The Spanish Masquerado. Wherein under a pleasant devise, is discovered effectually, in certain brief sentences and Mottos, the pride and insolency of the Spanish estate: with the disgrace conceived by their loss, and the dismayed confusion of their troubled thoughts. Whereunto by the Author, for the better understanding of his device, is added a brief gloss. By Robert green, in Artibus Magister.  

Twelve Articles of the state of Spain.  
The Cardinals solicit all.  
The King grants all.  
The Nobles confirm all.  
The Pope determines all.  
The Clergy disposeth all.  
The Duke of Medina hopes for all.  
Alonso receives all.  
The Indians minister all.  
The Soldiers eat all.  
The people pay all.  
The Monks and Friars consume all.  
And the devil at length will carry away all.   
¶ Printed at London by Roger Ward, for Thomas Cadman. 1589.   

❧ TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, M Hugh Ofl●y, Sheriff of the City of London, Robert green wisheth ●●crease of worship and virtue.  
SUCH pictures (Right Worshipful) as were presented to Alexander the great, had Art to please the eye, and conceit to please the wit: Such as writ to julius Caesar discourses of Wars: Those that dedicated aught to trajan of peace and to Severus of justice: a●●ing the effects of their studies to the affects of those worthy men whom they resolved to honour, with the Patronage of their labours: The consideration of these premises (Right Worshipfulfull) embouldened me to make choice of your worship as a Maecenas, fittest for a work of such grave import, persuaded thereunto by the report of a friend, whose opinion I craved, for the choice of a Patron: and made the more resolute by the general Censure that Fame sets down, imblasoning your virtuous disposition, in the care of the common weal, and favour to good letters: Encouraged by these causes, I present unto your worship the Masquerado of Spain, a devise containing the discovery of the Spanish insolent pride allayed with a deep disgrace, and their presumptuous braves pulled down with the resolution of English soldiers: which work, if your worship receive as gratefully, as I present it heartily, I have the desired end of my labour: In which hope resting, I commit you to the Almighty,  
Your Worships to command Robert green,   


Sonnet.  
Le doux Babil de ma lire d'iuoire  
Serra ton front d'un laurier verdisant:  
Dont a bon droit ie te voy iouissant,  
(Mon doux ami) eternisant ta gloire.  
Ton nom (mon green) anime par mes vers  
Abaisse l'oeil de gens seditieux,  
Tu de mo●teles compagnon de Dieux:  
N'est ce point grand loyer dans l'uniuers?  
Ignoti nulla cupido. Thomas Lodge.    

¶ To the Gentlemen Readers.  
Hitherto Gentlemen I have writ of loves▪ and I have found you favourable at the least smiling at my labours, 〈◊〉 a plausible silence; now lest I might be thought to tie my sel●● wholly to amorous conceits, I have adventured to discover my conscience in Religion. If I writ barely in this Theological Phrase, as in all others, so I crave your favourable patience, which if you grant, I have my desire, and promise recompense in what I may, ever, and every way to rest  
yours. Robert Gr●●●●.   

THE SPANISH MASQVERADO with the MOTTOS.  

1 First the Pope having put off his triple Crown, and his Pontificalibus, sitting malcontented, scratching of his head, throwing away his keys and his sword, in great choler saith thus. Neque Petrus, neqe Pa●lus, quid ●gitur restat.  
2 Philip King of Spain, attired like an Hermit, riding towards the Church on his Mule, attended on only with certain his slaves that are moors, saith thus. jubet Ecclesia, dissentire non a●deo.  
3 The Cardinals of Rome, seeing that the Pope was malcontented for the bad success of the Spanish Fleet, apparelled like Mourners, go solemnly singing De profundis, from castle Angelo to S. Peter's Church: to them is said. Lugete quia cecidit Meretrix.  
4 The Clergy of Spain, mounted richly on their gennets, ride up and down consulting, and at their wit's end, fuming and fretting that their counsels had no better success: to them is said. Achithopheli● con●ilium, Achithopheli● l●queum.  
5 The rest of the rascal Rabble of the Romish Church, as Monks, Friars, and di●ging Priests, storming at these news, sitting banqueting with the fair Nuns, having store of 〈◊〉 Cates, and wines before them, stall-fed with ease, and gluttony, groan out of their ●at paunches this passion. Quanta patimur pr● 〈◊〉 Christi.  
6 The Nobility of Spain, grieved at the dishonour of their shameful return: after 〈◊〉 consultation, vow general Pilgrimage to S. james 〈…〉, in hope of his aid for revenge: to them is said. Si Petrus dormit Pap●●, num Iacobu● vigilabit vobis?  
7 The Duke of Medina, Captain general of the Army and Spanish forces, rideth on a jennet, with one foot out of the Stirrup, his cap pulled over his eyes, and his points untrust: to him is said. P●llulae Britanic●● in dissenter●am te 〈◊〉.  
8 Don Martin's de Ricaldo, chief Admiral of the Fleet, standing in the Haven, and seeing his tattered Ships, considering what goodly Vessels were taken and drowned, and what store of men and munition they had lost, leaning his back against a broken anchor, and shaking of his head: saith thus. O Neptune, quantas ●pulas una coen●● 〈◊〉?  
9 Don Pedro de Valdes, General of the Army of A●delosia, now Prisoner in England grieving at his fortune, sitteth sad, and leaning his head on his hand, with a great ●●gh ●aith. He● quanta de spe decidi.  
10 The Princes, noble men, and other men of name that of their free will offered themselves adventurers in this Spanish attempt: frustrate of their intent, walk at home muffled in their cloaks, as men disgraced, and say one to another in great passion. Te●●eritatis nostra cum Briareo poenas 〈◊〉.  
11 The V●●●geren●es of his Indies having lo●t by Sea and land, 〈◊〉 of their kings treasure: sitting as discontented men on the hatches of their ships, to them is said. Si● vos 〈◊〉 vo●is mellificatis Apes.  
12 The c●mmon Soldiers, haled forward, rather by command then cou●age, fearing at the first to attempt so dangerous an exploit, and grieved at the la●t with their hard misfortune, half mutinous, murmur this▪ Quicquid delirant Reges, plectuntur Achi●●.    
The Spanish Masquerado.  

