THE Triumphs of King james THE FIRST, Of Great BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, King; DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.  
Published upon his Majesty's advertisement to all the Kings, Princes, and Potentates of Christendom, and confirmed by the wonderful Works of GOD, declared in his life.  
Devoted, Dedicated, and Consecrated to the most excellent Prince Henry Prince of Wales.  
Printed at Britain's Burse, for john Budge, and are there to be sold, 1610.   

To the High, Mighty, and Magnanimous Prince Henry, Eldest Son to the King, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Rothsay: Earl of Chester, and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, etc.  
¶ Most generous and redoubted Prince, The Honour and Ornament of your age; The Hope of your people; The Subject and Object whereon their most happy wishes dependeth; The STAR of their fairest Fortune; The COMET of dreadful terror to their enemies; The Index, Abstract, or Compendium of the very greatest Princes whatsoever.  
Here, upon the rich Pillar of your glorious name, do I hang up The Trophies & the Honour of MY KING your Father, sown through France, and dispersed over the whole world. Such holy spoils are worthy your avouching, because they are due unto none other, but only unto your HIGHNESS, in regard that a person who is so near unto you, hath conquered & won them: And his Triumphant Triumphs, are the auguries, harbingers, & vantcurrers of your infallible fortunes to come, even as your own Virtues do serve for a pattern and example, to them of MY LORD the Duke your Brother.  
Accept them then My Lord, & by your favourable looks, give them all a speaking-power, as the Sun's reflection did on the Image of Memnon. And believe, that as one of yours, you shall find me readier to lay hand on my sword for you, then on my pen, and would rather spend my blood then mine Ink, for your honour and service, in all, and by all,  
My young CAESAR, and great ALEXANDER.   

THou Eye of Europe, the Soul, the Heart, the delight of all thy neighbours; France, Mother of courtesy, and our ancient friend: Suffer, that (with a voice of Brass) I may make heard through all the Corners of the earth, & even to those worlds which yet are furthest off, cry out to that jacobine Monk, and that Proselyte PELLITIER, Do no evil at all unto my King. For so cried out the Son of Croesus, dumb all his life time before, until he saw the sword drawn to wound his father. If the child for the Father, why not then the Subject for his Prince? Their love ought to be alike or equal, & (in semblable actions) alike also ought to be their duties, because the people are held to be the Prince's Children. For I see, that these two audacious and presumptuous Phaeton's, do labour by their flattering answers (as with a Delphian sword) to open the bosom or breast of MY KING, to strike at his heart with a deadly stab, and to give him the lie more covertly, then Tortus (to his shame) hath done, coveting to impress lies and falsities in the souls of every one.  
Their painted speeches and goodly protestations, makes my hair stand up as affrighted, pales my countenance, smites my heart, & tears open my lips, to entreat you (good Frenchmen) to credit them no further, than Our King hath done. He always deriveth sound judgement from words, & by the very moving of the tongue he knoweth the hearts of them that make such Orations to him. Wherefore, in beholding their books, he hath said with God, Hilabijs me honorant, cor autem eorum longe est a me. These men honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far off from me. In like manner there is nothing more dangerous than the teeth of a Serpent hid under green herbs, and the throat of a wolf, having on a sheep's habit. Woe be to them that call evil good, and good evil; that make darkness light, and light darkness, and that call bitterness sweetness, and sweetness bitterness. Woe be to you Scribes and pharisees, Hypocrites, for you compass both sea and land, to the end, to make one Proselyte: and when he is made, you yield him up as the Son of Hell, doouble worse than yourselves.  
What impudence was it in a cloistered Priest, & in a private person, to show himself in open field, to cope with a great and powerful king, when Kings have been at all times without Peer, and free from fight, except it were with others kings? Honour is not to be had, but by an equal: & Alexander, being desirous to win the prize, in the course of the Olympian games, demanded continually: Is there any kings that run? The like may our King very well question: Is there any Kings that answer? It is to them to whom his Majesty hath directed his advertisement, and it is to them only to make answer.  
Monarches, Kings, Princes, and Potentates of Christendom, where are your Provost Marshals then? Where are your Lictours and Sergeants, to seize on these saucy gamesters? Where are your Laws and Edicts, to punish these proud presumers, that durst set footing within your Lists, to step before you in so fair a Race or Career? Stir Magistrates, lay hold on these base Hackny-runners, in so brave a fight, and do you beat down the insolence of these rash headed Athletes, or malapert Champions. There lacks Tortures for Tortus, to break the bridles of such silly naked souls, and bolster their crazed brains a little better; to the end, to make Coeffeteau confess, and Pelletier profess the truth, perforce, according to the rule of truth itself.  
These proves, are to be vanquished with other Reasons, than those whereby they labour to refute them, else it will never be done. Heresy findeth daily something to resay, and to confound Paper withal: some means to save himself either by flight, or obstinacy of opinion, because he will never confess his error, much less deliver up his Arms. Even so the pharisees and the Saducees, being beaten down by the mouth Divine, would yet suddenly exalt themselves again, without confessing either their fall, or the offence. So Pericles, thrown headlong down, and even almost buried in the dust, would yet persuade the whole Theatre, that he deserved to be crowned. So that Hippomachus (of whom Pliny speaketh) and the other of the Acolians, would needs be proclaimed victorious conquerors, after they had breathed forth theirs souls under their enemy's feet. And so this Antaeus, and his companions, already stifled in the gripes of our Christian Hercules, would fain persuade the world, that being themselves vanquished, yet they stand up still as vanquishers. All such brabblings and contentious disputes, do but whet on Choler, and harden bad spirits, as being more apt to move sedition and disobedience, then to afford any fruitful edifying.  
Let then their shameless foreheads be circkled with Crowns, such as the Romans used in their Consul festivals, for their Arcadian Monsters, rather than any answer be made unto them, except it be by the hand of Thomas Dury, our Master Guillaume. Let the Laurel wreaths be wrung out of their hands, to impale the victorious head of our JAMES, truly Triumphant, over Pagan Idolatry, and Popish Heresy, which is the subject of this my present labour, and the whole desseign of this discourse, as appeareth in the Frontispiece of the main building. Thus are His Trophies gathered, and limmed (through by an unexperienced Pencil) in his victories, derived from the writing of his Royal Advertisement.  
This is the full aim of mine intention (Religious Frenchmen) and that which I desire to show unto you (Dear Children of Heaven) to the end, that you may not suffer yourselves to be persuaded in the contrary, by the deceiving Language, subtle Arguings, Sophistries, and captious arguments of this Doctor Divinity-destroyer, and the discoursing Enthusiaste, lest of wise Frenchmen, you become with them, mad and incensed Galathians. The very written book itself doth furnish us with strength sufficient, to vanquish and convince all the answerers of the world, and their answers; not turning any one leaf of his book, but it delivereth many most express Texts of the holy Scriptures, as many goodly places out of the holy fathers, as many Canons of the chiefest Counsellors, with many rich & strong arguments, and all set down by his Majesty.  
It is to you (Generous Frenchmen) that I speak this, and to whom I desire to make it manifest: for though the speaking, or willingness to make it known to you of my Country, should be but in me as lost labour, yet must I needs speak it again, being no more but what you know, what you have seen, and what hath been published. So many mouths are as so many Trumpets of his greatness in great Britain; so many hearts, they are as so many Temples of his virtues; and so many souls, are as many Vows and Sacrifices to his fair name. Among them, I am but as one voice, yet now driven to the universal consort of the whole world's voices. For if my voice could be understood from the East to the West, from the North to the South: nay, if it could pierce from this low centre of the earth to the highest circumference of the Jmperiall heaven: I would call all Noble Spirits to come, to see Idolatry subdued, and Heresy vanquished, and I would entreat them, to believe that which I say unto you, for an assured verity, whereof Heaven, Earth, Men, and Angels, are faithful and unreprovable witnesses. My words do savour rather of the salt of a pure affection, than the Oil of supple flattery; My pen shall never be joabs' Dagger, to stab Abner backward: My life is innocent, my heart Christian, My tongue to Scottish, & he is too good and wise a King, to be flattered by any.  
But to accommodate myself to the ignorance of these insolents, who have made French answers to a Latin. Book, I shall labour to express my conceit of their Idiom, and imitate (as well as I can) the steps of our French Orators. Wherein I will lose no time for excusing myself, either for my harsh and unelegant language, fearing the reply (in elder time) made by Cato unto the Historian Albinus.  
The courteous and Charitable Frenchman, in considering the good and free will, wherewith I march on in this matter, and for his instruction; will amiably correct the Errors of my Pen and the Press, which many (in like favour) have amended in our Language. In this affair, their blows do touch us, their jests and Sports do invite us, their Reasons do drive us, and their daily desires ought to move us.  
But if any base and creeping soul, if any dejected spirit, or if some Monk or Priest shall recreate his leisure by this writing, and purge his salt soul of those foul slanders, breathed forth with so many wry mouths, & apish faces, with such bending the brows, and snuffs in the nose, and which (no doubt) he will use in reading this work: One Laurel branch of MY KING (only) shall be my Warrant, from the sparkling flashes of such false fires, and his glorious Name shall serve me as the Shield of Minerva, against all their empoisoned Arrows of Nessus and Philocteres. Let every Momus, Zoylus, and all insenced Censurers examine this little Book Letter by letter; let them measure the Syllables, weigh the Words, control the points and Virgulers; let them peruse the Periods, count the Pages, and turn over the leaves: I will protest only for my Apology, that I have taken the Rule, Squire, Plummet, and compass in forming it, only to inform them in a solid truth.  
Wherefore, cruel apprehensions, bristle not up your hairs against me; affrighted horrors, seek not to shake my soul any more; panic terrors, leave my heart at large, and my tongue at liberty; to the end, that I may bid them; Go out, go out of Babylon fly from behind her, Be not overthrown in her iniquities. But publish this with a loud voice, as a Song of Triumph, and speak it unto the utmost part of the Earth: THE ETERNAL HATH RRDEEMED HIS SERVANT JAMES.  
Farewell then France. My well beloved, and take this for thy present, and the gift of my remembrance. ¶ From Alethia, towards the Winter Solstice, or the decreasing of the Romish Religion, and ascending of the truly Catholic and Reformed.   

  

King JAMES Triumphant. OR, The Trophies of the KING of great BRITAIN, etc.  
UP, on your Palm-trees (o ye mortals) run all to Laurels or flourishing Bays: on to the wild Olive, let us fill our hands with flowering branches of the Pine; all which, never whither: to plaite Wreaths, Ch●plets, and Coronets of honour for this worthy Pancratiaste. Gather green Maple, to beset round about the body of this Triumphant Wrestler. Cal for Trumpets and Clarions, to celebrate the victory & blessing of our KING JAMES. Let us found forth the praises of that invincible Monarch, who inviteth all Kings unto his Royal Triumph. Let us pass through a lustral fire of venomous tongues (be it either the poison of Heresy, or of envy, or of slanderous detraction) or of immolated Beasts. Let us prepare the haughty Trophies of his heroic actions, fare more surpassing in noise, sound, and glory, than all the pompous Triumphs of Pompey, Aemilius, Scipio, or Vespasian. Let us insculp and carve them, not in the Marble of Quarrera, the Alabaster of Venice, the Porphiry of Guinea, nor yet in ivory; not in Brass or Copper, nor yet in Silver, or in the richest enameled Gold: but in the Temple of Memory, and in the hearts of all men. To the end, that altogether in one unanimity may sing with me, not in an half or low, but in a full and loud voice, cheerfully sounding out these two Words, these joyful Words, this IO PAEON.  

Let all mortals now rejoice,  
And applaud with hands and voice:  
When they hear the noise and sound,  
(Which like thunder doth rebound)  
Of King JAMES the honour great,  
To whom God from his mercy's seat,  
(Beyond all other else) hath shown,  
Such love, as like was never known.   
 Spouse of jesus Christ, thou being the glory of his Victories, thou being the Victory of his Triumphs, and thou being the triumph of his just fights: Come, o come, descend from Libanon, look down from the Mountain top of Amana, from the height of Shamit and Hermon: Come sweet Empress of the world, and work so graciously, that the homagers of thy Faith may (at the least) bring victorious Palms, and lay them before his feet, whom God hath here established upon earth, and hath made choice of at this instant, for thy deliverance out of the hands of cruel Antichrist.  

