THE Tyrant of Spayne , gaping and watching a long time for the inuasion of Fraunce , and generall ruine of the French , working ( to his own desire ) the disorders not long since , and which yet continueth in all the estates of thys Realme . Seeing likewise , that the last of the house of The last King that was murdered by the Iacobine Fryar . Valois swayed the Scepter , after the death of Monsieur his brother , who was reported to be poysoned ; By his owne subtilty , & by the means of hys Agents , Ambassadour , and adhering Pencionars , ( whom he hath drawn into a very great and high hope to his owne profit and their perdition ) hath raised a League , and thereby engendred Monsters , more horrible and hiddious , then those that ( of old ) are sayd to be subdued by the valour of Alcmenaes Sonne .

It were needlesse to make further search for newe horrours in the depth of Lybia : let mee rather question howe to banish hence the crueltie and barbarisme of these Scithians , Gothes by nature , these Moores & Sarrasin Spanyards , whose first Fathers had theyr originall from the Gothes , and from hence thys League ( the mother of all mischiefe ) that is heer so louingly cherished , had her beginning . Thys Pandora hath so cast abroade her poysons out of her boxe , as the ayre , the earth and men , beeing vnprouided of a counter-poyson , yea , very neere all things els , are infected therewith . It hath changed in many places , the face of this fayre Monarchie , into an Anarchie or many headed gouernment : it hath ouerthrowne the throne and royall Authoritie , violenced the Magistrates , murdered the Prince , peruerted all order and policie , both diuine and humane . It hath made Fraunce a den of theeues , murderers , robbers and spoylers , such Monsters hath thys League prodigiously brought foorth ; among infinite of the very worst sort , is ignorance , malice , deceit , guile , hypocrisie , robbing , theft , incest , feigned Religion , all kinde of execrations , murder , sacrilidge and particide ; thys Witch , engendered by the terror and ambition of the Spanyards , hath made a strange metamorphosis of a most beautifull estate .

But GOD the Authour of all good , foreseeing in mercie such as he made choise of : gaue courage to theyr harts to detest thys Scithia , to flye from thys Lybia , whose Monsters strangle liuing men , as hath beene known and seene : and so to come into a sweete ayre , pure and not poysoned , vnder the gracious Lawes of their naturall and legittimate Princes . To worke this effect , ( a meruaile amongst them esteemed of greatest meruaile ) it is his will and pleasure , that out of a great euill , shoulde spring and arise as great a good , that from a most strange conspiracy of fellons , murderers , and parricides of theyr King , should be raised and lifted to the Maiestie royal , the man , whose life this Sorcerer daily sought to abridge & confound . For heereon did he build , and to this day doth builde all his arteficiall and pernicious deseignes , thinking heerby at one bit ( as it were ) to swallowe and deuoure the King , ( whom the lustie cutters of this Medea , scornfully call a Biarnois , a name of scorne that they gyue the King . Bea●n-nish man ) yet in sted of preuenting , is he placed in the front of the gate of Fraunce , and lifted to the highest royalty thereof , through the midst of many treasons , and euen ( as it were ) against his owne will , hath God seated him in the Empire .

Thus thinking to ruinate and ouerthrowe at once thys very sickly estate ▪ ready to stagger and fall downe vnder the burdenous weight of oppression : the onely and soueraigne meane of reliefe is found , and where the very stroke of death was directed against the hart , heere-hence ariseth the speciall remedie and medicine of the wounde .

Thou Circes , what sayst thou ? thou horrible Megera , what saist thou ? thou forespent Sorcerer lyke the shadow of death , what saist thou ? canst thou perswade thy selfe as yet to preuaile by thy enchauntments ? are not thy false and poysoned drugs now manifestly discouered ? knowes not each one thy counterfeit dissembling ? are not thy vnderminings preuented ? thy blowes rebated ? thy sinnowes shrunke vp ? holdest thou stil thys auncient withered Sarasin for thy support ? puttest thou thy hope in the Duke of Parma and his Spanyards , who by nature vse crueltie euen towards thine own followers , because they loue the League no better then they doe theyr Kings , in respect they are French borne , & but serue themselues with them , onely to reache the highest of theyr tyrannous enterprise ? thinkest thou yet to help thy selfe with thy Monks coule and hoode , to bath againe thy parricide hands in the bloode royall ? What meane is left thee whereby to exterminate thys royall house of Burbon , issued from S. Lewes , to whom God in succeeding right hath trans-ferred the Crowne ?

