As for the Natives , and first their Sovereign , he boasts that he hath the Sun for his Crest ; but 't is certain that most of his Subjects bear the Moon crescent , for all the strict Confinement of their Wives : Pride , Haughtiness and Ambition , accompanied with an imaginary conceit of their own peculiar Grandeza , are the Ingredients that usually go to the composition of a Spaniard ; so that it is hard to judge whether the Countrey , or the mindes of the Inhabitants are most aspiring and mountainous . They are Saturnine , dull , slow , melancholick , and altogether speculative , aiming at no other terminus ad quem , then Contemplation , without afterwards directing or setling it upon any servile , inferior , or mechanick work or employment ; so that you shall finde few natural Spaniards of any mechanick Trade , as Shoemakers , Taylors , Coblers , Joyners , Inn-keepers , or the like ; for which I call all Travellers to witness that go into Spain , and return offended , because they finde no Ale-houses or Inns upon the way as they do in other Countreys , so that they are compell'd to be their own Providores , and carry Victuals in their bags , and Wine in their bottles ; for they delight infinitely in their imagin'd Grandeza , outward appearances and honor , not at all regarding their private interest , so that they can but create unto themselves the opinion and esteem of the world ; and if they want good Apparel , and biting penury nips them , they will fast two or three days for a handsom Cloak , or a starch'd Ruff , and then strut it abroad in state ; so deliberately do they measure their way , as if they said a Pater Noster or an Ave Maria between every step , and if he be so far stimulated by that Tyrant Necessity , that he must vend his clothes to buy him food , he will first part with his Shirt , because that with his Doublet & Ruff he covers the want of it ; then if his needs increase , off goes his Doublet , covering his body with his Cloak ; next his Sword ; after that his Ruff , and last of all his Cloak , till he has never a one left to cover his pride and knavery , and this is their method which exigencies prompts them to . His pride , when reduced to the utmost extent of poverty , viz. beggery , is infamous ; for he will never confess that necessity , but some casualty or misfortune compell'd him to it ; as , that he was forced to cloath himself in these despicable weeds to preserve his life , and his honor : and thus to play the Fryar Mendicant , when he craves your charity , it shall be in these or the like terms , May it please you Sir , to do some courtesie for a distressed Cavaliero , that hath deserted his native countrey for such and such a mischance , and been constrained to shew himself in this misbeseeming garb ; and when you are certified of the quality of the person that craves your Alms ( as long it will not be ) you will think your selves happy in relieving so noble a person as I am : and if perchance he that hears him , demands who he is ? he will reyly , The Nephew to some Earl , or Duke , or Brother to the Admiral of Castile , and that some famous Princess being enamored with him , he privily conveyed her out of her Fathers house in mans apparel ; which Plot being discovered by her Parents , he was constrained to absent himself from the place of his nativity , and live thus unknown , till by the mediation of his friends he were reduced to his pristine condition : Besides , he will boast of fifteen or twenty thousand Crowns per annum , besides eight Baronies , and if the person bestows some small piece of money on him , he throwes it contemptibly in the Donor's face , but afterwards lookes for it very calmly and peaceably on the ground , and when he ha's found it , ha's the grace to put up a Pater Noster , or send up some short Ejaculation for the prosperity and good success of his Benefactor . Nor do the females come short of them in pride or arrogancy , which may be sufficiently evinced by this ensuing Relation that Barclay in his Euphormio affords me . 'T is a story of a poor miserable Spanish woman , that coming with her family ( her three sonnes I mean ) to beg of a French Shoemaker , he being compassionate told her , he would ease her of her charge , and take one of her sons from her , and make him of his own profession , that so he might be able to get a competency , whereby he might maintain himself handsomly : She with a great deal of indignation replied , O Sir , God forbid I should cast away my childe on a stranger , of so mechanick a profession as yours is ; who knows , but in time he may come to be Viceroy of Naples , or Mexico . So horribly are they puft up with the timpany of pride , that they are the greatest enemies under the sun to their own preferment : Go but into their Casa de Locos , or Bedlam , and you shall hear one cry , I will be King ; another , I am Emperor ; and a third , I am Pope : all which verifies our English Proverb , That which is bred in the bone , will ne're out of the flesh . Nay , their pride is so infamous , that it is grown common , even to a Proverb , indebted to them for being so ; for they have a vaporing saying of themselves in point of valour , Un Espannol son quatro Diables en Francia . One Spaniard can act the part of four devils in France . And when Mendoza was Ambassadour in France , he would often break out into this prophane Ostentation ; Dios es Poderoso en Cielo , y Don Felipe en Tierra : God bears sway in Heaven , and King Philip on Earth : So daringly presumptious are they , as to make God their fellow-creature . Nay , your Thrasonical Castillians will not stick to say , Un Espannol vale quatre Tudescos , tres Franceses , y dos Italianos . One Spaniard is worth four Germans , three Frenchmen , and two Italians . So self-conceited are they of their own imaginary dignity and deserts , that they judge no Nation fit to come in competition with them . I will borrow a Story of one of our rarely accomplish'd Gentlemen , concerning a Castilian Capitain , who used to express himself in this ensuing maner : When I descend into my self , and contemplate my most horrible terrible terribility , I can hardly contain my self within my self : These Breeches that I wear are ftust with Capitains Beards , and the Mustacho's of French Generals ; my Pillow is filled with Amazonian hair , my Cushion is made of a Turban taken off of the Grand Sultan's head , my Coverlet is the skin of the Nemean Lion that Hercules slew , my Curtains are made up of Colours and Ensigns taken in divers Battels : When I march into the fields , I commonly carry two Drums , as Pendents at my ears ; I am lull'd asleep by the noise of Trumpets , and brass Kettles ; and Perillus his Bull strecht along , serves me for a Pillow : I was born in the moneth of Mars , who was then the predominant Planet , and Ascendant : I came into the world about break of day ; Sol himself then suffered an Eclipse , Jove and Mercury hid themselvs , and Cynthia withdrew her horns for fear ; that morning it rained blood ; the streams of the greatest Rivers turn'd red ; Mongibel and Strombola belch'd forth more fire then ordinarily : Near the place I was nurft in , there was a Den of Lions , that I might be mur'd to their roaring ; and one time my mother caused a young Cub to be slain , on purpose to feed me with the blood thereof . To conclude , I am that invincible , transcendent , great Capitain Basilisco Espheramonte , Generalissimo of all the Militia of Europe : I am he that useth to swallow Mountains , breathe Whirlewindes , spit Targets , and sweat Quick-silver : I believe all the Notaries in Biscay , in three years space cannot cast up those miraculous Atchievements , which I the Scourge of Lutherans , Converter of Pagans , and Peopler of Church-yards , have performed , &c.