And see how Heaven hath confirmed his throne,  
Induitur chlamidem, regnique insigne vetusti  
Gestat laeva decus, cinguntur tempora vitta  
Albente, ac lateride more accingitur ensis.   
In this manner is it, that the true Church prepareth the triumphal Arch of MY KING, even of all the Sacred Orders which he hath in his Royal Parliament of England, and on that very day, when he delivered us from the dreadful fire, the Flames whereof would have reached up to the Stars, and the Ashes unto the centre of the earth, in the year of Grace, MDCU. and in this year also, the day of his birth in Scotland. Which Nation also, being desirous to elevate their piety unto the Heaven of his glory, hath imitated the Emperor Macrinus, who to deify Antoninus, erected him a Statuen, sitting in his Throne, adorned in all his Royal Ornaments.  
This is the magnificent furnishment, which the reformed religion hath provided for him, as being due to the Preserver of her Sacred privileges, and to the Guardian of her entire purity. To the end, that he should be acknowledged through the whole world, for Defender of the Faith, and appear dreadful to his enemies, as the overcommer of Monsters.  
Let us go on then to his fights, march on to his alarms, & search into his victory, to attain unto his Triumphs; where we shall first of all behold, that it is not a single fight, or Combat of man to man, but the encountering of one man (half an Angel) with the dark and infernal powers of Hell.  
For the Enemy, both of God and of Kings presumeth into his presence, to search into, & to dispute the sense of the Gospel, in the brightness of Flames, and in horrible exploits of severity and cruelty. His Squadrons are prepared, and consist of Furies, Scolopenders, Stellions, Phalanges, and philemon's, more mad and enraged then those of Orestes, more furious than those of Hercules, & much more frantic than that Aiax, whom Sophocles produceth in his Tragedy. The Keys served them as Courtle-Axes, not to open & shut the heavens, but to gripe and grasp up all the Gold and Silver, yea, all the wealthy abundance of Great Britain. The Sheephook, Crosier, or Pastoral Staff, served to catch up the fattest Sheep in all the Lords flock. And the Watchword was nothing else, but Kill, Burn, and Massacre. As for the followers, they were fully armed from head to the foot, with fury, rage, and malice, having their hearts filled with Sulphur and Brimstone, to burn, spoil, and desolate all. Their pieces of Ordinance carried six and thirty barrels of Gunpowder, beside Billets and Faggots, and great sharp-pointed bars of Iron. And the sound of their Trumpets, was, Pereant amici, modo inimici.  
O good God, what kind of arms are these? The Church, the only daughter of Heaven, the Virgin seated on the hill of Zion, was she ever a Murderess? Was she ever taxed with any cruelty? Or did she ever drown the world in blood? Alas, hath not (much rather) persecution been her legitimate legacy in the world? Hath not infinite store of afflictions been her patrimony and inheritance? And the crown of martyrdom, hath not it been her only triumph?  
Contrariwise, for MY KING, hath not he contented himself, to encounter his enemies alone, the edge of his sword being rebated, the point broken off, his match not fired, his powder wet, his Ordinance out of carriage, their mouths empty of fire or Salt-Peter, only to fight against them with the Arms of justice? And where was the field for battle, but in Court of Parliament? And in the most eminent place of the plain, were all the Monarches, Kings and Princes of Christendom (even as Homer feigned his jupiter on the Dardanian mount, where he beheld Trojan bands and squadrons of the Greeks?) And what was the shock of battle, but the fire discovered, the blood and death of some few known Traitors, where Rebellion was taken captive, to be tied both by hands and feet to the Chair of King JAMES? Loyalty evermore singing with a cheerful voice, and resounding in praise of his victory, this Triumphant IO, or Live King james. That he may live as triumphant, even in Rome, as victorious in Great Britain; as much admired of all the world for his Mercy, as feared for his Valour, and cherrished and honoured of his people, both for his Piety and Justice. For, as Learning and Knowledge are written in great Letters on his Royal forehead, as knowing how to instruct stout Rebels, giving them lessons of duty, and apprehensions, how to live  to his Laws: so (in like manner) may be seen shining in his Eyes, Clemency and Mildness, Virtue's apt and proper to MY KING.  
And therefore we see him, not running, like Aratus, with a drawn sword in his hand, upon the Walls of Rome, and to the Tyrant's gate, to take revenge in his just displeasure, but seated. Seated in sign of Royal power and Sovereignty of his own right & justice. Sitting on his Throne, in sign that jehu shall reign, and that is, according as the Wise man approveth it, when he saith, The King that is seated upon his Throne, chaseth all evil out of his sight.  
In like manner, here do I see myself ravished in spirit, and rapt up to Heaven, the heaven of the most high majesty of Great Britain, the epicyle most elevate of his Royalty. That is to the Daix or State of his Throne-royall, where I see the God of our World ruling all all the Motions, the Aspects, the influences, & the Conjunctions of all the stars in his heaven: discerning the fixed from erring, and Comets from Planets; to the end, that all may shine the better, and enjoy (at length) the Heaven of God, which is the main end of all his travails, and shall be the Crown of his fair Trophies. He is seated, to be (as yet) peaceable, the Sword hanging but by his side, to declare thereby, that he would not force the faith, that slaughtery, butchery, and all their massacres (with the Phalarian and Neronian torments) are to him most horrid and hateful, and that their foul treason hath but only drawn out of his breast, a very small spark of Divine fire. Finally, that he hath not caused Scaffolds, Gibbets, and Helles to be erected, to handle and punish Traitors, according unto their merits.  
To how many hath he given pardon, as that grave and sweet Author of Tortura Torti (as truly as learnedly) testifieth unto us? Was there ever any Prince more forgetful of wrongs, and more apt to remit injuries done against him, than his Majesty, even then when he might be very easily revenged? How many Acts of Parliament, full of benignity, clemency and kindness, hath he set toorth since his happy coming to the Crown of England, even towards his very enemies themselves? which is the only reason, that his subjects both love and obey him the more willingly, and that strangers ought to be the more respective of him.  
For myself, I may say, that (by good right) of him, which the Roman Orator did of julius Caesar. He is a great justicer, Upright, Equal & true: But in all his virtues, there is none more Great, more Excellent, or more commendable, then is his Clemency and Benignity. I speak not this as a Learner, or being Tutored thereto; but out of knowledge and good experience, and as one willing with poor Vzza, to set a hand to help the Ark, whereof I feared the falling. And if I have done it with out any great pain, yet am I glad that it hath returned me no danger, and so long as I shall have any jot of life in me, I will publish every where, and sing in heart, though it be to myself;  
En tibi praepetibus foelix victoria pennis  
Quae volat, & laet am adducit Clementiapacem,  
Vnde salus populis te Rege jacobe beatis.  
But fearing the like inconvenience, as that which happened unto the Highpriest Cecilius Metellus, for having dared to be so bold, as to put his hand near to the Statue of the Goddess Pallas: I am constrained to turn my sight from the fair Eye of the World. His Beams do force me to kiss the very lids of those eyes, even as the perfection and proportion of his other Visible parts, do restrain my tongue, from delivering the mystical and physiognomical sense of every one of them. In like manner it was never mine intention, to note all the Anatomical considerations of his Imperial Body, or to pierce any further, then unto the subtlety of our own reach and apprehension: which doth sufficiently content itself, to refer all the functions of his parts, to the apparent appearance, thereby to erect a Triumph, not only fully rich, but also moral, to following posterity.  
We will begin with his Crown, which is the Ornament for the Head, the chiefest member, and that which is most honourable of all the body; even that part, wherein are composed all the principal instruments of life, by the perfection of numbers. This rich chief part is crowned, to the end, that his enemies beholding the same, should enter into the apprehensions of Cassander King of Macedon, who having found the Statue of Alexander, entered into such a fear, that he trembled at the very sight thereof. And to let be seen, that mere glory hath defended him from his greatest adversaries: they should bring him no such frail Crowns, wherewith (in elder times) they were wont to honour the Conquetors in the Olympian, Pythian, Ismyan, and Nemean, games; but that duty which shineth in heaven, and can never be withered, because it was first wrought and woven with the very fingers of the son of God himself.  
It is a Crown of Gold, enriched with Pearls and precious Stones. Of Gold, which rejoiceth the heart, healeth all putrid Ulcers, Wolveses, or rotten corruption. To declare thereby, that this King shall bear the precious Balm, the Cataplasm and Seare-cloath to heal ulcered hearts and consciences, even those which are most fired and cauthorized, thereby to bring the new birth again of the former Golden days of Saturn.  
The Pearls are the Hieroglyphickes of his souls immaculate whiteness or integrity, & do testify unto the whole world, that he is Protector of Innocency and Truth.  
The Diamonds do shine, and deliver a clear white lustre, which cheereth the eye. The Rubies do dart forth to sight very strange flaming beams, which may offend some (perhaps) more than they please. These are the two most precious Stones above all other, the Symbols or Creeds of our Churches. Nothing can bite or cut the Diamond, but the Diamond itself; neither can we shape or figure any thing else thereby, of any endamagement or hurt towards us, but it must come by our own selves. The Diamond is invulnerable, and not to be bruised by hammers on the Anuile: but will enter fare into the Ruby, who is subject to be wrought therewith, penetrated, cut, carved, or imprinted thereon, in whatsoever a man pleaseth, even as our belief worketh the like effects in unbelieving hearts, which they may very aptly signify.  
The Sphear-like form of his Crown doth denote the even roundness wherein he proceedeth to every one, as well towards the small as the great, the poor, as the rich. That he is the Common Father of all his people, ordering all his affections in an equal partage, like unto the Geometrical point, which beholdeth all his circumference in one & the same proportion. Answerable to the Sun, which shineth equally upon all: Or as the heart, which furnisheth all the other members with life & heat: Or like unto the Palmtree, which distributeth his nourishment to his leaves and branches, even as if it were by just weight & measure. Before that Parliament, he contented himself to express unto the Papists themselves, rather the power of his Authority, than the rigour of his justice. He permitted to all, the free communication of his favour, as of his Countries air, and the enjoying of his presence, as the sweet breath of his fertile kingdom.  
The Book and the Sceptre, which his Majesty holdeth in his hands, do represent Reason and Rigour, which are the two Engines, whereby all men are drawn to their duty. For, if Reason profit not, recourse must then be had to Power: According unto the example of our Lord jesus Christ, and of his Apostles. For they, presenting peace in all mildness, through all places where they came; shaken off (in the spirit of Justice) the dust from their feet, on them which resisted them. Saying for reason of the first; That be was soft and gentle, and for the second; That he was upright or just. In the first; that he is good & gracious; in the second, That he is terrible. In the first, That he helpeth the desolate in heart, & bindeth up their wounds, In the second, That he is Dominus percutiens, a Lord that smiteth. In like manner Our King, Gestans leva decus, will never press with his Sceptre of authority, which he beareth in his right till he may use his pen no longer, and that the left hand be wholly despised. He applieth not the Razor to the Canker and Gangrena of Heresy, so long as Reason, and soft and lenitive remedies may serve the turn. Throughout antiquity, The Sceptre hath been common to all Kings on the earth. The Book particularly, and for the exclusion of others, appertaineth to our Mercurial Heros, to enstruct us, that of him (properly) ought the double Prophecies be understood. The one of Cataldus Finius, which is more than a thousand years since: Iste solus Clare aperiet librum scriptum digito Dei vivi, He only shall evidently open the book, written with the finger of the living God: As plainly appeareth by his Learned Preface. The other of Sibylla, on the destruction of Antechrist: Miserum inde tempus quia linum, ipsum perdet, Miserable in time shall he be, because linen or a Line shall destroy him. By Linen his Majesty's Book is understood, the Paper whereof is made of old decayed linen: Or else the Line or Cord is threatened thereby, to hang him up, according to the example of Achitophel.  