¶ The Pope having put off his triple Crown, and his Pontificalibus, sitting malcontented, scratching of his head, throwing away his keys and his Sword, in great ●holler saith thus,  Neque Petrus, neque Paulus, quidigitur restat. 

GLOSSA.  
REading the Annals or Records making mention of Antechriste, who being the worst amongst men extolleth himself above God, calling himself his vicar, and yet making his Patron by transubstantiation: Peter's successor as he feigneth, and yet his enemy in ●aith: we shall find that since sincerity in Religion, and humility were put to exile, and men's traditions and pri●e erected as pillars of the church, that from Feeders of the flock, they have refused to enter by the door, and have proved ravening Wolves, and sub●erters of Christ and his doctrine. Their great pomp unfitting for the humble purity of Christ's Disciples: their extreme covetousness selling the gifts of the holy Ghost for money: their open Simony: their secret ●●gling in dispensation for sins: their whoredoms, and their Sodomy, their palpable and gross heresies maintained, not with Peter's doctrine, but with Paul's sword: with rigours, not with reason, proves that since Peter's time, Peter's seat hath pleaded, Sede vacant, and that these shavelings are not his successors, but approved by their lives and doctrine, to be professed Antichrists. Peter was humble and spent his time in prayer and preaching, these are proud and meddle with states, Empires, kingdoms and Monarchies, pulling down one and creating another having Emperors kneeling at his feet, and casting off their crowns with his toe, treading on their backs, and blasphemously applying the text to himself, Calcabo super Aspidem, & Leonem. These presumptuous thoughts were not found in Peter, who imitating his Master Christ, walked abroad to feed his Flock: this (the Pope I mean) following the aspiring attempt of Lucifer, is carried on men's shoulders, and yet in his heretical Bulls to blind the People, he calleth himself servus servorum: guarded not as Peter was with the faithful of Israel, but either with his stout Cardinals, Copesmates of Caiphas Crew, or with some detestable Courtesans, the best imblazers of his profession. Long did this Monster mask in a sheeps skin, partly covered by his own policies▪ and partly by the favour of Princes: but at last breaking out into his own● proper shape, his name and nature was discovered, so that Pardons, his Bulls, his Excommunications, his Curses, nor such Paltries could prevail, but he was manifestly laid open for Antichrist to the world. So that his very Countrymen Italians, nursed up under his nose, seeing his detestable life, his great profession, and little performance, his heretical pomp usurped in his Papacy, could not but in conscience in their books pen down his sundry abuses and great absurdities, as Pasqum, Mantuan,, john Boccac●, Petrarch, and lately Ludovico Ariosto, who in one of his Cansons describes him for a monster thus.  Ariosto. 
Qui●i una Bestia uscir 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 Antichrist the Pope, to be in form like a beast, his ears like those of an Ass, the h●ad of a Wolf, lean and il favoured as insatiate of his prey, the claws of a Lion, and what resteth resembled a Fox. This monster saith he, had overcome all France, Italy, Spain, England, Europe, Asia, nay the whole world, triumphing in the pomp of his iniquity, till his date being expired, & the term of his reign ended, diverse princes hating to brook the imperious ravening of such a reasonless monster, sought to hunt him out off the Forest, and therefore sent divers good and expert Bloodhoundes to rouse him from his Den, as was john hus, Jerome of prague, OEcolampadius, and Zwinglius After, Luther and the Duke of Saxony, who for the defence of the truth maintained wars, against the Church of Rome. The Huntsmen 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 hilts in the ribs of this beast: Next him Maximilian of Austria: Third, Charles the fift Emperor, who with his spear passing eager, pierced the throat of this monster but he that with his boarspear stabbed him in the breast, & gave the deep & mortal wound, was Henry the eight, king of England, who seeing the abomination of that proud Antichrist, by his lawle● dispensations for coin, & the abuse his shavelings used in England, their massing & masking, their gluttony and lechery, the falseness of Religion: lastly, the extreme abuse of their profession, flying to the text, whatsoever my father hath not planted, shall be rooted up by the roots, he suppressed their Abbeys, pulled down their sumptuous buildings, & scarce left one stone upon an other, subverted their estate, changed their religion, for blind Papistry gave us the light of the Gospel. This his own Countryman 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,  
Francisco 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 advantage, feeling the wound incurable, yet somewhat salved and but now rubbed a fresh, by our mighty and famous princess Elizabeth daughter to that renowned Henry, who with her father rightly taking upon her the Ecclesiastical supremacy, hath utterly razed & abolished all his trash and traditions as absurdities & heresies, out of her Churches of England and Ireland, hating the Pope as Antichrist, and the Church of Rome as that whore of Babylon, figured out in the Revelation: This cause maketh this Monster to stir so that to revenge, he bent all his policies, suborning diverse false Traitors to attempt her death, persuaded thereunto by false jesuits and Seminaries sent by him into these our parts, which the Lord discovering, hath given them their hire, and mightily preserved his anointed: seeing these petty practices could not prevail, nor his Bull would not carry any credit, he flieth to incense princes to bend their forces against this our little Island, which defended by God, and governed by so virtuous a Princess as GOD hath chosen after his own● heart, standeth and withstandeth their forces, without aid of spear or horse, having the wind and sea Captains sent from above to quell the pride of such heretical enemies of the Gospel, so that the Pope seeing his purposed intent could not speed: as in a doubtful anguish of mind ●ell into this bitter passion.  Neque Petrus, neque Paulus, quid igitur restat.   

¶ Philip king of Spain, attired like an Hermit rideth towards the Church on a Mule, only attended on with certain his Slaves that are moors, and saith thus.  Iub●t Ecclesia, dissentire non a●deo. 

