GLOSSA.

REading the A • nales or Recordes making mention of Antechriste, who being the worst amongst men extolleth himselfe aboue God, calling himselfe his Uicar, and yet making his Patron by transubstantiation: Peters successor as hée faineth, and yet his enemy in • aith: wée shall finde that since sinceritie in Religion, and humilitie were put to exile, and mens traditions and pri • e erected as pillers of the church, that from Féeders of the flocke, they haue refused to enter by the doore, and haue prooued rauening Wolues, and sub • erters of Christ and his doctrine. Their great pompe vnfitting for the humble puritie of Christes Disciples: their extreame couetousnesse selling the giftes of the holy Ghost for money: their open Simony: their secrete •• gling in dispensation for sinnes: their Whordomes, and their Sodomie, their palpable and grosse heris • es main • ained, not with Peters doctrine, but with Paules sworde: with rigours, not with reason, prooues that since Peters time, Peters seat hath pleaded, Sede vacante, and that these shauelings are not his successors, but approoued by their liues and doctrine, to be professed Antechristes. Peter was humble and spent his time in praier and preaching, these are proude and meddle with states, Empires, kingdomes and Monarchies, pulling down one and creating another hauing Emperours knéeling at his féete, and casting off their crowns with his toe, treading on their backes, and blasphemously applying the text to him selfe, Calcabo super Aspidem, & Leonem. These presumptuous thoughtes were not founde in Peter, who imitating his Maister Christ, walked abroade to féede his Flocke: this (the Pope I meane) following the aspyring attempt of Lucifer, is carried on mens shoulders, and yet in his hereticall Bulles to blinde the People, hee calleth himselfe Seruus Seruorum: guarded not as Peter was with the faythfull of Israel, but either with his stout Cardinalles, Copesmates of Caiphas Crue, or with some detestable Courtizans, the best imblazers of his profession. Long did this Monster maske in a Shéepes skin, partlye couered by his owne pollicies▪ and partlye by the fauour of Princes: but at last breaking out into his own • proper shape, his name and nature was discouered, so that Pardons, his Bulles, his Excommunications, his Curses, nor such Paltries could preuaile, but he was manifestlye laide open for Antechrist to the world. So that his verye Countrymen Italians, nursed vp vnder his nose, séeing his detestable life, his great profession, and little performance, his hereticall pompe vsurped in his Papacie, could not but in conscience in their bookes pen downe his sundry abuses and great absurdities, as Pasqum, Mantuan,, Iohn Boccac • , Petrarch, and lately Ludouico Ariosto, who in one of his Cansons describes him for a monster thus.

Ariosto. Qui • i vna Bestia vscir de la Foresta, Par • a di crudell vista, odiosa & bella C'hau • a l'orecchie d'Asino, e la testa D • lupo, e i' denti, & per gran fame asciuta Branchi hauea di Leon, l'altro chi resta Tutta era volpe, & parea scorrer tutta. Et Francia, & Italia, espagna & Inghilterra, L'Europa e l'Asia alfia tutta la terra.

Here the Poet describeth this Monster, this Antechrist the Pope, to be in forme like a beast, his eares like those of an Asse, the h • ad of a Wolfe, leane and il fauoured as insatiate of his pray, the clawes of a Lion, and what resteth resembled a Foxe. This monster saith he, had ouercome al France, Italy, Spaine, England, Europe, Asia, nay the whole world, triumphing in the pompe of his iniquitye, till his date being expired, & the terme of his raign ended, diuerse princes hating to brooke the imperious rauening of such a reasonlesse monster, sought to hunt him out off the Forrest, and therefore sent diuers good and expert Blood-houndes to rowse him from his Denne, as was Iohn Husse, Ierome of Prage, OEcolampadius, and Zwinglius After, Luther and the Duke of Saxony, who for the defence of the trueth mainteined wars, against the Church of Rome. The Hunts-men that pursued this Monster in chase, was first Francis the first of that name, king of France, who was so wh • t, that he thrust his sword to the hiltes in the ribbes of this beaste: Next him Maximilian of Austria: Third, Charles the fift Emperour, who with his speare passing eager, peirced y• throat of this monster but he that with his bore-speare stabd him in the breast, & gaue the déep & mortal wound, was Henrie the eight, king of England, who séeing the abhominatiō of that proud Antechrist, by his lawle • dispensations for coin, & the abuse his shauelings vsed in England, their massing & masking, their gluttony and lecherie, the falsnesse of Religion: lastly, the extream abuse of their profession, flying to the text, whatsoeuer my father hath not planted, shall be rooted vp by the rootes, hee suppressed their Abbeyes, pulled down their sumptuous buildings, & scarce left one stone vpon an other, subuerted their estate, chāged their religiō, for blind Papistry gaue vs the light of the Gospell. This his own Countriman Ariosto re • eateth in the same Canson in an other Stanzo thus.