His Sceptre, which is in his right hand, is not of wood, made fast with Iron nails, as were the ancient Sceptres in Homer & Virgil; nor yet of Ivory, such as the Kings of Rome carried, and sent to their Kindred and friends; nor of Ebony, like that of the Jndians: nor of Iron, Copper, or Silver, but of fine Gold, like that of Mark Anthony in Florus, and such as Ahasuerus stretched forth to Hester in the Bible, to show us, that his is one of the very Noblest Sceptres in the world. As His length plainly telleth us, that even so shall his power extend itself, and make itself to be felt very fare off. It beareth on the top, not any Eagle, like that of the Tarquins, nor a Cross, as that did of Constantine's: nor yet a Stork, or the strange beast living in the River Nylns, called Hippopotames, as others have carried, nor yet a hand like to that of France: But a Lily or Flowerdeluce, thereby to assure us, that his power and manner of government is full of sweetness, mildness, and good order.  
The most precious garment of his Trophies is a Royal Mantle or Cloak, the only sacred ornament of Kings, for the more sumptuous decking of potent Majesty, made of Velvet Azure and Gold, which are the only sightly things that can be used in the habit of princes. It traineth along upon the ground after him, to express the amplitude of his royal benignity, being called of God, to cover, not only the members of his own estate from the Tyranny of Antichrist, but likewise those people that are strangers, and of other Countries. His colours under, are of Scarlet and white, as the Spouse in the Canticles sayeth: That her Best-beloved is all white and Vermilion: white in Innocency, Red & Vermilion in Charity. For every colour else looketh pale and dead, or looseth his beauty, being near to these, yea, though it be Purple twice dipped in his tincture: As in like manner, the religion of Popery doth (being compared with that which Our King embraceth) as being without both sound and lustre, vanishing of itself away, even as dusky clouds do before the beams of the world's greatest light. The White of this Mantle royal, is Ermines, which are more perfect in fair lustre, than any other, and those furies do testify, not the coldness of his Original country, (as some have scornfully said) but his generous and resolved gravity, as full of bounty, As the skin of little black spots. Admonishing us thereby, that there is nothing so prosperous, but sometime it meeteth with sinister accident: as the Ermine, which is white over all the body, and yet directly on the top of his tail, hath that small touch or mark of blackness.  
Under this Mantle or Cloak, he weareth the Palmata Toga, or Dalmatian Vesture, proper to some Ministerial Office, because the sleeve reacheth so far as the elbow only. The which may teach and persuade us, that in despite of the Pope, of Anabaptists, of all hare-brained, mutinous, opiniotive, and frantic Preachers (whom his Majesty calleth and understandeth to be Puritans only) he is an absolute Monarch, as well of the Spiritual, as of the Temporal, even as in elder times the Caliphs were, and that in him is verified the saying of the Poet:  
Rex Anyus, Rex idem hominem, Phoebique Sacerdos.  
King Anyus, is the same man, King, and yet Apollo's Priest.  
For Kings are the Coombes of the Estate belonging to God, even as well as of that appertaining to their kingdoms, and their Authority is the bases and foundation, which upholdeth the Church, in favour and regard whereof, they were at first established by God, who had never created or preserved the world, but for this respect only. They have like power therein, as josias had, and like pre-eminence as Constantine, who published himself Bishop of exterior occasions. They have (I say) Sovereign jurisdiction over Prelates, to keep an eye upon their Discipline, & on the manners or behaviour of the Clergy, to take acknowledgement of their differences. Which is very easy to be proved, as well by Testimonies and solid Reasons, as by the examples and effects of all most venerable Antiquity.  
Finally, Our King, in sign of diligence, & that he shall very shortly triumph in all truth, justice, and power, even as far as that proud Tarpeiane Tower, To kill the Dragon, and deliver the male child from his throat, as manifestly appeareth by the Angel mounted upon the white horse, to whom was given the Crown of victory: He is circkled with a Girdle of Gold hanging before his breast, which is The Collar of Saint George: which was not forgotten by the Romans' themselves of the round Table, speaking of the two Dragons, white and red, delivered out of prison by Merlin, in the time of k. Uter Pendragon, father to King Arthur, who after a long & deadly fight, the white at length overcame the red. And now we may see a second surprise them.  
That rejected Esau (otherwise called Edom) which signified the Red Dragon, that old usurper, that Tyrant over so many Nations, the Pope himself, cometh to the succour of his vanquished Legions, with two Breeves, and a Letter from the Cardinal Bellarmine, which are Gerion's with three bodies, or Cerberus with three heads and throats, casting fire out at the eyes, the nose, & the mouth. They would fain fasten on Our white King james, the Child of Blessedness, even in his Cabinet, and pursue him thence to his Bedchamber, in seeking to set free all his Subjects from their obedience to him: yea, and to turn his very household Servants from their duty: Monarchy being not so pleasing to his taste, as aristocraty; Order, as Anarchy.  
Behold how Our King dealt in this manner with them, as others have done in the like: To day for him, to morrow for them. And their to morrow should have been much nearer, if they could have attained to what they pretended. But his Majesty stopped their way with a Mattock and a Wedge, as the Roman Captain said: or in applying Triplici nodo Triplicem Cuneum, in cleaving a Triple knot of Iron, with a Triple wedge of Brass; or in cutting The Gordian knot with the sword of Alexander. His Apology (verily and of good right) ought to be held for the support, defence, Rampant, and Fortress of all the Kings, Monarches, and Sovereign Princes of Christendom, whom at the third voice of his Triumph, he awaketh and exhorteth, to maintain and defend themselves altogether with him, against the attentates and usurpations of the Pope, in advising each one of them, according to the rule of reason and common fence, grounded upon custom, and derived from the Pagan Poet, to learn of the wise, saying;  
— Ecquid  
Ad te post Paulo ventura periculis sentis?  
Name tuares agitur, paries cum proximus ordet,  
What perils in short time may come,  
are they unto thee known?  
No, when thy Neighbour's house doth burn,  
be careful of thine own.  
Monarches, Sovereigns, Chief judges of the World, to whom the justice of heaven hath given absolute power, and Sceptres to govern the wide Universe; Earthly Deities, Living Jmages of the Eternal, true Lieutenants and Vicars of God, Fathers of the people, and Tutors of his Church (kneeling on the earth, so imitate him in a resounding Echo, with her permission and your own) waken yourselves at the voice of My King. HOW much more pleasing should this be unto you, then that of the trumpet, which called them to enter the Lists, who presented themselves at the Games of Olympus? O Princes, are your heads so loaden with vapours, and the Conduits of your vital spirits so stopped, that by no agitation or motion, you can be awaked from this Leaden slumber? Do not you know, that the last judge of the Hebrew people, because he did sleep in the lap of his Mistress, lost first his strength, next his sight, and soon after his life? While you sleep so profoundly, do not you Dream what may happen, and much more what hath been already past? Will you still slumber, or do you dissemble it, when they that should watch for you, and feeke to preserve your Crowns in safety, are readier to bereave you of them? It is you Great-soveraignes', whom this case concerneth. You can be no longer assured safely, neither in your Palaces & Citadels, nor of the faith of your household servants, or those you put most trust in, if this Article may be granted to public murders, and assasinates, (to wit) That they have power to dispense, and free your Subjects from the Oath, whereby they have vowed faith unto you, and may cause you to be murdered, were it by a Monk, and then to Canonize or glorify him, when the deed is done.  
Arise then Kings, and provide for those affairs which the Great God hath put into your hands. The Church is in tutelage and protection of kings, and you are anointed and Sacred by God, to show by this exterior note, that the care of spiritual things appertaineth unto you. Make of us one heritage, that this seamelesse Garment of our Lord may no more be torn in pieces. Cast off the yoke of Antechrist, who cowardly abuseth the Authority to you committed. It is you that have given your power to the beast, to fight against the Lamb. It is you also that should rather hate him, and eat his flesh. And what hinders you from doing it? Hath not the light of the Gospel (already) sufficiently enough discovered the frauds of this man of sin? The Spirit out of the mouth of jesus Christ, breathed abundantly in so many places, and yet continuing, hath it not already foiled him, even in the most signal parts of his Dominion? There is not any Prince or Commonwealth, but is weary to see this Tyrant (fair from all obligation of Laws, Equity, and Justice) to gurmundize and devour up all the Estates of Christendom. The Pope seems to solicit Heaven and earth, even to his own ruin, and Conjures all Europe to make but one Aesopes Crow. All the world is in a shivering, so highly is it offended at his Tyrannies, and desireth nothing else with us, but one just Conference, and which also is the advice of Our wise and Learned King.  
It is necessary, that a good, free, and lawful Counsel should be called and assembled, by you Princes and Sovereign Estates, to compound all these dissensions and differences in Religion: as being (at all times) the only ordinary means, to abolish Schisms, disannul Heresies, and to reform whatsoever is amiss in Ecclesiastical Discipline. This is the only way, to restore the wanderers, to win their hearts more sensibly, and to consolidate the languishing members, to the great body of the Church, and to reunite the wills of your subjects, scattered into factions. Such sickly and diseased Spirits, do require a mild and gentle cure, the keen edged sword of the word is that which pierceth into the Soul, and the Church instructeth not to persecute, but to admonish and inform such as are in error. And it seemeth that this way is desired, wished and requested by many, who do offer to submit themselves, to that which thereby shall be defined, concluded, and ordained.  
Such a notable occasion is not any way to be contemned, Non oportetsi quod omnibus, votis petendum erat, ultro offertur, fastidire. An adbove all at this time, having a Const antine amongst yourselves, capable to preside as the other did in the Nicene Assemblies, the presence of whom is able to dispose of differences, to soften the sharpest, to restore & place peace and concord among all good Fathers, not passionate or interessed in strange opinions, and to make them happily finish such a desseign, worthy of your best furtherance. If this happen not in our days, let us never flatter ourselves with any humane hope, of compassing it hereafter. Our last anchor is cast, having such a Prince, Virtuous, Wise, Learned, Eloquent, Experimented, Conquering, Victorious, well obeyed, Absolute in his kingdom, and beyond all this, nourished and educated in piety, and in the true service of God.  
And now see him among all other Kings, in his second Triumphal Chariot, like to the Lion among the other beasts.  
Where we may see this Lion in the Arms of MY KING (which is the note of his second victory) as all they do which behold this Great Solomon upon his Throne, round engirt with Lions. These Images do give them a sudden apprehension, as appearing terrible and dreadful to them. But when they approach nearer, they see that the Lions are of Gold, and as they mount to the feet of the Prince, the same Lions do serve as a guard and defence. In like manner seemeth it to them, which a fare off do behold the Lion Rampant of Scotland, that he breatheth forth nothing else but punishments, death and desolation: but when they come nearer, and consider him advisedly, they find nothing but purity and perfection, which is very solid and most pure and perfect Gold. And if they should yet stand in need of the clemency of My Prince, this generous Lion will serve them as a prop, supply and support thereto.  
It is a Lion Rampant, to represent unto us the Majesty of his Majesty, who in strength and fury is a true Lion, when the presumptuous boldness of men shall be such, as willingly to reject his clemency; Leo ungiet, & formidabunt filij maris. Then the turbulent, traitors, underminers, powder men, and such like; who are all as Marine-Monsters, and Children of Neptune, shall quake with fear. Huic Galli terrori non sunt. And in truth, Hic est Leo qui vinciri pernegat, according to the Mystery which is on the Med ail of the Duke of Albania. For if the Childretn of Saleucus, had each of them on his thigh an Anchor imprinted or carractred, as a certain mark of the line of their extraction; And the race of Python of Nisibis, had the impression of an Axe on their bodies, which testified the honour of their lineage: Even so, Our King, doth not carry this Lion only in his Shield, as for a show, but likewise in sign of his heart's generosity, hath one lively figured on his body, under his left pap, Ab utero Matris suae, which is not without a very great mystery.  
As concerning the Flowers de Lys or Lyllies, which Charle-Maigne caused to be done in a double draught about the Scottish Escutchion, in the time of Achaius, the year 777. in perpetual memory of their alliance: it cannot be denied, but that they first came from heaven. So that all other flowers (being compared with them) do appear no otherwise, but even as Thistles, Brambles, and Briers: Sicut Lilium inter spinas, ita Amica mea inter Filias; Like as a Lily among the Thorns, so is my Love among the Daughters (said Jesus Christ) in speaking of his Church. Whereupon, some Doctors, very curious and contemplative, have noted three especial things in this fair and Celestial Flower (to wit;) his purity and whiteness, his admirable sweet savour, and his phisical virtue against all burnings. And by his growing among thorns, they signified idolatries, impieties, and heresies, among which pure and unspotted doctrine shall always shine most brightly. The Rabines also, they found out infinite goodly & rare Mysteries, upon the inscription of the Psalm, where it is said; Ad victoriam Lilijs. And the Naturalists do affirm, that there is an oil extracted from the Lily, able to cure the Palsy, the head ache, and deafness in the ears; in sign, that the Writings of Our King should also serve, to heal the sickness of spirit, and restore the Church of God to her first strength and convalescence.  