Thou bendest thy browes , thou cursest , thou spightest , and grindest thy teeth to beholde all thy Magicke artes deluded , thou art ready to burst with rage and despight , and deafnest our eares with exclaimes , that thus at last thou art kept at a bay . The vertue , the Lawrell , the fortune and victories of our Hercules of Gaule , the queller of so many Monsters thy children , makes thee ready to die with fury , ther are so many punishments , and so many deserued corrections hammering in thy head . Thy goodly Armies , thy puissant forces , nor all thy presumption wil serue to benefit thee , the fields all couered with thy strange men at Armes , in short time will be ( as oft heeretofore they haue beene ) died and imbrewed in theyr owne vnhallowed bloode , by the strength which the great God of Armies , hath vouchsafed to the arme of our victorious Prince .

How is it , that thou forcest reason ? chaungest the Lawes , exterminatest the blood royall , and chasest the true heyres , to place a stranger in theyr roome ? who can endure this ? No , no , the valiant , vertuous , and most magnanimous issue of S. Lewes , with so many couragious Princes of his blood , and so many worthy & noble Frenchmen : hath both wisedome , counsell , experience , and the sword wherewith to defende hys royall house , and in iustice to correct the iniury that hath beene doone vnto him .

Magitian , thou lookest pale and wan , when I oppose against thee the force of this Sampson , the counsell of this Nestor , the valour of this Achilles , the generositie of this French Prince , with the martiall labours and happy fortunes of this Alcides . Thou flyest ( Enchanter ) and all thy pollicies faile thee , thy practises , thy poysons , thy parricides , thy incantations , with thy other wicked helps : which can nothing at all preuaile against this rock of constancie , strength and vertue : but feare conuerteth thy winges to thy heeles , and many times hath forced thee to take a shamefull flight .

Thinkest thou the enclosement of walles , and Rampiers of Citties can warrant thee ? tryumphest thou already of two small Townes , which the Spanyards haue taken with such paine and losse of theyr men , as the gaines they made thereof was very little : marie the marks of their crueltie there exercised ( according to their nature ) meruailous great ? Doost thou buckler thy selfe with Fortresses , Cittadels , and one Bastillon ? vnable are they to sheelde thee , hauing beene vanquished in field , & glad to flye the battaile with thy newe forces ? Wilt thou ward thy selfe with walles , and therein put assuraunce of thy defence ? Our Hercules shall pluck thee out as another Antheus , or so shut thee vp with his powerfull Arme , as euen there thou shalt smoother , and so loose thy life .

Thou shewest thy selfe to be sencelesse , rauing , mooued with impacience , and stark mad : the fire of thy frenzie makes thee trauaile and torment thy selfe ; but these thy very latest behauiours , this heate , furie , frantique feuer and plague , brings thee into a sprightly resolution of thy strength , and so will foorthwith conduct thee to thy death .

What medicine may serue thee in thys mortall malladie ? what hearbe can any way releeue thee , whereby thou maist refortifye thy selfe , and so withstand our valiant Hercules ? to what Saint hast thou vowed thy selfe ? who shall be thy Aesculapius ? what phisicall drugges and simples canst thou helpe thy selfe withall ? I vnderstand thou hast gotten a newe Armie of Spanyards , conducted by the Duke of Parma , who feares vs with the renowne of his valour , and the taking of one or two small booties , ( he hauing notwithstanding alreadie refused the battaile fiue times , because against so many of the noble and generous French , he durst nor be too prodigall of the liues of vile Moores , the Kings euils , and the very base beggers of the Country . ) With these barbarous Rodemontes wouldst thou disharten vs , they that gaue succour to the Rebels of Paris , and the Ambassadour Mendoza of Spaine , or , to terme him more rightly , The lyar of Spayne : hee that not long since fled with thy puissant Armie into Laon , when hee perceiued himselfe pursued by his Maiestie with fifteene hundred horse , ouer-spent and wearied with extreame iournyes : yet perswading thee he wold destroy them all , with so many strange powers , as amounted to many Cornets of Spanyards , who like the forces of Pharao came to swallowe vp Gods people : yet as then ensued , so doubtlesse will he now permit , that they shall be ouerthrowne in the Red Sea , which shall be made of their owne proper blood .

Thy olde Caballe and couerture of Religion , is as good to thee as nothing , this drugge was long since vttered , and returnes thee no profit : the Catholique Noble men that abhorre thee , doe very well knowe , that heerein is no vertue left to sheelde thee from falling ; at thys hooke and line , angling for the estates , thou fastnest sundrie licorish baytes , of Crosses , Miters , Dignities , Prelat-ships , Partages of Prouinces , Offices , Gouernments , and great prerogatiues , which thou promisest to distribute among such , as with thee doe cast the Nets for so rich a Fish .

