into
bondage
and
captiuitie
,
&
partly
put
out
their
eyes
,
or
maymed
them
in
some
part
of
their
bodyes
.
What
shall
I
say
of
others
,
vppon
whom
he
tryed
all
kyndes
of
tormentes
,
in
somuch
as
it
should
séeme
he
would
wreake
his
téene
vppon
hym selfe
if
he
wanted
others
wherein
to
do
it
,
so
cruell
is
that
nature
of
his
,
and
his
ouerboyling
anger
can
neuer
be
satisfied
.
For
his
hart
beyng
vncleane
to
Godward
,
and
spyteful
towardes
men
,
doth
alwayes
imagine
mischief
,
estemyng
frendshyp
or
enemitie
not
by
desert
but
by
profit
,
nowhere
keping
measure
,
no
where
kepyng
modestie
,
committyng
shamefull
and
cruell
thynges
both
agaynst
frends
and
subiectes
,
spoylyng
Churches
both
openly
and
priuily
,
vnhalowyng
holie
thynges
,
defilyng
all
thynges
,
snatchyng
all
thynges
,
pluckyng
all
thyng
to
hym
,
confoundyng
shame
and
chastitie
,
and
heauen
&
earth
together
.
Hath
he
not
subdued
,
slayne
,
and
caught
prisoners
almost
all
against
his
leagues
?
And
therfore
what
noueltie
is
it
,
most
noble
Prince
,
if
a
truce-breakyng
Turke
kepe
no
promise
with
you
,
seyng
he
is
stayned
with
all
kynde
of
vyces
,
&
holdeth
still
the
sayd
wickednesse
and
trecherie
by
inheritaunce
from
his
aunceters
?
Wherfore
beleue
not
the
tyrant
,
neither
trust
you
to
his
wordes
and
promises
:
but
withdrawying
from
all
frendshyp
with
hym
,
thynke
the
peace
to
be
broken
whiche
he
hym selfe
hath
first
cut
a
sunder
&
dissolued
,
&
forslow
not
to
pursue
him
with
warre
for
fauour
towardes
hym
.
Prouide
,
prouide
quickly
for
your selfe
and
for
your
Realme
,
that
the
Turke
surpryse
not
you
and
yours
by
treason
and
sutteltie
.
The
wyly
For
imagineth
nothing
els
,
the
lewde
cankerd
carle
practiseth
nothyng
but
how
hee
may
ouercome
and
oppresse
the
faith
of
Christ
,
for
the
which
,
you
(
as
you
know
)
haue
determined
to
labour
and
trauell
continually
,
and
also
sworne
the
same
,
yea
and
I
remember
wel
that
you
haue
oftentymes
said
,
that
you
were
borne
&
begotten
for
the
defence
&
maintenaunce
therof
.
Wherfore
then
(
by
your
patience
)
haue
you
laid
weapon
away
?
Why
suffer
you
the
fayth
to
be
oppressed
by
a
tyrant
,
while
your
souldyers
myndes
become
lazie
by
idlenesse
?
Haue
you
abandoned
the
common
welfare
?
haue
you
renounced
the
warres
?
haue
you
chosen
to
liue
onely
to
your self
?
Thinke
you
there
shal
ensue
small
perill
to
your self
by
so
doing
?
Shall
a
valiant
and
auncient
Captaine
in
battell
sit
still
with
his
armes
folded
one
within
an
other
?
Alas
for
shame
,
shall
men
sée
the
corage
of
a
prince
which
was
somtyme
liuely
and
lustie
,
become
now
lazie
and
vanishe
away
through
idlenes
?
But
your
frend
Mahomet
loytereth
not
,
he
becommeth
not
drowsie
with
ydlenesse
,
but
he
watcheth
,
he
laboureth
,
he
bestirreth
himselfe
,
to
dishonour
the
Gospel
of
Christ
,
to
sinke
Peters
shippe
,
and
to
rend
and
teare
Christes
coate
,
folowing
the
footesteps
of
his
aunceters
and
the
traditions
of
his
false
prophet
,
who
charged
his
people
to
persecute
Christianitie
with
all
egernesse
,
as
a
hatefull
and
vnholy
thyng
,
and
to
shed
the
giltles
bloud
of
the
Christians
without
pitie
.
By
reason
whereof
thys
tyrant
hath
alwayes
persecuted
the
Christen
faith
most
sharply
aboue
others
:
against
whom
,
if
you
who
are
the
inuinciblest
of
all
Princes
,
do
not
out
of
hand
arme
your selfe
,
rayse
your
power
,
and
make
warre
vppon
hym
,
vndoubtedly
all
men
will
déeme
you
to
be
fearefull
,
cowardly
,
and
geuen
ouer
to
slothfulnes
.
Knowe
you
not
that
all
the
Christen
kynges
and
Princes
together
with
our
most
holy
Pope
Pius
the
chiefe
Byshop
of
the
world
are
conspired
together
agaynst
this
tyrant
,
whom
they
are
fully
determined
(
by
Gods
helpe
)
to
pursue
to
the
vttermost
,
till
they
haue
dryuen
hym
quite
and
cleane
out
of
Europe
?
A
pardon
is
already
gone
out
from
the
Pope
,
and
published
through
all
Christendome
,
wherein
all
Christen
kyngs
and
Princes
are
willed
to
take
armes
with
the
Pope
against
the
king
of
Turkie
,
and
behighted
forgeuenes
of
their
sinnes
for
so
doing
.
In
consideration
whereof
your
frendes
the
Uenecians
with
their
Duke
and
whole
Senate
,
&
their
armies
,
as
well
by
sea
as
by
land
,
together
with
our
chiefe
Bishop
,
do
●an
and
cry
vpon
you
to
this
against
Mahomet
,
and
make
you
their
Prince
,
Captayne
,
and
Lieutenaunt
generall
of
all
the
whole
hoste
of
Christendome
.
And
as
soone
as
the
Pope
shal
be
passed
the
seas
and
entered
into
Durasso
,
he
is
determined
to
proclayme
you
kyng
of
Albanes
and
Epirots
,
as
the
worthyest
person
to
whom
the
chief
charge
of
this
warre
should
be
committed
.
Therfore
most
happy
Prince
Scanderbeg
,
what
doest
thou
?
Why
makest
thou
delaye
?
Eyther
thou
must
forget
warre
&
battel
for
euer
,
and
receiue
the
yoke
,
or
else
thou
must
neither
in
valyantnesse
nor
in
painefulnesse
geue
place
to
this
partie
with
whom
thou
must
haue
to
doe
for
the
souereintie
and
dominion
of
all
.
Plucke
vp
thy
corage
and
strength
,
call
together
thy
captaines
and
coronelles
,
assemble
thy
people
and
subiectes
on
all
sides
,
intreate
the
kynges
and
Princes
that
are
confederate
with
thée
,
set
thy
battelles
and
bandes
in
aray
,
folow
the
company
of
the
faithfull
,
&
the
congregation
of
all
the
Christians
,
obey
the
high
B●shop
,
and
get
pardon
for
thyne
owne
si●nes
and
the
sinnes
of
all
thyne
armye
.
Beholde
,
the
Uenecians
haue
sent
me
to
tell
thée
these
thynges
,
and
to
perswade
and
exhort
thée
to
match
thy
power
with
their
power
,
thy
ensinges
with
their
ensinges
,
and
thy
battelles
with
their
battelles
.
For
as
you
know
,
the
Uenecian
Princes
are
right
Christian
,
bountiful
,
and
very
puisaunt
both
by
sea
and
land
,
and
they
promise
and
profer
vnto
you
aboundance
of
golde
and
siluer
.
Wherfore
Lord
Scanderbeg
,
play
the
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*
That
is
to
say
Lord
Alexander
.
Scanderbeg
in
déed
,
thou
glory
of
Princes
,
geue
thou
the
first
onset
vpon
the
barbarous
infideles
wyth
thy
power
,
inuade
thou
his
marches
,
strike
thou
thyne
enemy
in
feare
&
terror
,
which
hath
prouoked
thée
first
by
breaking
the
league
and
violatyng
hys
promise
and
peace
.
For
all
lawes
crye
out
,
and
all
dueties
permit
that
no
promise
should
be
kept
with
hym
that
kéepeth
none
hymself
.
Therfore
goe
boldly
,
I
say
,
goe
boldly
before
the
Christen
armye
,
assayle
thou
the
enemye
first
,
proclayme
generall
warre
agaynst
the
Infidell
,
and
make
way
before
hand
,
agaynst
the
high
Byshop
come
.
For
loe
,
the
Pope
Pius
,
loe
,
thy
Uenecians
,
loe
the
Frenchmen
,
Spanyardes
,
Flemminges
,
Hungarians
,
Bohemians
,
Polonians
,
and
all
Christendome
follow
thée
&
assist
thée
.
By
reason
wherof
it
is
not
possible
that
the
Infidell
shoulde
be
able
to
withstand
so
many
kynges
and
Princes
,
&
so
many
hostes
and
armyes
,
and
therefore
he
must
be
fayne
to
take
hym selfe
straight
wayes
to
flight
and
to
gette
him
quyte
and
cleane
out
of
Europe
.
The
Turkes
pride
shall
not
auaile
hym
,
neither
shall
his
wonted
wiles
,
treasons
and
policies
helpe
him
.
But
by
the
way
I
must
put
in
mynde
,
&
you
your selfe
must
wisely
forecast
it
,
that
the
guilefull
Turke
foreséeing
all
these
thinges
,
will
by
and
by
send
messengers
and
Ambassadours
to
you
,
to
allure
you
to
lay
aside
weapon
,
and
to
kéepe
the
peace
wyth
hym
,
which
he
hath
broken
with
you
.
But
regard
not
his
mischeuous
nature
,
shutte
and
stoppe
vp
your
eares
against
his
inticementes
.
You
knowe
the
mans
disposition
already
,
ye
find
well
inough
what
he
is
,
and
you
are
as
well
acquainted
with
the
wyles
of
the
house
of
Ottoman
as
any
man
is
who
soeuer
is
best
acquainted
.
MAhumet
the
ambitious
suttle
and
cruell
Prince
,
continuing
his
purpose
to
encrease
his
wicked
sect
&
to
enlarge
his
dominions
,
seyng
him selfe
vnable
to
atcheue
that
purpose
so
long
as
Christian
princes
were
vnited
in
myndes
and
forces
agaynst
hym
,
resorteth
to
his
accustomed
auantage
.
He
practiseth
to
bynde
some
Christians
whoes
strength
he
most
feared
,
with
band
of
league
&
peace
,
which
he
iudged
they
would
sincerely
obserue
,
him selfe
alway
reteynyng
a
periurous
mynde
to
breake
fayth
when
it
should
be
for
hys
profite
so
to
do
.
So
had
he
done
in
his
peace
with
Scanderbeg
wherof
in
the
former
Orations
is
made
mention
.
For
seyng
,
that
while
Scanderbeg
was
his
open
enemie
in
warre
and
employed
his
dayly
strength
vppon
him
,
he
could
do
nothyng
to
the
Venecians
,
he
durst
not
attempt
any
new
enterprise
in
Hungarie
,
&
his
allye
the
false
Christian
Duke
of
Mysia
could
not
rest
in
quiet
,
much
lesse
in
abilitie
to
anoy
Christendome
at
hys
pleasure
,
but
that
Scanderbeg
was
euer
redy
with
his
ayde
to
stand
betwene
hym
and
the
Venecians
,
to
assist
the
Hungarians
,
to
make
way
thorough
Mysia
with
fire
and
sword
,
and
at
euery
nede
to
defend
the
Church
of
God
:
Mahumet
first
practised
to
oppresse
him
by
strength
and
treason
,
and
by
accomberyng
Scanderbeges
owne
contrey
,
one
while
with
inuasions
,
an
other
while
with
warre
of
his
neighbours
,
an
other
while
with
seditions
and
conspiracies
of
his
own
frendes
and
Capitaines
and
nobilitie
against
hym
.
Vnder
promise
of
a
hie
mariage
,
endowed
with
hopes
of
crowns
,
and
great
wealth
,
and
the
possessing
of
Scanderbegs
own
land
and
inheritance
,
the
Turke
allured
Amesa
the
greatest
Duke
vnder
Scanderbeg
in
Epyrus
,
and
Scanderbegs
own
kinsman
,
and
whom
Scanderbeg
with
great
loue
and
indulgence
had
suffred
,
yea
and
aduanced
to
ryse
to
the
greatest
credite
in
that
land
among
all
estates
and
specially
the
commons
of
that
Realme
,
both
by
authoritie
and
offices
to
him
committed
,
and
by
his
kinred
to
the
prince
him selfe
and
alliances
to
the
most
of
the
nobilitie
of
the
land
,
which
estimation
Duke
Amesa
had
him selfe
also
hyely
augmented
by
great
vertues
that
otherwise
were
in
hym
,
specially
such
as
were
aptest
to
winne
affections
of
the
multitude
.
This
Duke
Amesa
was
so
by
this
traiterous
Prince
Mahumet
seduced
.
He
promised
hym
the
mariage
of
his
owne
nere
kinswoman
after
the
dispatchyng
of
Amesaes
owne
wife
,
he
promised
him
forein
ayde
&
force
of
men
to
strengthen
his
rebellion
agaynst
Scanderbeg
,
apointyng
him
both
number
and
time
&
place
where
they
should
arriue
,
with
sufficient
furniture
of
all
meanes
&
prouisions
to
atteine
his
wicked
purpose
,
and
he
promised
him
the
succession
and
crown
of
Albanie
to
him
and
his
heires
for
euer
,
whiche
yet
God
wote
the
tyrant
neuer
truly
intended
,
but
fully
determined
,
if
by
this
meane
Scanderbeg
could
haue
bene
made
away
,
to
haue
shortly
after
easily
dispatched
poore
Duke
Amesa
and
quickly
ioyned
whole
Albanie
as
a
prouince
to
his
own
Empire
.
And
not
onely
he
so
misguided
Duke
Amesa
,
but
also
by
meanes
of
Duke
Amesaes
fauor
credit
and
alliance
,
and
by
great
corruptions
and
promises
from
him selfe
,
he
founde
the
way
to
draw
vnto
the
same
partie
and
faction
sondry
other
of
Scanderbeges
nobilitie
,
and
specially
his
trusty
Counseller
Moses
.
But
almighty
God
,
whoe
had
oft
before
,
as
by
miracle
and
of
his
owne
immediate
grace
,
preserued
his
noble
champion
&
true
seruant
Scanderbeg
,
did
▪
now
also
assist
the
good
prince
and
principall
instrument
of
succoryng
the
Churche
and
deffendyng
Christes
Gospell
,
in
this
great
danger
of
hostilitie
and
treason
packed
together
agaynst
the
safetie
of
this
godly
and
honorable
soueraine
.
Duke
Amesa
preuailed
not
,
but
was
taken
,
emprisoned
,
and
after
dyed
:
Moses
vppon
repentance
returned
to
grace
:
Mahumet
lost
hys
great
preparation
,
and
lyke
a
horrible
stinche
left
behinde
him
at
the
ende
of
the
enterprise
,
an
odious
and
lothsome
disclosing
of
a
trecherous
mynde
agaynst
the
safetie
of
true
Christian
princes
,
and
an
eternall
vnappeasable
hatred
agaynst
Christes
Gospell
and
Religion
.
This
attempt
fayling
,
he
practised
a
new
deuise
.