Nor was it enough, that this Lily of Alliance should be a Lily only, and no more than a Lily, but that it should also have the virtue and property, which Nature had bestowed upon the Lilly. And therefore he willed withal, that this Lily should be of Gold, in a double draught: to declare thereby, that the virtues of our Kings, should exceed them of other Kings in quality; yea, even in quantity, according as Gold is the most precious thing among all inanimate creatures. He placed them also round about his Arms, in sign of the loud terror which they had given, and shall yet give (if it please God) as well over the whole great continent, as in their own little world, made, and made perfect, by the conjunction of those three Leopards with that Lyon.  
This new Alliance, in passing the Sponge upwardly or above the Table of our fatal divisions, hath united our Lion Rampant, with the 3. Leopards, three Flowered de Luce or Lilies of England, and the Harp of Ireland, to the end, they might be eight in all, as they of elder times were wont to say, namely, perfect. Because none can go any further than this, when a number or figure is come unto his Triple dimension of length, breadth, and depth. According to the Pythagorians, it is the number of justice, because that first of all it resulteth itself into numbers of paire-like-parity, deuiding equally all things. By means whereof, it is justly attributed unto jesus Christ, who is only just.  
Cui tria sunt octo, tu me seruabis ut opto  
Ne voret innumerus, cui tria sex numerus.  
Which was likewise foretold by Sibylla, speaking of our Saviour.  
Although the number be one eight,  
and eight ten in account!  
Yet to eight hundred shall his name,  
in valuation mount.  
Eight is like the Cube, which signifieth firmness or stability, in that it turneth his face to all, and turning down from above, cometh underneath, yet is it evermore firmly seated, and in one and the same form. It is also a solid body, which hath his dimensions and properties, by reason of his four direct or right Angles, for better seating and making himself firm: which rendering it so marvelously proper and mystical, doth thereby the better represent him unto us, who by his power hath reestablished & reconfirmed the estate of mankind. Eight, composed of this Royal unity of Our Lion, and of the English Septevery, doth make up the Armouries perfect in all their measures: also by this fair mixture of numbers, that sweet harmony is made, which entertaineth and preserveth the whole kingdom in good peace and quietness.  
And not to dispute here, concerning the Three Leopards, the three Flowers de luces, & the Harp, which being severally joined with the Lion, do make five, the Symbol or sign of health or safety: which number, among all them that are not pairs, do appear to be the most nuptial, and best beseeming marriage. Because three is the first, no-paire, & two the first pair, and five is composed of these two, as both of male and female, which showeth unto us, that Scotland and England are in such sort married together at this instant, by mutual love in a true, pure, and sincere Religion, living also together in one faith, under one King and Law, as they are never hereafter to be sundered or divided.  
The Teruary number, or of three, is of the Leopards, Guardians of our Microcosmns or little world (not of great Mastiffs or Dogs, not of Tigers and Dragons, preservers of the Hesperideses Apples) which do express unto us, that the virtues and power of Our King, is not only to cleanse the world of all Idolatry, Heresy, Error, and ignorance: but also of worldly knowledge, of the wisdom of Hagars children, of the sapience of Babylon, of political prudence, which employs itself to the acquisition and maintenance of dignities, riches, and his own case, without regard of piety or Religion. The King, by the very sweetness of his breath, shall draw the Leopards themselves to him, they having the paws of the Lion, or the appearance of a Christian, and lay hold on the Panther, which is Heresy by his spots or blemishes, because she is the Mother and Nurse to many marvels.  
These are true Candiots, Chameleons, and Protheus, who believe not in God, but by an inventory or Register, who acknowledge no other Divinity, then that which is called State, who worship not (as the Emperor jovinian, and Themistius the Philosopher said) but the soulless Purple of Kings only, without Conscience, without any taste or feeling of a second life, or fear of a second death: little caring for any thing, but greatness in the world, which serves them for Religion, as fitly, as the Buskins of Theramines, would do for walking.  
Behold, how like another Orpheus, Amphion, and Arion, he draweth to the true knowledge of God, very salvage Beasts, Forests, Trees, and Stones, by the sweet Harmony of his Harp: the most fierce and wild, the most stupid and insenced, the most brutish and voluptuous, are changed and civilised by the delectable sound of his Music. The which may transport and ravish our cares, at his melodious touchinges and concords, and not tickle them with any delicate noise, tending unto voluptuous and sensual pleasure: but rather such, as (by well tempered proportions) are able to reduce all extravagant rudeness, and circuits of our souls, though they had wandered from the right way, to the true path of duty, and settle all thoughts in such a harmony, as is most pleasing unto them. For this is that Lady indeed (saith Zoroastres) which doth make a man leap with joy, when he feeleth in himself an agreement, like a sweet consort of Music, whereunto he is admitted with God and his Angels. But, according to Proclus, so soon as he sinneth, she absenteth herself, and he remaineth deprived of her company. Hereupon, the evil Spirit, or proud Demon (in the judgement and saying of the Cabalists) in his fall, lost wholly the Musical harmony which was in him.  
In like manner, there are no souls well born, but in them this harmony may have place (so saith Pyndarus) and that the bad spirits cannot endure a sweet concording Music, because it is quite contrary to their disproportioned nature. This may be witnessed by Saul King of the Israelites, when he was possessed with the evil Spirit, David by the sound of his Harp, compelled him to departed from the King, or at the least to let him be quiet. Pythagoras, according as Cicero and Boetius recordeth, I know not by what Melody, but by a Musical Air thereto apt and proper, brought a young man into his perfect senses, that had been before mad and distracted. The like we read of Terpander, Arion, Ismenius and Linus, Musicians of Thebes, who thus reduced very many bad distempered and most perverse people into the right way of virtue. It is likewise said, that Thales the Mylesian, appeased the civil dissensions among the Lacedæmonians, by the sweet melody of his Harp only.  
From whence, we may collect the marvellous effects of Music by Instruments, & thereby acknowledge, that it is able (very extremely) to excite human affections, as being full of high and hidden mysteries, if we may give credit to the Hebrews Cabala, and the very learnedst Rabines. For this Harp of MY KING is made in a triangle, having ten strings, which being touched above, do resound beneath, and deliver such an acceptable melody, as it pierceth all the Celestial Spheres, even by sanctified desires, conceived to the honour of God, and it traverseth all Countries of the whole world, for the defence and support of all Kings, Princes, and Commonweals of Christendom. Such are the accents of this mystical symphony, and the lofty tunes of the Diapenthes, Diatessarons, and Diapasons of our Royal Harp. Therefore,  
Bestir ye every faithful heart,  
To the Harps Music bear apart,  
Hanging in his Silken twine,  
Sing his praise that is Divine.  
With Lutes and Organs melody,  
And holy Songs sweet Harmony:  
All laud his name continually.  
And so Ad Triarios ventumest, and unto the third voice of his Triumph, which prepareth the Trophies of out jacob, for his victory over Gog, or the hidden and covert Esau, for all Demons and Monsters mentioned, neither could, nor can do any thing (God be thanked) with their overt power, against his sacred person. Hear we must look for Hags, Goblins, Devils, Nightwalkers (as Plancus said against Pollio) armed, with not visible weapons, but with venomous thoughts, lying tongues, and pens more dangerous, than the fire, than the Iron bars, or then the barrels of Gunpowder, to tax him in his Name and Honour.  
One is a Critic Anonymus, and incensed Censurer, having the eyes of his understanding so masked or hudwincked, that he could no more see the Author of the Royal Apollogie, than he saw his Right to the Crown of England. Another is a wry-treading Tortus, so Crooked in heart, and Lame in spirit, that he cannot walk upright or directly in his Doctrine. And both of them Andabates, or purblind Fencers, who, for the ugliness and deformity of their souls, are glad to hide themselves under the cloak of those borrowed false names: to the end, that they may bestow their blows where best they please, lying impudently, and belying as well the Gods, as men. And because his majesty doth fight but with Chimaeraes and shadows, he breaks through all the danger of their malice, because he can no nearer grapple with them: for the first hath as yet escaped (for some time) the hands of Justice, and the Hangman's halter.  
These wicked and detestable men, to whom nothing is dear, provided, that it may do hurt to such as they malign and malice, do invent crimes, forge offences, hurl Pelion upon Olympus, to overthrew the Gods: but it is an infallible maxim, that a lie living but an hour only, may yet beget some frivolous effect, and so they fear not, but would fain persuade the people, that the King is not the Author of the Book, and therefore they repay him with injuries, instead of honest Reasons.  
But the modesty of his Majesty, scorning horseplay, to strike with his heels, like the foolish Fencer Ctesiphon, was content to avouch the Book by his learned Monitory Preface, which is not only an answer to such base fellows, but also written in just contempt of them: wherein he imitateth Caesar in Lucan, who to commit nothing unbeseeming the greatness of his courage, and renown of his Armies, did the like to Cowardly Metellus, being desperate of his glory, lying then at the stake to be foiled.  
— Vanam spem mortis honestae  
Concipis, haud (inquit) iugulo se polluet iste  
Nostra Metelle manus.  
Never did he triumph with greater pomp, then in refusing this fight, even as did Fabius Maximns, in refusing to triumph. For the impudent and false calumnies of both these Libelers, are so notorious through the world, as there is no man, who hearing the children of belial disgorge their blasphemies, but doth know, & will confess it openly, yea, and loud enough to be heard: that it is the natural property of them, who (after they have been so long time nourished in blaspheming against GOD) do do think they may be justly dispensed withal, in railing, lying, and speaking falsely of their Princes.  
Who could believe, that in Great Britain they had an Harpocrates, one of the Indian Astomi, or a King with a Shut-mouth, that could not make answer to two Breeve of the Pope, and to a Letter sent from a Cardinal? Had not his silence in this case seemed as little important, as if he had given consent thereto? And could any think him so weak in wisdom, as to say with the Roman Emperor, would God I had never learned the first Elements of Letters, when no Question is to be made, but that he is able to warrant himself (with his pen only) against the Tyrannies of Antichrist? Not any (I am persuaded) could be so idly conceited.  
Let us then cheerfully avouch it, and in the favour of his Triumph, engrave in great letters on the bases of this statue, the secret sense which is hidden in his Arms, even in the Frontispiece of his Apology, which is, james Triumphant.  
That as in all parts by God's grace,  
is spread his Royal Name:  
So may the world's remotest Lands,  
both know, and speak his fame.  
To the end, that these Ground Moles, who never saw their own eimpudence, may scent or smell it out by those goodly Characters. And if to them it may seem inopinate (as I believe it) let them then take-occasion to consider well, yea and weigh what they promise or portend, as in an interlaced mystical Cipher.  
The Author is james the Great Monarch the Protector and Propagator of the Faith, the Rampart of Christendom, the Fort and Bulwark of the Church, the Succour of true Catholics, the Enemy of Heretics, the Terror of Infidels, the Support of the Afflicted, the Tamer of Monsters, the Example of Charity, and the Blessing of his time.  
Which the very blindest will be enforced to confess, considering the assistance of God in all his actions, and how he hath preserved him from so many dangers, even by extraordinary marvels: wherefore (by good right) he deserveth to be accounted, The King of wonders, or The wonder of kings, The Miracle of the ages present & to come. For myself, when I come to consider by what means he hath been hitherto preserved, I am even swallowed up in admiration, and the more contradictions and assaults I find by so many Esau's, the more I reverence those high conditions whereunto God hath brought him: for he could not come into the world, but through the danger of blows, even amongst the horrors of blood & death. As we plainly see, that the Rose cannot be gathered without pricking, & to give the greater sound to his virtues, he was borne to wade through diverse dangers.  
