All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted |
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 | All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet |  |
GODS MANIFOLD MERCIES IN THESE MIRACVLOVS DELIVERANCES of our Church of England, from the yeare 1565 vntill this present, 1630. particularly and briefly Described.
When your Children shall aske their Fathers in time to come, What meaneth this Pillar: Then yee shall let your Children know, saying;
These Are The Deliveries Which GOD Hath Vovchsafed To His Chvrch In England Since The Beginning Of Qveene ELIZABETHS Raigne To This Day:
That all the People of the Earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mightie, that yee might feare the Lord your God for euer.
Ioshva 4. 21, 22. 24.Which Bull prou'd little better then a Calfe:
Was sent to England for some better feeding,
To fatten in his Holinesse behalfe.
The vertues that this Beast of Babell had,
In thundring manner was to banne and curse:
Raile at the Queene, as it were raging mad;
Yet God be thanked She was ne're the worse.
The goodly Sire of it was Impious Pius.
Hee taught it learnedly to curse and banne:
And to our faces boldly to defie vs.
It madly ouer England quickly ranne:
But what successe it had reade more and see,
The fruits of it here vnder written be.
1
A Priest call'd Moorton, by the Pope assign'd,Northumberland and Westmerland seduceth:
With whom the Dake of Norfolke is combin'd:
The whilst the Pope no cost or charge refuseth,
But pawnes his Challices, his Beads, and Crosses,
Giues them his gracelesse blessing for their ayde:
The fruit whereof were heads and honors losses.
God still defending Englands Royall Maid.
That where the Pope doth curse, there God doth blesse.
2
Don Iohn of Austria, whom the Pope incitesOur Queene and Kingdome both to Captiuate:
And whilst he warre prepares with subtill slights,
A fained peace he doth capitulate.
Nay more, he doth perpetuall peace proclaime,
Thereby to make vs sleepe the more secure,
But Godsgreat Mercy made him misse his aime,
And what he thought most certaine, prou'd vnsure
This plot of our Inuasion thus orethrowne,
Don Iohns ambition with his life did end.
Whereby th'Almighty to the world makes known,
That he his Church will euermore defend.
His Vine she is, his power doth guard her round,
And all her Enemies he will confound.
3
Romes malice and Spaines practice still concurs,To vexe and trouble blest Elizabeth:
With Stukeley they combine to raise new stirs.
And Jreland bragging Stukely promiseth
To giue vnto the Popes braue Bastard Sonne
Iames Boncampagno, an ambitious boy.
And Stukely from the Pope a prize hath wonne,
A holy Peacocks Taile (a proper toy)
But Stukely was in Mauritania slaine,
In that great battell at Alcazor fought.
Whereby we see his power doth still defend
His Church, which on his mercy doth depend.
4
An English Priest call'd Nicholas Saunders next,A consecrated Banner gets from Rome,
And like a trayterous wretch mistakes his text,
Rebelliously doth into Jreland come,
He with the Desmonds ioynes in bloudy manner,
And when Iohn Desmond murther did commit,
Then by the vertue of his bable banner,
Applauded it, and did the crime remit.
This good successe Romes sweet proceedings had,
The Earle was by a common Souldier kild,
And Saunders pinde, ran miserably mad,
His conscience with tormenting terrour fild.
Thus treason is accordingly rewarded,
And still the Church of God by God is guarded.
5
Parsons and Campion, a most wicked brace,Of English Traitors Romish Iesuites,
Get from the Pope the fauour and the grace
To play in England the Jscariothites.
Free leaue they from his Holinesse obtaine
To draw true Subiects from their loyalty,
To make our Kingdome vassall vnto Spaine,
And to depose the Queene from Royalty.
At last (despight the blessing of the Pope)
Their plots were knowne, and qvickely Parsons fled,
But Campion dy'd at Tyburne in a Rope,
Hang'd all (as 'tis supposed) but the head,
God still the practice and the plots orethrowes,
Of his most deare beloued Churches foes.
6
Here Sommeruill an English Gentleman,Seduc'd by Romish Priests the Queene to kill,
Attempts it in the desperat'st sort he can,
And with a drawne Sword runs her bloud to spill:
But by the way, with one or two he met,
Who did oppose him and his damn'd intent:
Whilst like a mad man he gan rage and fret,
At those that did the mischiefe then preuent.
But tane he was, and close in Prison pent,
There to remaine till Iustice him should trye,
And then to haue deserued punishment.
That others might example take thereby.
But Sommeruill was strangled in the Iayle,
Thus God to guard his Church doth neuer faile.
7
Mendoza here, Ambassador for Spaine,Foule treason with Throckmorton practiseth.
Inuade the Realme, depose Elizabeth,
Mendoza is discouered, and disgrac'd,
And out of England in disgrace was thrust,
Whilst in each hand he hath a Letter plac'd.
Which he had got from Traitors most vniust.
In one of them was written all the Names
Of English Lords, that did the Pope affect.
In th'other all the Hauens and the streames,
For shipping, and our foes how to direct,
But God his Church, our Queene and Realme defended,
Throgmorton hang'd and quarter'd, all was ended.