He
fayneth
hym selfe
werry
of
warres
with
Christians
,
he
taketh
vpon
him
to
be
greued
with
the
wast
of
his
people
and
with
hys
great
losses
in
so
continuall
enemities
and
destructions
,
he
protesteth
a
desire
of
quyet
and
at
length
to
geue
happy
rest
to
Christendome
&
to
him selfe
,
and
therfore
he
writeth
fayre
glosing
letters
to
Scanderbeg
:
he
sendeth
Scanderbeg
goodly
presentes
,
Turkye
horses
,
bowes
,
carpets
,
silkes
and
many
gay
thinges
:
he
maketh
much
of
Scanderbeges
messengers
:
he
setteth
those
in
his
court
whom
Scanderbeg
best
loued
to
be
instrumentes
to
draw
Scanderbeges
ministers
to
commend
the
peace
:
he
maketh
most
frendly
shewes
of
fauor
to
the
faction
of
Scanderbeges
frendes
in
the
tyrants
owne
realme
,
court
and
familie
:
he
halfe
yeldeth
the
zelous
shew
of
his
owne
heresie
,
to
beguile
Scanderbeg
with
such
hypocrisie
:
he
practiseth
to
make
some
of
Scanderbeges
nobilitie
to
set
out
in
large
speche
the
discommodities
and
hazardes
of
the
warre
,
the
wasting
of
treasure
,
the
losse
of
men
,
the
hinderance
of
the
landes
by
withdrawyng
trafike
and
entercourse
betwene
their
subiectes
,
with
great
amplifieng
the
benefites
of
long
desired
peace
and
such
other
deuises
.
By
these
and
such
like
fetches
at
length
he
somewhat
softened
hys
inuincible
zele
,
and
a
litle
blyndfolded
his
clere
pearcyng
iugement
.
And
so
this
great
tyrant
Mahumet
by
litle
and
litle
diuertyng
Scanderbeges
eyes
from
Mahumetes
periurous
falsehed
,
and
from
consideryng
how
the
tyrantes
Bassaes
and
Bishops
did
iustifie
infidelitie
and
breach
of
faith
agaynst
Christians
,
at
length
a
peace
was
made
betwene
Mahumet
and
Scanderbeg
,
Scanderbeg
alway
iudgyng
the
same
peace
not
to
be
taken
for
him selfe
onely
but
also
for
hys
Christen
neighbours
.
Which
he
was
induced
to
beleue
by
these
reasons
,
for
that
Mahumet
pretended
the
cause
of
his
sekyng
that
peace
to
be
his
werrinesse
of
warring
with
Christians
,
and
for
that
other
Christians
,
specially
those
that
lyued
vnder
the
tyrants
empire
,
were
the
chief
meanes
and
instrumentes
of
practising
the
league
,
assuryng
Scanderbeg
and
his
embassadours
&
ministers
that
the
same
shold
not
onely
be
to
the
great
benefit
of
Scanderbeg
,
but
also
to
the
perfect
suretie
of
those
Christians
that
labored
the
peace
,
and
to
a
notable
meane
of
reuenge
and
ouerthrow
agaynst
the
old
false
Christian
Duke
of
Mysia
that
had
bene
the
sower
of
all
the
former
troubles
and
mischieues
.
So
rested
the
comprehension
and
expresse
prouision
for
other
Christians
in
onely
vndoubted
confidence
.
And
while
Scanderbeg
neuer
suspected
so
foule
a
trecherie
as
Mahumet
intended
,
the
other
Christian
princes
,
and
specially
those
that
were
most
subiect
to
Mahumetes
power
,
although
rhe
peace
was
most
chiefly
pretended
for
their
suretie
,
yet
by
reason
that
Mahumetes
dissembled
shewes
of
good
will
toward
them
made
forgetfulnesse
or
apparance
of
no
nede
to
comprise
them
,
or
by
some
sinister
practise
,
were
left
out
of
the
capitulation
and
articles
.
Then
the
peace
was
not
onely
solemnely
accorded
,
but
also
ratified
&
confirmed
,
by
othes
,
by
Embassadours
,
by
solemne
testifications
and
gratulations
,
and
by
all
the
exquisite
meanes
that
might
be
to
bryng
Scanderbeg
in
confidence
of
the
infidell
Mahumetes
fidelitie
.
But
immediatly
vpon
this
conclusion
of
peace
,
Mahumet
hauyng
Scanderbeg
fast
tyed
from
stirring
,
&
finding
that
(
which
he
chiefly
coueted
in
the
whole
peace
)
that
there
was
no
speciall
article
expressed
for
the
other
Christians
for
whoes
sake
and
for
whoes
safetie
and
by
whoes
meanes
the
peace
was
chiefly
intended
and
procured
,
first
maketh
warre
vpon
the
Venecians
:
not
in
Cyprus
nor
Candie
nor
other
places
,
wherein
he
might
do
as
great
hurt
to
the
Venecians
with
lesse
peril
to
Scanderbeg
,
but
he
piketh
out
those
places
and
territories
of
theirs
that
lye
hard
vppon
Scanderbeg
,
he
besiegeth
,
Scodra
,
and
maketh
warre
vpon
the
Venecians
dominions
in
the
selfe
Epirus
and
Dalmatia
.
He
pretendeth
aydyng
of
his
allye
the
Duke
of
Mysia
and
so
piketh
querell
to
Hungarie
,
and
by
the
way
vnder
color
agaynst
the
Hungarians
he
fortifieth
Mysia
against
Scanderbeg
.
By
these
deuises
this
plat
hath
he
layed
.
If
he
wynne
Scodra
and
other
peces
and
territories
of
the
Venecians
in
Epyrus
,
thē
hath
he
Scanderbeg
enclosed
with
mighty
fortifications
on
that
part
.
If
he
oppresse
the
Hungarians
and
winne
from
them
the
frontier
townes
,
then
hath
he
also
so
much
neare
strength
on
the
other
side
▪
In
fortifieng
Mysia
he
hath
also
a
third
meane
to
assaile
Scanderbeg
.
And
in
all
these
cases
he
hath
a
sure
distractyng
of
all
ayde
from
Scanderbeg
in
his
necessitie
by
hemming
him
thus
round
about
And
though
it
should
happen
that
he
could
in
none
of
these
places
wynne
ground
and
so
hedge
him
in
,
yet
was
he
sure
so
to
werry
the
Venecians
,
Hungarians
,
and
other
neighbours
,
that
when
he
should
begyn
warre
with
Scanderbeg
they
should
be
so
entangled
with
articles
of
a
new
league
,
or
tyered
with
discommodities
of
old
warre
,
and
partly
so
irritated
with
Scanderbeges
withdrawing
his
assistance
from
them
at
this
tyme
,
that
in
hys
neede
they
should
either
not
be
able
to
do
hym
good
,
or
willingly
shrinke
from
hym
as
he
doth
now
from
them
,
and
should
pretend
them selues
likewise
to
be
bound
by
league
as
he
for
hym selfe
now
allegeth
.
And
one
further
reache
therein
also
hath
the
tyrant
,
though
he
wynne
nothyng
agaynst
the
other
Christians
,
yet
vnder
color
of
hys
warres
in
so
nere
partes
to
Scanderbeg
to
haue
a
great
power
alway
in
redinesse
vnsuspected
,
with
full
purpose
to
poure
it
sodenly
vppon
Scanderbeg
if
he
spye
hym
vpon
trust
of
peace
negligent
and
open
to
auantage
.
For
this
cause
he
maketh
his
siege
against
the
Venecians
both
by
land
&
sea
,
and
maketh
semblance
that
after
the
warre
ended
with
the
Venecians
he
is
to
vse
his
nauye
for
an
other
enterprise
a
farre
of
,
onely
to
this
purpose
by
sea
and
land
to
set
sodenly
vppon
Scanderbeg
so
sone
as
the
periured
tyrant
might
finde
eyther
Scanderbeg
hedelesse
,
or
Scanderbegs
frendes
and
Christian
neighbours
either
wrapped
&
withdrawen
with
the
lyke
peace
of
werryed
with
former
warres
.
But
as
God
would
all
thys
sutteltie
was
preuented
.
For
by
the
persuasion
of
Triuisa
the
Venecian
embassadour
and
Angelo
the
Archbyshop
of
Durazzo
,
as
is
aboue
sayd
,
and
by
a
notable
good
occasion
ministred
by
Mahumet
hym selfe
,
by
a
roade
made
into
Scanderbegs
countrey
by
the
Duke
of
Mysiaes
men
Mahumetes
confederate
duryng
the
peace
,
and
by
sondry
inclinges
and
practises
of
Mahumet
to
vndermyne
Scanderbeges
safetie
,
Scanderbeg
was
persuaded
to
enter
into
the
defence
of
hys
Christian
neyghbours
and
to
accompt
the
true
meanyng
of
the
peace
to
extend
to
them
all
,
as
hym selfe
at
the
makyng
of
the
league
dyd
vnderstand
it
and
expect
the
successe
of
it
,
and
as
Mahumet
hym selfe
dyd
beare
semblance
and
feede
the
sayd
expectation
.
So
were
all
the
suttle
deuises
of
the
faythlesse
tyrant
for
that
tyme
thwarted
and
wisely
met
withall
.
Whereupon
Mahumet
grew
to
accorde
with
the
Venecians
and
Hungarians
,
and
raysed
his
siege
of
Scodra
,
&
withdrew
hys
armye
by
sea
from
that
place
.
And
in
that
peace
with
the
Venecians
he
lykewise
left
Scanderbeg
vncomprehended
.
And
notwithstandyng
other
pretenses
to
vse
his
strength
agaynst
the
barbarous
Mamaluches
in
Egypt
,
to
whiche
kyngdome
he
was
trayned
with
some
hope
of
their
crowne
and
Empire
,
the
same
force
that
he
had
vsed
by
sea
and
land
agaynst
Scodra
and
agaynst
the
Venecians
he
did
not
dissolue
,
but
wholly
employed
it
agaynst
Scanderbeg
.
In
this
distresse
cometh
Scanderbeg
to
his
old
frend
Alphonse
of
Arragon
,
the
kyng
of
Hungarie
,
the
Princes
of
Germanie
,
the
fathers
of
Venice
,
and
other
Christian
Kynges
and
states
,
to
craue
their
aydes
in
defense
of
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
speaketh
to
such
effect
,
as
foloweth
.
IT
is
not
vnknowen
vnto
you
most
puissant
and
Christian
Kyngs
,
Princes
,
Lordes
and
fathers
,
how
we
haue
these
many
yeares
,
in
continuall
warre
agaynst
the
most
mighty
Tyrant
the
professed
enemie
of
our
fayth
and
libertie
,
and
against
his
confederate
falsly
bearing
the
most
holy
name
of
a
Christian
Prince
,
susteined
the
defence
of
our
owne
right
and
preseruation
&
of
a
few
noble
princes
and
faithfull
Christians
in
territorie
nere
adioyning
to
vs
,
and
in
bond
of
most
Christian
and
noble
societie
most
nerely
conioyned
with
vs.
It
is
also
euident
that
the
mightynesse
of
our
aduersaries
,
and
the
sclendernesse
of
our
powers
in
comparison
of
theirs
,
we
beyng
in
all
thynges
sauyng
in
the
goodnesse
of
our
cause
&
in
assurance
of
faith
the
onely
foundation
of
inuincible
courage
farre
inferior
vnto
them
,
haue
after
so
many
spoyles
of
our
contrey
,
so
many
battayles
foughten
so
many
princes
slayne
,
so
many
sieges
suffred
brought
vs
to
great
vnlikelynesse
of
long
continuance
,
specially
when
they
aboundyng
in
multitude
,
although
eche
of
the
bloudes
of
vs
and
our
valeaunt
frendes
&
subiectes
should
be
sold
with
the
liues
of
many
on
the
other
part
,
must
needes
yet
by
and
litle
at
length
consume
vs.
Hereby
it
may
séeme
to
some
that
our
spéeche
and
most
earnest
sute
vnto
you
at
this
tyme
is
but
our
owne
cause
enforced
by
our
owne
necessitie
.
In
part
we
must
needes
confesse
that
so
it
is
,
&
we
do
accompt
it
our
greatest
comfort
that
our
God
vouchsaueth
in
such
noble
place
and
honorable
degrée
of
most
dangerous
and
therfore
also
most
glorious
&
hye
seruice
to
employ
vs.
Yet
must
I
admonishe
you
to
call
to
mynde
,
and
most
principally
enforme
you
to
consider
,
and
most
entierly
besech
you
&
therewith
also
most
seriously
aduise
you
to
remember
,
&
not
onely
to
hold
in
memorie
,
but
also
to
exercise
in
continuall
cogitation
,
that
the
case
is
also
sondry
wayes
your
owne
,
and
so
farre
as
you
excede
me
&
my
confederates
the
poore
Princes
and
nobilitie
of
Epirus
,
in
wealth
,
largenesse
of
dominion
,
abilitie
of
resistance
,
numbers
of
your
owne
royall
and
magnificall
persons
,
&
multitudes
of
your
subiectes
,
and
your
and
their
posterities
,
so
much
is
it
,
though
not
more
nerely
yet
more
hyely
yours
than
ours
,
so
much
is
your
charge
weightier
,
your
burden
of
dutie
heauier
,
you
perill
of
losse
dishonour
and
damnation
greater
and
greuouser
,
and
in
respect
of
subiect
mater
,
of
persons
and
of
tyme
and
posteritie
though
it
come
not
sooner
at
you
yet
it
extendeth
both
deper
&
further
to
you
.
What
is
it
to
lose
Epirus
in
comparison
of
the
rest
of
Christendome
?
But
toward
the
losse
of
the
rest
of
Christendome
,
how
great
a
mater
is
it
to
lose
Epirus
?
What
great
losse
can
be
of
vs
a
few
poore
gentlemen
that
kepe
but
a
corner
of
land
,
in
respect
of
our selues
,
when
we
shall
gaine
by
death
in
the
querell
of
Christ
?
but
how
great
losse
shal
be
to
you
so
many
so
great
Princes
that
possesse
the
bodie
of
the
Christian
world
,
to
lose
your
lyues
at
length
if
not
by
warre
yet
by
ordinarie
necessitie
,
and
therwith
to
lose
your
soules
for
destituting
the
cause
of
Christ
,
and
the
lyues
&
soules
of
infinite
your
subiectes
and
frendes
,
in
leauing
or
rather
making
open
the
entrance
into
the
fold
of
Christ
,
for
the
enemie
of
Christen
fayth
&
religion
to
make
hauock
of
Christes
flock
and
people
,
which
you
might
haue
holpen
?
Heare
me
and
my
confederates
therefore
I
besech
you
,
as
you
beyng
men
endued
with
kindly
nature
of
man
would
heare
naturall
men
oppressed
&
nedyng
your
ayde
:
Heare
vs
as
you
beyng
noble
Princes
would
heare
Princes
&
noblemen
in
vtter
danger
of
their
liues
possessions
and
liberties
:
Heare
vs
as
ye
beyng
Christians
would
heare
Christians
and
the
champions
of
Christianitie
in
greatest
perill
and
extremitie
,
fightyng
for
our
common
fayth
and
fréedome
and
crauyng
your
succours
:
Heare
vs
as
ye
your selues
wold
heare
men
speakyng
to
your selues
,
for
your selues
,
of
the
greatest
maters
,
most
nerely
touchyng
you
,
&
most
depely
importyng
you
,
in
hauiour
,
in
honor
,
&
in
safetie
,
for
the
present
season
,
for
the
time
shortly
at
hand
,
and
for
euerlasting
continaunce
.
And
in
hearing
of
vs
,
put
on
I
besech
you
,
humanitie
to
pitie
vs
,
wisedome
to
looke
to
your selues
,
zeale
to
serue
God
,
necessary
courage
for
the
present
,
honorable
and
dutyfull
care
for
posteritie
,
an
heroicall
desire
to
atteine
immortall
glory
,
and
a
dreadfull
diligence
to
escape
eternal
punishment
and
infamie
.
And
aboue
all
thynges
whyle
you
liue
imagine
your selues
dyeng
,
&
when
you
haue
heard
vs
imagine
your
conscience
at
your
dyeng
houre
vpbraydyng
you
with
not
doyng
that
whiche
we
desire
ye
to
do
.