The first Fathers of this halfe crowned Iewe , ( who to thy proper ruine , and his own aduancement , plucks the hart out of thy bellie ) to wit , Atlas , Oris , Anus , Siceleus , Lusus , Ulus , ( as then in the Pagan Religion ) tooke Spayne by the like bayte , feigning themselues religious , and men of good behauiour ; So this olde Foxe , seeing himselfe readie to succeede his forefathers , hath practised , and doth practise the like in the vsurpation of this Crowne , hoping to make a bootie of it , and to tyrannize therein at his owne pleasure : but that our noble Prince makes him let goe his holde , and surrender vp the estates he proudlie vsurpeth , namely , the Realme and estate of Nauarre , sometime troden down by Ferdinand of Castile and Arragon , one of thy Grandfathers .

This Ferdinand , vsurped on D. Iohn of Albret , the thirtie fiue King of Nauarre , who espoused Katherine Sister to King Phoebus the thirtie foure , who died without issue , whereby she came to the Crowne , in the yeere one thousand , foure hundred , eyghtie-three . Then Henrie of Albret the second , the Sonne to Iohn of Albret , succeeded in the right of Nauarre , the yere one thousand , fiue hundred , and seauenteene , & espoused Margaret of Fraunce , the Sister to K. Fraunces the first . Of this marriage came Jone , whom Bertrand Helie calleth Charlotte , who succeeded in the right of her Father , the yeere one thousand , fiue hundred , fifty-fiue , and was married to the most puissant and magnanimous Duke , Anthonie of Vendosme , of the most illustrious and royall house of Burbon : whereof is left this Mars in earth , Henrie the thirde of that name , the true succeeder in the rights of Nauar , & now by lawfull succession , the most Christian and most victorious King of Fraunce , the fourth of that name .

These effects make knowne thy pretence to the verie ignorant , thy disloyaltie , thy ingratitude , & thy impietie ( in many places ) hath made the people wise : they know that the dotage and simplicitie of men , is the assured foster nurse of Tyrants . The bountie and clemencie of our King towardes his Subiects , yea , euen his enemies hath , from a great number , taken away the frontlet of ignoraunce ; the Christian & Catholique Religion , florisheth more among his faithfull Subiects , then els where , obedience there maintaineth it , where contrariwise , such disobedience as thou vsest , hatcheth nought els but rebellion , breach of faith , and lastly vtter ruine and confusion .

Thy Masque cannot hide thee from beeing noted for a most disloyall and infernall Furie ; thou hast brauely extolled thy selfe like a God , thou hast smoothly beguiled the people wyth outward shewe of Religion and holinesse : these make thee known for such a one as thou art , & that thou doost but lye , when thou tearmest thy selfe a Christian and a Saint .

The mercinarie tongues of thy false Preachers , with all theyr cosenages and impostures , are other sophisticall wares of slender valewe : in that they cannot maintaine thy health , albeit they haue broken and altered the humours of a great number of thy folowers , to make them like and conformable to thine owne . Who sees not that the Sermons which thou causest them to make , are Phillippicall Appologies , and inuectiues ? Where is the Gospell of peace , concord , charitie and loue ? Where is the office christian , brotherly kindnesse , humilitie , deuotion and obedience ? Where is the Christian catechizing , or the exercise of Gods commaundements ? Thou by them prescribest a cleane contrary matter , for thou hast hired theyr tongues , to thunder foorth a Gospell of blood , vengeance , disobedience , and rebellion : such Trouch-men and Trumpeters of sedition , haue learned of thee to speake , so to distill into French-mens harts thy golden poyson , whereof already the Rebels feele the bitter taste and deadly operation .

Thou hast thrust into theyr hands the flaming firebrande , wherewith they haue circled the foure corners and very midst of Fraunce : and all was wel neere lost , without the succour of our Alcides , who ranne to the water , and would not suffer his House and Heritage to be consumed in the violence of thys fire . They haue annimated the simple , ( who now are wexen to be deuilish partakers , and tearme themselues zealous Catholiques ) to the spoyle , massacre and totall ruine of theyr Parents , freends , and Countrimen , to receyue therefore in the end with them , the earnest of diuine iustice on the Iibbets and Gallowes : the spectacles and witnesses whereof , are continually before theyr eyes , for theyr notorious crimes and offences . By these kindled fires , hast thou already murdered one King , and by the same pursuest him that now raigneth , that he beeing slaine , and all his race cut off , the estate might be trans-ferred to thy selfe ; a horrible & most lamentable case , that Ecclesiasticall persons will pertake in such enormous foule deedes and treasons .