Ariosto. La Chanea fui elza n • lla pancia, La Spada immersa a la maligna fera, Francesco primo hanea Scritto di Francia, Massimo homo d'Austria, a par seco era, E Carlo Quinto Imperator d • Francia, Hanea passata ill monstro alla Gorgiera, Et l'altro chi d • strale gli fige il petto, Lottau • Henrigo d' Inhil-terra e d • tto.

This Monster wounded thus by so worthy a woodman who knew how to strike his game with aduātage, féeling the wound incurable, yet somewhat salued and but nowe rubbed a fresh, by our mightie and famous princesse Elizabeth daughter to that renowned Henry, who with her father rightly taking vpō her the Ecclesiastical supremacy, hath vtterly raced & abolished al his trash and traditions as absurdities & heresies, out of her Churches of England and Ireland, hating the Pope as Antechrist, and the Church of Rome as that whore of Babilon, figured out in the Reuelation: This cause maketh this Monster to stir so that to reuenge, he bent al his pollicies, suborning diuerse false Traitors to attempt her death, perswaded thereunto by false Iesuits and Seminaries sent by him into these our partes, which the Lord discouering, hath geuen them their hyre, and mightely preserued his annointed: seeing these pettie practises could not preuaile, nor his Bull would not carrie any credite, he • lieth to incense princes to bende their forces against this our little Iland, which defended by God, and gouerned by so vertuous a Princesse as GOD hath chosen after his own • heart, standeth and withstandeth their forces, without aide of speare or horse, hauing the wind and sea Captains sent from aboue to quell the pride of such hereticall enemies of the Gospell, so that the Pope séeing his purposed intent could not spéede: as in a doubtful anguish of mind • ell into this bitter passion.

Neque Petrus, neque Paulus, quid igitur restat.

GLOSSA.