Let
now
you
owne
depe
impressions
of
the
cause
vppon
our
admonition
auaile
to
moue
you
,
and
in
my
wordes
I
pray
you
remember
that
how
soeuer
you
haue
bene
vsed
at
home
to
delicate
and
tickling
speches
exquisitely
framed
to
please
you
,
by
those
that
either
for
their
depe
reuerence
beyng
your
subiectes
,
or
for
their
profite
sekyng
gayne
by
your
fauorable
audience
,
feare
nothyng
so
much
as
with
any
scratch
of
playne
truth
to
offend
your
eares
accustomed
to
more
deinty
vsage
,
you
will
be
pleased
not
to
looke
for
that
of
me
,
but
be
contented
in
a
new
necessitie
to
awake
to
a
newe
forme
of
hearyng
.
Beare
with
me
I
besech
you
that
haue
not
bene
brought
vp
in
scholes
to
gather
my
aduancement
by
wordes
,
but
haue
spent
my
life
in
armes
to
defend
Christendome
by
dedes
.
And
beyng
my selfe
(
though
by
Gods
ordinaunce
that
hath
placed
me
in
the
frontiers
of
his
church
to
beare
the
first
brunt
of
the
enemie
,
a
poore
one
and
nedyng
succour
,
)
yet
a
prince
of
soueraigne
authoritie
in
myne
owne
dominions
as
you
are
,
I
presume
that
such
thynges
as
I
shall
speake
,
which
at
your
subiectes
hands
were
not
so
mete
to
be
said
,
yet
at
my
mouth
,
one
of
vs
fréely
admonishyng
an
other
,
and
in
this
hye
necessitie
,
you
will
patiently
heare
me
and
in
a
rude
vessell
receyue
the
holesome
frute
of
counsell
for
prouision
for
all
our
safeties
.
The
great
enemie
of
the
Christian
religion
hath
as
ye
know
by
the
sinnes
of
the
people
and
discorde
of
Princes
excedyngly
preuailed
,
and
dayly
groweth
more
and
more
agaynst
vs
,
and
of
all
that
vngodly
race
neuer
was
there
any
more
perilous
to
Christendome
than
he
that
now
reigneth
.
For
though
Amurathes
hys
father
were
terrible
and
in
long
course
of
victories
had
stablished
an
opinion
of
inuincible
felicitie
,
yet
anguish
and
disdaine
that
he
atteined
not
to
féede
his
cruell
hart
with
sight
of
our
destruction
in
Epirus
,
agaynst
whom
he
had
intended
most
horrible
crueltie
,
hath
by
Gods
most
gracious
prouision
taken
him
away
in
most
happy
season
,
and
ioined
him
to
his
progenitours
the
persecuters
of
the
Gospel
of
Christ
,
and
so
disappointed
hym
of
his
most
tyrannous
purpose
,
which
he
not
onely
had
in
hart
conceyued
,
but
threatned
to
sée
it
with
those
eyes
which
God
both
shortly
after
&
most
happily
closed
.
This
present
tyrantes
brother
by
Gods
grace
also
liued
not
to
execute
the
cruelties
that
were
to
be
looked
for
of
such
an
vngracious
stocke
,
of
so
outragious
a
father
,
and
so
faithlesse
a
mother
,
and
so
perilously
matched
,
but
by
the
treason
of
those
that
ought
in
nature
and
dutie
most
to
haue
preserued
him
,
or
rather
by
the
mightie
and
bountyfull
hand
of
God
,
was
cut
of
in
good
season
for
Gods
Church
and
people
,
so
as
what
soeuer
Christendome
might
haue
feared
,
yet
it
felt
not
that
by
hym
,
whiche
at
this
mans
handes
both
hath
bene
found
and
is
dayly
to
be
looked
for
.
Now
after
the
deliuerance
of
the
world
by
Gods
benefite
from
his
father
&
brother
,
this
monster
of
periurie
and
crueltie
hath
succeded
,
in
whom
is
to
peril
and
dread
of
Christendome
such
confluence
of
damgerous
likelihodes
&
horrible
effectes
as
neuer
were
séen
th●
like
in
any
afore
.
Descended
of
a
father
who
es
very
childhode
was
nothyng
but
delite
in
mischief
,
whoes
youth
was
nothyng
but
outrage
vnchastitie
violence
&
continuall
disorder
,
who
es
mans
state
and
age
was
nothyng
but
sowyng
of
warre
vpon
warre
,
dayly
delite
in
bloud
,
couetyng
to
enlarge
his
dominion
,
desire
of
subduyng
&
destroyeng
,
vnder
colour
of
protection
and
succour
,
and
whoes
end
blessedly
sent
by
the
hand
of
God
was
the
rather
hastened
in
his
owne
freatyng
mynde
with
seyng
his
cruell
intentes
not
satisfied
,
and
so
he
departed
as
it
were
more
pined
and
starued
with
want
of
tragicall
foode
to
glut
his
cruell
appetite
and
thirst
of
slaughter
&
bloud
,
than
any
poore
famished
wretch
languisheth
for
lacke
of
meate
and
drinke
to
susteine
his
feble
nature
.
He
is
borne
of
a
mother
Cathagusina
worthy
to
match
with
that
husband
,
and
likely
to
bryng
forth
this
child
,
the
daughter
of
a
runnagate
infidell
,
who
es
very
nation
,
whoes
Citie
and
place
of
birth
,
whoes
race
and
kinred
,
are
despisers
of
God
,
scorners
of
Christ
,
blasphemously
comptyng
his
most
diuine
and
meritorious
workes
for
a
fable
,
and
settyng
heauen
and
the
blisse
thereof
behynde
worldly
wealth
and
glorie
.
His
mother
I
say
Cathagusina
,
beside
this
inheritable
&
naturall
habite
of
Godlesse
impietie
hath
euer
bene
a
depe
dissembler
,
a
crafty
snarer
,
a
cruel
executer
of
mischiefes
,
in
so
much
as
it
may
be
truely
sayd
,
that
the
engendryng
of
this
Prince
of
the
séede
of
that
father
and
that
mother
is
,
as
wel
sayd
of
the
Romane
tyraunt
,
Lutum
sanguine
maceratum
clay
tempered
with
bloud
,
a
compound
mixture
of
bloudy
crueltie
and
suttle
pliant
falsehed
to
infect
to
poison
and
to
destroy
the
world
.
His
very
phisiognomy
,
not
onely
in
fauour
,
which
God
hath
geuen
him
vnchangeable
to
note
him
to
the
world
,
but
also
in
his
maner
of
looke
gate
and
gesture
,
which
he
hath
by
vse
framed
to
the
conformitie
of
his
mischeuous
disposition
,
do
portend
and
threaten
treason
and
murder
,
a
glumme
silent
clokyng
of
trecherie
,
an
earthly
downeward
looke
fléeyng
the
conscience
of
heauen
and
tendyng
to
the
ground
and
to
hellward
.
All
these
wicked
signes
,
and
dangerous
inclinations
,
haue
euer
bene
fed
cherished
and
encreased
with
the
companie
of
most
false
wicked
and
bloudy
fellowes
of
his
sportes
actions
deuises
&
counsels
.
The
principall
fathers
of
hys
false
fayth
,
vpon
whom
as
a
dore
vpon
henges
,
hangeth
the
vpholdyng
of
their
heresie
,
do
guide
and
misguide
both
hym
and
his
.
They
lay
the
crocodiles
egges
that
he
hatcheth
.
They
gouerne
leade
&
tosse
,
hym
as
if
they
had
some
part
in
his
fatherhode
,
and
as
if
they
accompted
that
he
it
is
by
whom
their
damnable
feet
shal
be
enlarged
.
That
abhominable
falsehed
and
blasphemous
heresie
is
it
,
with
zeale
whereof
they
colour
all
his
vntruthes
&
tyrannie
:
with
it
they
shadow
his
ambitious
intentes
to
enlarge
his
dominion
,
and
enterchaungeably
with
ambitious
hopes
to
encrease
his
conquestes
they
augment
his
zeale
to
their
errour
.
With
the
principles
of
that
heresie
they
assoyle
him
from
kepyng
of
fayth
,
they
teache
him
to
make
no
accompt
of
treason
&
periurie
,
they
make
all
leagues
and
promises
to
serue
their
turne
,
to
bee
dissoluble
at
their
willes
,
both
vnder
pretense
of
omnipotent
power
that
their
great
Mahumet
and
them selues
haue
to
discharge
him
,
and
of
the
former
continuing
league
to
their
blasphemous
idole
,
to
whiche
they
hold
that
all
later
leagues
are
to
geue
place
when
it
shal
be
profitable
to
breake
them
.
For
execution
of
these
terrible
conceites
,
and
for
seruing
his
pestilent
humour
,
whom
vseth
he
,
whom
loueth
he
,
whom
estemeth
he
,
but
the
misbegotten
race
,
the
ofspring
of
old
murderers
,
and
the
hopefull
youth
to
hazard
any
mischief
or
villany
,
without
regard
of
God
,
of
faith
,
of
chastitie
,
or
kindly
pitie
,
or
of
any
naturall
affection
or
godly
vertue
,
such
I
say
as
are
taught
to
feare
no
God
,
to
shunne
no
sinne
,
to
haue
shame
of
no
filthinesse
,
to
haue
care
of
no
faythfulnesse
,
to
haue
reuerence
of
no
worthinesse
,
to
haue
mercie
of
no
ruthfulnesse
,
&
to
haue
onely
confidence
in
the
fained
almightinesse
of
their
great
prestes
that
persuade
them
that
all
horrible
actes
agaynst
Christians
are
meritorious
seruices
to
their
false
Prophet
and
Antichristian
Mahumet
?
Thus
descended
,
thus
begotten
,
thus
shapen
,
thus
brought
vp
,
thus
inclined
,
thus
guided
,
thus
taught
,
thus
accompanied
,
thus
serued
by
other
,
thus
delited
him selfe
,
what
can
we
hope
?
nay
what
ought
we
not
to
feare
at
his
hand
?
Now
of
these
great
likelyhodes
,
of
these
godly
blossomes
,
what
frutes
hath
he
shewed
,
since
he
hath
after
death
or
rather
murder
of
his
brother
inherited
his
fathers
open
vices
and
crowne
,
&
added
therto
his
mothers
secret
craft
&
vnfaithfulnesse
to
make
vp
a
perfect
tyrant
?
Behold
euery
way
if
his
attemptes
haue
not
ben
wonderfull
,
his
successes
prosperous
,
&
his
boldnesse
therby
gathered
intolerable
.
The
particulars
wherof
beyng
knowen
enough
,
and
to
lothsome
to
remember
,
I
will
but
shew
you
his
late
doynges
euen
now
in
hand
to
your
perill
.
Since
his
great
intelligence
&
conspiracie
with
that
old
wretched
prince
the
Despote
of
Mysia
,
what
mischiefes
hath
he
wrought
to
Christendome
,
what
falsehed
hath
he
not
attempted
what
crueltie
hath
he
spared
?
The
noble
princes
and
gentlemen
of
Rascia
,
subiect
to
his
power
,
he
〈◇〉
constant
in
Christian
faith
,
and
not
to
be
drawen
to
shrinks
from
their
conscience
,
and
perceiued
it
impossible
to
wrest
them
to
be
wicked
&
vnthankeful
ministers
of
his
trecheries
and
traitorous
violences
intended
by
him
agaynst
the
Christian
kynges
and
states
their
good
and
vertuous
neighbours
in
whom
they
had
found
comfort
and
in
whom
there
remained
hope
of
louing
and
lawfull
assistaunce
at
their
nede
.
This
tyrant
therfore
continuing
a
long
foredeuised
plot
of
subduing
Christianitie
and
of
aduauncing
his
dominion
monarchie
and
heresie
,
by
growing
still
vpon
his
neighbours
,
and
specially
bending
him selfe
for
this
tyme
agaynst
poore
Albanie
&
wealthy
Hungarie
,
out
of
the
one
of
whiche
he
hath
lately
bene
happily
shaken
,
and
the
other
he
and
his
auncesters
haue
long
gaped
for
,
and
now
espying
the
sayd
Rascian
Lordes
his
subiectes
to
be
no
small
impediments
to
those
his
vile
&
dangerous
attemptes
against
their
chief
frendes
and
to
whom
they
were
in
common
fayth
&
had
béen
in
benefites
so
hyely
bounden
&
such
as
were
then
in
peace
also
with
the
tyrant
him selfe
,
he
vsed
the
counsell
of
the
old
vngracious
Duke
George
Despote
of
Seruia
,
an
old
trained
traitor
to
Christian
faith
,
one
that
had
long
bene
practised
in
supplanting
true
Religion
,
an
extreme
&
mercylesse
tyrant
,
furnished
with
experience
of
the
auncient
serpent
and
vnderminer
of
the
old
libertie
of
the
hyest
Christian
state
,
an
assured
slaue
to
great
Antichrist
,
close
in
counsell
,
spedy
in
pursuing
,
resolute
in
execution
,
lacking
nothing
in
dede
of
an
excellent
capitaine
but
faith
truth
moderation
of
crueltie
and
an
honest
cause
.
With
this
old
cankered
Duke
instructed
with
all
the
vertues
that
the
deuill
hath
to
minister
,
this
yong
Mahumet
and
his
complices
consultyng
how
to
reach
his
ambitious
intent
,
to
destroy
&
captiue
those
Christian
Princes
his
neighbours
and
their
kingdomes
that
were
so
great
eyesores
vnto
him
and
so
much
hindered
his
course
of
conquest
&
of
ouerthrowyng
the
religion
of
Christ
,
haue
entred
into
this
deuise
,
first
to
murder
the
sayd
Lordes
of
Rascia
.
By
open
warre
he
could
not
do
it
,
for
thereof
he
had
made
large
experience
.
God
had
so
defended
them
agaynst
his
sondry
attemptes
,
God
had
so
moued
the
hartes
and
vertuous
courages
of
the
good
princes
their
neighbours
(
agaynst
whom
the
tyrant
for
that
cause
yet
holdeth
depe
emprinted
a
reuengefull
hatred
to
be
poured
out
when
power
and
oportunitie
shall
serue
him
,
how
soeuer
he
now
dissembleth
)
God
I
say
so
styrred
these
good
Princes
with
care
of
Gods
honor
and
their
dutie
to
his
Church
,
that
their
assistances
how
soeuer
they
were
sclender
and
neither
open
nor
to
the
full
,
haue
bene
so
blessed
that
hee
could
neuer
by
iust
strength
&
sincere
warre
confounde
them
.
By
publike
iustice
and
lawfull
proceding
he
could
not
touch
them
,
such
euer
hath
bene
their
vpright
loyaltie
,
as
him selfe
with
his
owne
testimonie
hath
bene
enforced
to
confirme
.
Wherfore
now
no
meane
rested
,
but
treason
and
periurie
,
to
prostitute
and
defile
the
most
reuerend
&
sacred
fayth
of
a
prince
,
and
for
the
hyest
treason
and
tyrannie
that
euer
hath
bene
heard
of
,
to
call
to
ayde
the
hyest
and
holiest
meanes
of
credite
,
the
word
and
othe
of
a
king
,
his
counsell
,
and
officers
,
that
to
his
superlatiue
title
may
be
added
all
superlatiue
falsehed
infamy
and
dishonor
,
that
now
the
faith
royall
of
that
nation
may
in
common
vnderstanding
signifie
nothyng
but
trecherie
and
breach
of
othe
and
of
vniuersall
fidelitie
.
This
course
was
lyked
among
them
.
Under
peasable
pretenses
and
the
swetest
baites
of
faithful
amitie
,
the
poore
Lordes
of
Rascia
were
trained
within
the
net
of
his
power
.
There
were
they
fedde
with
ioyes
of
securitie
.
They
saw
the
tyrantes
face
framed
to
swetenesse
of
countenance
,
almost
beyond
that
which
nature
could
permit
to
so
portentuous
a
visage
shapen
to
mischief
.
They
considered
the
Christian
princes
nere
bordering
vpon
them
to
bee
in
league
and
amitie
with
this
Mahumet
.