One Iohn de Prochite , chiefe Authour of the conspiracie against the French-men in the Realme of Scicilie , performed the same , beeing disguised in the Outward holines , the countenance to sedition & murder , note the examples . habite of a Gray Fryar : and so sollicited and induced the Scicilians to the massacre of the French , which by them was doone one euening in the Easter holy-daies . So thou , like these Prochites , couered wyth the habites of penitence & Religion , diddest compasse thy villanie and treason against our late King , whom thou murderedst by a Jacobine Monke , or rather , to tearme him righter , A hoodded deuil , & so continuest against the Princes of his house and blood , of whom thou hast sworne the destruction .

Thus by Monkes thou iniurest the estate , which thou wouldest dismember , and deuide among those Coniurers , ( albeit thy craftie Authour pretendeth otherwise ) and thus are the faithfull subiects to the Crowne abused . Vnder this Masque , what impieties are committed thorow all Fraunce by Monkish Souldiours , who haue changed their former simplicity , pouerty , and humility , into audacious trechery and presumption ?

And because the Spanish hypocrisie , the shadow of their Atheisme , is one of the principall pillers of thy contriued conspiracie , and that thou makest our men beleeue ( by the introduction thou hast made to the K. of Spaine , who at thys day raiseth warre in the heart of Fraunce , to destroy thee together with the King if he can , after hee hath first serued hys owne turne with thee : ) that these Moores are good Catholiques , and theyr followers religious . If any such were to be founde , it were shame to deny it , then looke a little on theyr deuotion , and whether the Monachall rage kindled not a notable sedition in Lisbone , in the yeere one thousande , fyue hundred and nine , when two bloodie Two Iacobines the procurers of foure thousand and more to be murdered in Lisbone . Jacobines parted from theyr Cloyster , with a Crosse in theyr hands , ( a tricke at this day practised among our fyring Monkish Souldiours , that beare a Crosse in the one hand , and a sword in the other , with Corslets on theyr backs vnder theyr Cowles , as if Iesus Christ and warre-weapons agreed together , when neuer was he seene harnessed or weaponed amongst hys Apostles and Disciples , ) and so dyd they enflame the people against certaine that were newly conuerted to Christianitie : that they altogether gouerned by their malice and enuie , crying they were but dogs and heretiques , slewe forthwith more then foure thousand ; thys beeing the principall spurre of thys mercilesse butchery , that the sedicious might spoyle and make hauocke of the others goods .

The King , who was named Emanuell , beeing aduertised of this exceeding Massacre , caused the two aforenamed plagues of the Cloyster and the Common-wealth to be apprehended , they that had excited this pittifull and bloodie Tragedie , who by his commaunde , were publiquely burned in Ebora : and information beeing giuen against the other theeues and murderers , about three-score and tenne of them were most iustly hanged .

At thys day in Fraunce it is heresie with the Leaguers , to doe iustice on such like naughtie villaines , when as theyr crimes , trecheries , and murders , are as miraculous . An obseruaunt Gray Fryar , named brother An obseruant Fryar perswaded the King of Castile , to put sundry Christians to death , tearming them Apostataes . Ferdinand de la Place , wyth other that were hys zealous companions , went so fast as he could to Madrill , to the King of Castile : there this impudent and bloody Monke , perswaded him shamefullie to put to death certaine Christians , whom he termed to be Apostataes , which afterwarde was found to be most false . So many abuses & mischiefes hath beene committed by these counterfeit hypocrites , these scellerous and hooded murtherers : as not without cause , in the yeere one thousand , two hundred and threescore , vnder the raigne of S. Lewes , was the order of the begging Friars extolled to the third heauen for theyr profession , yea , they preferred themselues before all other in holinesse of life , and stoutlie commended their voluntarie pouertie : whereby they prouoked many Prelats against them , and almost all men that were seene in Diuinity . But Guillaume du Temple d' Amour , a Doctor of Sorbonne , ( being a man of better conscience then any at thys day of the same Colledge , who create the like instruments of rebellion by their pernicious resolutions , and defende the abhominable murder of the late most Christian and religious King ) with other more of great learning : both dispised and disproued openly , such Beggers , alleadging , that theyr pouerty was vowed without cause , and that he would maintaine such manner of life , to be but a pretext of Religion , and onely fit for such The dysgrace of the begging Fryars , by a Doctor of Sorbonne . beggers as desired to liue in loosenes and idlenes . In the end neuerthelesse , they got the vpper-hand in their cause , by the iudgement of Pope Alexander , and the Booke that this Doctor made , ( which at thys day remaineth in the Librarie of Sorbonne ) was condemned . But shoulde not thys Doctor haue highly aduantaged his cause , if he had liued tyll now ? adding to his plea the impieties , parricides , & all sorts of crimes , smoothly hyd and couered ( for the present time ) vnder the habites of this holinesse .