PHILLIP of Spaine no ••• ed from his infancie in the darke and obscure dungeon of Papistry, led as one blinded with the vale of ignorance, by this proud Antechrist, drunke with the dregges of that poyson which the whore powreth out to the • inges of the earth, pleasaunt in ta • t, but more bitter then worme-wood in the mawe: offered by the flattering Strumpet, ryding on the Beast with the seauen heades, drunke (I say) with her impoisoned cup, he sléepeth securely in y• Popes lap, till the Uiols of Gods wrath poured downe, his conscience new • ear • d with a whot iron, then féeles the •• ing of 〈◊〉 , as a plague following all such as haue receiued the marke of that inces • ious Strumpet. Phillip therfore taking the Pope for Peters successor, suffereth himselfe to bee led and ruled by this man of Sin, holding his pr • ceptes for Oracles, & that who sitteth in that seat, how bad so euer of life, yet he cannot erre, that what Cannons or Decretals he setteth downe, are as true, and as firmlye to bee beléeued, and obserued as the Gospell penned by the holy Euangelistes who were inspired and directed by the Holy • Ghost: whereas notwithstanding wée sée by manifest and dailye instances, tht euerye Pope abolisheth anothers Cannons and Decretals, as false and erronious: yet PHILLIP is so blinded, as he hath not an insight into this their iugling, for that hée is taught by theyr Doctrine that the Churche of Rome is the supreame Church, and that there is no Churche which is not a perfect member of the same: these, making the Church materiall, and tying is to a locall and particular Seat: Soothing himselfe vppe in these Heresies, hée so feareth the frowne of the Pope and his Cardinalles, doubting to bée excommunicated with some paltrye Bull, that what they demaunde hée graunteth, aswell in mat • ers of temporall estate, as in Ecclesiasticall rightes and Ceremonies: that if the Cleargie concludeth Peace, PHILLIP confirmeth it: if the Cleargie doe proclame Warres, hée sendes foorth straight a presse for Souldiours: so that beeing a mightye Prince of Inheritance and Reuenues, yet hée ruleth by the Cleargie and Nobilitie, especially them of the Spirituall secte: that ryding quietlie with a fewe Moores to heare Masse, hee shaketh off all cares, leauing the glory of his Kingdome in the power of his Cleargie, who béeing enemies to the trueth, seeke by all means possible to subuert the truth: wel, perswaded by the Pope, and them of the Ecclesiasticall sorte, hee prouideth a great Armado, his Shippes huge and monstrous, his men the chosen Caualiers of Spaine, Portugall, Italie and other Prouinces: For munition • , it is much and marue • lous, that the premises considered, they seeme to threaten ruine to the greatest Monarchie of the whole worlde, and yet theyr • Forces bended again •• a little Ilande, a handfull in respecte of other Kingdomes: But sée as the Lacedemonians • ewe in number subuerted Xerxes and his N • uie, which for multitude of Uesselles couered the Ocean: Ioshua▪ with a handfull s • rooke the Cananites: 〈◊〉 GOD hearing their great braues against him and his people, did put a hooke into their nostrilles, and a Bridle into their Iawes, and brought them backe the same way they came, not suffering them to enter into th • lande, nor to come against it with a shielde, nor to cast a bank about it, but scattered them as du • t before the wind: and no doubt if we enter into the déepe consideration of the Spanish attempt, wee shall finde it sent into these partes by the Lorde for speciall causes. First to shew vs howe for our sinnes hee can bring the very enemies of his trueth, as Ministers of his wrath, to punish offenders, as oft hée did against the Israelites when they transgressed his Statutes a • d Lawes, neglected the preaching of the Prophets, and contemned the worde, then he brought in the Edomits▪ the Assirian • , the Egiptians, and other nation • , which caried them away Captiue. Second, séeing how secure we slept, carelesse, reposing our selues in that our owne strength, for that we • were hedged in with the sea, and had a long and peaceable time of quiet: made sloothfull by these his fauoures, his Maiestie brought in these Spaniardes to waken vs out off our dreams, to teach the braue men of this realm, that after peace comes warres, that in the greatest quiet wée shoulde applye our selues to martiall indeuours, and know how to handle the Sword a • d speare, not onely in a sloothfull securitie, to say the Lord is • ur defence, but to vse the ordinary meanes he hath appointed, & then to inuocate vpon him, and bending • ur sw • rdes, say in fayth, the Lorde is on ou • side, who can be against vs: for the Israelites ne • er subdued the Cananites, but the Lord did put weapons in their handes to execute the end of his victories. The third, he sent them as sommons and Ambassadors to incourage vs to attempt the like: for when the Sarasens in the time of Charles the greate, had inuaded Germanie, and the frontes of France, the newes hereof brought to the Emperour, he presently saide, how doth the Lorde fauourablye accuse vs of sloth and carelesnesse of increasing his religion by those Pagans, when they for their Mohomet and the aduancement of his blasphemies, hazarde their liues to suppresse the contrary. And I seeme to sit at home: and dare not for the Lord of Hostes cause, enter armes against the Infidels, so that awakened with this, Charles not onely withstood them in his owne land, but hauing geuen them the repulse, spent many yeares in setting foorth the glory of GOD by the sword, among the miscreants: So no doubt these Spaniardes, the Souldiors of Antechrist, are sent to tell our Nobles, Captaines and martiall men of this land, that they sléepe secure, that the Bées hiue in their Helmets, that their pampered horses serue for foot-clothes, not for the fielde: that wee suffer the enemies▪ of the trueth too much to offer vs the braue: These causes no doubt mooued the Lord to send them, and yet to subuert them: to shew them he fouoreth his people, and vseth reuenge against the despisers of his Gospell: therefor are such men greatly to be commended, that for the benefite of theyre Countrey, feare not to hazard their liues, especially if it were with the aduancement of the glory of God. If then the mightie men which Salomon sent to fetch golde from his friendes to Ierusalem, were highly extolled: If the Portugals cronicled them which first sought by nauigation to finde out strange landes, returning with no profi • e but the discouery of Countries, how then hath this Iland cause to • ternise with their pennes the worthye deedes of Sir Francis Drake, who passing malgrado of the Spaniard, hard by his doore, nay setting foote into his land, and hauing praies went with a few small Barkes and Pynasses into his Indies, and fetcht from them gold and treasure for the inriching of his prince and country, and returning backe in triumph feared not • what the Spaniard with all his great Uessels dard attempt, in so much that the report of his valour, both by sea as he past and by land wh • n hee arriued in India, beeing bruted in Spaine: his verye name is as great a terrour to the Spanish, as Scipio to the Numidians. Then Sir Martine Frobusher a man of greate trauell and experience in nauigation: and last M. Candish who so lately ventured with the farthest, shewing great courage and fortune▪ in bringing home from farre so rich treasure: Thus wee may see that the Lord is on our side, that bringeth vs home safe, with a few little Pinasses from the verye iawes of our enemies, when the Spaniards could not returne, hauing so strong an Armado fu • nished for battell. These considerations no doubt maketh Phillip to let his Cleargie sweat in these friuolus attemptes, while he himselfe quietly may for excuse say, Iubet Ecclesia, dissentire non audeo.