They
sawe
the
peace
betwene
him
&
his
Christian
neighbours
sworne
before
them
,
wherof
themselues
had
bene
the
instrumentes
.
They
saw
it
commodious
for
Mahumet
to
kéepe
faith
and
sound
peace
.
They
saw
him
in
some
necessitie
and
lacke
by
his
former
warres
in
Trebizond
,
in
Hungarie
,
at
at
the
siege
of
Croia
,
&
elswhere
.
They
saw
his
people
wasted
,
and
great
néede
of
quiet
.
They
heard
his
many
repentaunces
of
former
troubles
.
They
saw
his
pretense
of
ioyes
for
present
amitie
.
They
heard
it
daily
by
his
attestations
to
their
frendes
.
They
saw
them selues
admitted
to
his
daily
pastimes
.
They
saw
him
delited
in
their
companies
,
exercising
his
sportes
with
pleasure
among
them
.
They
saw
them selues
receiued
to
secret
counsels
and
conference
with
him
.
They
saw
him
conferre
with
them
about
his
great
enterprises
and
namely
about
conquest
of
parcel
of
the
Empire
of
Trebesonde
.
Them
he
fained
him selfe
principally
to
trust
therin
,
and
chiefly
to
repose
him selfe
vpon
their
force
&
fidelitie
.
They
saw
their
backbiters
frowned
at
.
Their
familiar
accesse
vnto
hym
and
great
fauour
with
him
femed
to
be
enuied
at
.
They
saw
all
ceremonies
of
his
owne
heresie
made
to
stoupe
&
geue
place
to
their
encouragement
.
They
felt
them selues
liberally
rewarded
.
A
thousand
other
exquisite
meanes
to
abuse
them
did
trayne
them
to
assurance
of
his
loue
&
constancie
.
In
the
middest
of
all
this
securitie
grounded
all
vpon
naked
simplicitie
truth
&
confidence
on
their
part
,
and
vpon
trecherie
dissimulation
&
periury
on
his
behalfe
,
be
slaughtered
them
all
,
and
among
the
rest
,
how
he
vsed
the
poore
kyng
of
Bosna
it
is
to
odious
to
tell
.
Without
order
,
without
iudgement
,
without
law
or
lawfull
cause
,
noblemen
,
gentlemen
,
old
,
yong
,
men
,
women
,
children
,
all
that
euer
were
subiect
to
the
reach
of
crueltie
though
not
subiect
to
any
possibility
of
offending
,
were
butcherly
murdered
,
as
if
he
had
conceiued
a
purpose
in
his
hart
not
onely
to
glut
his
tyrannie
with
the
bloud
of
those
whom
hee
thought
impedimentes
to
his
vniust
purposes
,
but
also
not
to
leaue
in
the
worlde
a
witnesse
of
his
falsehed
,
but
such
as
were
gilty
with
him
and
partakers
of
his
outrage
,
nor
to
suffer
any
to
remaine
whoes
sight
hereafter
might
represent
to
his
gilty
hart
the
memorie
of
their
fathers
,
husbandes
,
mothers
,
or
frendes
so
vniustly
,
vnnaturally
,
&
vnmanly
slayne
.
And
yet
to
haue
the
double
auantage
of
both
deuises
,
sée
the
crafty
wretch
what
he
hath
inuented
.
To
be
sure
both
wayes
,
that
on
the
one
side
this
extreme
crueltie
should
fray
all
persons
from
standyng
agaynst
his
wicked
purposes
hereafter
,
and
as
it
were
to
shake
his
sworde
and
halters
ouer
all
your
heds
&
in
example
to
hold
the
charged
pistole
to
your
bosomes
,
and
yet
on
the
other
side
that
this
horrible
periurie
&
murdering
of
persons
yelded
after
his
fayth
royall
,
after
his
promise
and
his
othe
assured
vnto
them
,
and
after
his
long
cloked
and
continued
course
of
dissimulation
,
should
not
vtterly
fray
all
men
from
euer
trusting
him
againe
,
and
thirdly
to
make
the
name
of
Christians
odious
,
and
also
fearyng
least
so
foule
treason
should
throwe
hym
into
sodeyne
warre
with
to
many
of
hys
neighbours
at
ones
for
whom
he
was
not
yet
fully
redy
,
and
specially
douting
least
those
with
whom
hee
is
in
league
should
of
so
open
falsehed
gather
open
warnyng
to
stand
vpon
their
gard
,
and
an
apparant
profe
that
in
their
leagues
also
he
intendeth
to
kepe
no
faith
with
them
,
but
watcheth
opportunities
agaynst
them
,
and
therefore
that
it
behoueth
them
to
looke
to
his
doynges
,
to
construe
them
by
this
example
,
to
remember
that
their
cause
of
his
malice
to
them
and
to
those
that
he
hath
murdered
is
all
one
,
and
to
prouide
for
him
,
and
to
succour
the
remnantes
of
silly
Christians
which
he
yet
hunteth
about
the
world
:
for
these
reasons
to
bléere
other
Christian
Princes
eyes
till
he
lay
his
net
ouer
them
,
he
published
forsoth
that
the
poore
Lordes
of
Rascia
had
conspired
agaynst
his
life
and
crowne
.
But
O
ye
mighty
Princes
,
wey
the
vntruth
hereof
,
and
when
it
is
weyed
,
let
it
wey
with
you
for
an
vndouted
argument
what
is
intended
agaynst
you
,
and
how
much
it
behoueth
you
to
looke
to
your selues
betymes
.
Let
it
auayle
to
put
you
in
mynde
if
euer
the
like
manner
of
league
or
alliance
hath
bene
fought
by
him
to
be
made
with
any
of
you
,
&
compare
by
this
example
what
is
lyke
that
you
should
haue
suffred
if
it
had
proceded
,
&
how
much
you
are
to
thanke
God
that
you
haue
escaped
,
and
for
your
escape
how
much
you
owe
to
God
and
to
his
Church
and
to
your
contreys
and
to
your
own
preseruations
,
to
succour
the
afflicted
,
&
prouide
for
your selues
,
and
your
charge
.
Let
his
crueltie
make
you
carefull
:
let
hys
falsehed
make
you
hedefull
:
let
the
disclosing
of
his
vntruthes
make
you
skilfull
,
that
ye
may
pitie
vs
,
looke
to
your selfe
,
and
beware
of
him
when
ye
vnderstand
him
.
He
sayth
forsoth
that
all
this
great
slaughter
which
he
calleth
execution
was
but
to
preuent
treason
on
their
partes
agaynst
him
.
Note
the
likelyhodes
and
sée
the
manifest
falshodes
.
The
Lordes
of
Rascia
which
when
they
stode
against
him
in
field
and
had
him
their
open
enemie
,
yet
euer
sought
his
grace
&
to
lyue
in
peace
vnder
him
,
and
neuer
attempted
trecherie
agaynst
him
,
now
hauyng
him
(
as
semed
)
their
good
Lord
,
their
liberall
and
bountifull
soueraine
&
frend
,
would
they
enterprise
any
thing
to
his
destruction
?
They
that
by
onely
sinceritie
of
conscience
and
good
dealyng
had
wonne
the
hartes
of
such
as
were
not
their
subiectes
,
and
thereby
gathered
strength
for
their
defense
,
would
they
now
with
treason
lose
that
fauour
gotten
&
so
stand
without
all
hope
of
power
for
their
preseruation
?
They
that
knew
the
great
mischiefes
that
they
before
had
suffered
by
the
disgrace
&
vnder
the
name
of
so
great
a
prince
,
to
haue
proceceded
from
lewd
traitorous
counsell
of
such
as
now
Mahumet
him selfe
pretended
to
bereue
of
their
seignorie
and
conferred
with
the
Lordes
of
Rascia
for
atcheuing
it
,
would
they
practise
his
destruction
while
he
was
now
ioyning
with
them
to
be
reuenged
vpon
theyr
greatest
enemie
?
would
they
haue
done
it
at
this
time
?
would
they
not
(
if
any
such
intent
were
)
haue
stayed
till
first
this
reuenge
had
bene
accomplished
,
&
so
to
haue
had
their
hatred
satisfied
agaynst
their
principall
foe
,
and
also
Mahumet
the
weaker
by
lacke
of
his
assistance
,
that
they
might
then
better
haue
performed
this
traiterous
purpose
if
euer
they
had
conceiued
any
such
?
Would
they
,
if
any
such
purpose
had
ben
in
their
hartes
,
haue
bene
the
meanes
for
peace
and
league
betwene
Mahumet
and
you
noble
Christian
kynges
&
princes
,
and
so
not
onely
to
set
Mahumet
in
more
securitie
to
be
bold
vpon
them
,
but
also
by
reason
of
such
leagues
to
take
from
them selues
your
accustomed
succours
,
and
their
owne
safest
refuge
?
Would
they
haue
chosen
that
place
at
Andrinople
the
Turkes
chief
seate
,
wherin
the
Christian
faith
is
hated
,
where
the
tyrant
and
their
enemies
were
hyeliest
honored
,
where
the
inhabitantes
detested
their
persons
and
religion
and
haue
euer
bene
the
parteners
and
the
chief
encouragers
of
Mahumetes
treasons
,
whom
Mahumet
him selfe
could
hardly
hold
from
assayeng
violence
till
his
bloudy
counsels
where
rype
&
ready
,
where
I
say
their
aduersaries
power
was
great
and
not
resistable
?
Would
they
haue
made
their
match
so
madly
,
agaynst
so
many
,
agaynst
Mahumetes
whole
populous
cruell
citie
of
Andrinople
,
agaynst
his
great
traine
of
Princes
then
assembled
,
agaynst
his
gardes
of
Ianizares
,
agaynst
all
likelihode
of
preuaylyng
or
of
escapyng
if
they
had
preuailed
,
them selues
beyng
so
fewe
in
number
,
vnarmed
,
and
vnprouided
?
Wold
they
haue
brought
their
wiues
&
daughters
to
the
place
?
Would
none
of
them
all
in
that
slaughter
findyng
God
disapointyng
their
treason
&
turning
it
on
their
owne
heds
,
haue
confessed
it
for
very
remorse
of
conscience
?
Wold
not
torture
haue
wrong
it
out
of
them
,
but
that
after
torment
&
at
death
,
they
all
still
denyed
it
?
would
not
promise
of
life
to
those
that
dyeng
without
confessyng
(
if
it
were
true
)
were
hastenyng
to
eternall
death
,
haue
allured
them
to
saue
them selues
without
care
of
shaming
or
offending
those
whom
they
now
saw
past
all
habilitie
to
helpe
them
or
reuenge
it
vppon
them
?
How
happeneth
that
the
contradictions
of
things
spoken
written
and
published
by
him selfe
do
excuse
them
&
accuse
him
?
How
chaunceth
that
the
slaughters
at
the
same
time
in
all
places
where
Christians
were
to
be
found
in
his
dominion
,
do
plainly
shew
that
any
their
sodeine
conspiracie
there
could
not
extend
the
giltinesse
where
they
were
not
?
And
were
the
wiues
,
the
Ladies
,
the
noble
virgines
&
women
gilty
,
whom
no
man
for
their
sexe
would
so
dangerously
trust
with
so
great
a
secret
,
&
whom
no
man
for
their
weakenesse
,
wold
make
parteners
that
had
no
force
to
assiste
them
,
but
many
impedimentes
to
withold
them
?
And
were
the
silly
babes
also
gilty
,
euen
the
sucking
infantes
,
&
the
vnborne
frute
gilty
,
who
es
very
remembraunce
would
rather
haue
stayed
them
,
or
at
least
some
of
so
many
,
from
such
an
enterprise
?
Wold
they
haue
come
to
such
a
feate
so
vnstored
of
weapon
and
meanes
of
furtherance
,
so
loden
&
clogged
with
weake
burdens
and
meanes
of
accombraunce
.
Doth
not
the
hasty
execution
argue
the
murderers
giltinesse
,
where
hym selfe
stoode
in
no
feare
or
danger
,
nor
the
other
side
in
any
possibilitie
of
escapyng
?
Were
they
not
in
his
power
to
be
deteined
,
to
be
arrained
,
to
be
tried
in
iudiciall
forme
,
and
in
their
publike
conuiction
to
haue
condemned
them selues
of
treason
&
acquited
hym
of
periurie
?
Would
he
haue
suffred
the
stayne
dishonor
and
infamie
of
so
vyle
a
murder
,
if
he
might
haue
auoyded
it
with
prouing
them
giltie
who
could
not
escape
the
triall
if
he
had
lifted
to
haue
brought
them
to
it
?
If
they
were
so
wise
as
theyr
former
lyues
haue
shewed
them
,
it
can
not
be
credible
that
they
would
haue
attempted
so
great
a
mater
so
foolishly
.
If
they
were
fooles
,
as
they
must
nedes
be
if
they
were
truely
charged
,
then
had
they
not
wit
enough
to
haue
preuailed
.
So
if
they
were
wise
they
are
not
truely
to
be
accused
,
and
if
they
were
starke
fooles
they
were
neuer
iustly
to
be
feared
.
But
(
O
excellent
Princes
)
neither
were
they
fooles
nor
false
.
Noble
&
true
gentlemen
they
were
:
valiant
Christians
,
&
faithfull
persons
they
were
:
onely
vnwisely
they
trusted
a
tyrant
,
&
now
lamentably
they
pray
you
to
be
wiser
.
Such
were
the
false
excuses
of
Iugurth
agaynst
noble
Hiemsall
and
innocent
Adherball
.
Such
were
the
shamelesse
proclamations
,
letters
,
&
edictes
of
vile
Antoninus
Caracalla
agaynst
his
brother
Geta
and
agaynst
the
people
of
Alexandria
.
It
was
not
their
treason
it
was
their
cause
,
it
was
their
fayth
,
it
was
their
Christian
Religion
,
it
was
their
vertuous
and
loyall
constantie
,
whereby
the
tyrant
could
neuer
be
assured
of
them
agaynst
you
,
but
euer
accompted
them
impedimentes
such
as
he
must
of
necessitie
remoue
ere
he
could
procede
with
hys
practises
agaynst
you
,
your
kyngdomes
and
states
.
Albanie
could
not
be
possessed
,
Hungarie
can
not
be
subdued
;
while
Rascia
is
to
minister
aydes
and
meanes
of
frendly
passage
for
the
one
to
releue
the
other
.
Rascia
diuided
from
Christianitie
,
and
added
to
his
heathen
seruitude
,
setteth
him
in
the
middest
of
the
frontiers
of
Christendome
,
and
seuereth
the
assistance
that
should
defend
them
.
That
is
the
marke
,
that
is
the
end
,
these
be
but
entrances
.
It
is
the
cause
that
slew
these
Princes
,
it
is
the
cause
&
the
same
cause
that
is
common
to
you
.
It
is
your
Christian
fayth
,
that
they
dyed
for
:
it
is
your
amitie
,
for
that
they
could
not
be
drawen
agaynst
you
,
that
they
dyed
for
:
it
is
the
defense
of
your
dominions
which
could
not
be
subuerted
nor
ones
with
any
force
attempted
in
their
lyues
,
which
they
dyed
for
.
It
is
they
that
liuyng
honored
and
serued
you
,
and
now
dead
do
warne
and
teach
you
,
and
this
they
teach
you
,
that
you
trust
not
the
faithlesse
tyrant
.
They
tell
you
they
were
slayen
for
the
fayth
that
you
professe
:
they
tell
you
withall
that
the
same
cause
sufficeth
the
tyrant
for
querel
to
do
the
like
to
you
if
he
can
:
They
tell
you
that
they
were
murdered
to
make
him
the
easier
passage
to
your
dominions
:
they
tell
you
withall
that
he
wil
not
lose
the
fruite
of
that
labour
,
but
much
more
seke
to
destroy
you
than
them
,
whom
he
destroyed
but
to
make
way
to
you
.