8
The Romish Vipers neuer taking restMost dangerous Letters traiterously were writ:
That foraigne Princes England might molest,
The bearer was a Scottish Jesuite,
Who by Dutch Pyrates on the Sea was tane:
His Letters torne hee ouer boord did fling.
But the Winde blowing from the raging Maine,
The Papers backe into the Ship did bring,
Which thought they were in many peeces rent,
Were plac'd together by Sir William Wade,
Who found, the Guise, the Pope, and Spaines intent
Were strong combined England to inuade.
These proiects thus were blasted in their bud,
And their pretence of Harme God made our Good.
9
Here William Parry hath got leaue from Rome,To broach new mischiefes on our English shore,
And he to kill Elizabeth doth come,
Though shee his life had pardon'd long before.
His Absolution from the Pope doth show
That ere the murders done it is forgiuen:
Nay more, his Holinesse doth free bestow
Vpon the Traitor endlesse Ioyes of Heauen.
False Parry with his Dagger purposely
Went to the Queene in dutious sort dissembling,
When with her lookes of awfull Maiestie,
She strucke the villaine full of feare and trembling.
Then was he tooke and hang'd as he deseru'd,
And onely God our Church and State preseru'd.
10
Here Ballard, Sauage, Tichburne, Babington,Gage, Trauerse, Tilney, Windsor, Charnock, Dun,
Iones, Barnewell, Salisbury and Abington,
These fourteene into dangerous treasons run:
They would but kill the Queene, subuert the State,
Make England beare the yoake of Antichrist:
And for those ends they worke both soone and late,
Whilst Ignorance to Errour is entis'd,
They in Saint Giles his fields their proiects layd.
There was the Consultations of their braines:
And in those fields they had their wages paid,
Handsomly hang'd and quarter'd for their paines.
Thus God doth still our Church defend and blesse,
And those that are her foes haue ill successe.
11
An English Gentleman William Stafford nam'd,Was by the French Ambassador perswaded,
That if hee'd kill the Queene he should be fam'd,
For by her death might England be inuaded.
Besides, for it the Pope would thankfull be,
And all the house of Guise, should be his friends.
But Stafford to their plots did seeme t'agree,
Yet told the Councell on his knees their ends.
These things vnto th'Ambassador were told,
(And Stafford did auouch them to his face:)
Which he deny'd audaciously and bold,
Much ill beseeming his estate and place.
Thus whatsoeuer 'gainst our Church was wrought,
God still did bring their purposes to nought.
12
This yeare Spaine with a mighty preparationWith twelue score Vessels loadeth Neptunes backe,
With thirty thousand men attempts inuasion,
Of Englands Kingdome, and Elizaes wracke.
Then many a bragging desperate doughty Don,
Proud of the strength of that great huge Armado,
Went barely off, though they came brauely on,
The power of Heauen opposing their brauado.
Our numbers vnto theirs inferiour farre,
Yet were they tane, sunke, slaine, bang'd, thump'd, & batter'd,
He was our trust and ayde, our foes he scater'd.
His name is ouer all the world most glorious,
And through his power his Church is still victorious.
13
Lopez a Doctor, by descent a Iew,A Portingal by birth, the Queenes Physitian:
Forgetting duty, (to his Soueraigne due)
Would poyson her to further Spaines ambition.
The Spaniards and the Doctor are compacting,
How this sweet piece of seruice might be done,
They promise gold, and he doth vow the acting,
A bargaine wisely made is partly wonne.)
But this base Iew is taken in the trap,
The Queene preseru'd the Spaniards cake is dough,
The Doctor wrong'd his breeches by mishap,
And hanging his reward was good enough.
Still treasons working, though its lucke be ill,
Gods gracious power, his Church defending still.
14
Tyrone supported by the Pope and Spaine,Had put our English Kingdome to much cost,
Perceiuing all his treasons were in vaine,
His dangers desperate, fruitlesse labour lost:
Although his Holinesse from Rome had sent,
A plume of Phœnix feathers for a blessing,
Which bable from Tyrone could not preuent
Rewards of lust i[illeg.] for his long transgressing.
To the Lord Deputy be doth submit,
Craues the Kings mercy, and obtaind the same:
Yet afterward he did his faith forget,
And new rebellions did in Jreland frame.
At last with guilty minde, away he flyes,
Thus God confounds his Churches enemies.
15
Mongst all these dangers Queene Elizabeth,Preserued still, and reigned royally:
Defended all her life from violent death,
And seauenty yeares of age dy'd naturally:
To her succeeded (as his proper right)
King James Great Britaines blessed Salomon:
When straight began new tricks of Romish spight,
For Church and King, and Lands subuersion.
Watson & Clarke, two Priests, two Popish brothers,
Seduc'd Lords. Cobham, Gray, two Noblemen,
Sir Walter Rawleigh, Markham, Brooke, and others,
To rake the King, and him in prison pen.
The plot's found, Iustice would th'offendors kill,
But the Kings mercy sav'd, what Law might spill.
19
Now treason plotted in th'infernall Den,Hels mischiefe master peece began to worke,
Assisted by vnnaturall Englishmen,
And Iesuites, that within this Land did lurke.