Thou hast ( wretch ) brought in and practised another manner of people , that are called Iesuites , Iesuits too proud to be Beggers , they rather make beggers to maintaine themselues . not beggers , but such as make beggers : of whom the scandalles are more secrete , yet much more pernicious then of the other . But why say I , thou hast practised thys bad generation , seeing thou thy selfe art not onely practised , but begotten & ingendred by them ? Howe now ? mee thinks I heare some one say , belike then thys Alecto or accurssed League , hath many Fathers ? Verie true : the Spanish pride and ambition ( as I haue saide ) brought it into the world , as a mishapen masse or lumpe , but these turbulent Iesuites , with the Rodemont of Mendoza , haue so louinglie lyckt it , as they gaue it forme , composition , and garments to decke it withall .

These thou esteemest fit for thy coniuration , or els they are founde to be very necessarie members : to thee cleaue these hypocrites , for the particuler profit of themselues , and of theyr Maister the King of Tyrants , they being all of the Spanish Nation , or at the least issued from Spaine . For about the yeere one thousand , fiue hundred , and twentie-one A Spanyard the first Authour of the Iesuits . Ignatius de Layola was the first founder of these Iesuites , ( an obstinate enemy to the house of Albret , & which malice yet continueth in his seede ) at what time Pampelunae reuolted , & the affectionate friends to the royall House of Albret , ( from whence descended the King , by the late Queene Mother of most worthie memory ) with those of Foix , as also the true heire of the Realme Henrie d' Albret : tooke occasion ( by the retreit of the Garrisons of Pampelunae , that sallied forth to succour the Gouernours of Castile ) by reason of the warres and deuisions then beeing , to haue theyr secrete intelligences in Bearne and Fraunce . In fauour of whom , King Fraunces sent Andrew de Foix , Lord of Asperraut , the younger Brother to Od●t de Foix Lord of Lautrech : who gathering vnto him those of the faction of Grammont , tooke the Castel of Saint John at the foote of the gate . Whereupon , the Duke of Nagera Don Anthonie Manrique , seeing himselfe so suddainly surprised and that the Citty of Pampelunae began to grow tumultuous : secretly got forth thereof , and withdrew himselfe into Castile , leauing his house to the peoples spoyle .

Thys Layola , then at the dislodging of thys Viceroy Manrique out of Nauarre , remained in Garrison in the Castell of Pampelunae , with other Souldiours belonging to the Emperour . It so chaunced , that the Castel was assayled by the people , and the mouth of the Cannon directed by the assailants to a certaine place : where , by hap , it met with thys Layola , who had both hys feete brused in peeces with the stones , that the force of the bullet droue out of the wall , so that he fell downe from the height of the Castell , & beeing with-drawne , was afterwarde preserued from death , and hys hurts healed .

Then seeing himselfe thus maimed and vnapt for Armes , he gaue beginning to thys good kinde of people . Let vs not then account it strange , that these men so desperatly applie themselues to remoouing of estates , especiallie thys heere , considering they are come of a Spanish Father a warriour , a naturall enemy to this estate : whom heerein they follow very perfitlie , but not in change of lyfe . For thys holy Father , beeing thus metamorphozed , could weare no A lame beginning of so proud a kinde of people , that sette whole kingdoms together by the cares . shooes , and therefore went bare-foote , and came for followers first to Paris , where beeing vexed by some , and relieued by other-some , his owne Maister , Peter Fabri , Diego Laynes , John Codury , Claudius Gay , Pasquall Brouet , Fraunces Xauierre , Alphonsus Salmeron , Simon Rodrigues , and Nicholas de Bonadilla , students in diuinitie , he raunged into the rule ordained by himselfe , each making a vowe of perpetuall pouertie and chastity .

But to them alone I will not giue thys honour , for many other haue trauailed in this high peece of worke , as faithfull seruaunts , and counsellers of so woorthie Fathers : the bellowes of ambition , abortiue sonnes of the Father of lyes , bringing nothing hether but what they learne of him , and marked with his marke to know them for his owne .

Thy face ( Sorcerer ) if writhen , and like to that Si●illaes , whom the Poets feigne to be the Mother of the Gods : but thy Bawdes and Pandars , haue made thee a false visage , so faire as can be , to entise young Lordes and Gentlemen to loue thee . The draught of thy dissembled countenaunce , to diuers of thy chiefe consorts , hath brought immediat death : yet seemed it so excellent , as in theyr eyes it surpassed the auncient Marble portraite of Venus , that wonderfullie enflamed men with loue . Diuers Lords and Gentlemen haue been rauished with thy looks , whom thou in the end hast depriued of life , in sundry battailes and encounters : to make them receiue due chastisement to theyr impudent & dishonest affection .