THis broode of Antechrist whome Francis Petrarch and Iohn Bocca • e calleth I • sipidum Sal terrae, the Cardinals I meane, no sooner haue any thing to contrary their mindes, but with the Pharisies they annoint themselues, and causing trumpets to be blowne before them, flye to their Dyrges & Tren • als: as, Causa sine qua non, their misfortunes may not be redressed. But seeing they oppose themselues to Christ and his religion, their lyp labour is turned vnto sin, and cry they Domine, Domine, neuer so loud, yet their fayned exclamations in vain, are only breathed into the ayre: But leauing their religion as palpably heretical to al true Christians, let vs in a word or two looke into their liues, wherein as in a Christall Mirrour, wée shall see figured and pourtraid the Anatomie of the seauen deadly Sinnes. For Pride both in their heartes, puffed vppe with aspiring thoughtes, and in their Apparell, set out with inestimable brauerie, the meanest Scholler of the least Traueyler, eyther by reading or experience may manifest: For who méeteth a Cardinall mounted, first marking the trappings and furniture of his horse richly studded, his foot-clooth of veluet fringed with golde, his braue attyre couered with his Scarlet Robe, and his sumptuous traine following him, shall thincke that hée méeteth not one of Peters Disciples, but some greate Potentate, or Monarch of the worlde, rather resembling ALEXANDER in his effeminate Persian robes, when hée surnamed himselfe the sonne of AMMON, then a Christian, a Piller of the Church, that shoulde in the humblenesse of his life, giue light vnto the People. Their Sodomie, as they kepe not very secrete, for they in their Pallaces, imitating the heathen God IVPITER, gett • them Ganimedes, which Stantes a poculis, serue for Pages: yet they as much as they can obscure, but their Lechery they feare not to make manifest, as béeing Fathers of manye Bastardes, and Paramours of sundrye Courtizans, to whome in their Carnouale, they goe in Maskes, and so openly co • rt with sundry deuelish deuises. Their slooth is séene in the securitie of their liues: for apply they themselues neuer so strictly to studye, while they are of meane degrée, yet after they attain the calling of a Cardinal, they answer with their maister the Pope, that with Peter they haue cast the Net and laboured all night, and now catcht the fish, not the soules of men, but some great dignitie and preferment: which gotten, they say to their soules, liue at ease.

Their glutony is seene in their sumptuous banquets, which excéede in such riotous aboundāce, to pāper themselues, not to féed the poore, that the Monsters of Rome, their predicessors in belly chéere, Heliogabolus, Commodus, Iulianus & Lucellus Emperors and Senators, neuer surpassed in this vice • hese péeuish shauelings: Enuie is seene, in their • rowning at the fortunate successe of their verye friendys: for when any amongst them is preferred to the Papacie, then the rest incensed with enuie, • all to treasons, conspiracies, priuy murders, and poisonings: that some Popes haue scarcely liued 2 daies, nay some one day: before they haue bene made away by the Cardinals, who through enuye séeke to establish the Papall seat with blood, as did pope Alexander and diuers others: so that oftimes it may be said of their Pope, as Tully said of the Consull that liued but one day: Vigilantissimum habuimus Papam, qui t • to su • Papatu somnum vix vidit.

