Albions England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: With most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto, and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth: Not barren in varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures: First penned and published by William Warner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author: Whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England |
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CHAP. XLVIII.
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CHAP. XLVIII.
The Monarch of that Continent that doth, in one, contayneFiue ancient Scepters (for he wrought that al the world weare Spayne)
As Castile, Aragon, Nauarr, Granado, Portugaile
Be newly nam'd, yea India wheare Castillian Powres preuaile:
These, States in Affricke, Lumbardie, Peru, Assores, and
Both Cicells, Austra, Barbarie, Naples, with Netherland,
And many other Prouinces, by such ambition got,
As giueth his Impressa life to verefie the Mot,
Him not sufficing (for it saith, the World sufficeth not)
Euen he, I say, affecting Raygne in England, Almaine, Fraunce,
And all Europa, lately did an holy League aduaunce:
The Pope, Him-selfe, Sauoy, and Guise, therein Confedrates cheefe.
Rome wroght by Bulls, Sauoy by Sword, Spayne yeilded Guise releefe,
Guise did religious Treason act: but all did fayle, in briefe.
Geneua is vnsacked, Fraunce yeilds Rome small profit, Spayne
By coste hath loste, England, through God, tryumphant doth remayne,
Nauar hath meanes to haue Nauar: and, when shall God so please,
The rightfull heire of Portugale his Empyre shall re-seaze.
Ye Christian Princes, pittie him, in punithing his Fo,
That now afflicteth him, and would on you tyrannize so:
If one selfe-same Religion (such as Spanish Romistes haue)
If Natures Line, or Natiue Lawes, the Pope that so did craue,
If to haue had possest the Crowne, with Portugales applause,
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But brybed Traytors, fraude, and force, haue made the Spanyard such,
That Castile, from a Cronet leapt, thinks many Crownes not much.
The great Nauarrois, Sampson, stauld the first Castilian King:
But badly Castile quits his loue whence did that honor spring,
And from his Line by trecherie the Diademe doth wring.
So, by what right or wrong so-eare, Spayne clouteth Crownes together
And aimeth, euen from Portugale, as is supposed, hether,
Not wanting English, willing to be holped in that Teither.
But Traytors, Fooles, & Fugitiues, Whom prouendor doth pricke,
Ensew your proper sorow, leane vpon that rotten sticke,
Your kindnes shall not mis, at least, this kindly Spanish Tricke.
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Spaniards & their Partizens eare-while should vs inuaide,
In plotting of that Stratageme in Councell much was said:
Some of our Queene to be destroyde, of murthring vs some spake,
Some this, some that, but all of all an altred World to make:
Least English Papistes, then shut vp in Elie and els-wheare,
Meane time by vs might lose their liues, some One, by chāce did feare.
Which scruple was remoued soone by one, that well did know,
Not for religion but a Realme, did Spayne that cost bestow.
Our drift (quoth he) a Conquest is, the Profit meant to Spaine,
Not that the English Papists should be Sharers of the gaine.
So hope they, but (so helpe me God) our pollicie wear small
That they should flourish, nay, should liue, could we procure their fall.
Theare be they great alreadie, wheare we only great must be,
Whom, should they equall, woe to vs when we shall disagree:
Now that therefore which we cannot with honestie contriue,
Our Foes shall finish, if of them they leaue not one aliue.
Thus said he, not gaine-saide, for hang who shall, so they may thriue.
In plotting of that Stratageme in Councell much was said:
Some of our Queene to be destroyde, of murthring vs some spake,
Some this, some that, but all of all an altred World to make:
Least English Papistes, then shut vp in Elie and els-wheare,
Meane time by vs might lose their liues, some One, by chāce did feare.
Which scruple was remoued soone by one, that well did know,
Not for religion but a Realme, did Spayne that cost bestow.
Our drift (quoth he) a Conquest is, the Profit meant to Spaine,
Not that the English Papists should be Sharers of the gaine.
So hope they, but (so helpe me God) our pollicie wear small
That they should flourish, nay, should liue, could we procure their fall.
Theare be they great alreadie, wheare we only great must be,
Whom, should they equall, woe to vs when we shall disagree:
Now that therefore which we cannot with honestie contriue,
Our Foes shall finish, if of them they leaue not one aliue.