Would not any one imagine that Ovids ghost were rambled hither , and by a Pythagorean Metempsychosis transmigrated into this Person , all that opposeth this conjecture is onely this , that the one writ in undigested rough prose , and the other in soft sweet verse , this modern , hath quite out-fabled the ancient Ovid. Thraso himself where he intervives , durst not come in competition with this Bragadocio Castilian , such a piece of prodigious self-conceitedness as this , the world ne're heard of . Another strange kind of temper discrepant from all Nations they have , and that is this , as great an argument of their haughtiness , as any of the preceding If any one should demand an account in a strange Countrey concerning any of the Natives , though never so mean , nay the son of a Cobler , he will reply , And is 't possible , sir , that you should not know that Cavalier ? Did you never hear of him ? And all this nay more , though he be but one of their sunbak't Peasants I dare lay a wager there is not a Child in the City or Kingdome five years old , but knows him , at least , if he be sprung of noble Patents . You shall therefore understand , Sir , ( then he begins to be the false Herald of his forged fame ) that he is Son to the Maggiorasco of Castile , and one of the most noble families that Spain can boast of , and there are many that confidently pronounce him second Cosin to King Philip : yet doth he go disgused in these weeds , that he may be undiscerned by the searching eye of the vulgar : besides I must engage you to silence in this business , for if the King should be sensible in the least of his residence here , he would take it hainously that he did not alight at Court assoon as he arrived : But he that will discourse of all particulars on this subject , must necessarily swell into a volume , wherefore I will wind all up upon a small bottom . Now for the nature of the Spaniard they are composed of fancy , and an affected gravity , under which lurks store of arrogancy , you shall have one of a dunghilbrood stand on tip-toe , twerling his Mustachos say , Voto a tal io soy tan burno ce mo el Rey Don Felipe , I swear by Jupiter Ammon , that I am in as good a condition as King Philip ; nor will some of them scruple the saying , that they will walk arm'd in Paradise , but 't is to be feared they are no birds of Paradise , and so there is very little probability of of their nestling there . You shall see some of their Dons pacing of it with abundance of gravity , environ'd with a croud of Servitors , or more properly , vassalls , two before him , one holds his hat upon occasion , another his cloak , if it chance to rain , another carries a clout to rub his Ginnet whilest he is at Mass , another a Curry-comb to kemb his Mane , and all these when they come home , will be content with a crust of bread , and a radish apiece for their repast . They have a saying of the French ( between whom there is a very strange antipathy , and that irreconcilable too ; Al primer impetu son mas que hombres , y despues menos que mugeres . Their first onset manifests them more then men , but their last less then women . But they to requite their kindness , have an ill-favor'd saying of them , That the Spaniards in point of true active valor , are but bearded women .