Their wrath & furie, let the Chronicles of the state of Italie, as of Venecia, Florence, Vrb • e, Naples, Geneua & the rest, discouer: in which places, hauing bene appointed 〈◊〉 Legats, they haue displaied the Trophees of their wrath, as vpō the house of the Medices in Florence after y• death of old • Cos • o against Peter Ludouike and Lorenzo, their intent to murther these braue Gentlemen, so to satisfie their extreame wrath and fury.

Their Couetousnesse Italie cries out on, as burthened with their taskes, extortions, and impositions, for Bul • , Pardons and dispensations: nay England it selfe may be produced as a witnesse, who • long while payd to Rome many extraordinary dueties. Poole • Woolsey are late instances, what in • atiate co •• tousnes is barbour • d vnder the pr • t • nsed shewe of their religion: these 〈◊〉 linges sléeping thus in their wickednesse, att • nding vpon that rich whore of Babilon, who professeth, himselfe Patronesse of their practizes, mourne least our abolishing of their abhomidations in England, should incense the rest of Europe by our examples, to shake off their heauy yoke of ignorance, and to imbrace the light of the Gospell, and therefore rightly to them is said, Lugete, quia cecidit Meretrix.

GLOSSA.

PHILLIP being olde, holding in the one hand a sword, in the other a crootch, as ready to step frō his Scepter to the Graue, hath his minde troubled with contrarye passions, so that he may say with Don Pedro, Spiritus est ab inquietudine co • c • us. Deuout he is, although it consisteth in ignorance, ambitious, desiring still to inlarge his possessions and kingdomes: and couetous as neuer satisfied with al his ter •• tor • s and treasures: yet age somwhat cooleth th • se desires, 〈◊〉 casteth water in the • lame, but his Cleargie make supply by their perswasions, in what his peares doe faile in defect: for they sorie that litle England should suppresse their graund Patronesse, that proud Who • e of Babilon, or oppose it, selfe against Antechrist the Pope, thinking that if either these ••• lde, or the • ight of the gospel did flourish, that Princes & Nations hauing a déep insight into their iu • ling • , their religion should faile: they inc • nse poore Phillip to set himselfe Ex diametro against the trueth, and to indeuour in what he may, t • subuert the estate of true Christianitie, ayming especially at our most gratious Soueraign Ladie Elizabeth, as the chiefe Defendresse and Patronesse in all Europe, of the puritye of the Gospell: giuing counsell with Achitophell against Dauid, agaynst the Lordes annointed, but hée turning their worldye wisdome into foolishnes, ouerthroweth their pollicie and practizes, veryfieng vpon their heades the prouerb. Malum consilium Consultori pessimum.

These shaulinges, this presumptuous broode of Antechrist, puffed vp not onely with this blind zeale, but with the spirit of pride, which filleth them with aspiring ambition, in so much that they imitating their father the Pope, séeke not to content themselues with ecclesiasticall power, but to entermeddle with kingdomes and states, so that they feare not to bridle the affections of Phillip, as farre as they list to limit, burning his Sonne at their pleasure, and letting him blood to abate his courage, almost to the perill of his life. Iudge gentle reader, if this becommeth a Subiect, an inferiour, • ay a Cleargy man who shoulde be humble, and giue these duties to Caesar, that belong to Caesar, and those honors to God, that béelong to God: But the Deuill w • rking their confusion, by their own imaginations, hardneth thei • heartes with Pharao, and maketh them sham • lesse with Achitophell, to giue wicked counsel against the trueth: 〈◊〉 as Pharao was drowned in the ranckour of his thoughts, and Achitophell seeing the Lorde had ouerthrown his counsailes, went home and hanged himselfe. So shall confusion come to all that with Saule kick against the pricke, that rightly it may be said to 〈◊〉 confused C •• argie men. Achithophelis consilium, Achithophelis l • queum.

GLOSSA.