But who would not dis-robe thee of thy shadow ( false Venus ) seeing it is nothing else but gold ▪ siluer , & all sorts of stones about thee , with Perfume , Amber , Muske , and Ciuet , that thus makes thee smell so sweete as violets ? Thy garment is bordered about with certaine Ciphers , onely vnderstoode by thy principall Cabalists , with diuers Letters and Charracters wrought on the imbroyderie ▪ carrying thy a report : This The badge & countenaunce of this most vn-holie League . is the Sanctuarie or defence of the Catholique religion , and of the Common-weale . All the forepart and exteriour shew of thy body ▪ is fayre , yet semblable to painted and guilded Sepulchers , that containes within them nothing but loth-some smels and rotten bones : farre dyffering from theyr goodly appearaunce , yet like to that deceite shrowded with the Mantle of hypocrisie .

Thou hast gotten Archers for the guard of thy person , who on their best coates , beare the double Crosse of Ierusalem , but on the other , the red Crosse , with teares . In what part soeuer thou marchest , thou art followed wyth a great Court of all sorts of people because thou giuest heere , and bestowest there . Thou makest some Marshals of Fraunce , others Gouernours , others Chauncellours , others Presidents , others Secretaries at commaund , ohers Counsellers of thy Priuie counsell and the brotherhood : despoyling the better sorte of their Offices , and substituting seruaunts . So manie boot-halers , so many Banck-rupts , so manie shamelesse persons come to kisse thy hande : each one striuing who shall beare thy Commissions so full of profit , who shall first extort a gyft , by falsly giuing the Pope to vnderstand , the fulminations against the death of the Prince ; who is in Spayne , who is in Flaunders , who in Lorraine , & who in Sauoy . When thou shewest thy selfe in publique , these poore Brokers of thy Colledge , these Carriers of rogations , these Graplers for benefices and pencions , these Fishers with Crosses , these Preachers for reward , with the gesture , habite and Castillane countenaunce , goe publishing with hart and voyce : An other bragge and dissembling shewe of these wicked Confederats . See heere the blood of Charlemaine , see heere the enemie to the Heretiques and Pollitiques . And thys is but to beguile the valiant Princes that take part with thee , as some haue written , to wit , the Authour of the Booke called Stemmata Lotharingiae , in thus blazing thy discent : euen as thou deceiuedst & brought to a poore end , the couragious Duke of Guyse & his Brother , who but for thee ( the onely cause of their losse ) had much credite and many honours in thys Realme . And not long since vnder thy shadow , I saw a band of Armed men , breaking and renting the armes of Fraunce , vnder the authoritie and conduct of a simple Attorney , at this day named Bussi : who hauing doone violence to iustice , & forced ( perforce ) the Senate against the Senate , alas , led captiues and prysoners the chiefe of Harley , the example of constancie , and only president of vertue : as also the other principall Officers of the Court , to the Dungeons in the Bastille , which at thys day remaineth in his hand .

Fayre Goddesse , one can heare nothing more openly cryed by thy back-bearers , then thy commendations , and panegiricall prayses : and contrariwise , the execrations of Henrie of Valoys , and of the Bearn-nish-man : he is not the sonne of a good Mother , that rayles not against them , & who so holdes his peace , is thought a suspicious person , a pollitique , and a Huguenot .

By how many sundry waies , hast thou dealt against the very cinders and ashes of that good King , since thy violent hands so bloodily murdred him ? And how at this instant doost thou baffle and abuse our lawfull King his successour , who deserues not this Empire alone , but ( as Alexander had ) the whole world ? Albeit thou art throwne down from this thy greatnes , and that notwithstanding thy pollicies , thou canst not reach ( I will not say to thy desseignes ) but to the step from which thou art with-held by by the strength of our Alcides , & very neer vanquished : yet neuertheles thou presumest neere Paris , with thy Duke of Parma , whome thou tearmest thy Deliuerer : thou makest the earth tremble where thou pacest : thou hastest to the succour ( but indeede the generall ruine rather ) of this sincke of all filth , this Babylon Paris , where , as a Shyp without a guide , thy followers flote alofte with euery guscke of winde , ready to endure shyp-wracke , and fall from Scilla into Charibdis or run on the ineuitable rocke of thy imminent end and destruction .