GLOSSA.  
philip of Spain no●●●ed from his infancy in the dark and obscure dungeon of Papistry, led as one blinded with the vale of ignorance, by this proud Antichrist, drunk with the dregs of that poison which the whore poureth out to the ●inges of the earth, pleasant in ta●t, but more bitter than wormwood in the maw: offered by the flattering Strumpet, riding on the Beast with the seven heads, drunk (I say) with her empoisoned cup, he sleepeth securely in the Pope's lap, till the Uiols of God's wrath poured down, his conscience new ●ear●d with a hot iron, then feels the ●●ing of 〈◊〉, as a plague following all such as have received the mark of that incestuous Strumpet. Philip therefore taking the Pope for Peter's successor, suffereth himself to be led and ruled by this man of Sin, holding his precepts for Oracles, & that who sitteth in that seat, how bad so ever of life, yet he cannot err, that what Cannons or Decretals he setteth down, are as true, and as firmly to be believed, and observed as the Gospel penned by the holy Evangelists who were inspired and directed by the Holy● Ghost: whereas notwithstanding we see by manifest and daily instances, that every Pope abolisheth another's Cannons and Decretals, as false and erroneous: yet PHILIP is so blinded, as he hath not an insight into this their juggling, for that he is taught by their Doctrine that the Church of Rome is the supreme Church, and that there is no Church which is not a perfect member of the same: these, making the Church material, and tying is to a local and particular Seat: Soothing himself up in these Heresies, he so feareth the frown of the Pope and his Cardinals, doubting to be excommunicated with some paltry Bull, that what they demand he granteth, aswell in mat●ers of temporal estate, as in Ecclesiastical rights and Ceremonies: that if the Clergy concludeth Peace, PHILIP confirmeth it: if the Clergy do proclaim Wars, he sends forth strait a press for Soldiers: so that being a mighty Prince of Inheritance and Revenues, yet he ruleth by the Clergy and Nobility, especially them of the Spiritual sect: that riding quietly with a few moors to hear Mass, he shaketh off all cares, leaving the glory of his Kingdom in the power of his Clergy, who being enemies to the truth, seek by all means possible to subvert the truth: well, persuaded by the Pope, and them of the Ecclesiastical sort, he provideth a great Armado, his Ships huge and monstrous, his men the chosen Cavaliers of Spain, Portugal, Italy and other Provinces: For munition●, it is much and marvelous, that the premises considered, they seem to threaten ruin to the greatest Monarchy of the whole world, and yet theyr● Forces bended against a little Island, a handful in respect of other Kingdoms: But see as the Lacedæmonians ●ewe in number subverted Xerxes and his N●uie, which for multitude of Uesselles covered the Ocean: joshua▪ with a handful strooke the Canaanites: 〈◊〉 GOD hearing their great braves against him and his people, did put a hook into their nostrils, and a Bridle into their jaws, and brought them back the same way they came, not suffering them to enter into th● land, nor to come against it with a shield, nor to cast a bank about it, but scattered them as du●t before the wind: and no doubt if we enter into the deep consideration of the Spanish attempt, we shall find it sent into these parts by the Lord for special causes. First to show us how for our sins he can bring the very enemies of his truth, as Ministers of his wrath, to punish offenders, as oft he did against the Israelites when they transgressed his Statutes a●d Laws, neglected the preaching of the Prophets, and contemned the word, than he brought in the Edomits▪ the Assyrians, the Egyptians, and other nation's, which carried them away Captive. Second, seeing how secure we slept, careless, reposing ourselves in that our own strength, for that we● were hedged in with the sea, and had a long and peaceable time of quiet: made sloothfull by these his favours, his Majesty brought in these Spaniards to waken us out off our dreams, to teach the brave men of this realm, that after peace comes wars, that in the greatest quiet we should apply ourselves to martial endeavours, and know how to handle the Sword a●d spear, not only in a sloothfull security, to say the Lord is ●ur defence, but to use the ordinary means he hath appointed, & then to invocate upon him, and bending ●ur sw●rdes, say in faith, the Lord is on ou● side, who can be against us: for the Israelites ne●er subdued the Canaanites, but the Lord did put weapons in their hands to execute the end of his victories. The third, he sent them as summons and Ambassadors to encourage us to attempt the like: for when the Saracens in the time of Charles the great, had invaded Germany, and the frontes of France, the news hereof brought to the Emperor, he presently said, how doth the Lord favourably accuse us of sloth and carelessness of increasing his religion by those Pagans, when they for their Mohomet and the advancement of his blasphemies, hazard their lives to suppress the contrary. And I seem to sit at home: and dare not for the Lord of Hosts cause, enter arms against the Infidels, so that awakened with this, Charles not only withstood them in his own land, but having given them the repulse, spent many years in setting forth the glory of GOD by the sword, among the miscreants: So no doubt these Spaniards, the Soldiers of Antichrist, are sent to tell our Nobles, Captains and martial men of this land, that they sleep secure, that the Bees hive in their Helmets, that their pampered horses serve for foot-cloths, not for the field: that we suffer the enemies▪ of the truth too much to offer us the brave: These causes no doubt moved the Lord to send them, and yet to subvert them: to show them he fovoreth his people, and useth revenge against the despisers of his Gospel: therefore are such men greatly to be commended, that for the benefit of their Country, fear not to hazard their lives, especially if it were with the advancement of the glory of God. If then the mighty men which Solomon sent to fetch gold from his friends to jerusalem, were highly extolled: If the Portugals chronicled them which first sought by navigation to find out strange lands, returning with no profile but the discovery of Countries, how then hath this Island cause to ●ternise with their pens the worthy deeds of Sir Francis Drake, who passing malgrado of the Spaniard, hard by his door, nay setting foot into his land, and having preys went with a few small Barks and Pynasses into his Indies, and fetched from them gold and treasure for the enriching of his prince and country, and returning back in triumph feared not● what the Spaniard with all his great Uessels dared attempt, in so much that the report of his valour, both by sea as he passed and by land wh●n he arrived in India, being bruited in Spain: his very name is as great a terror to the Spanish, as Scipio to the Numidians. Then Sir Martin Frobusher a man of great travel and experience in navigation: and last M. Candish who so lately ventured with the farthest, showing great courage and fortune▪ in bringing home from far so rich treasure: Thus we may see that the Lord is on our side, that bringeth us home safe, with a few little Pinasses from the very jaws of our enemies, when the Spaniards could not return, having so strong an Armado furnished for battle. These considerations no doubt maketh Philip to let his Clergy sweat in these frivolous attempts, while he himself quietly may for excuse say, jubet Ecclesia, dissentire non audeo.    