NOw Gentle Reader giue leaue, that this crue of popish Madcaps may presume amongst the rest into our Masquerado: these are they which saying A •• Rex Iud •• orum, yet smote Christ on the face with a réede: these are the Buls of Basan, that fatted vp in the Popes stall, féede them selues against the day of slaughter: thes • are the iolly fellowes that once in England liued like Princes in their Abbeies and Frieries, whose bonnettes were valed and their top sailes so low stroken, that no winde would serue them, from sinking into the bottomlesse gulfe: These be they, who when Christ commaundeth, that who so l • ueth him shall take vp his crosse and follow him, clapping on their backes a basket stuffed with good cheare: • ay Quanta patimur pro amore Christi. Whereupon are merily recited these verses.

O Monachi quorum Stomachi sunt Amphora Bacchi: Vos esti • , Deus est testis, mundi mala.

Of this generation Iohn Boccace in his Decamero • telleth many pretie tales: of their Lecherie, as when • air Albe •• vnder the shape of the Angell Gab • iell, lay with Dame Lezet • a; of their false Legend, as a Monke preaching to the people, hauing founde a verye rich feather of some some •• range Foule, intended to make his Parishoners beléeue, it was a plume of the Angel Gabriell: Certaine good Companions his Familiars noting his knauerie, secretelye •• ole out off his Casket the feather, and put in coales. Well, Mas Monke come once into his Pulpit, after a long Exordium, t • lde to the People what a Relique he had, one of the feathers of the Angell Gabriell, but putting his hand into his casket, and finding nothing but coales, straight founde the knot in the rush, and saide hée had taken the wrong Casket, but yet brought them a Relique, no lesse pretious, which was the coales that Saint Laurence was roasted on: so that making crosses with them vpon their Garmentes hée departed with Monkish credite. Manye of these and worse pranks, abhominable to rehearse, haue their owne Countrymen and Papistes penned down against them, amongst choice one mer • ly (I call not his name to remembrance) setteth downe, that a Monke • itting in his cel, had on the • ne side his Leman a fair Nun no man on he other side, his portasse béeing thus seated as in a Dileman, laying one hande on the Nonnes knee, and the other on his Masse booke, hée fetcht a great •• gh and saide, Quo m • vertam, nescio: the Deuill behind, made him answere, Haud refert: vtraque enim ducit ad infernum. Whereupon to auoyde the doubte, hée made proofe of both. Another setteth down these verses as a Censure.

O Monachi nigri, non es • is ad imp • a rigri, A • ran • t • t vestis, qualis intrnisceus estis.

Their religion and their nature thus agréeing, debating amidst their cups and their courtisans of the Spanish repulse, full of wine and and delicate cheare they cry out. Quanta patimur pro amor • Christi.

GLOSSA.