Nowe , the Spanyards discerne thee abounding infurie like the wounded beast , as the wild Bore pursued , or the chafed bul , & therfore they nourish thee with the succour of thy sworne enemie , execrable Enion , furthering thy charmes wherwith continually thou bewitchest the people , that thou with them mayest be confounded together . What need thy borne-foe stir further ? thy The French against the French execute the bloody will of the Spanyards . selfe holdest the weapon on thy peoples throats : if they speake of peace or returning to duetie , thou dis-armest them , thou killest them , thou hangest them , thou cuttest their throats , thou castest them into the Riuers . Thou hast no care of the extreame calamitie of so many poore people , of the strange necessity & want , wherby thou hast and still doost send forceably to wracke so many innocents , so many artizans and Husbandmen , who liue ( as it were ) but from this day vntyll to morrowe . If they leaue thee , thou watchest them with Spyes , to robbe , spoile , and lastly kill them : but let vs not abash our selues hereat ▪ for at all times thou hast been cruell , and onely seedest thy selfe with theftes , spoiles , blood , and pittilesse murders .

Thou ( deuillish Circes ) hast had recourse to one like thy selfe , to be maintained and conserued in nature and reason alike : but heere thou wilt prooue to haue a contrary and far different issue . Thou art cruel , and callest to thy helpe all kinde of crueltie , to holde for euer , if thou couldest , thy Babylon , slaue-like to thy tyranny , if thy associats did not surmount & out-goe thee . Thou now makest thy selfe strong with Spanyards thy freendes , who at all times haue beene enemies to the honest minded French : the cruelties of them committed in Fraunce , in Italie , and in Flaunders , haue beene manifested enough vnto vs , and as yet remaine fresh in our memorie . But if wee would fee how they haue imployed their industrie , to make themselues renowmed with the Prototype , first patterne and mould of all barbarous crueltie : let vs read the hystorie of the horrible insolencies and detestable tyrannies , exercised by them of late memorie in the West Indiaes , vnder the raigne of Charles the fift , and Phillip his sonne , thy Atlas and thy chiefest Minnion . Thys Historie is written by a Spanyard himselfe , named D. F. Bartholmew de las Casas , a religious man and a Bishop , and out of the Castilliane tongue , was turned into French . And is likewise in English , by the name of the Spanish Colonie .

Good GOD ! how cruell did this Sarrasin shewe himselfe , in his tyrannous conquest of Portugale , where hee murdred and massacred the faithfull Subiects of the King Don Antonio : and martyred an hundred or sixe-score Ecclesiasticall persons , men of worth and good qualitie , as also the poore religious men that tooke not part with him . Thou shouldest forsake this vowed enemie , in thy pretence to this Realme , which pertaines not to thee , neither canst thou gaine it by thy forces so often vanquished : but heerein thou resemblest the bold-faced and shamelesse A fitte example of the Leaguers proceedings in Fraunce . Woman iudged by Salomon , who was contented , that the Childe which neuer sprang from her body , ( rather then it shoulde be deliuered to the rightfull Mother : ) should be deuided and cut in halfes , according to the discreet iudgement of the King , who pronounced that sentence , onely to know the true Mother , well knowing that she would neuer condiscend to such a crueltie .

Thou canst not by right obtaine Fraunce , wherein remaineth nothing of thine , and therefore thou wouldest rather dismember it , and giue it as a pray to the Spaniard our greatest enemie , then we should enioy our true & legittimate successour , who shewes himselfe a Father of his Countrey & the estate , and as one rather desirous to loose , then see it ruinate : woulde by kindnesse call home the Rebels to repentance . Heereto tended his so long siedge against Paris , beeing certaine , that if hee had not detested the spoyle thereof , ( notwithstanding it was the fordge of all this rebellion ) hee had long since forced , taken and possest it , or layd it leuell with the ground in cinders .

Thys succour of the Spanyards , ( which at at this present are thy Gods , yet in the ende , thou shalt finde them rauening Woolues ) is very conformable to thee : but if by thy incantations and charmes , thou canst call the deade from theyr graues , or draw them out of the fire infernall , call to thy ayde if thou wilt , That periured himselfe to the valiant black Prince , Son to King Edwarde the 3. of England , who re-seated thys faithlesse K. in his seate when he had lost it . Don Pedro , the first and onely of that name , sur-named the cruell , hee beeing the fourth King of Castile , and the thirtie-fyue of Leon , who began his raigne in the yeere one thousand , three hundred and fiftie , by crueltie , and therein continued all his life tyme . In vnhappy houre hee espoused fayre Blanch of Burbon , ( of that royall house which raigneth at this day in despight of thee ) whose life he shortened by poyson in the pryson of Medina Sidonia : and her bodie was afterward taken vp by the French , who ( on this occasion ) entred into Castile on the behalfe of Don Henry , and so was buried at Tudela in Nauarre .