¶ The Cardinals of Rome, seeing that the Pope was malcontented, for the bad success of the Spanish Fleet, appareled like Mourner's go solemnly singing De pro●●ndis, from castle Angelo to S. Peter's Church: to them is said.  Lugete quia cecidit Meretrix. 

THis brood of Antichrist whom Francis Petrarch and john Bocca●e calleth I●sipidum Sal terrae, the Cardinals I mean, no sooner have any thing to contrary their minds, but with the pharisees they anoint themselves, and causing trumpets to be blown before them, fly to their Dirges & Trentals: as, Causa sine qua non, their misfortunes may not be redressed. But seeing they oppose themselves to Christ and his religion, their lip labour is turned unto sin, and cry they Domine, Domine, never so loud, yet their feigned exclamations in vain, are only breathed into the air: But leaving their religion as palpably heretical to all true Christians, let us in a word or two look into their lives, wherein as in a Crystal Mirror, we shall see figured and portrayed the Anatomy of the seven deadly Sins. For Pride both in their hearts, puffed up with aspiring thoughts, and in their Apparel, set out with inestimable bravery, the meanest Scholar of the least Traveyler, either by reading or experience may manifest: For who meeteth a Cardinal mounted, first marking the trappings and furniture of his horse richly studded, his foot-clooth of velvet fringed with gold, his brave attire covered with his Scarlet rob, and his sumptuous train following him, shall think that he meeteth not one of Peter's Disciples, but some great Potentate, or Monarch of the world, rather resembling ALEXANDER in his effeminate Persian robes, when he surnamed himself the son of AMMON, than a Christian, a Pillar of the Church, that should in the humbleness of his life, give light unto the People. Their Sodomy, as they keep not very secret, for they in their Palaces, imitating the heathen God JUPITER, gett● them , which Stantes a poculis, serve for Pages: yet they as much as they can obscure, but their Lechery they fear not to make manifest, as being Fathers of many Bastards, and Paramours of sundry Courtesans, to whom in their Carnovale, they go in Masks, and so openly co●rt with sundry devilish devices. Their slooth is seen in the security of their lives: for apply they themselves never so strictly to study, while they are of mean degree, yet after they attain the calling of a Cardinal, they answer with their master the Pope, that with Peter they have cast the Net and laboured all night, and now catched the fish, not the souls of men, but some great dignity and preferment: which gotten, they say to their souls, live at ease.  
Their gluttony is seen in their sumptuous banquets, which exceed in such riotous abundance, to pamper themselves, not to feed the poor, that the Monsters of Rome, their predecessors in belly cheer, Heliogabolus, Commodus, julianus & Lucellus Emperors and Senators, never surpassed in this vice ●hese peevish shavelings: Envy is seen, in their ●rowning at the fortunate success of their very friendies: for when any amongst them is preferred to the Papacy, than the rest incensed with envy, ●all to treasons, conspiracies, privy murders, and poisonings: that some Popes have scarcely lived 2 days, nay some one day: before they have been made away by the Cardinals, who through envy seek to establish the Papal seat with blood, as did pope Alexander and divers others: so that oftimes it may be said of their Pope, as Tully said of the Consul that lived but one day: Vigilantissimum habuimus Papam, qui t●to su● Papatu somnum vix vidit.  
Their wrath & fury, let the Chronicles of the state of Italy, as of Venecia, Florence, Vrb●e, Naples, Geneva & the rest, discover: in which places, having been appointed 〈◊〉 Legates, they have displayed the Trophies of their wrath, as upon the house of the Medici's in Florence after the death of old● Cos●o against Peter Ludovic and Lorenzo, their intent to murder these brave Gentlemen, so to satisfy their extreme wrath and fury.  
Their Covetousness Italy cries out on, as burdened with their tasks, extortions, and impositions, for Bul●, Pardons and dispensations: nay England itself may be produced as a witness, who ● long while paid to Rome many extraordinary duties. Poole ● Woolsey are late instances, what insatiate co●●tousnes is barbour●d under the pr●t●nsed show of their religion: these 〈◊〉 linges sleeping thus in their wickedness, attending upon that rich whore of Babylon, who professeth, himself Patroness of their practises, mourn lest our abolishing of their abhomidations in England, should incense the rest of Europe by our examples, to shake off their heavy yoke of ignorance, and to embrace the light of the Gospel, and therefore rightly to them is said, Lugete, quia cecidit Meretrix.    

The Clergy of Spain mounted richly on their lennets, 〈◊〉 up and down consulting, and at their wit's end, fuming a●d fretting that their counsels had no better success, to them is said.  Ahithophelis consilium, Ahithopelis laqueum. 

GLOSSA.  
philip being old, holding in the one hand a sword, in the other a crootch, as ready to step from his Sceptre to the Grave, hath his mind troubled with contrary passions, so that he may say with Don Pedro, Spiritus est ab inquietudine co●c●us. Devout he is, although it consisteth in ignorance, ambitious, desiring still to enlarge his possessions and kingdoms: and covetous as never satisfied with all his ter●●tor●s and treasures: yet age somewhat cooleth th●se desires, 〈◊〉 casteth water in the ●lame, but his Clergy make supply by their persuasions, in what his pears do fail in defect: for they sorry that little England should suppress their grand Patroness, that proud Who●e of Babylon, or oppose it, self against Antichrist the Pope, thinking that if either these ●●●lde, or the ●ight of the gospel did flourish, that Princes & Nations having a deep insight into their juggling, their religion should fail: they incense poor Philip to set himself Ex diametro against the truth, and to endeavour in what he may, t● subvert the estate of true Christianity, aiming especially at our most gracious Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, as the chief Defendresse and Patroness in all Europe, of the purity of the Gospel: giving counsel with Achitophel against David, against the Lords anointed, but he turning their worldy wisdom into foolishness, overthroweth their policy and practises, versifying upon their heads the proverb. Malum consilium Consultori pessimum.  
These shaulinges, this presumptuous brood of Antichrist, puffed up not only with this blind zeal, but with the spirit of pride, which filleth them with aspiring ambition, in so much that they imitating their father the Pope, seek not to content themselves with ecclesiastical power, but to intermeddle with kingdoms and states, so that they fear not to bridle the affections of Philip, as far as they list to limit, burning his Son at their pleasure, and letting him blood to abate his courage, almost to the peril of his life. judge gentle reader, if this becometh a Subject, an inferior, ●ay a Clergy man who should be humble, and give these duties to Caesar, that belong to Caesar, and those honours to God, that belong to God: But the Devil w●rking their confusion, by their own imaginations, hardeneth thei● hearts with Pharaoh, and maketh them shameless with Achitophel, to give wicked counsel against the truth: 〈◊〉 as Pharaoh was drowned in the ranckour of his thoughts, and Achitophel seeing the Lord had overthrown his counsels, went home and hanged himself. So shall confusion come to all that with Saul kick against the prick, that rightly it may be said to 〈◊〉 confused Clergy men. Achithophelis consilium, Achithophelis l●queum.    