For, to let sleep in silence that wicked attempt, and the very Non-pareile offer that ever was adventured, even to smite him quite through the heart, in the womb of the late Queen his Mother of happy memory, four months before he saw the light of this world: it may suffice, that it could not so have happened, but by the very special providence of God, & to make the whole universe stand amazed thereat, as the spectator of our bloodiest Tragedies. So in his very birth likewise, he held Esau by the heel, & in his Cradle (in imitation of great Hercules) he smothered & strangled great store of Serpents.  
In the tenderest of his youth, his enemies, who had no assured subject wherein to lodge their ambition, but in the Mazer or cup of his destruction; they feared not to attempt by open force. But heaven being much stronger than the poison, dissipated and quailed all their designs. Designs in very deed, overbold to some, to see them so highly parched or placed in an instant, whose execution drew on so many miseries and calamities in our Country, as I am ashamed to speak it, except it be to express the great blessings of God towards our jacob.  
Who as he went to Padan-baran, or towards Denmark, to take a wife in the Royal house of the King, how cruelly was he assailed by furious Medea's, and his own chief Ship folded up in stern Tempests? Contrary Winds did afflict it, beat and drive it every where, they excited and blew the Waves, which swollen, foamed, roared, and gaped with open mouths to swallow him. And as the winds wrestled on either side, against the Mast, the sails, and the main yard, behold, even in labouring (with all their might) to devour him, they proved the cause of his happy escape, and with full sails (through all the storms) brought him to Port Laetus, in which place, all Scotland at his return, welcomed him with singular joyfulness. Even as the whole Isle received Constantine the Great, at his home return from strange wars, by delivering him these words in the mouth of Optatianus Porphyrius.  
Omnis ab Arctois plaga finibus horrida Cauro  
Pacis amat cana & comperta perennia iura  
Et tibi fida tuis semper benè militat armis  
Résque gerit virtute tuas, populósque feroces  
Propellit, cedítque lubens tibi debita rata  
Et tua victores sors accipit hinc tibi fortes  
Teque Duce invictae attollant signe cohortes.  
Congratulating also the fortunate coming of the Queen, by this discourse in effect and affection, but in words much better shaped & couched.  
MAgnificent & Great Princess, Sacred blood of the Danes, Race Royal, Wife, Daughter, & Sister to a King? If I should receive into my Ports, and on my shores, the Great juno of Candy, the Daughter of old Saturn, the Wife & Sister of jupiter of Crect; If I should receive Palas herself, Minerva herself, the Great Semiramis, the Stately Cleopatra▪ the Empress Zenobia: If I should receive even her, that wears at this day the Crown of the Roman Empire, the Empire of the East, the Kingdoms of Spain, of Hungaria, of Poland, of Egypt, of Prester john, and all that which the Great Signior or Turk hath, and may have for his Queen, yet could I not receive a more great Princess than you MADAM, for Royalty of blood, Luster of Nobility, and Nobleness of so ancient a Family, neither could I receive a Princess more splendent in Beauty, and all good Graces. Come then Great Queen, & by your coming make me most happy. Happy shall you long time be in Scotland, and to Scotland, and for the greater height of your Glory, be you also a happy Mother of Kings.  
Which she shall be (God assisting) as already (by his especial blessing, and more than particular favour) her Majesty hath had My Lord the Prince of Wales, My Lord the Duke of York, and the Lady Elizabeth their Sister, and thereby not only makes Scotland happy, but all Great Britain, whereon dependeth their peace and freedom from strife (even as the presence of the Halcions do make the Sea calm, & commodious for Navigation) which wanting before in that Empire's felicity, makes it now an Empire abounding in felicity. She hath established our Delos, and hath set us above the winds, as safe sheltered from all storms, by the firm assurances of so fair a succession: & this sufficeth not only for the conjunction & conservation of this Estate, but also for the increasing thereof. Wherefore, no kingdom in the world is there, which hath more occasion to glad itself in her Queen, then Great Britain in her Gracious Queen, or in the fair and virtuous Lady Anne.  
But alas, Our King, after this voyage of his, was yet again pursued by tumultuous Travellers: but behold, how (our Ulysses) escaped the cruelty of Polyphemus. I do not mean that which was done (in the silence of a mournful night) at the Abbey of Saint Cross, albeit the noise thereof redounded even into the chamber of his Majesty (the Amnestia & law of Oblivion, having sent some part to death & the grave, another part to the gallows & bellies of Crows, & the last to the curse of all courageous spirits) but I would speak of the inhumanity of those two Brethren, who violated the laws of Hospitality, upon the person of their Prince and Father. Alas, I mean the Treason of those two Esau's, that made tender of presents to Our jacob, those two Athletes and dangerous Antees, that wrestled with him in the midday time, in close field, with feet lifted up, and arms outstretched, to bind and bear him to ground without any mercy: where he being alone, without any help but God only (who never forsook him) laboured them out of breath. Whereby his very enemies are constrained to confess, that he is verily elected of God, and for the glory of his name.  
In like manner, As he went towards his Canaan, to enjoy the right of his first begetting, it seems the like should have been done in England: All Europe prepared their eyes, to see the fall of that stately Monarchy, the greatness whereof had compassed the whole Globe of the earth. All the world ran to the bruising of that mighty Ship, when it pleased God to look upon us with the eye of his mercy, and defend us from that fall, by his most powerful Arme. Whereby he plainly declared to all the earth, that he is the preserver of Kings, the God Tutelarie of kingdoms, and the Patron of all Royal Estates. He hath thereby also given a lesson to all Kings and Princes of the world, that their reigning is by him only, and that it is an overmuch boldness in any, as shall seek to exalt himself, or grow great, against his ordinance and express commandment.  
But it is nothing to see him Monarch of the English, as also endued with such authority & power, except we understand withal, by what means it was thus provided, for that is it, wherein the blessing and wonderful work of God towards him is to be discerned.  
For (in the Papists opinion) the Laws, the Estates, the Counsel, the Cities, the Country, the great, the small, the rich, the poor, the young, the old, and all sexes should have universally refused him, and denied him his right: But herein they were deceived, and the people better advised, as being more wisely experienced in affairs of the world. They, acknowledging his just merit, and being effectually instructed, in the will and affection of good aged Rebecca, his Mother Hereditatis, they caused his sweet smelling savour to be felt of all, and (by their good example) reform the error of diverse other. So that all unanimately or with one consent, were in duty compelled to respect him, and prostrate themselves before his Royal Majesty. The Clergy (whom Pope and Papists would have had to doubt) most earnestly desired him; the Nobility, that should have left him, cheerfully elected him; justice, who should have left him, entirely embraceth him; the people, who should have fled from him, do all seek after him: & we may well say, that he hath been the vows, the desire and universal wish of the whole kingdom, yea, in such manner, that (in despite of Popish malice) Our King, is as a fable reduced into an history, Qui tanquam lapis quem rebrobanerunt, factus est caput anguli. They that thought to see him at their feet, do acknowledge him to be their head, & they to whom he was as nothing, at this day do love & honour him for their king. A wonderful work wrought by the providence of God, who in his strict and secret counsel, kept it hid for a day, to publish & propose it then to mankind for ever, and against the opinion of some envious English, to make him King of the English.  
O happy English, that have no more women and children for your King, but a King full of strength, a king participating the verdure of his youth, and full ripeness of his age. O most happy, to have a King that love's you more than himself, and desireth not to live, but for your preservation. O more than thrice happy, to have a King among yourselves, who is natural unto you who cometh not to reign, by the furies of a mutinous multitude, nor by the favours of a blind fold Fortune, but by the blessing of God, and right of birth, as well by the Father's side, as the Mothers. To abbreviate these marvels, there is no man ignorant, but he well knoweth; that this kingdom had been swallowed up in an hideous Chaos, the fift day of November, 1605. if the Divine goodness had not appeared (in such a need) to this Great King, even like a new Star at the break of day, to scatter the latest night that came to overwhelm us. In which wonderful deliverance, he hath evidently declared unto us, that he will have his Majesty to live and flourish more than ever heretofore: because he drew him out of this bottomless pit, by raising us such succour, without which he had undoubtedly been expired, by such cruelties as the like were never heard of.  Quorum animus meminisse borret Luctuque refugit. The heart abhors remembrance, tears fly from it. 
Thus we see, that the Author of the Book, was fore-appointed of God by his name and person, as long since, was Cyrus, whom he foresaw, provided and called by his name, two hundred years before he was borne, to oppose him against Kings and Nations, enemies to his word and people. That verily, and in effect, by all the periods and parallels of his life, this is jacob, according to the Hebrews, and james in Scottish, the Pentaphyllon, or the name of five Letters, bearing the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The Pentagon, in former time Mysteriously revealed to King Antiochus, surnamed the Saviour, for the saving and conservation of his people. That it is he, Among the ten Kings, as the great finger among the rest, as the Sun amongst the five male Planets; as hearing, among the five Senses, and among the fine wounds, that of the heart, to save and preserve us That it is he, who shows us Antichrist, by the five marks of the Apocalypse: First, That be is an Idolater, secondly, a Murderer, thirdly, an Empoisoner, fourthly, a whore, fifthly, a Thief: And that it is he, who shall at length Triumph over Pope Paul the fift, because that the sundry accidents of men, of States, and of affairs, do roll or give by the number quaternary, or of four, and then rest themselves upon the fift, which is denoted by the first Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet (HE) redoubled to the great Tetragrammaton JEHOVA, which afterwards in the Law of Grace, was amplified to a quinary or number of five, JESUS. And the same is judged also, by the seven Letters, or judicial number of his name, in Greek, Latin, and French, whereby likewise is made & commonly comes their mutations and renewings. It is the holy number, & it signifieth all plenitude and perfection: as contrariwise, the number of two (whereof is Papa, the name of his adversary, the most common and generally known) is an Hieroglyphic of filthiness, of wickedness, and of the divine vengeance, as all our Doctors have observed. In Papa, there is nothing else but P. A. doubled into two Syllables, after the same manner as the Pythagorians signified the Devil. Also it is said, that The Beast shall speak like the Dragon, and that Antichrist, shall come in the efficacy of Satan. According unto the Nature of Numbers, the Septenary or that of seven, whereof is jacobus, is the number first sacred and hallowed by the Creator, and it is taken for a sign of his Divine rest: the Binary or that of two, is the first number that divides or withdraws itself from the unity, and from his beginning. Moreover, in all the days of the creation, the Scripture saith, And God saw that it was good, except the second only: not as signifying, that what he had created on that day was not good; but to set a secret mark thereon, concerning the numbers signification. In like manner, Noah sent into the Ark, The cleave creatures by seven and seven, and the unclean by two and two. Naaman the Assyrian received command from Elyseus, to go wash himself seven times in jordain, to be healed of his leprosy. But two Angels were sent to consume Sodom and Gomorrba; & two molten Calves were provided, to be the first Idols, and first wickedness of jeroboam the first king of Israel, and long time after two other, by the misbelievers of the same people. Oh, that the leprous among the papists, who in outward appearance have fair flesh, but are all rotten and putrified within, who in exterieur devotion, and feigned simplicity, in habits, in Ceremonies, and public actions, seem especial men, and to exceed all other, & yet underneath, are nothing but ulcered with envy, pride, and gluttony, with all other kinds of voluptuousness: who are a people that repel and thrust out vice, to the eyes of the world, and yet retain and call it in again at a back door: Oh, that they would seek their own cure, in the learned writings of Our King james or jacobus, By the Lamb with seven horns, and seven eyes, by the seven Spirits of God, and the seventh aspersion or sprinkling of the Leviticall blood.  
And coming to Divination, by the numbers appropriated to their Characters, excogitated first of all by Pythagoras, the Traditions whereof are no other thing, but a very Hebrew Cabala, grounded upon this place in the Book of wisdom: God hath made all things in number, weight, and measure: we shall there find, that this only name ΙΑΚΩΒΟΣ in Greek, surmounteth double almost the name and the Number of the Beast, in all Languages and tongues, which is not without some special mystery, neither without the providence of God: whereunto neither Aristotle nor Ptolemy do any way contradict, but rather they avouch, that Letters do contain in them (mystically) certain numbers, and that in the proper names of persons, some secret matter is contained of their Fortunes and Destinies. As we may see by these verses, traduced and drawn out of that old Grammarian Terentianus, which showeth unto us both the use and the practice thereof.  