Now as to their habit and garb , they usually go close buttoned , nor will they unbutton though fire fall from heaven . Their Collar is very close , as if they intended that saying in the sacred Code , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All things are bare neckt to God . He usually wears that upon his arms , which others do on their thighs , viz. long sleeves , and short breeches : besides , he wears his stockings so close and streight to his Leg , that you cannot take hold of them with a pair of pincers : As for their gesture in the street , if there be a company , they march two by two , as if they went in procession to some Saint , or Lady , and that so slowly , that you would judge them to be newly recovered of a Quartan-Ague ; and 't is beyond the power of whip or staff to quicken their pace . As for their speech , they are so hellishly ambitious , as to say that when God forbad Adam eating of the tree of knowledge , he spoke in Spanish , such is their imperiousness and arrogancy ; but I am an enemy to tediousness , especially whilest I am under the name of a Character ; therefore to some other particulars .

And first let 's make a Pass at the Jesuite , that plays the Machiavilian both in Church and State , those grand Supporters of the Spanish Crown , which made a Burgundian Gentleman say , Un Espagnol sans son Jesuite est comme un Perdrix sans Orange . A Spaniard without a Jesuite at his elbow in consultation , is like Powder'd-beef without mustard . Define them we need not , since 't is done already to our hands by Alexander Hays , one of their own Order , and 't is this ; Jesuita est omnis home : They are Pluto's prime Agents , that labor tooth and nayl to people his infernal Territories , and adde Vassals to his gloomy majesty . No persons have been greater Incendiaries , or Boutefeux , then these Ecclesiastical Grotesco's ; they usher in all Quarrels , Contentions , Debates , and Scissures , both in Church and State . They are the Umbra of the Nobility , inseparable associates , that follow them as a shadow doth the bodies , which is the reason of the numerous Legacies that are conferr'd upon them , yet they are like those little animals Seneca speaks of , qua mordent , & non sentiuntur : For wheresoever they get footing or entertainment , they prejudice by insensible encroachments , though the party shall not judge himself hurt , or damaged in the least . And as to their damnable Inquisition , if you are resolved upon a Dispute concerning any Doctrine held by the Roman Church , they will retort with a Syllogism of Hemp , or Fire , which is far more harsh then one in Barbara , or Baroco , and fitter for devils then men . And though they are so much in esteem with the Pope , yet are they maligned and flouted at by the vulgar , as appears by the Pasquils no less various , then ingenious and tart , that are bestowed on them in every place , which is apparent to any one that is but a mean Historian . When they first negotiated in France for footing in Paris , they were askt , whether they were Seculares , or Regulares ? and replied , Tales , Quales , such and such , which remain ; upon record a Nick-name to them even to this very day . But what the subject bestowed on them with the tongue , they fetcht out of their Soveraign's teeth ( King Henry the fourth I mean ) they began to take a course that he might be hit in the teeth with nothing , by endeavoring to beat them all out ; for a young Jesuite green in growth , but old in villany , stabb'd him in the mouth , though it happened with the loss of one onely tooth ; whereupon the King said merrily , Falloit il que les Jesuites fussent convanicus par ma bouche ? Must they needs be convinced by my mouth ? Hereupon they were commanded to depart the Kingdom by such a day , and a new Stone-Gallows erected before the Pallace gate for the execution of the Offender ; but the King out of fear ( so much do they awe the Scepter ) removed it ; Hereupon one sung ingeniously to his Majesty :