¶ The rest of the rascal Rabble of the Romish church as Monks, Friars, and di●ging Priests, storming at these news, sitting banqueting with the fair Nuns, having store of dainty Cates, and wines before them, stall-fed with ●ase, and gluttony, groan out of their fat patches this passion.  Quanta patimur pro amore Christi. 

GLOSSA.  
NOw Gentle Reader give leave, that this crew 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 reed: these are the Bulls of Basan, that fatted up in the Pope's stall, feed themselves against the day of slaughter: these are the jolly fellows that once in England lived like Princes in their abbeys and Friaries, whose bonnettes were vailed and their top sails so low strooken, that no wind would serve them, from sinking into the bottomless gulf: These be they, who when Christ commandeth, that who so l●ueth him shall take up his cross and follow him, clapping on their backs a basket stuffed with good cheer: ●ay Quanta patimur pro amore Christi. Whereupon are merrily recited these verses.  
O Monachi quorum Stomachi sunt Amphora Bacchi:  
Vos esti●, Deus est testis, mundi mala.  
Of this generation john Boccace in his Decamero● telleth many pretty tales: of their Lechery, as when ●air Albe●● under the shape of the Angel Gab●iell, lay with Dame Lezet●a; of their false Legend, as a Monk preaching to the people, having found a very rich feather of some some ●●range Fowl, intended to make his Parishioners believe, it was a plume of the Angel Gabriel: Certain good Companions his Familiars noting his knavery, secretly ●●ole out off his Casket the feather, and put in coals. Well, Mass Monk come once into his Pulpit, after a long Exordium, told to the People what a Relic he had, one of the feathers of the Angel Gabriel, but putting his hand into his casket, and finding nothing but coals, strait found the knot in the rush, and said he had taken the wrong Casket, but yet brought them a Relic, no less precious, which was the coals that Saint Laurence was roasted on: so that making crosses with them upon their Garments he departed with Monkish credit. Many of these and worse pranks, abominable to rehearse, have their own Countrymen and Papists penned down against them, amongst choice one mer●ly (I call not his name to remembrance) setteth down, that a Monk ●itting in his cel, had on the ●ne side his Leman a fair Nun no man on he other side, his portasse being thus seated as in a Dileman, laying one hand on the nuns knee, and the other on his Mass book, he fetched a great ●●gh and said, Quo m● vertam, nescio: the Devil behind, made him answer, Haud refert: utraque enim ducit ad infernum. Whereupon to avoid the doubt, he made proof 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 agreeing, debating amidst their cups and their courtesans of the Spanish repulse, full of wine and and delicate cheer they cry out. Quanta patimur pro amor● Christi.    

¶ The Nobility of Spain grieved at the dishonour of their shameful return, after great consultation, vow a general Pilgrimage of S. james of Compostella, in hope of his aid for revenge: to them is said.  S● Petrus dormit Papae, num jacobus vigilabit vobis. 

GLOSSA.  
WHen Hannibal had given the Romans a repulse before Capua, the Senate hearing the ill news, resolved in the Senate house to sacrifice unto Mars, fearing he was displeased with their Army: which sentence Scipio hearing, starting up amongst them said: I will no other God but our fortunes, no other vows 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 Chivalry then the Spaniard: But I suppose his religion and his stomach to be equally poised: the one false, the other faint, that what they attempt, is not to be overcome with prowess, but to suppress with multitudes: for their service in wars is either by policy, to cirumvent by perjury, to entice by treason, to undermine, or by some little martial practice to weaken the enemy, whom if they find valiantly to 〈◊〉, their brave once cooled, they seldom or never dare give a fresh Encounter whereupon these the Nobles of Spain daunted, choose rather fearfully to seek out S. james of Compostella, then valiantly with Scipio to swear revenge with the sword. This custom brooks not an English heart, for our Nobles having taken repulse, fly not to S. George, but managing their sword, cry, God and their right, seeking either with Epaminondas to win their honours with their blood, or to be carried out with him resolutely on their shields: They faint not with julian at the frist frown● of Severus, but valiantly expect with the Argentinin of Alexander the great, the coming of their ●oes: not ask how many there be, but where they be: not attending with Xerxes and his fainthearted Soldiers, to have the brave, but valiantly like the Cavaliers of Troy, thrusting amidst the attending Grecians. divers instances, as when in the time of Robert the third king of Scots, Earl Douglas with a mighty and puissant army entered the Frontiers of England, making ha●ocke as far as Newcastle, sundry times ●ickered with our men, and gave them the foil: which Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland surnamed Henry Hotspur noting, fuming at such bad Fortune, and as it were struck 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 prayers unto GOD, and vowing a courageous resolution on the hilts of his Sword, having a very small company in respect of the Scots, he pricketh towards them, and although he was sharply repulsed at the first and second encounter, yet thinking how sweet it were to die rather than to li●e with dishonour, he gave a fresh charge, and overthrew the Scots with such a slaughter, that he took Prisoners, the Earls Douglas, Fife, Murrey, and Angus, Thus do our Nobles of England make their pilgrimage, and end their revenge: which if it be not true, I reports me to the Nobles of Spain themselves, who lately had experience o● their Courage, that they were feign, for the vowing of their Pilgrimage to S. james to deserve this mock. Si Petrus dormit Papae, 〈◊〉 jacobus vigilabit vobis?    