One tells us, that the verse names,  
in Letters do contain  
The Fortunes of the greatest men,  
and those of lower strain.  
If both do venture to oppose  
and tempt the God of War:  
To use his Arms; the Lot to each;  
will differ very fare.  
The Victory will fall unto  
the greater numbers name,  
The lesser thereby gaineth harm,  
perhaps, mischance and shame.  
For so it was great Hector's hap,  
Patrocles to confound:  
And then Achilles (by wanes chance)  
laid Hector on the ground.  
In like manner, our Royal Name, which notes and marks the thousand years and more, that the reign of Antichrist hath continued powerfully and with authority; that his blasphemies against God, his cruelty against his Saints, his fowling with his feet the spiritual jerusalem, the prophecy of the witnesses of God, to annihilate the true and invisible Church, because they were laid as dead and dumb, in the visible, exterior and pretended Church, the flight of the Spouse of Christ into the wilderness, and that she became invisible: In all these do surmount (at this instant) the name of the Beast.  
For, be it that he call himself Apphipior in Hebrew, or ΛΑΤΕΙΝΟΣ in Greek (to omit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Die Lux, which are neither names of men, nor of the Latin Empire: no more than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are not of the first best) or Papa in Latin. jacob shall triumph daily, and more particularly, on the number which is found in Paulus Quintus, Vice-Deo (a Vize-God.) Here is wisdom He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the Beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred sixty six, & that of ΙΑΚΩΒΟΣ of a King, which containeth eleven hundred and three.  
That which wanteth of forty two months, of a thousand two hundred and sixty days Prophetical, of three great days and an half; of a time, of times, and of half a time, mentioned in Daniel, and in the Apocalypse: all do signify the same term or space of time, and each, one thousand, two hundred and sixty julian years, which is since the diminishing and fall of the kingdom of Antechrist, and which shall be wholly overthrown by Our Prince, accomplished in his Numbers.  
As the hundred seaventh King of Scotland, he hath contributed more alone by himself, to build the Temple of God, and to reform the service therein, than all the Kings together have done, or all the people of Asia, to raise that proud Temble of Dyna (named by the Greeks Agrotarius, or Elaphobolos) which was a wonder of the world, and the Ornament of Asia. Likewise his number hath this respect, that it is composed of two perfect numbers. Of an hundred, which is ten times ten, wherein God is marvelously pleased. For jacob bought an hundred Lambs for an heritage which he had in Syria.  
The Children of Israel gave an hundred Talents, wherewith was made three Cupbordes, for the Vessels which were placed near unto the Tabernacle The Romans themselves were not ignorant of the power and virtue of this number, having builded the Temple of Mars at Rome, with an hundred Collomnes, & their Senate consisted of an hundred Counsellors. And julian in his Epistle unto Serapion, saith, that Crect had an hundred Towns or Cities, Thebes an hundred gates, some Altars an hundred feet, some Sacrifices an hundred beasts, and continually an hundred Soldiers to several Centurions.  
But in what part of the world is to be found, so long a succession of Kings in the right line, without interruption or breach? Turn over all the World, search into all families, number the Monarchies, the Empires and Kingdoms, count all their Kings one by one, their Emperors, their Monarches, and you shall never find so great a number, neither any Reign: which hath endured for the space of 1908. without ever being subjugated, like unto ours, or that goeth before us in the susception of Christianity, and profession of the Catholic Faith.  
Christi transactis tribus annis atque ducentis  
Scotia Catholicam coepit inire fidem.  
Since Donaldus, the first Christian King, he is the 79. who being multiplied one by another in their times, it produceth prognostically the most dangerous Climacteriall age of Popery, or the Papacy: as their simple transposition marketh the year of the Revelation Written by Saint john: and the last apart by itself, did facilitate the way for him to his second Crown, and to us the sense of this Arithmetical prediction, by the effect.  
Galla feret natum, cui tota Britannia laeta  
Subijciet collum refluo circumsona Ponto  
Nec proprior quam nonus erit de sanguine Bruti.  
His perfection likewise is seen in this, that he hath the name of james the sixth of Scotland. Six being the sign of accomplishment, as Saint Augustine observeth it to be that only amongst numbers simple, which resolveth all the parts, and maketh them equal, to wit; of one, of two, and of three. This is a number very pleasing & acceptable to God, and which himself hath observed in the most part of his marvelous actions. Six days he laboured and wrought in the perfection of the world: Six days he reigned Manna in the wilderness, and distributed unto men the bread of Angels. Six days Moses conferred with him, about the eternal decrees of his will, and on the Articles of Religion: he willed that the Walls of jericho should be six times circuted about, before they were to be tumbled to the ground. Six days he kept shut the gates of his Temple, which looked towards the East, and commanded that six Lambs should be offered to him, on each day of the Sabaoth in sacrifice: we may also say, that he hath recommended this number in Nature, as it being his will, that (among flowers) the Lily should have six leaves: Among stones, the Iris should have six Corners: and that the lioness in her first whelping, should have six young ones, and that so decaying continually unto one, she should terminate her brood in an unity, which is the bottom, the beginning, and the only source of all other numbers.  
In the same sort is he called and chosen of God (without any doubt) the sixth of Scotland, to be the first, not only of Great Britain, but also every where. Because in this Unity, the Verity is found, who is but Only One, and as Mercurius Trismegistus saith, The beginning and the root of All. He is the first also of Ten Kings Christians, that should hate the whore, making her become naked and desolate, should eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.  
So may we also say, that he hath changed his Name (like unto jacob) to resemble him in all things. Of the sixth, he is come to be the first, and of King of Scotland, & of England, he is now the King of Great Britain, etc.  
jam cuncti Gens una sumus  
Et Simus in aewm.  
And for the fulfilling or accomplishment of this old vaticination.  Imperium, Fasces, C. Fastus Sceptra, Triumphus Quae fuerant: penitus C. veniente cadent. 
He ought of right, as well as by his Baptism, to be called Charles.  
Charles, and Charles the Great, a more just Title then that of Antiochus, Quintus Fabius, Pompey, Methridates, and the rest: or they that are yet called the Great Cham's of Tartary, or the dreaded Othomans. For if Constantine did deserve this Name only, for having succoured the Church; and Theodosius, only for warranting the Empire from so many imminent dangers: what Name can be found convenable unto his Devotion and desseign, to deliver all Christendom from the Tyranny of Antechrist? Whom may a man term to be more Great, than he which is the Non pareil, of all that are, or may be in this present Age?  
He is Great, according to the World, and in all that which the world esteemeth to be great, as the Scripture sayeth, According to the Name Greatness on the earth. Great in Kingdoms and Provinces; Great in Lands and Seigneuries, Great in Authority and power, Great in Arms and Treasures, Great in Nobility and Lineage, Great in Age and youth. And every way so Great in all these, as being not to be equalled by any, he is The Great of Greats, the Chiefest and the most Great of all.  
But that which is much morethens all these, and whereunto the world cannot attain; he is Great according to God; great in Faith and Religion, Great in Virtue and Faithfulness, Great in justice and Piety, Great in kindness and ●ansutude, Great in Goodness and Innocency, Great in wisdom and experience, Great in name, & more Great in effects. Briefly, he is the lively Image of Great Hercules, who never did or thought on any thing, but it was Great, and greatly profitable. All his actions, all his words and cogitations, are nothing but Great.  
It is a thing most certain, that God doth evermore raise Great personages, whom he endueth with excellent and Heroical virtues, to finish fortunately whatsoever he committeth into their hands. The which is also testified by a most especial providence of God, even in his Surname of (Stevart,) thereby being opposed 'gainst Antechrist, as the south-wind against the Northwind, that is to say; as Grace against sin, and as the blessed Spirit against the Devil, who is the true Northwind, from whence all evil cometh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. And this is conformable to the scripture, where speaking of them that are Faithful Ministers, that is to say, Good Stewards in our Language, and whose works God hath established in verity, and made a perpetual league or covenant with them: It is said, that Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, & their increase shall be in the midst of the people. As it was seen in the Macchabees, who by being of the seed of them, by whom salvation came to Israel, this blessing was bestowed upon them.  
Now, this house of Stevart in Scotland, is as a Phoenix among the Nobility, the Lords thereof are as Nestor's among men, for the length of time that their race hath lived. For since the year of Grace, 1057. from the reign of Malcolme, even to this present, it hath flourished full of prosperity and honour. All the Kings issued of that line, have taken hands with him, and (as by infusion) transmitted their rare and excellent qualities, still from one to another, never degenerating: for evermore Royal Eagles do produce Imperial Eagles, Eagles that have continually made War with Dragons, with Foxes, and (above all) with Serpents.  
As is now to be seen in our Great King, who hath producted the most Noble Prince Henry, (the ninth in Surname among Kings in Scotland, as of Name in England) for the greater height of his good fortune.  
This young Prince is a warrior already, both in gesture and countenance, so that in looking on him, he seemeth unto us, that in him we do yet see Aiax before Troy, crowding among the armed Troops, calling unto them, that he may join body to body with Hector, who stands trembling with chill-cold fear, to see him seek to determine the difference in the enclosed Field or Lists. He can never permit, that any other should step before him in an occasion so remarkable. Honour was all his nouriture, and Greatness his pastime (as it was said of Alexander) and Triumph the ordinary end of all his Actions. What though his desires be impeached by a much stronger desire, and his devoir retarded by a Natural duty, and by an obedience, which in this occasion only is contrary, and contrary to his own affection? Yet let it not be imagined, that the execution of great designs, are utterly lost by deferrence and delay. Deferred, not in regard of weakness or impuissance, but referred to fit season, to do nothing against the order of Nature, or contrary to the will of his father: who would always have his Son for Object, and subject of contentment by his presence. Contrary to the Ottomans, who could not, nor can endure the youngness of their Children, their very shadow gains them so many other suspicious shadows, and their presence excludeth them from all kinds of pleasures.  
His Majesty hath also another Son, Duke Charles, who shineth in the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, like the other twinne-Starre, and who promiseth us, that as the Sun is at the very highest in Gemini: even so, God in the same manner, will very quickly raise and exalt Great Britain, in the Apogaeum of his Greatness. And that he will make the succession of the house of Stevart, not only equally unto the world's continuance, but the world itself equal to his succession, and to the sacred stirpe of his Majesty. This is it, whereunto the full end of his greatness is assigned, and where he hath laid the bases of his very greatest Trophies: This is the point where his Angle endeth, this is the extremity of his line, and this is the centre of his circumference.  
Wherein we discern (at last sight) the difference of the house of Cyrus (which was of small continuance, because they did not acknowledge God who elected them) to that of Our King, whom he multiplieth & increaseth every day, awaiting until God shall come from the south, to chase away that rude Ox, and dissolve the captivity of the Waters which are frozen, to make them run in Torrents, and like Rivers in the South. That is to say, the extermination of Antichrists race, by that of Stevart, to deliver those poor souls, which under the coldness of this barbarous impiety are so miserably captived, by the heat of the South, which is the Grace of the Holy ghost, and Faith and Christian piety. That the garden of the Spouse may be so breathed by this wind, as the odorifferous ivices thereof may distil on all sides, by a renewing of holiness and devotion in all the ways upon earth, and causing that they which are at the South (as it is written in Abdias) that is to say, the true Christians which are in the South, shall possess the Mount of Esau, and make themselves Masters of that Estate: Even so may we hope one day to see, that under the name and family of Stevart, all Christendom shall flourish in an absolute Monarchy.  
For the Master, who hath placed him over his household, to give them all things in due time, hath found him a faithful and wise Spender and Steward, or a good Oeconomicus in his dealing. Wherefore he hath said unto us, that (in very deed) he will commit all his goods to him. And the Lord who hath given him those five talents in keeping, when he taketh his account of him, will find that he hath made profit of them, that he hath gained five more by & above them. Wherefore he will say unto him; It is well done good servant, thou hast been faithful in a few small things, I will set and constitute thee over much more, enter into the joy of thy Lord.  
For the rest, Roman antiquity hath observed, that in the family of the Fabiuses there were three Princes of the Senate; In that of the Curij, three Orators: In some so many Censors, In others, as many Dictator's. But in the family of the Stevarts, there are not three or four to be noted, but many great Lords and Princes, who have all made appearance of the greatness of their valour throughout the world, and particularly they that are of the branch of Noble Lennox.  