These would Saint Peter to Salt-peeter turne,
And make our Kingdome caper in the ayre.
At one blast, Prince and Peeres and Commons burn,
And fill the Land with murder and dispaire,
No treason ere might be compar'd to this,
Such an escape the Church had nere before:
The glory's Gods the victory is his,
Not vnto vs, to him be praise therefore.
Our Church is his, her foes may vnderstand,
That he defends her with his mighty hand.
17
The dangers of a long and tedious way,The perils of the raging Sea and Land,
The change of ayre and dyet many a day,
And Romes temptations which thou did withstand,
(Amongst those blessings make vs much more blest)
In mind and body free from Rome and Spaine,
For which our thankes to heauen is still exprest,
Long mayst thou liue Gods gracious instrument,
To propagate his Gospell and his glory,
All Antichristian foes to circumuent,
And with thy acts to fill a royall story.
That after ages truly may repeate,
These Deeds were done by Britaines Chales the Great.
18
And last of all, with Heart and hands erected,Thy Church doth magnifie thy name O Lord,
Thy prouidence preseru'd, thy power protected.
Thy planted Vine, according to thy Word.
My God what shall I tender vnto thee,
For all thy guifts bestow'd on me alwayes?
Loue and vnfæined Thankefulnesse shall be,
Ascribed for thy Mercies, all my dayes.
To thee my Priest, my Prophet, and my King,
My Loue my Counsellor, and Comforter,
To thee alone, I onely praises sing,
For onely thou art my Deliuerer.
All Honour, Glory, Power, and Praise therefore,
Ascribed be to thee for euermore.
This Bull did excommunicate and curse the Queene, it deposeth her from her Crowne, it proclaimed her an Hereticke, it cursed all such as loued her, it threatned damnation to all subiects as durst obey her, and it promised the kingdome of heauen to those that would oppose and kill her.
This was the effect and nature of this Popish Beast, which all wise, godly, and vnderstanding men did deride and contemne.
Pius the fitfh of that name, Pope of Rome. Duke of Norfolke, and Earle of Northumberland beheaded, Earle of Westmorland fled.
He was Brother to the King of Spaine, and failing of the hope he had to be Crowned King of Tunis, be practiseth inuade England, wherof failing, he dyes for griefe.
Pope Gregory and the King of Spaine, Conspire to raise Rebellion in Ireland by meanes of Thomas Stukely an Englishman, who was slaine in the field with three Kings with him.
Iohn Desmond was brother to the Earle of Desmond. Saunders ran mad in the wild Mountains, Woods, and bogs of Ireland, and dyed by famine.
These Iesuites walked in disguise here long before they were taken, sometimes like swaggering Ruffians, sometimes like Ministers, sometimes like Noblemen, sometimes like Souldiers, and sometimes like Aparators.
Jt was thought that Sommeruill was strangled by some that set him on worke, for feare least his confession might haue preferred them to the Gallowes.
In these dangerous times, the Queenes mertie was very great towards the Priests and Iesuites, for shee commanded that the seueritie of the Law might bee mittigated towards them.
His name was Creighton, being taken at Sea, he cast his Letters, torne in pieces, into the Sea, for feare of being discouered, but the Winde blew them into the Ship againe.
Parry was a Doctor of the Ciuill Law, whom the Queene had pardoned sixe yeares before, for killing of one Hugh Hare, yet afterward by the diuels instigation, and the Popes absolution and encouragement, he fell into this treason, Executed at Westminster.
This Stafford was a Gentleman well descended, his Mother was of the Bed chamber to the Queene, and his Brother Leiger Ambassador in France at the same time.
The Spanish fleet were in all of Ships, Galleons, Gallies and Pinaces, 242. of Souldiers, Mariners, and Galley slaues, 31030. of great Ordnance 2630 Our fleet were in all but 112. the Campe at Tilbury were 22000. foot, and 12000. horse.
The Quene has beene gracious and bountifull to this same Lopez many wayes, and hee was accounted a man of good integrity till hee was corrupted by the Pope and Spaniard.
At his Araignement feare made him wrong his breeches: he was hanged at Tyburne.
Tyrone an Jrish Earle, a man of great power and policie. a most pernicious and dangerous traytor, 1604 hee came vnto England, and was most graciously pardoned by the King, yet afterward would haue let all Ireland in rebellion, but failing of his purpose, fled to Rome
They would haue altered Religion, brought in Forraigne power, imprisoned the King, and raised Arbella, Watson, Clarke, Master George Brooke, executed.
The Kings mercy saued the Lord Cobham, Lord Gray, Sir Walter Rawleigh, Sir Griffith Markeham, at the Blocke, as the stroake was readie to bee giuen.
Percy and Catesby would needs be heads of this treason, and their heads are aduanced for it on the Parliament house: they were killed with powder, being both shot and burnt; and powder was the maine Instrument of their hopes s All the Traytors falling into the Pit which they had prepared for vs.
Not any of all these treasons, but eyther the Pope the Spanish King, Priests or Iesuites, had a hand in it.
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