¶ The Duke of Medina, Captain general of the Army and Spanish forces, rideth on a jennet, with one foot out of the Stirrup, his cap pulled over his eyes, and his points untrust: to him is said.  Pillulae Britanicae in dissent eriam te coni●c●runt. 

GLOSSA.  
WHen julius Caesar was sent by the Senate Dictator against the Gauls, his friend Lepidus ask him whether he now journeyed: In Galliam (quoth he) 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 Sovereign, as General of all his Forces, yet he choose rather to return with dishonour, then with valiant Caesar to seek a Sepulchre in England: For coming with a mighty Fleet, well provided with martial furniture such as might have amazed the greatest Monarch in the whole world to encounter: coming with as great a brave towards England, as Xerxes against Lacedemonia: setting up his Streamers as Commanders that Aeolus should he favourable to his Navy. And with him the Admiral Don Ma●t●nes de Ricaldo, Pedro de Valdes, Martin Bretendona, Gomes de Medina and others, whose hieroglyphical Simb●ls, Emblems, impresses and devices did prognosticate (as they supposed) their triumphant victory, and our dishonourable and miserable overthrow, playing at dice for our Noblemen and knights and dividing our Land into portions: Medina and Ricaldo sitting thus as Princes of the Sea, braving Neptune in our straights: no sooner came alongst our Coast, and were encountered with our Fleet, filled with Noblemen of invincible courage, but Medina the great Champion of Spain, took the lower end of the ship, Ricaldo his bed, whereas our Lord Admiral, the Lord Charles Haward, stood upon the upper deck, resolutely and valiantly encouraging his m●n to fight for the honour of their Country. The Lord Henry Seymer, a noble man or worthy prowess, standing in the face of the Enemy to p●t oil in the flame, & valour in an english heart, taught the Spaniards with Bullet, that the noble men of England, ●●er●d with sparks of honour, counted life no more but a debt, every hour due unto nature. With him the Lord Thomas Haward whose forward resolution the Spaniards may report in Spain, to their great dishonour. Next these, that worthy Gentleman, that famous Cavalier, the terror of Spain, that fortunate Knight, Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, bestirred himself, as his wont manner, not fearfully as Medina, but valiantly standing in the fore room, delivered with Cannon his embassage to the Enemy. With him Sir Martin Frobusher, Sir Roger Townesend, and others which I omit, not as men of less valour, but for brevities sake. Then let us note and rejoice, how our nobles of England, and worthy Knights behaved themselves, how God inserting courage in their minds, fought for us, and the truth, and how striking a terror and cowardice into the Lords of Spain, as unto Senacherib and his host, bending their Forces against Samaria, the Lord of Medina hasted out off our Seas, and our Fleet held them long in chase spoiling and praying on their Ships daily.  
Thus the great General of Spain was content to pockette up this Dishonour to save his life, and therefore must abide ●he reproachful taunt that our English Pills hath cast him into a lask, and such a myxe, as hath defiled all his honour: then (for me) let him have the deserved scoff. Pillulae Britanic●● in dissenteriam te coniecerunt.    

¶ Don Martin's de Ricaldo, chief Admiral of the Fleet, standing in the Haven, and ●eeing his tattered Ships, considering what goodly Vessels were taken and drowned, and what store of men and munition they had lost, leaning his back against a broken anchor, and shaking of his head: saith thus.  O Neptune, quantas ●pulas una coena deuorast●? 

GLOSSA.  
ALthough Don Martin's, for his expert skill in Navigation, and policy in naval ●●ght, was elected chief Admiral of the Spanish Fleet, yet such his fate, his Fortune▪ or his little courage, that coming to England, as proudly as the Turk came into the gulf: yet he went away worse dishonoured than Calig●la, that in stead of Battle, gathered Cockles on the western shore.  
Six year at the least he was great Commander for furniture necessary for this intended Fleet, which no doubt he stuffed and stored to the full, gathering together such provision, as if should with the Giants, intent 〈◊〉 against Mars and jupiter: He had in his Flee●●, of Galleons▪ Hulks, Pataches, Zabres, Galleasses, and Galleys ●●●. The receipt being 57868. Tons 〈◊〉, 19295. Mariner's, 8450. And of great brazen Pieces, 2630. Provided thus, as might be supposed, for the conquest either of Asia or Africa, he bendeth his course against England, a little Island, where as S. Augustine saith, their be people with Angels faces, so the Inhabitants have the courage and hearts of Lions: which poor D●n Martin's tried true: For GOD using ELIZABETH his servant and her subjects, as his instruments, to punish the enemies of his truth, no sooner cam● 〈◊〉 proud Holofernes into our seas, but the Mice crept out off little Betulia, judith sitting peaceably in her royal seat, & encountering fiercely with their Foes, taught them that God fought on their side, than not to be daunted with multitudes: and Martin's fearful▪ shrunk away. But God who holdeth revenge in his hand, let loose the winds, and threw a storm into the sea, that many of their ships which escaped our hands, perished on the Rocks: using the Sea for revenge, as he did against Pharaoh, when he persecuted the children of Israel: So that Don Ricaldo with dishonour passed into Spain, and our Admiral returned with glorious triumph into England, bringing home Ships, Prisoners, and Furniture, that our English shores sounded with Echoes of triumph, and every mouth was filled with the praises of of the Lord Charles Haward, while Ricaldo dismayed at at his misfortune, and his tottered ships, saith. O Neptune, quantas epulas una coena devorasti?    

¶ Don Pedro de Valdes, General of the Army of Andel●si●, now Prisoner in England, grieving at his fortune,: sitteth sad, and leaning his head on his hand, with a great s●gh saith.  Heu quanta de spe decidi. 