Rayse vp thys Python , rayse ●p this monstrous Tyrant if thou canst , whose cruelties surpassed all other cruelties : addicted to vnlawfull loues , to murders , massacres , persecution of his Lords , cruell to his Subiects and his owne proper blood : a periured wretch , a parricide , an impious robber , he will serue thee for a goodly guide to thy men of warre .

Call vp Erithia , who vnder collour of Religion and holinesse , in the time of the former Kings , established and caused to be builded in Spayne , a great and magnificent Temple , in the I le of Tartessus , nowe called Calis , or Tarifa , whereof she then changed the name , & caused it to be called Erithia . To this Temple was due the renthes of the pyllages and theeueries of the West parts , by perpetual ordinaunce , and very long time obserued : because those Kinges of Spaine , to couer theyr thefts and spoyles , gaue part thereof vnto their false The Spanyards still continue like deuotion to their Gods . Gods .

Drawe foorth of Hell a most ambicious Cardinall of Spayne , called Ximenes , no meane enemy to them that were of greatest authoritie in his time , for he could scant brooke any companion in the gouernment of Castile , and therfore would deuide betweene the King and himselfe , the authority royall . Call the authours of the tumult of Medina Sidonia , and those turbulent fellowes , that forced and violenced the Courts of Parliament and Chauncerie , in Vailledolid : whereupon ensued a rigorous determination , yet no more then the rebellious breakers of iustice had deserued .

Summon the sedicious people of the Cittie of Badaios to the Realme of Castile , who reuolted from theyr King Don Sancho , and yet neuerthelesse were too cruelly punished : for the King hauing giuen thē assurance of their lyues , suddainly caused them to be massacred , without sparing man , woman , or child , to the number well neere of foure thousand . Send for the A Catalogue of honest minded Spanyards , such as they remain still to thys day . sedicious of Lisbone , of whom I spake before . Call for the rigour & crueltie of the Spanish Inquisition . Ayde thy selfe with the factious of Castile , for the Bishop of Siguenca . Draw to thee by thy sortiledges , the conspyring Vailledolitaines , in the yeere foure hundred & sixtie foure , who rebelled against the King Don Henrie the fourth , who were accompanied with certaine of the chiefest personages , beeing mooued with a kind of iealousie against Don Bertrand de la Cueua , made Maister of the Caualierie of S. Iames , because he was the Kings Minion : yet defended they themselues with other reasons , and made the desire of publique benefite , a shadowe for theyr conspiracie . Which was not punished when it might haue beene , through the negligence and ouer-great compassion in the King , who rather loued to shewe himselfe quiet , then valiant .

Hee endured the peremptory speeches of the Byshop of Calorra , without being moued , and was betrayed on all sides , but principallie by Aluaro Gomes , whom he putting in trust with hys greatest affayres , because from meane degree he had highly aduaunced him : yet hee notwithstanding wrought the meanes , wherby hys aduersaries warred against him , and gyuing no credite to the coumsel was giuen him : was betrayed to the Arch-bishop of Toledo , & depriued of courage , was afterward disgraded ignominiously in Auila , & so deposed from his royall seate . But it may be these fellons are not bad enough to receiue thy prest-money , because thy present companions , surpasse them in villanie and treason ; for these rehearsed , contented themselues wyth chasing theyr King , marie thy companions haue murdered theyrs . Then call yet if thou wilt from Plutoes kingdome , other worse Bloodie Spanyards , murderers of Kings , & spoylers of Common-weales . Spanyards : the rebellious Subiects of Phillip de Castro , Prince of Arragon , whom they kylled in Castile ; the Granadanes , who slew Joseph the seauenth , and Ismaell the fift , theyr Kinges ; The Valentians in the yeere one thousand , three hundred , and fortie-seauen , because of the succession in the Realme of Arragon : notwithstanding , their rebellions were subdued by the King , Don Pedro the fourth , who gaue battaile to these rebellious confederates : Sarragossa was captiuate , and Valentia conquered , albeit at the first , the Valentians thought to make resistance , and many skyrmishes past betweene them and theyr Kings : but beeing many times vanquished and repulsed wyth losse , they resolued in the end , to surrender vp the Citty , which the King ( beeing by nature sharpe and rigorous ) would haue rased , that the plough might passe thereon , and then haue sowed salt in the place , in hatred of the dishonourable insolencies hee sustained by the Valentians .