THE GREAT TURKS DEFIANCE:  
Or his Letter DENUNTIATORIE to SIGISMOND the Third, now King of Polonia, as it hath been truly advertised out of Germany, this present year, 1613.  
WITH THE KING OF POLAND his reply, Englished according to the French Copy,  
By M. S.  
M B   printer's or publisher's device 
LONDON, Printed by Melchisedech Bradwood, for William Aspley. 1613.   

THE COPY OF A DENUNCIATION sent by the great Emperor of the Turks, Unto Sigismond the third, King of Poland and Lituania, the seventh of julie, 1612.  
ACMETH SULTAN, Son of the most puissant and highest, Emperor of the Turks, King of Macedonia, Arabia, Samaria, Grecia, and little Egypt, King above all the Kings that dwell upon the earth, a King that dwelleth on the earthly Paradise, an anointed Prince & son of Mahomet, Keeper of the Lower Hungary, Prior of the Earthly Paradise, and Keeper of the Grave of thy God, Lord of the tree of life, and of the River Flisky, Conqueror of the Macedonians, borders of Hungaria, and of the city Bettune, a great persecutor of his enemies, and of all their evil vices, a most perfect jewel of the blessed Tree, the chiefest keeper of the crucified God, a Prince & Lord in whom the Pagans trust, and a great persecutor of all Christians. To SIGISMOND the Third, King of Poland our greeting,  
if thou dost desire our welfare, and art friend to us and our Officer and Lieutenant General of our forces which we will send. But thou hast long since broken and falsified our friendship, and yet art neither ready nor fit to wage war or fight battle against us. But thou hast some secret advise and intelligence with other confederate Kings, and their Counsellors, to deliver thee out of our hands and our vicegerents power, wherein thou hast done very unadvisedly and undiscreetly. If therefore thou thus persevere to oppose thyself against us, then fear, for thy death and the death of all thy people is determined. We tell thee we will overcome thee from the rising of the Sun, to the going down thereof, and we will show our Majesty in our own person and sight unto the uttermost parts of the earth. Our very thoughts shallbe a terror unto thee, that we will perform all that which we have herein denounced. And we will make known unto thee the powerfulness of our dominions. And thou, o King, which puttest thy trust in strong forts & Castles shalt have experience of my might and power. I will root out all together, and thou shalt behold this with thine own eyes. Wherefore expect now no more friendship at my hands; put not thy hope in the strength of thy walls, with thy own forces and people. I will ruinated thee without any resistance. I will destroy thy Craccawe in sign of triumph. I will leave there my bloody sword, that every one shall take notice thereof, and my belief shallbe spread abroad throughout all thy Dominions, and I will utterly root out the very remembrance of thy crucified God. Let thy God be angry, I care not, he may then help thee. Thy anointed (the Priests) I will surely put to the plague. Wild beasts & wolves shall suck the breasts of thy women. Thou shalt leave and forsake thy Religion which thou hast. That which remaineth of all things shallbe consumed with fire. Herewith rest thou satisfied. I do not tell thee now what I will do, or mean to do with thee, understand it if thou wilt or canst.  
From our residence Constantinople most strongly guarded.   

AN ANSWER TO THE MENACING and Warre-denouncing Letter of the Great Turk.  By SIGISMOND King of Polonia and Sweden: great Duke of Lituania, Russia, and Podolia. 
SIGISMOND by the grace of God King of Polonia and Sweden, Great Duke of Lituania, Russia, and Podolia, one of the most humble servants of the great God, and of his son Jesus Christ crucified. To ACMETH chief Prince of Turks and Infidels souls health.  