They
tell
you
that
(
beside
opportunitie
to
hurt
you
)
he
gayned
nothyng
by
their
death
,
for
that
they
were
his
vassals
before
:
they
tell
you
withall
,
that
he
shall
gayne
great
kingdomes
by
oppressing
you
,
&
therfore
will
more
egrely
pursue
you
than
them
.
They
tell
you
that
he
holdeth
him selfe
bounde
to
mainteine
his
principall
league
&
confederacie
with
the
princes
of
the
Mahumetane
heresie
,
wherein
is
included
the
ioyning
of
all
their
powers
to
the
rootyng
out
of
the
godly
princes
that
mainteine
the
religion
of
Christ
:
they
tell
you
with
all
that
ye
be
those
Princes
to
whom
although
this
late
mischief
hath
not
yet
atended
yet
surely
it
was
and
is
intended
against
you
.
They
tell
you
,
and
in
their
owne
example
plainely
proue
it
,
that
what
soeuer
later
peace
or
leagues
haue
bene
made
with
you
,
they
were
neuer
more
sacredly
made
and
assured
than
these
that
were
made
and
sworne
to
them
:
&
therewith
they
tell
you
that
Mahumet
supposeth
them
all
subiect
to
his
former
league
with
those
infidels
,
&
that
he
will
breake
them
so
some
a●
his
auantage
serueth
against
you
.
Imagine
O
ye
noble
Kinges
,
Princes
,
Lordes
,
and
fathers
,
that
ye
saw
here
before
yt
the
late
excellent
Lords
of
Ra●●ia
,
some
with
hoare
beardes
reuerend
,
some
with
manly
visages
honorable
,
some
with
youthfull
comely
personages
louely
,
&
ioyned
with
them
in
companie
an
infinite
multitude
of
noble
Ladies
,
ancient
women
,
florishing
virgins
,
tender
babes
,
the
healthy
,
the
sicke
,
the
lame
,
the
yong
,
the
old
,
the
vertuous
,
the
learned
,
all
berayed
with
goare
bloud
with
filth
and
myre
of
streetes
,
naked
,
howed
,
mangled
,
singed
with
powder
,
shot
through
with
pellets
,
euery
way
most
lamentably
slaughtered
and
made
lothsome
to
looke
vpon
,
and
imagine
that
piteously
some
one
of
them
for
all
deth
say
vnto
you
.
Ye
noble
Princes
the
remainyng
succours
and
defenses
of
Christianitie
,
behold
we
beseeche
you
the
spectacle
of
Christians
slayne
for
our
&
your
faith
,
&
let
the
sight
of
vs
be
warning
to
you
that
ye
looke
to
your selues
and
to
the
●●ocke
of
God
.
We
are
now
deliuered
from
earth
and
are
no
more
the
subi●ctes
of
the
tyrant
that
cruelly
slew
vs.
Now
by
death
deliuered
from
his
yoke
,
●owing
him
no
dutie
we
speake
boldly
lawfully
fréely
&
truely
against
him
.
Trust
no
bondes
of
his
,
for
he
is
all
together
faithlesse
&
vntrusty
.
We
were
●●es
the
stay
betwene
you
&
him
,
now
by
our
death
is
the
passage
made
open
to
you
.
If
we
could
haue
bene
contended
,
vnthankefully
and
vnworthily
of
the
great
benefites
that
we
receiued
of
you
,
to
haue
promised
him
to
serue
against
you
,
he
had
bene
pleased
to
haue
suffred
vs
to
liue
with
libertie
of
our
religion
.
He
proponed
vs
that
article
,
he
trauailed
with
vs
to
that
end
,
we
refused
it
.
He
was
chiefly
bent
to
bereue
you
of
your
possessions
and
liues
,
to
roote
out
your
Religion
&
stablish
his
monarchie
.
He
practised
earnestly
to
haue
our
assistance
.
When
he
saw
he
could
not
winne
vs
thereto
,
but
that
we
remained
impedimentes
to
those
deuises
;
he
hath
for
your
sakes
slayne
vs
,
and
made
〈◇〉
terrible
examples
to
fray
all
other
from
resistyng
his
purposes
.
In
déede
we
know
well
,
that
if
we
had
yelded
to
his
request
against
you
,
his
promise
of
enioyeng
the
fréedome
of
our
Religion
and
conscience
,
should
not
haue
lasted
but
till
you
had
bene
oppressed
.
Let
that
therfore
be
a
lesson
to
you
,
that
his
promise
shal
be
no
longer
kept
with
you
than
till
he
may
haue
leysure
,
after
destroyeng
vs
,
to
set
vpon
you
.
For
what
assurance
haue
ye
of
him
more
then
we
had●
nay
surely
ye
haue
not
so
much
by
this
that
we
beyng
slayne
there
is
so
much
lesse
mutuall
assistance
left
to
Christians
.
For
it
is
nothing
but
feare
&
want
of
abilitie
that
holdeth
him
from
breach
of
faith
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
then
we
haue
found
,
by
reason
of
treaties
&
articles
conceiued
and
put
in
writyng
?
we
had
articles
conceiued
,
written
,
entred
in
recordes
,
and
yet
broken
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
by
assurance
of
the
word
of
a
kyng
?
we
had
faith
royall
geuen
vs
in
the
word
of
a
kyng
,
&
yet
broken
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
by
the
oth
of
a
Prince
?
we
had
many
othes
of
a
Prince
and
many
wayes
testified
and
yet
broken
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
by
othes
&
promises
of
Lordes
,
counsellers
,
and
Magistrates
ioyned
with
their
king
and
so
bound
to
aduise
him
to
obserue
it
▪
Alas
we
had
the
othes
of
Quéene
Cathagusina
his
owne
mother
a
borne
Christian
in
name
though
descended
of
a
ra●e
despising
Christ
:
we
had
the
othes
of
hys
Bassaes
,
his
Lieutenantes
and
gouernours
of
the
prouincies
where
we
liued
and
of
all
the
officers
of
all
the
Courtes
of
Iustice
and
Capitaines
of
places
of
strength
within
those
partes
of
his
dominions
,
and
yet
broken
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
in
respect
of
honor
?
here
was
honor
most
highly
violate
,
&
the
greatest
dishonor
entred
that
euer
Prince
deserued
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
by
regard
of
naturall
pitie
?
Alas
we
were
his
own
and
found
no
pitie
,
what
shall
straungers
looke
for
?
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
by
shewes
and
apparances
of
good
countenances
,
faire
wordes
,
and
pleasant
semblance
?
we
had
plentie
of
those
,
&
yet
broken
.
Can
ye
trust
vpon
better
in
respect
or
comparing
of
your
owne
consciences
on
your
part
,
knowing
that
on
your
behalfe
all
peace
is
truely
kept
without
cause
of
offence
?
Surely
there
was
on
our
part
nothing
but
innocence
and
naked
confidence
and
much
lesse
mater
of
vnkinde
construction
than
can
on
your
partes
be
shewed
if
the
quarelling
victor
ones
growest
out
of
feare
shall
him selfe
haue
the
expounding
of
it
.
Thus
it
hath
pleased
God
we
should
appeare
to
your
considerations
in
such
mornefull
and
piteous
wise
as
ye
now
behold
vs
,
to
set
before
you
your
owne
perils
,
to
imprint
them
in
your
hartes
,
&
to
be
causes
of
extending
your
due
compassion
to
the
rest
of
Christes
members
which
neede
your
ayde
,
and
which
yet
do
(
as
we
sometime
did
)
stand
as
a
fense
for
a
time
betwene
you
&
the
common
enemies
of
Christentie
,
and
so
serue
we
in
the
case
of
our
bodyes
to
warne
you
that
ye
defend
them
as
your
vtter
wall
,
least
if
it
be
lost
,
the
perill
draw
nerer
to
winne
your
innermost
dongeon
and
greatest
strength
.
And
if
it
be
lost
by
your
betrayeng
it
,
or
by
your
doing
nothing
for
defence
of
it
,
you
not
onely
hasard
your
safeties
,
but
shall
lose
your
honors
for
euer
,
and
with
the
conquerer
himselfe
you
shall
not
winne
the
thanke
of
good
peacekéepers
and
league-fellowes
,
but
he
in
his
triumphe
will
brag
in
reproche
of
you
that
ye
pretended
fidelitie
of
peace
to
cloke
feare
,
and
shounyng
of
honor
with
perill
,
and
that
most
is
,
ye
shal
charge
your selues
with
a
hard
accompt
to
him
that
gaue
you
the
honor
to
beare
the
sword
not
in
vaine
,
&
trusted
ye
with
the
keping
of
his
vineyard
house
&
Church
.
On
the
otherside
in
the
case
of
our
soules
,
the
same
our
God
hath
willed
vs
to
let
you
know
,
that
how
soeuer
we
seme
in
this
shew
lamentable
bicause
in
bodies
we
were
so
,
yet
now
we
are
not
in
peine
but
in
ioy
,
that
ye
may
be
assured
,
how
soeuer
(
if
ye
well
serue
him
)
he
guideth
the
successe
to
his
glorie
,
it
shal
be
your
benefite
,
&
though
you
geue
your
lyues
in
his
querell
,
yet
shall
you
gaine
them
,
&
eternall
ioye
shall
succede
your
blessed
endynges
,
and
if
you
can
carie
cleare
conscience
that
you
shrinke
not
from
the
perill
of
his
warrefare
you
shal
be
assured
to
haue
your
part
in
the
honor
of
his
triumphe
.
Imagine
ye
mighty
Princes
that
ye
saw
their
bodies
in
this
array
,
and
that
their
ghostes
thus
spake
vnto
you
.
The
mouing
of
conscience
to
consideration
is
called
the
speach
of
that
which
it
considereth
.
So
hath
it
bene
sayd
by
our
Sauiour
,
that
those
&
those
shall
rise
against
these
and
these
to
condemne
them
in
the
day
of
his
dreadfull
iugement
,
which
is
no
more
but
that
the
consciences
of
the
giltie
shall
burden
and
condemne
them selues
with
the
others
example
and
comparison
.
And
now
leauyng
that
impression
to
prepare
you
to
a
right
maner
of
construyng
Mahumetes
doinges
and
your
owne
duties
,
I
beseche
you
marke
the
rest
of
his
procedinges
,
&
thereby
iudge
the
course
of
his
counselles
,
and
direct
your
contermines
thereafter
.
Behold
how
cruelly
he
hath
dealt
with
the
noble
gentlemen
my
kinsmen
and
dearest
frendes
the
long
parteners
of
my
trauailes
perils
and
fortunes
both
good
and
bad
,
whom
beyng
taken
in
warre
hee
could
not
be
brought
either
to
ransome
or
exchaunge
,
but
horribly
murthered
them
.
Moses
of
Dibra
my
dearest
companion
,
Giuriza
de
Vladen
my
kinsman
,
Musachio
my
sister
Angelinaes
sonne
,
Ginio
Musachio
,
Iohn
Perlato
,
Nicholas
Berrisio
,
George
Chucca
and
Ginio
Manessio
,
all
excellent
Capitaines
and
zelous
Christians
,
trauailing
in
succour
of
our
faith
and
taken
prisoners
by
that
paisant
borne
,
that
runagate
infidel
and
traitor
Ballabano
Mahumetes
minister
within
the
streightes
adioyning
to
the
vale
of
Ual
〈…〉
the
frontiers
of
Epirus
toward
●●●●edone
:
how
despitefully
were
they
vsed
,
dragged
about
in
most
shamefull
●i●e
,
vexed
,
tortured
,
and
at
length
against
all
law
of
iustice
and
nature
put
to
most
vile
&
horrible
execution
,
and
set
vp
for
signes
,
not
so
much
of
their
great
calamitie
,
as
of
his
most
abhominable
t●rannie
,
&
if
ye
wi●e
be
,
to
your
most
〈◇〉
warning
&
pearcing
example
▪
The
strong
towne
of
Sfetigrade
one
of
the
keyes
of
Epirus
he
hath
taken
by
treason
of
the
superstitious
garrison
of
the
Dibrane
souldiers
,
and
by
practises
of
fowle
and
vnhonorable
corruption
.
Croir
and
Petrella
he
besiegeth
.
And
,
that
his
extreme
malice
may
appeare
,
in
the
depe
of
sharpe
winter
,
in
hardnesse
of
prouision
,
in
scarcitie
of
all
thinges
necessarie
,
in
the
pouertie
of
his
owne
people
,
in
so
great
nede
of
rest
after
so
many
trauailes
and
miseries
,
in
hye
securitie
of
being
assailed
by
vs
if
he
would
haue
let
vs
alone
,
in
the
middest
of
the
hope
of
his
conquestes
elswhere
to
be
extended
,
and
of
his
businesse
other
wise
to
be
more
profitably
employed
,
beholde
howe
his
hatred
of
Christian
name
can
geue
his
gredy
hart
no
〈◇〉
,
but
in
all
these
reasons
to
the
contrarie
,
he
pursueth
our
blood
,
to
wade
through
it
into
your
bodies
and
into
the
rest
of
Christendome
.
What
a
wound
hath
he
geuen
to
Christendome
at
the
battell
of
Uarna
?
How
cruelly
hath
he
vsed
his
victorie
,
and
what
lamentable
,
slaughters
&
vnspeakable
outrages
hath
he
committed
at
the
winning
of
Constantinople
?
Behold
how
nere
he
is
,
how
small
a
distance
by
sea
departeth
you
.
If
Epirus
bee
throughly
conquered
that
hee
leaue
no
dout
behinde
him
,
how
nere
&
how
daungerous
a
neighbour
is
he
〈◇〉
your
possessions
in
Dalmatia
?
how
●●tal
〈◇〉
is
into
Sicile
?
how
lye
your
Islandes
vnder
his
nose
?
what
opportunities
hath
he
to
oppresse
your
nauigations
?
your
sailing
decayed
,
how
sore
enemies
shall
he
&
his
confederates
by
sea
,
yea
and
the
sea
it self
,
be
vnto
you
,
euen
to
enclose
you
and
not
to
defend
you
,
to
enuiron
you
as
a
siege
or
net
and
not
as
a
wall
or
trench
.
Note
his
meanes
of
growing
further
.
While
the
querels
that
he
mainteineth
in
Epirus
,
and
the
siege
of
small
townes
with
houge
armies
,
and
preparations
to
other
great
attemptes
,
do
geue
him
colour
to
raise
great
powers
prouisions
and
numbers
,
doth
he
not
diuert
you
from
suspecting
what
he
intendeth
?
It
is
not
Epirus
that
nedeth
so
great
a
force
.
Epirus
is
the
colour
to
make
you
negligent
.
When
Seruia
your
neighbours
land
is
his
confederate
,
when
Epirus
is
distracted
from
you
and
not
ayded
by
you
to
find
him
fully
occupied
elswhere
,
looke
for
it
out
of
hand
,
so
soone
as
he
shall
by
conquest
of
Croia
&
Petrella
,
or
by
new
supplie
of
his
owne
forces
,
be
able
to
spare
them
from
thence
,
Albanie
shall
poure
out
his
men
of
warre
vpon
your
frontiers
,
his
ships
that
now
attend
for
that
seruice
shall
bring
your
danger
nerer
●ithe
your selues
will
not
driue
it
further
.
Then
your
sclender
succours
that
serued
not
vs
for
safetie
,
shall
serue
him
for
querell
,
beside
that
he
hath
prepared
&
cherished
querels
within
your
owne
bosomes
.
How
oft
hath
the
Duke
of
Mysia
that
old
false
Christian
his
confederate
practised
to
corrupt
your
subiectes
,
deuised
meanes
of
diuiding
your selues
,
secretly
raised
rebellions
within
your
landes
,
cherished
traitors
,
geuen
them
strength
and
countenance
when
they
were
in
force
,
&
refuge
when
they
were
vanquished
?
he
mainteineth
your
fugitiues
and
exiles
,
he
suborneth
titles
to
your
crownes
,
he
hath
prepared
you
work
at
home
if
you
tarry
til
he
be
ready
for
you
.