Taught to speak English thus :

But they finding themselves too much abused by the imposition of that scandalous Title on them of Tales , Quales , ( as they judg'd it ) were so prophane as to call themselves Socios Jesu ever after , the Associates of Christ ( daring villains , that rank themselves in the same degree with their Redeemer ) yet in the sacred pages we read but of one that was called Christ's Companion , and that was Judas : this must needs be in their own judgement malum per pejus , they have well mended the matter ; for they were their own God-fathers , and did rebaptize themselves contrary to the Canons of their own Church , for they allow not a second Baptism , and that with a far more ignominious ( as it falls out ) though truer appellation . 'T was their sophistical equivocation that caused that Clause to be inserted in the Oath of Supremacy in England , without mental reservation . Nay , the Great Turk on the Asian shore , banished them out of Pera near Constantinople , upon the relation that Queen Elizabeths Ambassadors made of their impiety and inhumanity . Nay the Venetians , though birds of the same feathers , and both feathers of the Roman Eagle , drove this ridiculous and ravenous Bird clear out of the Confines of their Dominions , so sensible were they of the horrible out-rages that are usually committed by them ; for there is no massacre how inhumane soever , but either they kindle the faggots , or afford the fuel . One of their notorious Machiavilian designs , though frustrated , was hatched for our destruction , viz. in Eighty Eight , when they came with their invincible Armado ( as they styled it ) but we re-baptized it in our Brittish Seas , the Vincible Armado , for there it was overwhelmed , destroyed , and dispersed . They made a wood of our Seas , through the number of their Ships , every Galeon like the Trojan Horse , having armed men in the womb of it , with all sorts of instruments for torture ; among some whereof , there were found long Knives , with this scandalous Superscription , To cut the throats of Hereticks , and yet not a damnable Complotter in all this mischief , but must be canonized for a Saint ; as if it lay within the compass of his power that sits in the Porphiry-chair to exempt men from the punishment due to those sins , which the Almighty hath ordain'd for such hellish Malefactors ; but it is to be hoped , that their Plots , like the form into which they reduced their ships , viz. a Moon crescent , may ever prove a Moon in the wane , and that the feathers of the Roman Eagle may molt away , till it become a ridiculous bird , and become the object and subject of laughter to all her Neighboring Nations .

But the Master-piece of all , was the 〈◊〉 , or Gunpowder Plo● 〈◊〉 ●●●●mous a nature , that it see●●●●er to be ( as one of our gowned Gentlemen saith ) A piece hammer'd in Hell by a Conclave of Cacodaemons , than traced by humane invention . A sulpherous Mine prepared and fitted with that Artifice , that with one snuff it should have blown up to the Clouds , and made but a squib of that mighty Assembly , with many thousands of innocent souls besides : Englands Sovereign Monarch , with his Royal Consort , and Princely Issue ; Root and Rind , Stem and Stock , Bud and Blossom , had all been blasted , and that in a moment . Oculi intuitu , in the very twinckling of an eye , and all our stately Fabricks and Structures had bin turn'd into ashes : But before I ent●● 〈◊〉 ●he Relation of this 〈◊〉 ●ntended Cruelty , 〈…〉 our self ( Reader ) for trag●●●●xpectations , lest the suddenness and impiety of the Fact astonish your Apprehension ; and here think of nothing but Graves , Tombs and Epitaphs , Flakes of Fire , Cracks of Thunder , Astma's , and Vesuvio's ; for here is a Plot that History is at a non-plus to parallel . O learned Jesuite ! Hast thou hammered upon the Forge of thy accursed Brain ( for indeed he was the Blacksmith of this diabolical Stratagem ) a Cruelty , as horrible as unheard of : not the Raviliac's in France , their own Inquisition , the Machiavils in Italy , the Gowries in Scotland , the Tories or Oneals in Ireland , nor any other vicious or desperate mortal yet found out : 'T is plain that in this they intended to out-devil the grand Elector of Erebua , if 't were possible : A cruelty that transcends all Roman story , far beyond that of Catiline , Brutus , or Lucius Scaevola . Presumptuous villains ! that dare send souls to Heaven before the Resurrection , and make companions for Elijah in his fiery Chariot . Here might you see these Pioneers digging to Hell for Assistance , when Heaven had denied it them so often , but at length Sennior Satan took compassion of their labor , and helpt them with a destructive invention : Herein 't is apparent they receiv'd assistance from , and encountered with the greatest head of the hellish Hydra ( always except the Pope ) fain would they have made our Land like the way of Medea , strewed with the Limbs of her brother Absyrtus ; here the arm of a Father , there the leg of a mother ; here the limb of one relation , there the joynt of another , his laquens positus est ; here the gin was laid , but like silly Woodcocks they were ensnar'd in 't themselves .