We have received thy Letter fraught with threats, and swollen with impieties against the Majesty of the high GOD, whereunto we had not vouchsafed answer, but that we were persuaded, that our silence would have been a means, to cause thee flatter thyself so much the more, else had we neglected thee like an arch-enemy of God as thou art. We have therefore thought fit in some sort, to regard the salvation of thy soul, letting thee know, that thou art no other but a mere man, in thy person more weak than many of thy followers, which should cause thee to remember, that if it had not pleased God, to engrave in the front of such as rule a kind of awful Majesty whereby their subjects are kept in obedience, the good by reward, the evil and perverse by rigorous laws, and both the one and the other by authority, it were impossible they should continue eminent above others. Thou then, who in thyself art but as other men, must know, that there is a supreme power of more might than thine, which doth uphold thine estate, causing thee to be respected of thy followers. This power proceeds from God most good, most just, most strong, preserving it so long as Princes humble themselves before him, but being once transported with presumption & pride, it easily abateth their fury. I will offer no other example to thy consideration than that of Baiaseth the Second, one of thy predecessors, who thinking to scale heaven with his army, (which in the judgement of man was unresistible, but in God's sight most contemptible) lived to see himself vanquished, taken, and imprisoned, cooped up in an iron cage (wherein he was in triumph drawn after the victorious Conqueror) serving him for no better than a footstool, & having no other food than such as was cast him (like a dog) from his Table 
* A just guerdon for his pride. . Think then with thyself, that he that was so great, so puissant, and so fearful may happily by right of succession have left unto thee (as being descended from him) the like, or a worse fortune, if thou dost dare to continue thy blasphemies against God, and his beloved son jesus Christ crucified. Thou dost mistake in thinking to lay an aspersion upon us, by reproaching unto us the Cross: for we account it our chiefest honour and glory; by virtue whereof as the Emperor Constantine quelled his enemies, we hope and assure ourselves to be defended against thy fury. Thy proud and thundering words dismay us not, our courage is more masculine and generous than so to be outbraved: For know that we regard not thy threats, but with all scorn trample upon thy pride, and deride thy terrors. And in stead of thanking thee for advertising us before thy coming, we bid thee come when thou wilt: Thou shalt be received contrary to thy expectation. We have steep mountains and impregnable rocks, that shall bar thee from entering into our lands. Thou shalt find our Cities and Castles well furnished with munition, our Canon mouths breathing furious fires, our courages invincible, our blades eager & sharp, our arms impenetrable, our bodies apt to sustain the violence of all seasons, our minds promising nothing but victory. And to dazzle thine eyes, the royal Standard of the blessed Cross shall go before us. But above all, the crucified Son of the great God shall cause his Angels to conduct us and give us the victory. He it is that shall be our Leader, under whose protection we will not fear to brave thee at thy gates. Thy miscreant troops shall be trodden under foot, and their bellies trampled on, and by a happy victory (if thou chance to scape our conquering arm) thou shalt find thyself pursued unto the most secret dens of thy abominable Seraglio. Thou shalt see thy Mosques laid level with the ground, thy Mophtis and other the execrable Priests of thy perfidious Mahomet made galleyslaves, all those traitorous runagates whom thou dost harbour, shalt thou see put to exquisite torments: of all which be most assured. And then shall be set free all those poor and miserable Christians, who now lie groaning under the burden of thy tyrannous yoke, whose woeful cries being mounted to heaven, have justly excited the vengeance of God upon thee, who hath permitted thee to rise to this height of pride, that thy ruin and destruction may be the more exemplar unto after ages. To conclude, thou shalt see the service of God re-established in Grecia and Asia, which thou dost now unjustly usurp. But if it happen thee to end thy miserable life in battle (as we hope that God will grant) be confident that all the aforesaid vengeance shall ensue upon thy death, and whilst thy wretched soul shall lie broiling in the quenchless flames of hell, we will lift up our cheerful voices, and for the victory obtained over thee and thine, sing praises unto our God, to whom be glory for ever.  
Know then, O Infidel, that we fear thee not at all: and if thou be'st not bend to run headlong unto thine own destruction, be advised. Content and contain thyself within those bounds thou dost at this present usurp. And if thou hast any belief at all, that thy thrice reverenced Prophet Mahomet could tell a truth, or foretell future events, then call to mind that of those 1000 years which he prescribed for the continuing of thy Sect, there remains not above 6. or 7. years. This then is the time that the yet unsheathed swords of the Christians affords for thy amendment, that thou mayst come to the knowledge of the most true God, to worship him in his Son jesus Christ. Whereunto we once more exhort thee, omitting all other salutation and recommendation.  
Given at our Castle of Posnwich, the twelfth of February, the year of the Incarnation of our Lord jesus 1613. Sigismond.