In
all
these
thinges
is
Mahumet
to
carrie
the
gaine
,
he
is
the
principall
laborer
and
for
whom
is
principally
labored
.
They
haue
cast
lottes
vppon
your
garmentes
,
they
haue
in
their
very
leagues
and
treaties
deuided
your
dominions
,
and
the
great
Antichristian
fathers
of
their
secte
haue
drawen
the
lines
betwene
them
,
and
in
their
conuenticles
confirmed
the
distribution
of
your
kingdomes
,
they
support
your
nere
enemies
,
they
faine
them selues
protectors
of
those
to
whom
they
say
you
doe
wrong
,
and
whoes
cause
they
kéepe
in
store
to
accomber
you
.
And
whereto
tendeth
this
,
you
can
not
but
sée
,
and
if
séeing
it
you
foresée
not
to
méete
with
it
,
you
can
not
but
féele
it
.
And
aboue
all
thinges
I
besech
you
note
one
thing
,
by
bold
resolutenesse
on
his
parte
he
hath
the
fame
of
constancie
&
it
is
found
perilous
to
resist
him
:
by
timorous
dealing
on
our
side
we
haue
wonne
a
mocking
name
of
silly
clemencie
and
made
it
no
danger
to
shrinke
from
vs.
By
his
growing
the
hopes
are
on
his
side
:
by
our
forbearyng
the
feares
are
drawen
to
our
side
.
And
by
this
meane
our
owne
politike
&
worldly
wise
subiectes
&
frendes
,
which
are
the
greatest
numbers
,
flée
daily
from
vs
,
make
their
peace
vnder
hand
with
our
aduersaries
,
and
still
ripen
the
mischiefes
till
our
state
fall
rotten
to
ruine
,
with
small
néede
of
any
foreine
violence
,
but
one
boystcous
blast
of
winde
,
to
ouerthrow
the
féeble
stay
that
we
stand
vpon
.
Thence
came
the
Despotes
first
declining
,
thence
came
it
that
many
townes
and
regions
bordering
vppon
the
conquerer
haue
folowed
his
fortune
and
forsaken
those
in
whom
they
saw
no
hope
of
stedfast
succour
.
Bend
your selues
therfore
bytimes
,
O
noble
Princes
,
to
take
the
querell
of
Christ
in
hand
,
to
succour
your
neighbours
,
to
defend
your selues
,
to
kepe
peril
farre
of
,
to
preuent
impossibilities
of
escape
,
to
win
to
you
the
praise
of
prudence
and
fortitude
,
to
do
true
iustice
in
succoring
against
wrongs
,
&
in
doing
the
true
offices
of
noble
Princes
repellers
of
vniust
violence
,
and
mainteining
the
publike
faith
and
societie
of
men
&
specially
the
seruice
&
religion
of
God
.
You
haue
heard
by
example
in
other
,
to
whom
Mahumet
was
as
depely
bounden
as
to
you
:
you
haue
heard
by
the
principles
of
his
religion
,
which
he
more
estemeth
than
the
loue
or
feare
of
you
:
you
haue
heard
by
the
inclination
of
his
affections
,
and
the
course
of
his
counsels
and
doinges
,
which
being
made
by
him
the
scope
of
his
life
hee
will
not
change
and
so
forgoe
all
his
ambitious
hopes
to
spare
you
:
you
haue
I
say
hereby
&
many
other
wayes
heard
and
vnderstode
the
case
that
presseth
you
.
Arme
ye
therfore
with
Christian
&
princely
mindes
.
All
Christian
kinges
and
princes
haue
charge
of
the
Churche
of
God
,
the
defence
therof
against
infidels
and
professed
enemies
of
Christian
religion
perteineth
to
vs
all
.
The
very
law
of
nature
hath
not
onely
in
rule
taught
it
to
bee
dutiefull
one
to
releue
an
other
against
vndue
and
vnnaturall
violence
,
but
also
in
example
of
all
ages
haue
set
forth
the
prayse
of
such
as
haue
bene
the
rescuers
of
mankynde
agaynst
open
tyrannie
.
Herefore
is
Hercules
worthily
commended
as
the
common
patrone
of
innocencie
and
the
daunter
of
monsters
,
the
succourer
of
mankinde
,
and
the
destroyer
of
manslaying
tyrantes
.
Who
euer
thought
him
vniust
&
not
most
honourable
,
in
that
he
sacrificed
the
sacrificing
murderer
Busyris
,
&
taught
the
superstitious
wretch
to
know
strange
blood
in
his
owne
body
,
and
such
blood
as
the
Gods
required
to
be
shed
for
purging
the
earth
and
appeasing
the
heauen
,
and
not
the
blood
of
innocents
that
Busyris
by
aduise
of
deuils
&
deuillishe
priestes
had
made
to
flowe
from
hys
bloody
altars
?
Who
euer
condemned
Hercules
of
vniustice
,
in
that
he
worthily
recompensed
vile
Procustes
that
ioyed
&
made
pastimes
of
the
mangling
of
men
,
that
racked
short
men
to
hys
long
bedstedes
,
and
cut
of
tall
men
by
the
measure
of
his
short
ones
,
and
so
wold
pike
querels
for
murder
by
mens
not
egall
answering
hys
opinion
and
fansie
?
Who
magnifieth
not
the
name
of
Hercules
,
and
vnder
title
of
iustice
,
in
that
he
slew
a
multitude
of
the
periured
faythbreaking
Centaures
that
defiled
the
wedding
feast
with
blood
,
and
had
turned
the
time
appointed
for
mirth
,
for
ioye
,
for
amitie
,
for
securitie
of
true
league
and
frendship
,
to
querel
,
to
treason
,
to
murder
and
outrage
?
Spaine
it selfe
that
sometime
boasted
of
Hercules
pillers
,
though
they
haue
loste
those
famous
pillers
the
monumentes
of
his
far
extended
conquestes
,
yet
they
and
the
whole
world
kepe
in
honor
the
fame
of
Hercules
valiaunce
and
iustice
in
that
he
slew
the
thréehedded
monster
king
Gerion
,
so
by
antiquitie
called
and
reported
a
monster
with
thrée
heads
,
being
in
dede
nothing
els
but
thrée
tyrantes
the
king
and
hys
two
brethren
vniustly
and
tyrannously
reigning
and
exercising
all
crueltie
vpon
vertuous
innocent
and
godly
persons
.
Who
thinketh
that
Hercules
did
not
right
,
although
he
were
not
that
contreyman
nor
naturall
soueraigne
of
that
place
,
in
that
he
threw
the
wicked
murderer
into
hys
owne
horsemanger
to
be
deuoured
,
who
before
had
fed
hys
beastes
with
men
?
Eternall
are
the
prayses
of
noble
Constantine
,
that
made
iust
warre
vpon
Licinius
for
hys
crueltie
to
Christians
,
and
after
for
the
same
cause
iustly
put
him
to
execution
of
death
,
though
he
were
by
right
Emperor
of
the
East
and
otherwise
Constantines
egall
.
The
very
name
of
that
excellent
Constantine
(
O
noble
Princes
)
with
remembraunce
whence
he
was
,
euen
out
of
the
famous
Isle
of
Britaine
,
maketh
me
to
runne
out
into
ioyfull
exclaiming
how
much
(
I
know
not
by
what
instinct
from
heauen
)
euen
at
this
present
my
minde
is
kindled
with
perswasion
that
God
hath
ordeined
the
same
Island
at
this
time
and
of
the
line
of
that
Constantine
to
geue
vs
an
heire
of
Constantines
vertue
,
a
spreader
of
the
glory
of
God
and
rescuer
of
his
Chirch
against
him
that
vsurpeth
Constantines
seat
,
and
against
his
periurous
vpholder
.
After
the
death
of
Constantine
,
when
the
Empyre
was
diuided
betwene
Constans
and
Constantius
,
and
so
by
iust
right
and
title
possessed
,
and
that
Constantius
in
fauour
of
Arrian
heresie
had
banished
Athanasius
&
many
godly
fathers
,
Constans
though
in
ciuile
causes
he
had
no
right
nor
entermedling
in
Constantius
dominion
,
yet
to
his
eternall
prayse
made
iust
warre
vpon
Constantius
and
by
force
constrained
him
to
geue
sincere
safetie
and
full
restitution
to
hys
subiectes
the
true
professors
of
the
Gospell
of
Christ
.
The
like
did
Theodosius
the
vertuous
Emperor
at
sute
of
Bishop
Atticus
.
The
like
hath
euer
béen
lawfull
to
Christian
kinges
and
princes
.
And
if
euer
it
were
necessary
,
now
it
is
,
when
not
onely
many
an
Athanasius
,
many
an
Atticus
,
and
many
a
noble
prince
&
godly
personage
lye
prostrate
at
your
féete
for
succor
,
but
also
the
respect
of
your
owne
safetie
and
of
your
speciall
charge
of
your
own
kingdomes
concurreth
with
their
petitions
.
Thus
as
nothing
is
more
consonant
with
dutie
in
respecte
both
of
God
and
man
,
of
religion
and
nature
,
nothing
more
commendable
for
charitie
▪
nothing
more
auayling
to
honour
,
so
is
there
nothing
more
profitable
for
euery
of
your
states
,
more
néedfull
for
vpholding
the
generall
degrée
and
name
of
kinges
,
nor
more
necessary
for
eschuing
of
imminent
perill
to
all
those
thinges
that
you
haue
most
desire
to
preserue
,
than
it
is
to
take
this
querell
in
hand
for
your
faith
,
for
your
neighbors
,
for
your selues
,
against
the
enemy
of
God
,
of
Christendome
,
of
your
crownes
,
and
of
publike
truth
.
The
degrée
of
kinges
is
a
most
sacred
and
reuerend
office
ordeined
by
God
,
armed
and
adorned
with
lawfull
power
and
maiestie
to
preserue
mankinde
and
common
societie
.
It
behoueth
all
kinges
to
ioyne
together
to
vpholde
that
estate
in
the
same
estimation
and
reuerence
,
that
kingdome
may
be
estéemed
as
it
is
a
wholesome
ordinance
for
the
kinde
of
man
.
If
a
king
shall
breake
common
fayth
and
become
an
open
tyrant
and
oppresser
of
men
,
without
law
,
without
iudiciall
order
,
without
all
ground
and
forme
of
right
,
though
subiectes
may
not
,
yet
it
behoueth
kinges
to
redresse
it
and
to
represse
the
rage
and
insolencie
of
the
defamer
and
shame
of
their
state
,
to
prouide
betimes
that
kinges
waxe
not
odious
to
subiectes
,
and
that
particular
examples
encreasing
by
contagion
to
numbers
make
not
the
whole
degrée
gréeuous
.
If
Tarquine
had
receaued
due
punishment
by
the
king
,
the
kingdome
had
remained
in
Rome
.
If
Appius
the
Decemuir
had
beéen
iustly
chastised
and
not
wantonly
defended
by
his
fellowes
,
the
Deremuirate
had
not
beéen
so
easily
abolished
.
States
are
vpholden
by
vertue
and
credite
,
and
egall
princes
for
their
common
interest
to
maintaine
the
honour
and
continuance
of
princes
,
and
to
kéepe
it
frée
from
hatred
of
the
world
,
haue
iust
cause
and
iust
authoritie
,
great
wisedome
and
great
necessitie
,
by
naturall
and
vertuous
consent
to
prouide
for
the
common
societie
of
men
whereof
they
haue
the
supreme
charge
on
earth
,
to
wype
away
the
staine
of
their
state
,
to
remoue
such
a
wicked
king
from
the
earth
and
from
example
,
and
to
cut
from
the
world
and
from
posteritie
the
corrupter
and
sclaunderer
of
kingdomes
and
of
their
sacred
maiesties
.
How
much
more
ought
this
to
be
done
in
case
of
the
defence
of
Christian
religion
so
farre
as
the
secular
arme
of
princes
whom
Christ
hath
armed
with
the
sword
and
lawfull
power
is
able
to
aduance
the
suretie
of
Christes
Chirch
?
How
oft
to
this
end
haue
there
béen
proclamed
croisadoes
,
common
leagues
and
confederacies
entred
,
noble
societies
stablished
,
great
voyages
attempted
,
great
promises
of
heauen
proponed
,
to
enlarge
the
kingdome
of
Christ
in
earth
,
to
deliuer
not
onely
the
auncient
possessions
of
Christians
from
wrongfull
holding
,
but
also
and
principally
the
soules
of
infinite
multitudes
from
the
seruitude
of
Sathan
?
But
here
will
perhaps
be
said
,
that
howsoeuer
my
speche
may
be
construed
against
the
great
Mahumet
,
yet
the
other
tyrant
is
a
Christian
prince
,
vnder
whom
and
in
whoes
dominion
Christians
are
suffred
to
kéepe
their
religion
.
I
confesse
in
déede
he
holdeth
the
name
of
a
Christian
in
as
hye
degrée
as
may
be
,
but
with
such
heresies
and
Turkishe
mixture
of
heathen
ceremonies
,
superstitions
,
and
blasphemies
against
the
name
and
dignitie
of
Christ
,
and
therwith
is
such
a
malicious
cruell
enemie
to
Christians
,
in
stopping
their
passages
to
helpe
one
an
other
,
in
ministring
dangerous
counsels
to
Mahumet
,
in
ayding
him
with
his
force
,
according
to
the
league
and
amitie
that
is
betwene
them
,
that
his
name
of
Christianitie
serueth
him
to
no
more
but
to
encrease
the
giltinesse
of
his
fault
,
&
the
iustnesse
of
your
warre
against
hym
,
whoes
case
differeth
onely
thus
much
from
the
Turke
,
that
in
that
he
saith
he
is
a
Christian
he
hath
to
all
the
Turkes
lewdnesses
added
blasphemie
,
&
where
the
Turke
is
an
open
enemie
,
this
tyrant
is
both
an
open
enemie
and
traitor
to
Christian
fayth
.
Oh
most
excellent
Princes
,
be
it
euer
printed
in
your
hart
,
that
whatsoeuer
he
be
,
though
he
presume
to
beare
the
name
euen
of
most
Christian
,
or
of
most
holy
,
or
vsurpe
the
title
of
pitie
or
catholike
religion
,
or
other
like
good
names
,
if
he
persecute
the
Church
of
God
,
if
for
ambitious
respectes
he
ioyne
him selfe
in
societie
with
the
Turk
and
Christes
enemies
to
further
the
Turkes
inuasions
vpon
Christendome
,
or
to
withdraw
his
owne
ayde
from
the
common
cause
of
Christians
,
if
publike
fayth
do
not
holde
him
,
if
law
of
nature
and
humane
societie
be
no
bonde
vnto
him
,
if
the
word
of
God
be
not
the
rule
of
his
religion
,
if
he
kill
or
oppresse
hys
subiectes
or
hys
neighbours
for
being
Christians
,
and
for
professing
the
same
according
to
the
rule
of
Christ
,
as
thys
prince
hath
done
,
he
ought
to
be
in
your
iudgement
,
as
he
is
in
his
owne
practise
,
a
heathen
and
publicane
,
one
against
whom
your
swordes
ought
to
be
iustly
drawen
for
that
you
beare
thē
not
in
vaine
,
and
in
vaine
shall
you
beare
them
and
déeply
answere
God
for
vaine
bearing
of
them
,
if
ye
vse
them
not
to
defend
,
to
succor
,
to
rescue
the
Church
of
Christ
.
And
by
the
way
in
the
example
of
this
false
Christian
the
Despote
,
I
beseche
you
note
one
thing
.
The
danger
of
leagues
and
societies
with
infideles
.
Surely
it
was
no
law
of
ceremonie
,
but
of
the
hye
wisdome
and
eternall
policie
of
God
,
that
his
people
were
forbidden
heathen
mariages
.