O rare Saints ! what ? Turn your Saint Peter into Saltpeter , to destroy us , and all we can lay claim to ? Rem , Regem , Regimen , Regionem , Religionem . Religion , Substance , Kingdom , King , Of all our famous Lawes the Spring . And they were prompted to all their cruelty , inhumanity , and barbarism , by their zeal to Religion :

Sacred Lady , must thou be the Mantle to cover their infandous villany ; the Cloak to palliate their stupendious cruelty ? Thou that usest to be clad with the armor of light , must thou be made the Authoress of such subterranean darkness ? No , no , far be it from a rational person , or solid Christian to entertain a thought so prejudicial and injurious to thy sacred , incontaminated innocency .

But 't is the general course of these hellish Machiavilians , not to suffer Vice to appear upon the stage in its ugly hew , and native deformity , lest it should deter all persons from it , but they mask or cover it with the vayl of virtue . And farther to shew that the edge of their Satanical invention is not yet blunted , and manifest their choller still against us , they keep near the Fifth of November a Day of Execration , wherein they curse Heretickes , as they term us ; in which they approach nearest of any , and resemble most of all the rebellious Jew , that crucified our Saviour ; who on the twelfth of August had their time of Execration , wherein they cursed Vespatian , and the Romane Soldiers for demolishing their famous Temple of Jerusalem . Nor is their malice and envy glutted or satisfied with Europian blood , but they must satiate their fury with the Indian too : and though they pretend that their right to both Indies , is right of Discovery , and that they were the first Detectors of it , it is questionable , if not absolutely false ; for Pliny the Carthaginian was the first Discoverer of India , by crossing the Equinoctial twice ; nor were the West-Indies unknown to Plate : Besides , a greater evidence then the forementioned , that the Spaniards were not the first Discoverers of America , is this , That there was a Welch Epitaph found at their first landing there , upon Madoc a Brittish Prince ; who , as 't is supposed , made an escape to save himself from the fury of the Saxons in England , and put himself in a Barque to the fortune of the Sea , and so landed in America . And 't is farther confirmed , that the old Brittish or Weclh were there , from the variety of Brittish words retain'd among them in their language even at this very day . But whether they were the first Discoverers or no ; it is observ'd , that those vast treasures she transports thence thrive little , by reason of that ocean of human ( though savage ) blood the Spaniard spilt there ; never did any nation phlebotomize an enemy so inhumanely as they did , in so much that it is affirmed by some , ( and that groundedly too ) that the blood they spilt would over-poise all the gold they ever fetcht from thence , if it were counter-ballanced ; and as that vast Treasure was first gained by the effusion of much blood , so hath it been ominous and fatal ever since , & consum'd in blood ; for most of the Combustions and Dissentions of the Occidental World have bin fed and fomented by them ; nay , which is more prejudicial to it , in point of policy , the King of Spain by these Mines and means , furnisheth the major part of his Enemies with Arms defensive and offensive against him , the least part of the treasure remaining among them ; for most of their current Coyn is Copper , so that we may say , according to our English Proverb , Who is worse shod than the Shooe-makers wife ? In so much that we may compare her ( and that very fitly ) to the Arcadian Ass ; who , though laden with Gold , yet browzeth upon Thistles .