GLOSSA.  
AMongst the Generals of these intended Squadrons, Don Pedro de Valdes was not of the meanest account, nor thought of the least valour, but supposed for his courage and resolution to be a second Hector, in so much as Medina, Ricaldo, and the rest relied much both upon his policy, and prowess, and he himself at his departure from the King, and his losing from Lisbon, by his brave words, his great promises, and martial threats, was of surpassing great hope amongst the Spaniards, so that the King of Spain sent him as Senacherib sent Rabsaketh to de●●e Ezekiah. And Pedro himself resolved by a pretext time, to enter the Land with conquest: in so much that the Romans never conceived better hope in Horatius Cocles, in Torquatus, in Scipio African, nay in Caesar, when he was Dictator, than the Spaniards did in Don Pedro, thinking that no sooner he would have arrived in the English co●st, but he would have written back, as the Roman Monarch did, Veni, vidi, vici: but if he or his fellows had read the Conquests of England, how difficult they were, either of the Saxons, Danes, or of the Romans, or lastly by the ●ormanes, either he would have provided a greater Fleet, or a better courage: For being embarked in a Ship of 1330 tons, carryin●●●tie Cannons, after a while he had straggled on our coast, meeting our Fleet, which presently gave the charge, he was one of the first that was taken, not making any resistance at all, or showing any point of honourable re-resolution, not so much as drawing his sword in defence. Is this the mind of a Nobleman of dubbed Chivalry? of a Captain, to submit in the first extremity? Do the Spaniards prize life so high, that they make no estimation of honour? Fortitude is high, and will not be stained in mean dangers: Courage is like the Eagle, that catcheth not at Flies. First D●n Pedro was commanded by his King to attempt his purpose with death his vow was to purchase England though with death: His promise at his departure, was to conquer, or to seal the attempt with death, and yet coming in the Skirmish, a few b●llets had but bruised his Ship, and spoiled his tacklings, but sub●●isse he yielded without one stroke, having three hundred and forty men of war, and a hundred and eighteen mar●●ers: or without one denial with 〈◊〉, having fifty Cannons in his ship: He that like a Lion came storming from Spain, humbly like a lamb crouched to our Admiral in the English sea●, yielding himself and his, prisoners: Now note the Spanish braving promises, what cowardly conclusions they infer. Cato V●icensis choose rather to murder himself, then to fall into the hands of Caesar his Enemy, nay, Cleopatra a woman, suffered rather death by stinging of Aspick●s, than she would submit to her Foe: Honour amongst Soldiers is highly prized, and to bear the yoke of an Enemy is more bitter to a noble mind then death: Yet liked not Don Pedro of this philosophy: he thinks, to die is the last deed, and therefore to live is sweet: but this was not answerable to his Emblems and Impresses which he gave in his Ensigns, Banners and Streamers, ●or in the one was ●●gur●d a Sun and a Moon, the Motto in Spanish, but to this effect ●eri plemlu●●um, hody defectus: Yesterday the Full, but to day the Wane: meaning (as I suppose) tha● the fullness of England's prosperity was at an end, and now by his means should it fall into the Wane: on the other side was depainted an Altar with sacrifice fuming the Poe●●e: Sic cupio, sic cogito: Spiritus ab inquietudine ●oactus: I cannot well discourse his meaning in this: but no doubt whatsoever he wrote, what he invented, yea all his devices, practices, and thoughts were of the subversion of England: Well, those Banners and Ensigns which he hoped to have displayed in England to our great reprooch, were to his deep dishonour hanged to the joy of all true English hearts, about the Battlements and cross of Paul's, and on London bridge: he himself Prisoner, & feeling the burden of his misfortune, could not (though never so well used in England) but sigh and say. Heu quanta de spe decidi.    

¶ The Princes, noble men, and other men of name that of their free will, offered themselves adventurers in this Spanish attempt: frustrate of the●r intent, walk at home muffled in their cloaks, as men disgraced, and say one to another in great passion.  Temeritatis nostra cum Briareo poe●as lui●●●. 

GLOSSA.  
IN this Spanish Fleet were many voluntary adventurers, Princes▪ Dukes, Counties, Barons, Knights, Esquires, and gentlemen, younger brothers▪ ●o the number of an 124. besides their Servants, who without request or command, upon their own free will, offered themselves as consorts in this voyage, moved first with a blind● zeal of religion, then with desire of honour, especially against the English, who they heard were full of Coucourage: Thirdly for hope of preferment in this our Island, after the conquest hoped for of the Spanish. Moved with these considerations, they came triumphing in this Fleet: finding a cooling card to allay their hot stomachs, they returned hom● discouraged, dishonoured, and disgraced, in so much, tha● looking with a deep insight, into our victory, and their overthrow: seeing our ships like little P●●●sses, and their huge barks built like Castles, over péering ours: they in their own consciences confessed that God was on our side: saying, that their oversight in being so forward was requited as the detestable attempt of Briare●s the Giant with the hundred hands, and Tiphes who, the Poets feign, did war against the Gods, and hea●ed hill on hill, as Pelion on Oss●, to climb up to the Heavens, whereupon jupiter with a Thunnderbolte, pashed them all to powder: so they, blinded with the vale of ignorance, attempted against the Gospel, the truth, and the Defendresse of them both, Queen Blizabeth the Lords chosen, and his anointed: and therefore against God: which consideration made them murmur to themselves. Temeritatis nostrae cum Briareo poenas l●imus.    

11 The Vicegerentes of his Indies having lo●t by Sea and land, much of their kings treasure: sitting●s discontented men on the hatches of their ships, to them is said.  Sic vos non vobis mellificatis Apes. 