WHen Hannibal had geuen the Romanes a repulse before Capua, the Senate hearing the il nowes, resolued in the Senate house to sacrifice vnto Mars, fearing hee was displeased with their Armie: which sentence Scipio hearing, starting vp amongst them said: I will no other God but our fortunes, no other vowes but our right, no other Sacrifice but the Sword. I infer this heathenish comparison, both accounting their Saint of Compostella with the Pagan Idols, and thinking them far inferior to the courage of Scipio, although none glories more in his Chiualr • e then the Spaniard: But I suppose his religion and his stomack to be equally poysed: the one false, the other faint, that what they attempt, is not to bee ouercome with prowesse, but to suppresse with multitudes: for their seruice in warres is either by pollicie, to circumuent by pe • iurie, to intise by treason, to vndermine, or by some litte martiall practise to weaken the enemie, whom if they finde valiantly to 〈◊〉 , their braue once cooled, they seldome or neuer dare giue a fresh Incounter wherupō these the Nobles of Spain danted, choose rather fearfully to séek out S. Iames of Compostella, then valiantly with Scipio to sweare reuenge with the sword. This custome brookes not an English heart, for our Nobles hauing taken repulse, flie not to S. George, but managing their swordes, crye, God and their right, séeking either with Epaminondas to win their honors with their bloode, or to be caried out with him resolutely on their shieldes: They faint not with Iulian at the frist frown • of Seuerus, but valiantly expect with the Argentinin of Alexander the great, the comming of their • oes: not asking how many there be, but where they bée: not attending with Xerxes and his faint-hearted Souldiours, to haue the braue, but valiantly like the Caualiers of Troy, thrusting amidst the attending Grecians. Diuers instances, as when in the time of Robert the third king of Scottes, Earle Douglas with a mightie and puissant armie entred the Frontiers of England, making ha • ocke as farre as Newcastle, sundrye times • ickered with our men, and gaue them the foyle: which Henry Percie Earle of Northumberland surnamed Henrie Hot-spurre noting, fuming at such bad Fortune, and as it were strooke to the heart with the dishonour of the English, sought not to S. George, or other Pilgrimages (whereof then there were many in England) but offering his praiers vnto GOD, and vowing a couragious resolution on the hiltes of his Sworde, hauing a very small companie in respecte of the Scottes, hée pricketh towardes them, and although he was sharply repulsed at the first and second encounter, yet thinking how swéete it were to die rather then to li • e with dishonour, hée gaue a fresh charge, and ouerthrew the Scottes with such a slaughter, that hée tooke Prisoners, the Earles Douglas, Fife, Murrey, and Angus, Thus do our Nobles of England make their pilgrimage, and end their reuenge: which if it be not true, I report • me to the Nobles of Spaine themselues, who lately had experience o • theyr Courage, that they were faine, for the vowing of their Pilgrimage to S. Iames to deserue this mocke. Si Petrus dormit Papae, 〈◊〉 Iacobus vigilabit vobis?

GLOSSA.

WHen Iulius Caesar was sent by the Senate Dictator against the Gaules, his friende Lepidus asking him whether he now iournyed: In Galliam (quoth hée) quae sit urus ant sepulchrum, aut honorem. This valiant resolution of Caesar was not sound in the Duke of Medina Sidonia, for though he was sent by his Prince and Soueraigne, as Generall of all his Forces, yet hee choose rather to returne with dishonour, then with valiant Caesar to séeke a Sepulcher in England: For comming with a mightie Fléete, well prouided with martiall furniture such as might haue amazed the greatest Monarch in the whole world to encounter: comming with as greate a braue towardes England, as Xerxes against Lacedemonia: setting vp his S ••• amers as Commaunders that Eolus should hée fauourable to his Nauie. And with him the Admirall Don Ma • t • nes de Ricaldo, Pedro de Valdes, Martin Bretendona, Gomes de Medina and others, whose Hierogliphicall Simb • ls, Emblems, impr • sses and deuises did prognosticate (as they supposed) their triumphant victorie, and our dishonorable and miserable ouerthrow, playing at dice for our Noblemen and knight • and deuiding our Land into portions: Medina and Ricaldo sytting thus as Princes of the Sea, brauing Neptune in our Straightes: no sooner came alongst our Coaste, and were encountred with our Fléete, filled with Noblemen of invincible courage, but Medina the great Champion of Spaine, tooke the lower end of the ship, Ricaldo his bed, whereas our Lord Admirall, the Lord Charles Haward, stood vpon the vpp • r decke, resolutely and valiantly incouraging his m • n to fight for the honour of their Countrie. The Lord Henry Seymer, a noble man or worthy prowesse, standing in the face of the Enemie to p • t oile in the flame, & valour in an english heart, taught the Spaniards with Bullet, that the noble men of England, •• er • d with sparkes of honour, counted life no more but a debt, euery houre due vnto nature. With him the Lord Thomas Haward whose forward resolucion the Spaniards may reporte in Spaine, to their great dishonour. Next these, that woorthy Gentleman, that famous Caualier, the terrour of Spaine, that fortunate Knight, Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, be •• irred himselfe, as his wonted maner, not fearfully as Medina, but valiantly standing in the fore roome, deliuered with Cannon his Ambassage to the Enemie. With him Sir Martin Frobusher, Sir Roger Townesend, and others which I omit, not as men of lesse valour, but for breuities sake. Then let vs note and reioice, how our nobles of England, and worthy Knightes behaued themselues, how God inserting courage in their mindes, fought for vs, and the trueth, and how striking a terrour and cowardize into the Lordes of Spaine, as vnto Senacherib and his hoste, bending their Forces againste Samaria, the Lorde of Medina hasted out off our Seas, and our Fléete helde them long in chase spoyling and praying on their Shippes daily.