As to their Cruelty in the Indian Conquest , it was so inhuman , that the relation thereof would stagger the belief of a Christian , were there not a general consent among all Historiographers of the hainousness thereof . Such horrible Murthers and Massacres did they commit , that I blush to stain my paper with their relation ; for 't is affirmed by some ( and those of no mean credit ) that in the space of forty five years , there were above ten millions of souls destroyed in the New World , as they are pleased to call it , besides those great numbers that died by working in the Mines , officiating like Asses , Oxes , and Mules ; some of them being loaden with burthens on their back of one hundred and sixty pound weight , carrying them three hundred miles , sometimes more , besides those that perished in the water with fishing for Pearl , in obedience to their insulting commands , being dieted on purpose by them for that work with course Bisket , and dry edible commodities , to make them fit for that work : poor slender fare for such hard and slavish laborers : They scorn'd , it seems , to murther by retail , but Caligula like , their glutton blades must be imbrued in the bowels of a whole Nation . Nay farther , they made a sport and recreation of their inhumanity and barbarism ; for they hunted them with dogs , as if they have been beasts of the Game , and not their fellow-creatures ; to confirm which , there is a story of an old impotent Indian woman that was sent by a Spaniard , with a Letter to the Governor of the next Town , who , when she was departed about a flight shot off of him , he let slip his dog at her ; which she perceiving fell on her knees , and cried out , Sennor , Sennor Dog , ( so much Spanish she had ) I beseech thee spare me , for I am a going with a Letter from thy Master , to the Governor ; the unanimate creature it seems moved with compassion at her words , and suppliant posture , being better exercised in the rules of humanity and mortality than his master , took compassion on her , only lifting up his leg and pissing against her , and so let her depart in peace . Now the Spaniards had rendred themselves so odious to those Indians , by reason of their cruelty , that not one of a noble resolution among them could endure to hear of going to any place that they frequented , although after their dissolution , as may appear by the story of one Hathu Cacico a stout Indian , who being to die , ( for his being an Indian was crime enough to merit death , though probably no malefactor ) Stat pro ratione voluntas , was their Motto , Their will was their Law ; who being perswaded by a Franciscan Fryat , and admonished to turn Cathosique , and embrace the Romish superstition , withal acquainting him with the joys of heaven , and how that he should be transported thither , if he would be converted , or to speak more properly , perverted ; whereupon he demanded of the Franciscan whether or no there were any Spaniards in heaven ? who replied yes , 't was peopled with them : then said he , I will choose rather to go to Hell , then to have their company : a notable example of heathen generosity , which might intimate unto them , they could not conquer their spirits , though they massacred their bodies . Nay Attabalipa one of their Pagan Kings being informed , That the Pope had conferr'd his kingdom upon the King of Spain , was heard to utter this as noble , as tart expression , That the Pope must be either an egregious fool , or an uniust Tyrant , that durst have the impudence to take upon him the bestowing of other mens Right and Possessions , so freely and liberally to others , that had no right nor title to them .

Nor were they thus satiated with drinking the savage blood of the Indians , but they must be sucking the blood of the European Christians too ; witness the Tyranny of the Duke d'Alva , termed ( and not undeservedly ) The Spunge of the Belgian Blood ; for he made it his boast , and a kinde of sportive recreation to be heard often saying , That he had dispatch't to the other world above eighteen thousand Belgians by Fire , Water , the Rack , the Sword , and the Ax. Nor is it to be found a humour in Subjects onely , but in their Monarchs likewise ; witness one of their Kings , who being disturb'd at the divers ill Successes that he had in his Politick Proceedings , swore he would be revenged upon the Superior Power , that hath the conduct and guidance of all mortal Affairs , and therefore commanded that none of his subjects should adore , believe in , or speak of God for so long time , upon pain of his utter displeasure . Impious wretches ! that durst combate Omnipotency , or venter upon a single Duel with the Deity . Now as to the Gigantick power of his Catholick Majesty , if it be equally poiz'd in the ballance of a discerning judgement , it comes far short of that height and splendor that is usually attributed to it ; for the vast distance of his Territories , the innumerable Debts be hath contracted , ( and he is infinitely indebted to the Genoese and others ) the universal antipathy that is between them and all Nations in general , by reason of their ambition , pride , and haughtiness , is as great an impediment and debilitating , as his Wealth is a Fortification or Assistance . And as for Justice , the Queen of Virtues , she hath as little power there , as among any people on the surface of the earth , especially for forreiners ; for it is as facil a business to draw a soul out of the jaws of Hell , as to recover any thing against them if they grasp it once within their clutches : And if a stranger come to commence a Suit at Law there against a Spaniard , the processal charges will oftentimes surmount the value of the thing , or right you sue for .