Thus said he, not gaine-saide, for hang who shall, so they may thriue.
This Maxime hath hild, and good, wheare they haue ouerthrone
By trecherous Agents, of the same they haue not trusted one:
Adde, than the Spaniard, prouder and more cruell People none.
Euen Cortes that, with cost and payne, rich India did subdew,
And gaue to Spayne his Conquest, found false Meede for Seruice trew.
So they that wonne them Portugale and Naples spead, in few:
And too imperiously doe they, oppresse their Conquests new:
Yeat boast not perpetuitie, but (Spayne) this Patterne vew.
Caldea priz'd Assiria, and Assiria priz'd the same,
The Medes and Persians both, and them the Macedons orecame,
The Romaines then, that Empier next had France, the Germaines now,
Which onely Title hardly doe the Spanyards them alowe,
Spayne hath Nauarre, that once had Spayne, wheare once crown'd wee their King,
And once did Spanish-Irish-Scots vs to subiection bring,
We Scots, French, Irish: too and fro thus often Scepters flye,
Yea to Posteries old names of Lands and Peoples dye:
Sicambries, Gawles, Picts, Vandels, Gothes, and Astrogothes, known late
In Europ by those names, haue chang'd those names and Europs Sate,
And with the Spanyards, part of those, may alter in like rate.
Each Birde shal then remaunde her Plumes, and naked leaue your Iaye,
At least when Phillip shall decease: and why not eare that daye?
For power and prowse lackt Turnus Peere, yeat when his Fates withstoode,
Iuturna, no not Iunos-selfe, could doe him any good.
But Godhoode none in Indian Golde, & pope-buld hopes shall mis,
Nor Macedonian Phillips Sonne Castilian Phillip is,
But one who, whil'st he warres for ours, hath lost euen part of his.
Not onely Spayne thinke destinate in Pompe not to impaier,
Or liued long, that breathes, enuied, not els but odious Ayer:
And (which is monstrously too trew) Religion is pretext,
Where through the Spanyard and the Pope all Christendome haue vext:
Witnes their Powers, by Land and Seas, that threatned vs er'while:
Of it a word, and note how God did patronize our Ile.
By trecherous Agents, of the same they haue not trusted one:
Adde, than the Spaniard, prouder and more cruell People none.
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And gaue to Spayne his Conquest, found false Meede for Seruice trew.
So they that wonne them Portugale and Naples spead, in few:
And too imperiously doe they, oppresse their Conquests new:
Yeat boast not perpetuitie, but (Spayne) this Patterne vew.
Caldea priz'd Assiria, and Assiria priz'd the same,
The Medes and Persians both, and them the Macedons orecame,
The Romaines then, that Empier next had France, the Germaines now,
Which onely Title hardly doe the Spanyards them alowe,
Spayne hath Nauarre, that once had Spayne, wheare once crown'd wee their King,
And once did Spanish-Irish-Scots vs to subiection bring,
We Scots, French, Irish: too and fro thus often Scepters flye,
Yea to Posteries old names of Lands and Peoples dye:
Sicambries, Gawles, Picts, Vandels, Gothes, and Astrogothes, known late
In Europ by those names, haue chang'd those names and Europs Sate,
And with the Spanyards, part of those, may alter in like rate.
Each Birde shal then remaunde her Plumes, and naked leaue your Iaye,
At least when Phillip shall decease: and why not eare that daye?
For power and prowse lackt Turnus Peere, yeat when his Fates withstoode,
Iuturna, no not Iunos-selfe, could doe him any good.
But Godhoode none in Indian Golde, & pope-buld hopes shall mis,
Nor Macedonian Phillips Sonne Castilian Phillip is,
But one who, whil'st he warres for ours, hath lost euen part of his.
Not onely Spayne thinke destinate in Pompe not to impaier,
Or liued long, that breathes, enuied, not els but odious Ayer:
And (which is monstrously too trew) Religion is pretext,
Where through the Spanyard and the Pope all Christendome haue vext:
Witnes their Powers, by Land and Seas, that threatned vs er'while:
Of it a word, and note how God did patronize our Ile.
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