Their piety appeared with Saint Lewes: their courage against your enemies (O Frenchmen) and their fidelity at all times towards the Realm of France, our Chronicles do report them. Also the memory of those voyages in the East, do witness them, and your Histories themselves are full of their praises: which whosoever shall read, will find them as so many sharp spurs inciting to virtue. Such as have read the manuscripts of that race, or seen The Galleries of Verrerye in Soulongne, will confess, that they never read either among the Greeks' or Latins, any thing coming near to their natural generosity. From this virtue came it, to advance Messire Berault Stevart, Lord of Aubigny, and of Croitet, Knight of the Order, Captain of the Guard to his Ma-body, Great Constable of Sicily and of jerusalem, and his Highness' Lieutenant General in the kingdom of Naples. And hence, an infinite number of other, all Captains of Guard to the Body, of the Chamber, Counsellors, Marshals, or Constables of France. And hence also Messire Bernard Stevart, Martial of France, that gave so much exercise unto the Emperor Charles the fift: who vanquished, and took Prisoner in Piedmont, that great Roman Captain Prosper Colonnus, in the year 1515. according to the Relation of our French Authors. And whence at this instant is sprung,  Dux inter primos praestanti corpore LENOX. 
who for his excellent and singular parts, hath not forsaken us, although he be called into Great Britain, to be the Honour of Honours to the French. Let the Parthians vaunt them of their Arsaces, the Greeks of their Egides, and the Romuines of their Emilij, Fabiuses, Curij, and Marcelli: Great Britain, makes vaunt of her Stevarts, and of nothing more than of her Stevarts.  
— Nec Phoebo gratior ulla est  
Principis haec quam quae praefixit pagina nomen.  
Prince most generous and Magnanimous, happy Henry, the delight of Heaven, the love of the Earth, and the Titus of humane kind, never fear that the victories of MY KING will leave you nothing to conquer. Enter not into that ambitious jealousy with Alexander, who seeing the fortunate progress of his Father's affairs, & how victoriously he went on, joining City to City, and Province to Province: Surely (quoth he to his soldiers) my Father will win all, and leave nothing famous or Magnificent for me to conquer with you. You must triumph with him, as did the Sons of Emilius, and of Commodus, with their Fathers, and the children of Marcus Caesar, with Mark Anthony. In fights, the disposition and order must be committed to his judgement, and his judgement must be referred to the execution of your sword, against all Refractaties. Yours shall be the arm and strength, but his the head and Counsel; Yours the pain and endeavour, his the effect; Yours the Action, but he the Agent: You for him, & he for you, and you and he jointly together, shall win an immortal glory; to the end, that all the world may see you in effect after the same manner, as one figured Caesar, aloft, deposing or treading a Globe under him, holding a book in one hand, and a sword in the other: so that it may be said of you, That for the one & other you are a Caesar.  
And you Prince and Duke, Duke & Prince, Charles, Beloved of all, who may hold it as much honour to be called Son to the King of Great Britain, etc. as Charles King of jerusalem, Naples, and Sicily, Brother of Saint Lewes, to name himself Son to the K. of France: or Charles King of Arragon, and of Valencia, in the same manner. Remember that you are the Son of a King, as Menedemus said in the ear of young Antigonus; You, the excellency of my Hope, and the Sacred Anchor of him who seeketh no other happiness in this world, then in your service, neither any honour, then what may be pleasing unto you. Methinks I see a Sword in your hand, and you upon the walls of Nicomedia, Nicaea, Antioch, and Tripoli, aiming at the fairest through all perils, even in the lesser Asia, & take perforce jerusalem again by assault, after the siege of five and thirty days. Go generous Race, go gather Laurels in the fields of Armenia, enfrachise the Palus Maeotides, enter into Lycaonia, Bricea, Trabasonde, chase the Turbans from those Provinces, and making a new world, surname those Provinces after your Name.  
Who steps up, to drive the Lydian out of his house, and leave nothing but the Tartesian Cat? Oh, that I might see MY KING glorified universally, and Great Britain made Famous in the love of Christendom, and to the astonishment of the Infidels! Oh, that with one common hand we might War on the Mahometan, and that his Trophies might no more be shameful Marks of our general calamity! Let us be the first upon their squadrons, and (all armed) march for the conquest of the Holy-Land, so much honoured by God, by the beginning of his Church. Let us cross the seas, and as they, who (to animate others) cried in the Ship, Itorus, Itorus, the Master, say; Behold here is the Master. Let us be the first to advance our Standards, upon the Ramparts of Constantinople, daunting all them that shall seek to tardy our designs, and let us free the way to the whole Army, to the end, that  
In reign so great of such a great reign reigning,  
By force of Arms, the greatest gates of Brass  
Were made to open: the King and Duke so joining  
Beat down, sunk Ships, a fairer day near was.  
And that instead of a Tyrant Fratricide, My Lord and Master might be honoured, respected and obeyed, as the lawful Prince, and true nourisher of his subjects.  
You also Duke and Prince, a Peer sans Peer, in all Great Britain; You the jolaus of our Hercules, the Claterus and the Hephestion of Our ALEXANDER; You my Omphis, my Benefactor, according as Xenocrates called his jupiter: Remember that you are a Branch of this great Tree. Look in the old Tables of your Predecessors, and their Laurels all dusty, but with the dust of Honor. You wise and prudent Lodowicke, honoured so many times with royal honours of Lenox, Grace of Graces, that have left France (your Native country) to be always by and at the right hand of Our King, as not able to lose the sight of him; neither be further off from his Majesty, than the Sun from the Eccliptick line. You that give so many wholesome counsels for the preservation of his estate & person: give likewise your Vows and Prayers to that jupiter Hypsistius, which is the most high God, that Heresy may for ever be stifled, and by the same Divinity of Our King, which is his chiefest practice, his own advice, in assaying to restore the little wandering flock to the fold of the Church, by a National counsel, or one Ecumenical or Universal, it cannot but be hoped. This is the only remedy for these evils (as his Majesty very well acknowledgeth) and the best means to convert the most Learned, and lesser oppinitive. This is the voice, wish and desire, yea, even the very final cutting off, of all our pretended Roman Catholics.  
To take excuse from the one side, and give pretext to the other, as it behooveth to convince them Viva voce (as they have been often enough by learned writings, as well of his Majesty, as by others) before they be constrained. That we might see (with patience) their Reasons laid on the board, and our Combat with them, to be in mildness and modesty: This is the design of my discourse, and the perfection of my Paraenesis, or accomplishment of my wish. Oh, that you might see these temerarious spirits, which hurl dust in the eyes of truth, in thinking to dazzle ours, should yield up their Weapons into the hands of his Majesty, to offer them at his service, and take the Oath of his faithful obedience. You should see them suddenly surprised, like the complices in Cilones conspiracy, at the Temple of Minerva, and all run in zeal of affection, to the Palms, Laurels and Crowns, which his Majesty hath proposed as their recompense, in such an happy and profitable conversion.  
All such as are capable of the advancement of such a fruitful design, aught to bestow their watchful pains and Travail, to the honour of God, and the safety of the King, for the conversion or confusion of all our papists, and for the quiet of our Country, if not of all the whole world.  
Nor do I think herein, that any one ought to be so arrogant or overweening as he should seek to give a Lesson of wisdom to My Learned King, or should teach his experience, or clear his knowledge, or be a guide to his discretion for following time: Neither think I, that there is any one so boldfaced or presumptuous, as to censure his proceed past, or to come. In either of these arrogancies, we should behold but a Souldiour-like Phormio; an Asseearde Midas, a Croote-nosed Corebus, a tedious Hisser, a prating Xenophanes, and one altogether like to Minerva's Hog, or Apollo's Marsyas: & I should repute such a Hermes without shame, worthy the pains and punishment of Hermea, his Majesty being more able than any other, to give form to every action, and hath never forced (by wheel or fire) violently their consciences. But it is to this end, that you, who do face to face contemplate the divinity of My King, might be the Mediator of such a holy resolution, & that boldly, and with open mouth you would tell him, that the whole world expecteth the accomplishment of his advice, either by himself, or never.  
Because that God by his Grace, hath adorned him with a singular & supereminent quality of a King, not so much in favour of his Ancestors (as he did to the house of Laban, for jacob; of Putipher the Egyptian, for joseph; and to Solomon, for love to his Father David) as in regard of his own  merrites, in like manner as he said to Abraham: He foresaw his merit and his diligence, in well instructing his children and his posterity after him, and that he should acknowledge to hold his Crown of him, and not of any other.  
Wherein we may see, that he is King, not by the neighing of a horse, like to Darius, nor by the flight of an Eagle, like to Aegon in the City of Argos, nor by uncertain report, as to Alynomus in the Isle of Paphos, nor by the Lance, as Caesar was made Emperonr, nor by the sword, as Servius, nor by tyranny, as Nero, nor by adoption, as Caius Luciius Caesar's: But by extraction, not by election, which he would never have been, how ever Tortus (to his Grand tort) speaks it. But by the Grace of God, as his majesty doth confess it, by inheritance and succession, like Octavian, bearing the Crown one way by his birth, as his Thistle declareth, and the other by patience, as did Marcus Aurelius, being both by right of blood and merit, the chiefest Prince.  
It is an high gift of God, to come into the world in such a rank and degree, as to bear away a Crown by being borne to it: but to deserve it he touch it, and thereby to fill the whole world with his name, that makes him double worthy thereof, and he rather honoureth the Monarchy, than he receiveth any honour thereby.  
But it seems, that they would make him enter into the Land (all shining in felicity) by a false door: by fear, by hope, etc. which is not only to make a commerce of Kingdoms, and to Traffic with Sceptres: but likewise to expose to open sale, even the heavens and souls of men.  
— Vaenalia Romae  
Templa, Sacerdotes, Altaria, Sacra, Coronae,  
Ignes, Thura, Preces, Coelum est vaenale, Deusque.  
And what is it? That the King of Scots had given some hope of his Apostasy from the Religion, to be King of England. Can any man believe it? This came from so many Monsters, as disloyalty & perfidy of those Ministers would build in the fantastical brains of the Pope and his Cardinals. Rather the sun retrograde in the South, shall return and wash his fair locks in the Oriental billows, and the earth once more drowned with another deluge, shall accuse Iris of lying; then My King should, or ever did think to promise such a wickedness: That the faith, of the Defender of the Faith, would so submit itself, and cause him to yield homage to one without faith, and makes public profession of violating all Faith: That the promise of a Prince (the very abstract of all virtuous Princes) should be subjected to the wicked passions or pretences of any whatsoever? That a puissant Monarchy, which could even then extend her right hand, for the terror of his enemies, and ruin of them as dust resist against his just right, would render up her Lord, King, & Master, by perfidy or subtlety, to establish himself in the Fox, and forsake the sign of Leo.  
No, no, this might easily have been done with an Athenian or Melian Diagoras, or a Cyrenian Theodorus, and many other Empirics of State, who had much rather take part with earth than heaven, and who for a mess of lentil Pottage, would turn their backs on God. But not with such a Prince as he, who from his Cradle, hath been nursed with the blood and suck of Lions; I mean in his Religion, truly a Christian, and which hath taught him, that it is the Faith which makes him acceptable in the sight of that great King of Kings, and which also must one day make him Triumph, with a Crown of infinite glory, far beyond the joys of feigned Elysium.  
It was for the first King of Athens Cecrops, to be double, as also the Courtier of Philip King of Macedon, who was named Hecateros, to be both the one and other, and it fitteth well the jesuites, to equivocate: but not a man of Honour, such as My King is, who carrieth his heart upon his tongue, and speaks from the bottom of his stomach, as Homer makes his Ulysses to speak, immovable, and evermore in full weight, upon his duty both towards God and men, keeping his faith and promises to enemies themselves, Verus Israelita in quo dolus non est: knowing very well, that God love's no craft, cunning and dissembling, and affected the Patriarch jacob so much, because he was without all fictions  
Vir bonus & sapiens, linguaque & pectore verus,  
justitiae cultor rigidi seruator honesti.  