The
great
fall
of
wise
Salomon
to
depe
idolatrie
by
that
meane
ought
to
be
a
terrible
paterne
to
you
all
in
that
case
,
and
to
warne
you
not
onely
that
it
is
dangerous
but
also
vnlawfull
to
couple
your selues
in
bondes
of
mariage
with
open
heretickes
or
infideles
.
It
is
a
hye
pride
in
your
owne
strength
and
a
hye
presumption
against
the
will
of
God
to
trust
that
so
matching
you
shall
be
able
to
reteine
your
fayth
.
Salomon
was
wise
and
could
not
do
it
,
and
was
the
rather
by
Gods
mercy
to
you
,
destitute
of
Gods
grace
to
him
,
to
teach
you
to
beware
by
his
example
.
After
that
the
Despote
had
geuen
his
daughter
Cathagusina
in
mariage
to
Amurathes
,
the
frendship
of
the
tyrant
,
the
loue
of
his
daughter
,
the
ambitious
pride
of
so
hye
alliance
,
common
conferences
of
counsells
and
affaires
,
transported
him
by
little
and
little
from
fayth
to
open
falshed
and
enmitie
against
Christ
and
Christians
.
So
great
a
thing
it
is
to
yelde
a
little
in
matters
of
fayth
and
seruice
of
God
,
as
if
it
lay
in
our selues
to
qualifie
the
sinceritie
of
truth
,
wherupon
the
grace
of
God
by
litle
and
litle
destituting
such
yelders
and
dispensers
with
them selues
in
matters
of
God
they
become
at
length
indurate
and
desperate
,
and
voide
of
all
vertue
and
sense
of
God
.
O
noble
Lordes
beleue
it
for
a
most
certaine
truth
,
recorde
it
for
a
most
necessary
admonition
,
that
he
hath
not
the
religion
of
Christ
that
féeleth
it
not
.
And
he
féeleth
it
not
that
doth
not
together
féele
with
other
Christians
the
hurtes
and
dangers
of
the
body
&
members
of
the
Chirch
of
Christ
.
Nature
hath
tolde
you
how
the
difference
betwene
doing
wrong
and
not
preseruing
from
wrong
if
you
may
,
is
so
small
as
they
be
both
subiect
to
the
title
&
gilte
of
wrong
euen
in
a
priuate
person
,
much
more
in
those
whoes
office
lyeth
in
power
&
in
charge
to
defend
,
and
to
that
end
was
ordeined
.
When
a
Christian
after
shipwrack
,
naked
and
destitute
of
ordinary
meane
of
succor
,
wrastling
in
the
waues
for
his
life
,
his
forces
wasted
with
labor
of
swimming
,
his
body
filled
with
bryne
of
sea
,
is
by
the
working
of
the
winde
and
water
driuen
nere
the
shore
,
where
you
in
safetie
stand
and
behold
his
wofull
case
and
danger
,
and
that
therupon
his
tyered
spirites
doe
of
your
presence
gather
some
hope
,
and
with
recollecting
hys
vttermost
remayning
force
draweth
together
so
much
silly
strength
as
by
signe
of
hand
stretched
vp
,
or
by
voyce
strained
forth
,
to
call
to
you
for
helpe
,
and
that
the
throwing
out
of
a
rope
,
or
reaching
of
a
poale
may
saue
him
:
how
will
you
answers
him
that
made
him
if
you
saue
him
not
?
will
you
be
thought
to
haue
humanitie
in
you
and
refuse
to
releue
him
?
will
you
beast
of
Christianitie
and
not
be
moued
with
pitie
?
will
you
vaunt
of
your
religion
and
so
fowly
defame
it
?
will
you
thinke
that
any
man
can
in
fayth
beleue
that
you
haue
fayth
when
you
shew
it
not
in
the
déedes
of
mercye
and
charitie
the
true
frutes
of
faith
,
specially
to
those
that
be
of
the
householde
of
fayth
?
Will
you
pretend
that
Leuiathan
and
hys
sea
monsters
,
that
the
Whales
and
Haddockes
will
be
offended
,
that
in
sauing
the
man
you
bereued
them
of
their
pray
?
Will
ye
allege
that
it
were
wrong
to
the
flesh
eating
fishes
that
by
your
helpe
the
Christian
was
not
deuoured
?
But
what
if
the
case
were
such
,
as
the
case
is
in
déede
,
that
on
the
one
side
a
monster
of
sea
pursuing
the
man
did
threaten
to
eate
vp
your
Goslinges
and
your
Ducklinges
when
he
findeth
them
swimming
on
the
water
vnlesse
you
suffred
him
to
eate
the
man
,
and
on
the
other
side
the
poore
mans
father
the
King
of
Kinges
and
Lord
of
Lordes
,
that
hath
your
life
and
death
and
the
vniuersall
change
of
all
thinges
in
his
power
and
at
his
becke
,
shall
stand
ouer
you
,
and
shall
say
vnto
you
,
vnlesse
you
helpe
thys
man
my
childe
,
your
brother
if
you
be
mine
,
I
will
presently
tomble
you
from
the
safe
shore
that
you
stand
vpon
,
I
will
geue
winges
and
féete
to
the
monsters
that
now
pursue
this
silly
creature
in
their
owne
element
and
dominion
onely
,
I
wil
bring
them
to
land
,
I
wil
geue
them
strength
and
meane
to
pursue
you
there
also
till
they
roote
out
you
and
yours
?
what
wold
you
then
do
or
not
do
?
whom
would
you
then
choose
to
please
or
displease
?
which
threaten
or
perill
would
you
rathest
shunne
or
aduenture
?
It
is
not
hard
to
coniecture
what
choise
you
would
make
,
if
these
thinges
were
thus
presently
before
your
eyes
:
why
make
you
not
the
like
choise
when
the
same
thing
is
present
to
your
vnderstanding
?
Surely
it
can
haue
no
cause
but
lacke
of
fayth
,
that
concerning
God
we
confesse
more
in
mouth
than
we
féele
in
beléefe
.
We
can
be
content
to
affirme
religion
and
conscience
to
make
other
for
religion
and
conscience
obedient
to
our
authoritie
,
and
shall
we
our selues
against
religion
and
without
conscience
neither
haue
pitie
of
Christian
men
for
whom
our
authoritie
is
stablished
,
nor
shew
loue
or
feare
of
God
by
whom
it
is
ordeined
.
But
admit
that
our selues
were
in
like
perill
with
the
poore
man
,
and
the
danger
so
egally
conioyned
that
we
must
either
be
saued
or
perish
together
,
what
would
we
do
?
When
the
whole
ship
of
Gods
militant
.
Chirch
standeth
in
this
likelyhode
of
extremitie
,
when
our selues
are
sayling
in
the
ship
ready
to
burst
wholly
in
peres
,
will
we
still
sléepe
and
be
wanton
?
Death
is
certaine
to
you
all
,
and
this
life
must
haue
end
,
&
in
the
ending
of
it
a
battell
at
the
passage
must
be
foughten
with
the
mightie
enemie
of
your
saluation
.
It
can
not
be
auoyded
but
it
must
be
tryed
,
it
can
not
be
escaped
but
you
must
perishe
if
you
be
not
strongly
armed
.
At
your
dying
houre
(
O
noble
princes
)
that
houre
I
say
that
endeth
the
estate
of
all
princes
and
subdueth
them
in
equalitie
with
all
men
to
the
hyest
prince
,
when
the
danger
is
most
great
,
natural
strength
most
feble
,
and
diuine
ayde
most
néedefull
,
be
sure
of
this
that
Sathan
shall
then
most
fiercely
assayle
you
,
he
shall
querell
with
you
vpon
your
great
accompt
,
he
shall
so
charge
you
with
great
faultes
,
that
he
shall
not
omit
the
smallest
default
.
Iudge
your selues
therefore
that
ye
be
not
iudged
.
Charge
your selues
now
to
amendment
,
that
ye
be
not
then
charged
to
damnation
.
Imagine
your selues
now
to
be
in
such
case
as
ye
are
one
day
sure
to
be
.
Suppose
the
houre
come
when
you
are
ro
yelde
your
spirite
and
your
power
together
,
when
you
lye
in
languor
of
dying
,
in
sharpenesse
of
paine
,
and
in
expectation
of
the
imminent
iugement
of
God
,
and
that
now
as
then
Sathan
shall
in
hys
vggliest
maner
present
him selfe
vnto
you
,
and
shall
say
thus
:
O
ye
sometime
great
princes
,
and
now
the
more
burdened
because
ye
were
princes
,
bethinke
you
what
you
haue
done
and
not
done
,
and
acknowledge
the
iustice
of
God
in
your
damnation
now
present
and
not
to
be
auoyded
.
I
let
passe
your
priuate
faultes
against
Gods
commandementes
.
Come
to
the
greatest
.
You
know
Christ
him selfe
did
set
on
his
left
side
,
and
sent
into
eternall
fire
,
those
that
in
néede
did
not
releue
him
,
with
clothing
,
with
lodging
,
with
foode
&
comfort
,
pronouncing
that
vncharitablenesse
to
haue
béen
shewed
to
him selfe
,
when
mercy
and
succor
was
not
extended
to
one
of
the
poore
ones
that
he
had
commended
to
their
mercy
.
What
shall
he
say
to
you
that
haue
withholden
your
due
ayde
not
onely
from
one
little
one
but
also
from
hys
whole
Chirch
,
from
the
defence
of
hys
whole
religion
and
people
,
and
not
that
onely
,
but
when
you
might
haue
holpen
their
miserie
,
you
haue
not
only
suffred
them
to
be
spoyled
,
robbed
,
and
slaine
,
but
infinite
multitudes
of
them
,
their
children
and
posterities
to
be
thralled
to
a
false
fayth
,
to
be
caried
captiue
into
heresie
and
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
?
Do
you
thinke
to
sit
in
heauen
and
sée
whole
armies
,
whole
nations
go
to
hell
by
your
fault
?
If
blood
aske
blood
,
what
vengeance
shall
be
due
to
the
instrumentes
of
eternall
death
?
What
shall
it
auaile
you
to
haue
kept
your
owne
kingdomes
in
quiet
and
good
estate
for
a
little
lesse
or
more
than
xx
.
yeares
,
&
by
your
default
to
be
gilty
of
all
the
infinite
mischeues
that
you
haue
without
compassion
and
succor
séene
among
your
neighbors
,
and
without
prouision
shall
succéede
after
you
in
your
owne
realmes
and
dominions
?
When
Sathan
shall
lay
this
to
your
charge
,
what
shall
be
answered
?
you
can
not
defend
it
nor
excuse
it
.
Will
you
runne
to
mercy
?
he
will
runne
betwene
you
and
the
mercy
gate
,
and
tell
you
it
is
denyed
to
the
vnmercifull
?
Will
you
allege
that
heauen
is
due
to
those
of
the
Chirch
of
God
?
he
will
bring
for
witnesse
agaynst
you
the
very
Chirch
of
God
it self
that
you
haue
destituted
and
forsaken
it
,
I
will
not
say
betrayed
it
?
Will
you
thinke
to
be
holpen
by
fayth
,
and
the
promises
of
the
Gospel
?
he
will
say
you
haue
not
fayth
,
and
the
promises
of
the
Gospell
belong
not
to
you
:
for
he
will
bid
you
to
shew
your
fayth
by
your
déedes
,
he
will
charge
you
that
infidelitie
hath
béen
aduanced
by
your
meanes
,
and
the
fayth
of
Christ
&
truth
of
his
Gospel
defaced
by
your
suffrance
,
and
you
haue
so
delt
in
the
cause
of
faith
and
of
the
Gospell
as
if
you
felt
no
zeale
therof
.
What
shall
remaine
to
you
in
this
case
?
Then
shall
you
féele
a
passion
if
now
you
will
féele
no
compassion
.
The
senselesse
beholding
of
the
distresse
of
the
Chirch
of
God
,
will
raise
such
a
sense
of
miseries
,
as
shall
be
able
to
receaue
no
comfort
in
horror
of
the
paine
that
will
haue
no
end
.
O
how
déepely
it
will
then
be
wished
,
that
all
treasure
,
all
trauaile
,
all
policie
,
all
aduenture
had
béen
employed
to
the
seruice
of
God
,
and
the
successe
committed
to
his
goodnesse
.
O
how
ruthfully
will
wantonnesse
be
bewayled
,
idlenesse
lamented
,
sparing
detested
,
lust
lothed
,
and
liking
of
life
hated
?
O
extreme
danger
when
so
great
burdens
are
layde
vpon
the
weakest
time
,
when
presumption
differreth
good
doing
to
the
late
and
latest
houre
.
Now
is
the
remedy
.
Now
noble
princes
so
reigne
that
ye
may
euer
reigne
,
both
in
fame
&
blessednesse
,
in
the
world
and
after
it
:
so
liue
that
ye
may
neuer
feare
to
dye
,
which
shall
be
if
ye
shall
so
doe
in
life
which
is
but
a
way
to
death
that
ye
may
yeld
to
Gods
mercy
a
life
spent
in
his
seruice
,
that
the
prayer
of
Gods
Chirch
may
prolong
your
reignes
,
testifie
your
faythes
,
and
commend
your
soules
.
But
sée
the
mischefe
,
sée
the
suttletie
of
Sathan
.
The
selfe
same
deuill
that
will
then
charge
you
with
not
doing
,
doth
now
withhold
you
from
doing
.
He
that
then
will
threaten
you
with
damnation
,
doth
now
moue
you
to
deserue
it
.
The
selfe
same
deuill
that
will
then
say
vnto
you
to
put
you
in
terror
,
you
betrayed
the
Chirch
of
God
,
doth
now
say
to
you
to
bring
you
in
error
,
that
you
owe
no
such
duetie
to
the
Chirch
of
God
.
The
selfe
same
deuill
that
will
then
obiecte
against
you
that
in
not
shewing
your
déedes
to
the
helpe
of
Christians
you
haue
shewed
that
you
haue
no
fayth
,
doth
now
say
vnto
you
,
if
you
helpe
Christians
you
breake
fayth
.
O
wretched
entanglement
.
O
crafty
Deuill
.
He
holdeth
you
snared
with
pretense
of
fayth
least
you
should
do
any
thing
in
defence
of
fayth
.
He
sayth
your
late
league
with
the
infidell
doth
tye
you
,
by
promise
,
by
articles
,
by
publike
attestation
,
by
othe
,
so
that
howsoeuer
your
neighbours
néede
requireth
,
howsoeuer
your
owne
danger
craueth
,
howsoeuer
Gods
seruice
commandeth
,
howsoeuer
charitie
,
howsoeuer
fayth
,
howsoeuer
religion
,
howsoeuer
wisedome
,
howsoeuer
honor
,
howsoeuer
the
proper
dutie
and
office
of
princes
&
Christian
princes
aduiseth
,
you
may
not
fall
out
with
Mahumet
,
you
may
take
no
part
against
him
,
you
may
succour
none
,
no
not
your selues
,
whom
he
would
haue
destroyed
.
He
telleth
you
that
we
are
not
comprehended
in
the
league
,
there
is
no
expresse
capitulation
to
comprise
vs
,
you
may
not
therefore
for
vs
interrupt
the
reach
of
his
purposes
,
be
they
neuer
so
cruel
,
neuer
so
faithlesse
,
neuer
so
dangerous
to
the
vniuersall
Chirch
or
to
your
seuerall
liues
,
subiectes
,
and
kingdomes
.
Recorde
(
O
noble
princes
)
the
truth
of
the
league
betwene
hym
and
you
.
Obserue
all
leagnes
iustly
,
for
so
becommeth
Christians
:
but
iudge
all
leagues
truely
,
for
so
behoueth
Christian
gouernors
.
Wey
your
league
with
the
minde
that
you
made
and
vnderstoode
it
,
kéepe
it
with
the
fayth
that
you
promised
and
assured
it
.
You
remember
well
I
am
assured
,
what
meanes
procured
your
league
,
what
purpose
did
further
it
,
and
what
trust
and
minde
concluded
it
.