As for zeal , and innate valor , where shall you finde it among them ? 't is more rare to see a Duel there , then a Horse in Venice ; or to hear of a Spurrier prefer'd to a Queen ; though not a Cobler or Smith among them can be seen without a Sword , which they wear for orament , not use : yet if they have receiv'd any abuse or affront , they will be sure to meet in the Market-place , and there draw , pretending to run furiously one at another , because they are sure to be parted e're they make a pass , or can well tell how to mount their weapon ; and usually the Minister of Justice ( as they call him ) deprives them both of their weapons for a time , till he hath wrought a reconciliation . 'T is true , in the Conquest of the Western World , they did atchieve somewhat , but it was against a naked , inermous enemy , who were destitute of all defensive or offensive weapons ; besides , so stupid and ignorant were the poor Americans , that they took Horse and Man to be one Aminal , born contrary to the course of natural production , and begot of some infernal stage ; which Bug-bear opinion profligated the Indian , and not the Spanish manhood or valor : where was the Spanish generosity and nobility of spirit , when Goleta near Tunis was shamefully lost by them , and taken by Sinan Bassa , with five hundred Pieces of Ordnance , which hath arm'd Tunis and Algier ever since , and made them such infamous Pyrats ? I must confess , were the word of sufficiency to combat with the sword , or could the good conceit they have of their own magnanimity , or the loud ( though undeserved ) Encomiums they will bestow upon themselves , and their deserts make them men of war , they would subjugate the whole universe , and excel all their Predecessors in military discipline ; but words will not gain the field , it must be action .

As for the number of their Learned , I think they have no great quantity ; Raymundus Lullius is one of their famous Authors , one that ( like a native Spaniard ) was very much conceited of his ability in the study of the Philosophers Stone , or Elixir ; of whom it may be said , as of all others that follow that whimsie :

How much he was esteemed of , this ensuing Dystich will clearly demonstrate .