A man both good and wise,  
in tongue and mind full true:  
Adoring justice, cool and calm,  
and naught but honest knew.  
Nevertheless, to deal and cope with the envious and perfidious, malignity of these calumniators, even at their own weapons, let us admit, that the king had treated of his Religion, before an examining bench at Rome, that he promised to make himself a Papist in intention, or wholly at a free leap, without shame, without piety, & Christian fear of that great dreadful day, that he would have forsaken the love of God, the care of his own salvation, and of all eternity. Shall we not here consider, that the world, that temporal interses may be made with them (for the matter of Religion) as a counterband of Merchandise? And when all this had been done, where are then his so much vantageable profits? It should have been very small, to make the greatness of his Throne, the foot pace of the Pope, and miserable were his condition, if in stead of having heaven for his Aspect, the earth for foundation, and the sea for limit, he should consent that his sceptre & Crown must be subjected, to the perturbations & appetites of a Priest. This were, to establish another Kingdom in his Kingdom, to admit another King above him, which would be as prodigious, & occasion as much hurt, as two Suns shining at once in heaven, which would overthrew all. The plurality of Caesar's (sayeth an ancient Writer) is dangerous, and the Poet,  
— All greatness Royal,  
By no means can endure to have an equal.  
Now I am of the mind, that his Royal Majesty, in attributing to himself this quality, or this Title of King, doth understand it also in the same manner as Seneca spoke of the Imperial Greatness and Authority. It is I (saith he, under the person of a potent Emperor) who have been so acceptable to the Gods, as they have chosen me for their Lieutenant on earth. It is I that second them, It is by my mouth, that they pronounce their determinations immoveable, and the good or evil fortunes of men.  
For, beside the authorities and prerogatives in common, which his majesty hath with other Kings, that they are rich in quantity, having this quality, as being happy in having this quality, as being happy in having this contentment, to say; I will, and it is done; I desire, and the desire is accomplished. That the very wink of the eye makes them to be understood, the least changing of their looks, procureth execution of their will, and that they can wish nothing more in earth, because he that is a King, is All, according to the answer of King Porus: yet over and above these particular advantages which GOD hath given him, as making the Kings of Persia, by the right of their eldest children; this word KING, doth show us his faith pure and clean towards God, by his Charity & fatherly love unto his Subjects, and his providence in the affairs of his Crown. For, in our French Language, it consisteth of 3. Letters, ROI, and also in Latin REX, as the primordials and Radical Letters of the hebrews, and of one Syllable, which simbolizeth (in some sort) with the most holy and Sacred ternary or Trinity.  
First, for the Letter R. (according to the considerations which concern Socrates in the Cratylis of Plato) it signifieth unto us, his continual action and exercise of duty, for the acquitting of his charge, as the tongue removeth strongly & without any stay, in the pronouncing it. O, denoteth the roundness which he equally useth towards every one, which, as it is round, equal & even, without any points, or corners to carry it out abroad: so it showeth, that Our King is perfectly round, seeing that his words and actions do concord, and that both to one & other he goes in full rotundity, plainness and sincerity, speaking evermore with a round mouth. As I, doth also represent his lenity and mildness, by a facile and very gracious prolation.  
And according to the Traditions of the Cabalists, the Letter RESH doth infer, that he is King by succession, and instructeth us, that Hereditary kingdoms are much better instituted, than those which be elected: where the combustions of suits and partialities, do often times cause them to turn their backs on their enemies, with extreme affliction, and ruin of the people. (O) is as the eye, which he dareth to all, and over all, in imitation whereof, the Egyptians in their Hierogliphics, did represent royalty by an Eye, placed upon the top of a Sceptre. (I) whereof all the Hebrew Letters are composed, and which by the same means constituteth the number of ten, the perfection, resting place, and accomplishment of all other numbers; doth signify thereby, that all the parts and members of his kingdom, do depend entirely upon him, wherefore, all aught to be referred to his safety and preservation.  
Thus passing these mystical Interpretations, and significations of these three Letters, to that which might result from their diverse Anagrams, Metathesis, and Renuersements, according to the Tmurah and Siruphs of the hebrews, Our King (as Philo sayeth in the life of Moyfes) is a Soule-like Law, and his Law is Our just-king, they are so bound by the girdle of the Graces, and joined together by justice.  justitiae cupidus recto non devius unquam. Desire of justice never swerves from right. 
For although Cato was wont to say, that a King was a ravenous Beast; that he lived not but by his prey, and on Venison or wild food: yet can not it so be said of Our King, seeing he contents himself with a small circumference, not insulting upon his Neighbours or Strangers. Never did any man hear in him, that overbold wish of the Emperor Maximilian (by the report of Philip de Commines) to be a God, And that his Son might be King of France.  
His desire, and the chiefest degree of his Title, is to be called King of Great Britain, which is the kingdom of the Church of God, his part and portion which he hath chosen in earth, & the kingdom which succeedeth to the Kingdom of juda. This is the Christian kingdom, wherein even to the very least or vulgar, cannot (elsewhere) be found a people more devout and Religious: Piety and Religion are there so zealously, and so often exercised. In brief, It is the Land of Promise, which God reserved to himself in Christendom, where he hath so long time kept the Book open, and the Revelation of his Prophetic and Evangelicall Mysteries. God himself Husbanded the Garden of that Country, and took thee even measures thereof, having enguirt it with the great Ocean. As concerning the form of the Island (according to the opinion and description of Caesar) it is triangular, whereof one way is opposite and faceth France, and containeth on that side, about six score and five leagues or miles in length. Another looketh towards Spain, and that longitude is an hundred and sixty miles. The third, is opposed to the North, drawing most part towards Germany, and it is thought, that this way it containeth well two hundred good miles. So that the whole Isle may have some five hundred miles in circuit.  
It hath a very serene and fair Haven, and the habitation there is much more temperate then in France, and the colds are less sharp & violent. Gallia trieme frigidior, by the judgement of Petronius, and in mine understanding, so it is at this instant. In that Country are not to be seen, the intolerable heats of Egypt, no more than the Ices of Sarmatia, all is temperate, all is cultive, and all things are fruitful there in abundance.  
Non illic Aries verno ferit aëra cornu  
nec Gemini praecedunt cornua Tauri  
Sicca Lycaonius resupinant plaustra Bootes.  
It hath a copious Sun, Corn, Cloth, Wools, Waters, Beasts, Fish, Foule, and all kinds of wild flesh, in most great facility and felicity. She hath even in herself, her India, and her Peru, not only of Time, and of Iron, (as in the time of Caesar) but likewise of Gold and Silver: & therefore she useth not any money of Copper, Brass, or Annelets of Iron, added to even poise, but all fine Gold and Silver. And such is her abounding in all kinds of riches, and in all things necessary for man: as (in due right) she is confirmed by the Master of Treasures, to be the first and principal of the fortunate Islands.  
She hath made plain and smooth the back of Thetis, by the number of her goodly & great Ships and Vessels: which do serve her as bornes, as limits, as ramparts, and as walls.  
And she is called Great, not for the extendure of her Lands, Countries, and Provinces; not so much for infinite multitude of people, for the great number of her Cities, Towns, Borroughs, and villages: as for the greatness of courage in her Inhabitants, who never leave winning, and never suffered themselves to be foiled, or fully conquered.  
Imperij fuerat Romani Scotia limbs  
Romanae fuerit Scot-Anglus origo ruin.  
But to conclude, the Kings most glorious and pompous Title of Triumph, is to be called DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, because it is apparent, & he shows himself more affectionate, ardent, and zealous to preserve, exalt, proclaim, and communicate it to them, which have not as yet received it, than any other King on the earth. It is a Title, which gives him more glory and splendour, than all his Sceptres and Diadems. It honoureth him so much, as he should not think himself worthy to bear the name of King, if he had not that withal of Defender of the Faith. It is a Title, which maketh him as much beloved of all, as that of King causeth him to be feared. It is a Title, not as to day deserved, and given to our Kings, but it is more than an hundred years, since it was given to his Majesty's great Grandfather, james the fourth K. of Scots, as the Chronicles of M. Chambres do testify. So that they deceive themselves, who think it is no longer, then since the time of King Henry the eight of England.  
A glorious and Hereditary title, which you and we ought to esteem, since it hath been graved in the foreheads of the late Kings of either kingdom. Yet a title not so much by succession, as by merit & acquisition of a King, who fights and beats down idolatry and Heresy, more valiantly than all his Ancestors. By a King, who shall reform the error, not only of Scotland and England, an Angle of the earth, but of the whole earth. For behold, the days are coming, when God will punish the graved Images of Babylon, that he will make all her Country ashamed, and will cause all the wounds of death to fall in the midst thereof. These tidings shall come this year, and after this in the other, there shall be violence on the earth, and Ruler upon Ruler.  
Roma diu titubans varijs erroribus acta  
Curvet & mundi desinet esse caput.  
Wherefore, Go forth of her all people, to the end, that you be not partakers of her sins, & receive not her plagus. Deliver every one his life, out of the heat of the wrath of the eternal. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, & resist no longer his reasonable will, through a rash kind of zeal. There is no one of you so ignorant, but he knoweth most part of the abuses of the Roman Church to be so evident, as the fautors and favourers of them, can no longer deny them. Seek the truth, turn over the leaves of the Scriptures, which have been (for so long time) maliciously interdicted to you. None hath more or greater interest in your salvation, than your very selves.  
Yea, even thou, who (with shame and false Ensigns) dost usurp the Title of Holy Father, Lieutenant of God, Vicar of Christ, Vice Deo, Universal Bishop, Great Priest, Sovereign high Priest, Prince of bishops, Heir to the Apostles. And you, who say of him, that for Primate he is Abel; For Government, Noah; for his Patriarchate, Abraham; For Ordere, Melchizedeck; For Dignity, Aaron; For Authority, Moses; For judgement, Samuel; For Power, Peter; and for Unction, Christ. Thou that seatest thyself in the Temple of God, above God, & above all that is called God, to make thyself honoured as God. Thou that sayest thou hast power to bind Kings, to tie them in Chains of Iron, to bereave (& at thy pleasure) take away their Crowns, to break their Sceptres, trample on their Crowns to give their kingdoms as preys, or otherwise to dispose of them, to disoblige their subjects from their oath of fidelity and obedience: Repent thyself of this doctrine, when both reason and Authority faileth. Content thyself at least, with the power limited by our learned Barcklay, cut off the disorders which (like a crafty Serpent) have crept into the Church, scratch and break the head of those Vipers of thy Pastoral staff, cast off also the sin and corruption, so much as may be, not only of thy Court, but of Rome, yet not of Rome alone, but of all those places where thou art feared and reverenced. Let the Church recover her first splendour again, that all abused may be beaten fare from her. Thou hast a long time converted Lead into Gold, by means of thy Bulls, which are but sorry meat to satisfy feeble spirits. Thy Pardons are too pardonous, and thy Indulgences have too much indulgence; keep them to thy source & thyself. Acknowledge the power of them that have given thee this power: Reddendo Caesari quae sunt Caesaris, et quae sunt Dei, Deo.  
And you also, who will be Princes and Cardinals altogether: You Prelates, Bishops, Cannons, Priests, prebend's, & all Roman Churchmen, of what order or name soever ye be, learn that it is now no longer time to resist, you must bend or break under the yoke of the Son of God, and of his holy word.  
There hath been sleep enough, Luxury enough, Traffic enough, & enough of disorderly walking in the house of God, enough have ye served your bellies and idleness, enough have ye piled & bold the very fattest sheep in the flock, enough have ye chopped, changed, bought, & sold in the temple of the Lord. Awake now, prevent judgement, there is yet place for clemency and for mercy. The Synagogne of the jews, it is gone, the Law hath given place to the Gospel: by much more powerful reason than should abuse make way for purity; lying for truth; inventions and Traditions of men, for the ordinances of God, against which, let time be never so long, it prescribeth nothing.  Nec poterit ferrum, necedax abolere vetustas. 
I beseech the Father of Lights, to open the eyes and hearts of Kings, of Magistrates, & their people, to the end, that in giving place to his Heavenly word, they may take knowledge of Antechrist, and detesting his yoke, they may submit to that of Christ. To whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit, be Glory and Dominion eternally, Amen.  
FINIS.