Thus the great Generall of Spaine was content to pockett • vppe this Dishonour to saue his life, and therefore must abide • he reprochfull taunt that our English Pilles hath cast him into a laske, and such a • yxe, as hath defiled all his honour: then (for me) let him haue the deserued scoffe. Pillulae Britanic •• in dissenteriam te coniecerunt.

GLOSSA.

ALthough Don Martines, for his expert skill in Nauigation, and pollicie in nauall •• ght, was elected chiefe Admirall of the Spanish Fléete, yet such his fate, his Fortune▪ or his little courage, that comming to England, as proudly as the Turke came into the gulfe: yet he went away worse dishonoured then Calig • la, that in stead of Battaile, gathered Cockles on the westerne shoare.

Six yeare at the least he was greate Commaunder for furniture necessarie for this intended Fléete, which no doubt he stuffed and stored to the full, gathering together such prouision, as if shoulde with the Giantes, inte • d 〈◊〉 against Mars and Iupiter: Hee had in his Flee •• , of Gallions▪ Hulkes, Pataches, Zabres, Galeas •• s, and Gallies ••• . The receit beeing 57868. Tunnes 〈◊〉 , 19295. Mari • ers, 8450. And of great brazen Péeces, 2630. Prouided thus, as might be supposed, for the conquest either of Asia or Africa, hée bendeth his course aga •• st England, a little Iland, where as S. Augustine saith, their be people with Angels faces, so the Inhabitantes haue the courage and heartes of Lions: which poore D • n Martines tried true: For GOD vsing ELIZABETH his seruant and her subiectes, as his instrumentes, to punish the enemies of his trueth, no sooner cam • 〈◊〉 proud Holofernes into our seas, but the Mice crept out off little Betulia, Iudith sitting peaceably in her royall seat, & incountring fiercely with their Foes, taught them that God fought on their side, then not to be daunted with multitudes: and Martines fearfull▪ shrunke away. But God who holdeth reuenge in his hand, let loose the windes, and threw a storme into the sea, that many of their shippes which escaped our handes, perished on the Rockes: vsing the Sea for reuenge, as he did against Pharao, when he persecuted the children of Israell: So that Don Ricaldo with dishonour passed into Spaine, and our Admirall returned with glorious triumph into England, bringing home Shippes, Prisoners, and Furniture, that our English shoares sounded with Ecchoes of triumph, and euery mouth was filled with the praises of of the Lord Charles Haward, while Ricaldo dismaied at at his misfortune, and his tottered shippes, saith. O Neptune, quantas epulas vna coena deuorasti?

GLOSSA.

IN this Spanish Fleete were many voluntary aduenturers, Princes▪ Dukes, Counties, Barons, Knights, Esquires, and gentlemen, yonger brothers▪ • o the number of an 124. besides their Seruantes, who without request or commaund, vpon their owne frée will, offered themselues as Consortes in this voyage, mooued firste with a blind • zeale of religion, then with desire of honour, especially against the English, who they hearde were full of Coucourage: Thirdly for hope of preferment in this our Iland, after the conquest hoped for of the Spanish. Mooued with these considerations, they came triumphing in this Fléete: finding a cooling card to alay their hot stomackes, they returned hom • discouraged, dishonoured, and disgraced, in so much, tha • looking with a déepe insight, into our victorie, and their ouerthrowe: séeing our ships like little P ••• sses, and their huge barkes built like Castles, ouer péering ours: they in their owne consciences confest that God was on our side: saying, that their ouersight in béeing so forwarde was requited as the detestable attempt of Briare • s the Giant with the hundred handes, and Tiphes who, the Poets faine, did war against the Goddes, and hea • ed hill on hill, as Pelion on Oss • , to climbe vp to the Heauens, whereupon Iupiter with a Thūnderbolte, pashed them all to powder: so they, blinded with the vale of ignorance, attempted against the Gospell, the trueth, and the Defendresse of them both, Queene Blizabeth the Lords chosen, and his annointed: and therefore against God: which consideration made them murmure to themselues. Temeritatis nostrae cum Briareo poenas l • imus.