You
know
how
your
noble
vertues
haue
geuen
succours
to
vs
your
Christian
neighbours
,
and
therin
you
haue
not
onely
charitably
done
vs
good
but
wisely
diuerted
perill
from
your selues
.
It
pleased
almighty
God
that
vsed
your
honourable
ministerie
in
defence
of
his
Gospell
and
Chirch
,
so
to
prosper
the
procedinges
that
good
forme
of
peace
ensued
.
Which
as
it
was
on
our
part
for
the
benefite
of
Christendome
embraced
,
so
on
the
tyrantes
behalfe
it
was
most
fraudulently
meant
and
most
vntruely
obserued
.
He
first
concluded
peace
with
vs
in
Epirus
and
Rascia
,
hoping
to
haue
vsed
our
aydes
against
you
.
To
that
end
he
procured
the
siege
of
Scodra
,
wherin
he
set
Christians
against
Christians
,
that
he
might
féede
him
with
ioye
of
the
destruction
on
both
sides
.
To
that
end
he
made
offer
to
me
and
to
the
other
princes
in
Epyrus
and
to
the
Lordes
of
Rascia
to
permit
to
vs
and
them
the
frée
vse
of
Christian
Religion
with
hys
good
contentment
,
if
we
would
haue
ioyned
in
seruing
hym
against
you
.
That
article
we
refused
,
wherupon
he
hath
certainly
holden
vs
for
impedimentes
to
hys
purposes
agaynst
you
.
But
finding
that
while
your
aydes
were
ready
to
succor
vs
in
our
necessities
,
and
our
seruices
thankfully
ready
to
withstand
al
perils
that
might
be
intended
toward
you
,
he
practised
to
snare
you
with
league
that
you
might
so
be
withholden
from
releuing
our
liues
or
reuenging
our
deathes
.
He
pretended
great
wearinesse
of
wars
,
of
waste
of
his
contrey
and
people
,
and
a
great
desire
of
rest
and
quiet
,
with
singular
ioy
that
in
part
he
had
already
obtained
and
tasted
the
swéete
frutes
of
desired
peace
.
He
made
vs
the
meanes
to
perswade
the
peace
,
he
made
vs
to
tell
your
ministers
as
from
him
what
zeale
and
affection
he
had
to
cherishe
vs
,
and
that
for
this
cause
and
for
assurance
of
our
safetie
,
and
our
peaceable
enioying
the
quiet
of
our
conscience
thys
peace
should
be
the
bonde
and
pledge
,
which
hope
he
confirmed
with
infinite
circumstances
and
meanes
of
credite
.
With
this
trust
,
and
for
the
benefite
and
securitie
of
the
Chirch
of
God
,
and
with
this
vnderstanding
of
Mahumets
affection
you
made
the
peace
.
This
was
the
cause
and
this
was
the
purpose
therof
.
You
were
not
vanquished
in
battell
,
you
were
not
forced
by
any
feare
or
necessitie
to
take
any
dishonorable
composition
at
his
hand
,
to
the
preiudice
of
your
fayth
,
religion
,
or
honor
,
or
to
a
necessary
constraining
of
you
to
forsake
the
cause
of
Christ
&
the
querell
that
had
already
so
much
cost
you
and
yet
still
so
much
importeth
you
,
you
know
you
were
not
driuen
to
any
such
néede
.
Your
conscience
can
tell
you
that
you
made
the
league
only
vpon
these
good
semblances
on
his
part
,
to
preserue
the
Chirch
,
and
not
to
be
compelled
to
destitute
and
betray
it
.
Reach
into
your
owne
hartes
I
beseche
you
,
and
let
euery
one
of
you
recorde
with
him selfe
,
whether
you
would
haue
made
that
league
if
he
had
sayd
vnto
you
before
hand
that
which
now
hath
followed
.
If
he
had
sayd
vnto
you
sincerely
,
I
haue
made
peace
with
the
Christians
at
home
and
nere
me
,
I
haue
testified
it
,
I
haue
sworne
it
,
I
haue
bound
my
blood
,
my
Counsell
,
my
Iustices
,
mine
officers
&
subiectes
,
with
oth
and
charge
to
kéepe
it
,
I
haue
subscribed
it
,
I
haue
proclaimed
it
,
I
haue
set
forth
edictes
for
obseruing
of
it
,
I
haue
punished
breakers
of
it
,
I
haue
defaced
the
monuments
of
former
discordes
&
vnkindnesse
,
I
haue
tolde
you
that
I
séeke
and
assent
to
league
with
you
&
them
that
both
I
&
they
and
you
may
enioye
quietnesse
with
eche
of
our
consciences
as
we
are
perswaded
,
I
will
now
ioyne
in
bond
of
amitie
with
you
,
but
so
soone
as
that
is
ended
,
I
will
kéepe
no
fayth
with
heretickes
,
the
Rascians
whom
you
haue
ayded
shall
dye
for
it
,
the
peace
that
I
haue
proclaimed
with
that
secte
of
Christians
shall
be
dissolued
,
the
permission
of
vse
of
their
religion
shall
be
reuoked
,
Great
Mahumet
my
prophet
and
lawgeuer
shall
be
serued
with
their
blood
in
peace
,
and
the
league
that
I
now
make
with
you
shall
remaine
,
and
it
shall
remaine
to
binde
you
neither
to
assist
nor
to
releue
such
of
them
as
shall
escape
my
hand
,
nor
to
holde
vp
a
side
that
may
any
way
assiste
you
if
you
haue
néede
hereafter
:
If
I
say
he
had
plainly
thus
told
you
,
would
you
haue
entred
into
any
such
league
?
Search
your
conscience
and
let
it
informe
you
.
If
you
wold
not
haue
made
if
you
had
so
vnderstood
him
,
surely
neither
did
you
make
it
with
vnderstanding
that
it
should
be
frée
for
him
so
to
do
.
If
then
the
cause
of
league
directly
vnderstood
betwene
you
both
,
and
so
laid
open
to
the
worldes
iudgement
,
was
to
haue
peace
for
the
Chirch
,
for
religion
,
and
for
the
politike
estate
on
both
sides
,
then
who
so
breaketh
that
purpose
,
and
by
innouations
layeth
the
other
open
to
fraude
and
daunger
,
that
is
he
that
hath
dissolued
the
league
,
that
is
he
that
hath
vndone
the
knot
,
and
with
his
vniust
doyng
agaynst
the
meanyng
and
apparant
cause
of
the
league
he
hath
iustly
armed
you
to
withstand
his
treasons
,
and
in
vayne
complayneth
that
you
be
tyed
by
the
wordes
of
the
league
.
Remember
I
beseche
you
his
other
doings
agaynst
your
safetie
,
euen
in
the
ciuile
part
of
your
charge
and
authoritie
.
It
is
well
knowen
to
you
that
though
be
forbeare
to
auow
attemptes
,
yet
he
ceasseth
not
to
make
attempts
against
you
.
Wherto
sent
he
secret
assistance
to
vpholde
a
faction
in
your
nearest
borders
to
your
perill
?
Why
promised
he
money
,
men
,
munition
and
other
sinewes
of
warre
to
the
disturbers
of
your
state
?
Why
ioyneth
he
dayly
in
practise
wyth
your
deadly
enemyes
?
Doth
he
it
to
other
ende
than
to
destroy
you
?
Why
throweth
he
the
blame
vppon
other
whom
he
cherisheth
,
and
by
whom
he
is
gouerned
?
Doth
he
it
to
any
other
ende
than
to
deceiue
you
?
If
then
you
were
deceiued
in
the
making
of
your
league
,
shall
it
not
suffice
you
to
pursue
and
obserue
the
cause
and
true
purpose
of
the
league
?
and
shall
it
be
frée
for
hym
agaynst
the
minde
and
appearing
purpose
therof
to
murder
your
frendes
and
vndermine
you
?
and
the
cause
of
the
league
so
destroyed
by
himselfe
,
shall
it
not
be
frée
for
you
to
defend
you
selues
?
and
shall
it
not
be
frée
till
it
be
too
late
?
I
leaue
to
Diuines
,
whether
you
may
make
a
league
against
the
Chirch
of
God
or
no
,
but
I
holde
vppon
common
right
and
nature
,
that
if
a
false
Prince
beyng
in
league
with
an
other
tyrant
,
with
articles
therin
expressely
contayned
to
destroy
certaine
godly
Princes
,
do
make
peace
with
one
of
the
good
princes
,
and
after
with
the
other
of
them
,
pretending
and
so
making
it
vnderstoode
that
this
peace
is
made
for
the
suretie
of
both
the
good
Princes
,
without
which
perswasion
the
second
good
Prince
would
not
haue
entred
into
league
to
forsake
and
betray
the
first
,
&
afterward
the
tyrant
by
treason
inuadeth
&
murdereth
the
first
good
Prince
,
and
publisheth
that
he
lawfully
did
so
,
notwithstanding
his
peace
sworne
to
him
that
he
murdered
,
because
(
saith
he
)
the
articles
of
his
first
league
with
hys
fellowe
tyrant
so
required
,
and
that
he
holdeth
not
himselfe
bound
to
kéepe
faith
wyth
the
other
:
Whether
this
be
proclaimed
in
worde
or
in
fact
,
it
geueth
warning
to
the
second
good
Prince
to
looke
to
himselfe
,
&
libertie
by
all
meanes
(
of
which
sometimes
inuasions
is
one
meane
both
lawfull
and
necessarie
)
to
represse
the
rage
of
the
tyrant
,
to
saue
the
remnants
that
haue
escaped
his
crueltie
,
and
by
force
to
withstand
his
attemptes
and
purposes
.
If
after
a
league
made
,
new
iust
cause
of
warre
be
geuen
,
that
new
cause
bindeth
him
that
gaue
it
,
and
geueth
libertie
to
the
other
to
vse
lawfull
force
agaiost
him
.
It
is
iust
cause
of
war
for
a
Christian
prince
against
a
heathen
or
hereticall
tyrant
,
if
the
tyrant
inuade
the
chirch
of
Christ
and
do
any
attempt
to
the
hurt
of
the
Christian
common
weale
.
Since
the
last
league
betwéene
him
and
you
he
hath
murdered
Christians
,
he
hath
inuaded
your
neighbours
dominions
,
he
hath
done
many
new
outrages
to
the
oppressing
of
the
Chirch
of
God
and
to
your
euident
danger
.
If
he
had
béen
a
Christian
Prince
wyth
whom
your
league
is
made
in
respect
of
defending
Christendome
,
and
he
had
afterward
renounced
Christendome
and
become
an
Infidell
,
had
not
the
intent
of
your
league
béen
so
disappointed
as
such
an
alteration
of
his
estate
had
set
you
at
libertie
by
armes
to
defende
the
Church
of
God
?
If
he
were
a
heathen
with
whom
your
league
is
made
,
vpon
pretence
to
geue
peace
to
Christendome
,
and
he
afterward
by
new
murders
and
innouations
bring
new
danger
to
your selues
through
the
sides
of
your
christian
neighbors
,
is
not
the
purpose
of
that
peace
so
defrauded
,
as
you
may
take
this
fraude
and
violence
on
his
part
for
a
iust
cause
of
resistance
and
reuenge
on
your
part
,
without
being
tyed
by
league
to
him
against
whom
may
iustly
be
said
that
in
vaine
he
séeketh
to
be
shielded
vnder
the
lawe
that
himselfe
hath
broken
?
It
is
not
frée
for
any
to
exacte
all
faith
and
kéepe
none
.
Fraude
and
deceit
geue
iust
defence
to
no
man
.
A
chirch-robber
▪
shall
in
the
same
Chirch
haue
no
sanctuarie
,
a
peacebreaker
can
not
win
thereby
libertie
to
haue
the
protection
of
peace
with
fréedome
of
war
.
Awake
therfore
(
O
noble
Princes
)
and
sée
your
daunger
by
oures
,
his
falsehed
by
hys
factes
,
and
your
necessitie
by
both
hys
and
our
example
.
And
now
when
you
haue
séene
what
néede
you
haue
,
what
right
you
haue
,
what
charge
you
haue
,
and
what
frée
authoritie
you
haue
,
and
that
thereby
you
be
armed
,
now
consider
what
strength
,
what
meanes
,
what
commoditie
and
what
ease
you
haue
to
do
it
.
First
almighty
God
shal
be
your
defender
if
you
will
defend
your
Christian
neighbours
in
charitie
,
and
your
charge
in
iustice
.
The
tyrant
is
hated
of
his
owne
subiectes
:
plague
&
famine
already
pursue
his
land
:
the
frendes
of
the
murdered
,
&
the
remnantes
of
those
that
feare
to
be
murdered
are
ready
bent
to
all
occasions
against
hym
:
the
furie
of
conference
with
conceiuing
continual
presence
of
their
ghostes
that
he
hath
stayne
haue
him
in
dayly
chace
&
amaze
him
both
day
and
night
:
terror
of
giltinesse
and
the
face
of
hell
leaue
hym
no
quiet
nor
assurance
:
his
extreme
crueltie
maketh
desperate
necessitie
without
yelding
,
in
those
that
shall
stand
against
him
:
the
defence
of
murder
and
mischief
is
so
odious
that
he
can
not
gather
an
army
to
trust
vnto
,
but
mingled
wyth
such
whose
hartes
in
their
slayne
frends
he
hath
galled
,
or
whose
courage
so
euill
a
cause
abateth
,
or
whose
giltye
myndes
with
him
the
like
terror
vexeth
and
apalleth
:
after
the
destruction
of
a
hundred
thousand
mouthes
by
murder
,
vitail
is
derer
and
scarcer
,
and
not
to
suffice
the
remnant
of
his
people
:
Gods
wrath
a
thousand
wayes
doth
shew
it self
.
Eternall
honor
shall
follow
the
reuengers
of
the
breach
of
common
fayth
,
the
rescuers
of
the
Chirch
,
the
sauiours
of
the
afflicted
,
the
preseruers
of
the
godly
,
the
subduers
of
monsters
and
miscreantes
.
Wherfore
(
O
noble
princes
)
haue
pitie
,
haue
compassion
of
princes
,
of
Christians
,
of
men
,
that
humanitie
,
religion
,
and
honor
,
may
commend
you
to
eternall
fame
and
to
the
fauor
of
God
.
That
ye
the
succorers
of
many
a
fatherlesse
infant
may
liue
to
sée
your
childrens
children
in
ioy
and
not
beare
the
curse
of
God
to
dye
without
heire
that
may
be
the
comfort
of
your selues
&
stay
of
your
realmes
,
that
ye
the
deliuerers
of
true
religion
to
present
time
and
posteritie
may
presently
liue
in
the
good
grace
of
God
,
and
leaue
to
posteritie
a
blessed
remembrance
and
not
a
defacing
of
your
present
good
doinges
with
calamities
to
succéede
for
lack
of
prouision
,
that
when
ye
haue
liued
happily
ye
may
dye
ioyfully
,
and
not
féele
the
dangerous
tentations
that
Sathan
at
your
last
houre
shall
assaile
ye
with
if
Gods
people
shall
perish
which
you
might
haue
preserued
.
Let
our
case
moue
ye
to
mercy
,
let
your
own
case
stirre
ye
to
wisdome
,
let
the
case
of
your
kingdomes
raise
ye
vp
to
iustice
,
let
the
case
of
God
and
hys
Chirch
kindle
you
in
zeale
.
Hope
not
alwaye
for
miracles
,
least
they
iustly
fayle
you
for
tempting
God
,
or
if
they
fayle
you
not
,
they
iustly
damne
you
for
not
seruing
God
.
Draw
the
sword
that
God
hath
geuen
you
for
him
and
his
people
,
against
Antichrist
and
the
enemies
of
God
and
his
Gospell
.
And
so
almighty
God
preserue
you
,
geue
you
victory
,
honor
,
and
eternall
blesse
.