GLOSSA.  
THE Indies being first sought out by the Portugal, and lately conquered and possessed by the King of Spain, yieldeth him all his treasure wherewith he feedeth his Clergy in their pomp, his Nobility in their bravery, and his Soldiers in their pay. In this Conquest of the Indies, did th● Spaniard show his courage, his faith, his clemency: his courage, in performing so haughty & dangerous a Conquest: for being armed at all p●ints with his Curets, his Cor●●et, Burganet, his, horse, his Pike, his spear, with store of men at arms, and demi-lance, he invaded a company of naked moors without armour or knowledge of use of weapon, but a few fish bones: his faith, in that these naked men flying into the woods and Mountains, whether the Spaniard neither could nor durst march, was persuaded upon his oath by the christian God, to come and yield with promise of life and liberty: who no sooner were in his reach, and circuit with his Soldiers, but breaking his o●th, as one that swore by none of his friends, he caused his Soldiers to apprehend their Nobility as prisoners: His clemency in using the victory, not as Caesar, that gloried in his courtesies used to his foes, but like brute beasts, caused the Indians to be hunted with dogs, some to be torn with horses, some to have their hands cut off, and so many sundry Massaquers as grieveth any good mind to report. The Spaniard seated thus in the Country, strait sought out the Mines of gold, & causing the remnant of the moors as slaves to dig in th● Mines, sent yearly with a great Fleet, much treasure from thence into Spain: which being blazed abroad through all the world, the report coming into England, there rose up a man of ●igh and hardy resolution, Sir Francis Drake: who sent by her Majesty to discover that Country, not only found it out, but brought home great riches, and the same time as a warrior went, and malgrado of the Spaniard landed, entered up into the country near Carthagene, & Sancto Domingo, putting the Spaniard to the foil, & the sword, brought home store of wealth and treasure, and getting by his valour such endless fame and glory, as far surmounteth such momentaine trash: using the moors, conquered with such courtesy, as they thought the English Gods, and the Spaniards both by rule and conscience half Devils. Sir Francis Drakes happy success in India, and the late loss of their Sovereign's Fleet, joined together, sore daunted the minds of the India generals, that they 〈◊〉 as men discontented in their hearts: to whom is objected (as in derision) the verses that Virgil wrote against Batillus.  
Sic vos non vobis m●llificatis Apes,  
Sic vos non vobis nid●ficatis Aves,  
Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra Boves,  
Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis O●es.  
Meaning, that as the Bees make heavy themselves, y●t not for themselves, but men reap it to their use, so the Spaniard digged out sweet honey from the golden Mines, and Sir Francis Drake fetched it home to be tasted in England reaping his profit out off their labours: so that the India Generals are feign to bear this scoff. Sic vos non vobis:    

12 The common Soldiers, haled forward, rather by command then courage, ●earing at the first to attempt so dangerous an exploit, and grieved at the last with their hard misfortune, half mutinous, murmur this.  Quicquid delirant Reges, plectuntur Achivi. 

GLOSSA.  
CAESAR being Dictator for the Romans, & having conquered France, hearing that there was a little Island beyond, full of hardy and courageous people, thirsting after honour, and coveting to increase the Roman Monarchy, he rigged his Fleet, and cut over into England, where he found such hard landing, that he was glad to pass away with the repulse: but he, whose mind was impatient of dishonour: after he had renewed his fleet, made a long oration to encourage them, but they found so hard a breakfast, that hardly they could be induced to give the second attempt. The Spaniards being but in respect our Neighbours, hearing how not only we have defended our own Realm, but made divers invasions with great victories: as Edward the third in France, and Henry the fift, who forced the King by arms to proclaim him heir apparent, in so much that Henry the sixth sat crowned in Paris. The poor Soldiers having heard of these and other our resolutions, were discouraged before they came, and feared to buckle with men so hardy and fortunate although they were both charged by their King, and encouraged by the Pope with a general pardon a poena & culpa, yet all the persuasions would not serve, for divers hid themselves, and other by feigned excuses sought absence, but at last compelled forward, and forced to take shipping, they found here that they feared: men that durst abide their brave, and return them blow for blow, not the naked moors, nor the fainting Portugal, but English men that prise honour as dear as their lives: who if they hear but this word Elizabetha, they fly like Lions in the face of the Enemy, nay in the mouth of the Cannon, rather opposing themselves to ten thousand deaths, than the fortune of her enemies should touch her royal Majesty with any contrary passion. Feeling thus what they feared, some taken Prisoners, others slain, a multitude drowned in the sea by Shipwreck, the remnant of poor mercenary men cry cut in bitterness of mind. Quicquid delirant Reges, plectuntur Achi●i.    

THus Gentle Reader, thou hast seen the Spanish Masquerado, which I have now devised, to discourse to thee their estate, how although the malicious enemy seeks (puffed up by ambition and covetousness) to subvert our religion, and make a Conquest of our Island: yet he that seated our most royal Princess in her Kingdom, as his Minister to set forth his truth, and plant his Gospel, still shrowd●th her under his wing, and protectes her from the violent attempt of all her foes, and breaketh off the wheels of their chariots, that s●●ke with Pharaoh, to persecute his people.  
Then rejoice and give thanks to God for all his gracious favours, and be faithful and true hearted to thy Prince, whom God so loveth: stand steadfast in th● truth, wherewith he blesseth thee, and then fear not what the Spaniards can do, for their ●owes shall be broken, and their arrows cracked asunder: the Lord shall send forth his wrath, as hot as coals, & the breath of his nostrils as a consuming fire, to burn such chaff as purged out with the Fan of his justice, lies scattered abroad with the wind: I● Spain shall attempt against England as Pharaoh did against the Israelites, Moses shall show wonders to amaze them, and maugre the Prince of Egypt, lead his people through the sea. If Samaria be begirt with Edodomites and Assyrians, yet shall the Lord send a fear and a terror into their thoughts, that they shall fly and ●e discomfited with their own imaginations: If the pope and Spain with their heretical confederates fill the narrow seas with Uessels, whose tops muster like a wood, in the Ocean, yet shall the Lord if we keep his commandements and obey his statutes, send gusts and storme● to scatter their Navy, and confound them with his creatures as men that do make war against God, & plant their Engine against the holy mount of Zion. Let Englishmen then shrouded under the wings of the most highest, not fear what thousands can do against them: nay let them give thanks to God who hath blest us with such a Prince as makes us eat fruits of our own vineyard, and drink of the water of our own wells: our Cities are full of joy, and our children are seen sporting in the streets: peace and plenty flourisheth in England, and all our Land floweth with milk and ho●ie: nay more, that heavenly Manna the food of our souls, the Gospel of our Saviour Christ is frankly freely and truly not only preached, but lovingly embraced by the Queen and her Subjects.  
Seeing then we are every way blest and favoured from above: that the Lord our merciful God maketh ENGLAND like EDEN, a seco●● Paradise: let us ●●are to offend him, and be zealous 〈◊〉 execute the tenor of his commandments, then shall we be sure his Majesty will send our Queen long life, his Church to 〈◊〉 faithful Ministers, and our Realm perfect Subjects, and shroud us against Spain, the Pope, and all other enemies of his Gospel.  
FINIS.