There is nothing but air in that vain foolish study , nothing of substance ; their glowing fire doth but swell up their hope of gain , till the spirits quite expire , and so their fortunes die : Nor indeed can it be expected , that they should excel in any kind of learning , because they peruse no volumes but their own , penn'd in their own language , and in their University Dissertations , their Vernaculum or Mother tongue carries the greatest sway ( which is made up of nothing , but a few shreds of Morisco , and patched up with some old Arabick words ) for they seldom , scarce once in an age , dispute in the Roman tongue . And before we leave their learned Rabble , let us have one hit more at their modern Jasons , the Jesuites , those Clergy-men of the Golden-fleece , that devote themselves more to Madam Moneta , then the Lady Loretto , or the blessed Virgin Mary ; and if we consider their Tenets in Divinity , we shall finde them as erroneous and diabolical , nay , as diametrically contrary to Reason or Divinity , as their politick , accursed , Machiavilian Plots and Practises . Our English Chronicles makes mention of one Father Garnet a Jesuite , who being interrogated by the Earl of Notingham , whether or no , if any one should confess unto him in the morning , that he had a design to murther the King that very ev'ning , he thought himself bound in conscience to reveal it ? he replied in the negative ; which infernal doctrine was confirmed by Binetus the Jesuite , in these words : Praestare Reges omnes perire , quam si vel semel Confessionis sigillum violaretur ; Regem enim humani juris Imperium ait esse , Confessionem juris divini : In English thus : It were far better that all the Kings in the world should be murthered , than that the Seal of Confession should be violated in the least ; for the dignity of a King is indebted to humane authority for its being ; but Confession , to Divine Institution . Nay , there was a Jesuit in France who had the impudence to belch this blasphemy in publick , and to maintain , if there were occasion , Si Dominus noster Jesus Christus in terris versaretur morti obnoxius , & aliquis sibi in Confessione dixisset velle se illum occidere , priusquam Confessionem revaleret , passurum se , ut Christus occidatur . O profane ! in English thus : If our Lord and our Saviour Jesus Christ were upon the earth , and mortal , and that any one should confess unto him that he had an intention to murther him , he would suffer our Saviour to be slain , rather then disclose it . Right Judas'es , that had rather murther their Master than thwart their own vain traditions , and for phanatick Chymaera's , that never were hatcht hitherto in any but such addle pates as their own ; but let them have a care lest that they finde Judas his punishment , since they are so much guilty of his hainous crime . This is a more daring , nefandous piece of wickedness , than that fictitious one of the Gigantomachy ; for they do not onely aim at the dethroning of the Deity , but would , were it within the compass of their hellish inventions , be so impious as to murther him . Our most gracious Sovereign of blessed memory , King James , received a seasonable Caveat from his God-mother Queen Elizabeth , to take heed of the Spaniard ; who answered her very ingeniously , Se non aliud beneficium ab Hispano expectare , quam quod Ulyssi Polyphemus promiserat , ut aliis devoratis , postremus deglutiretur . That he expected no more favour from the Spaniard , than what Polyphemus promised Ulysses , that all the rest being devoured , it should fall to his share to go last to pot . There is no distinction among them , when animated by rage and fury , Prince and People , King and Kingdom , all go to rack , if it lie in their power . Now 't is most certain by this Hildebrandine Jesuitical doctrine of their auricular Confession ; for they open the Cabinets of Princes , and no persons have such sure and faithful intelligence as they from all parts in Christendom : Besides , there are no Ecclesiasticks that frequent the Court , or Noblemens houses more than they , so that they understand all the Transactions in Church and State in all parts of the Christian world , and thereby are enabled to put themselves in a posture to act their damnable designs ; yet , notwithstanding all their sinister and politick practises to support the Crown of Spain , and defend his Holiness , they remain but in a wavering and fluctuating condition ; for the late Motus trepidationis in Naples , and that in Sicily , with the total Revolt of the Portugese , and the Catalonian Commotions , and those vast Debts that they have contracted with the Genoese , and several other accidents that might be mentioned , hath so shaken the Spanish Monarchy , that she continues in an anguish condition ever since , and there is very little probability of her resetlement . Decrescit Oliva , the Olive-branches begin to wither and decay ; and 't is very much fear'd by themselves , that she will be found dead at the root ere long , if by a diligent lopping off of her superfluous branches , and the careful management , and ordering of her State-Gardeners , she be not revived , and made to bud and blossom afresh : But undoubtedly she will come to a sad Catastrophe , if the tympany of the Spaniards pride be not asswaged and taken down : Besides the innumerable ill successes that she hath had in all her undertakings , is a sufficient argument to disswade her from ever believing Fortune to be her favorite ; she seem'd indeed to be in the poop , and favor King Philip , till he receiv'd a memorable Defeat at Mostagan in Barbary , under the Conduct of Alcaudite a petty inconsiderable Morisco King ; and their ill success at Los Gelves near Tripoli , where most of the Christians in the Neopolitan Gallies under the Conduct of Don Alvaro their Chief Commander , were souc'd in Thetis Powdering-tub , and made meat for Sharks and Shaddocks ; which was occasioned by the imprudence of their Leaders , when as otherwise they might have come off nobly , with the name of Conquerors . Several others I might mention , but I will not upbraid them too much with their infelicity : onely take this by the way , that when Philip the second rigg'd that numerous Fleet against our Land , with an absolute intent to ruinate us , he was repuls'd by the valor of the English , with so much disparagement to the whole Nation , that he passionately said , He sent his men to fight with men , and not with the Windes and the Sea : nay , one of their holy Conclave , in a Sermon was heard to say publickly , That by this very business , and the frustrating of their design God had manifested himself a Lutheran . 'T is strange methinks , noble Sennors , that he should fight for the Hereticks against the true Catholicks , as you term your selves ! Methinks you might observe the saying of your Emperor Charles the Fifth , ( who was of the Austrian family ) and have taken his Advice a little more into consideration :