A Treatise Declaring the Despite of a Secret Seditious Person

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¶A treatyse declarynge the despyte of a secrete sedycyous person / that dareth not shewe hym-selfe.

¶His doyngs amonge trewe men / shuld not be had in place

That feareth to tell his name / and shameth to shewe his face. Qui male agit odit lucem Io .3.

WHy I thus do wryte / is greatlye to be mused

But before I departe / It shall appere more playne

Besechynge all honest men / to haue me excused

Thoughe (as no lasse bounden) I do seme very fayne

By veryte to vaynquysshe malyuole dysdayne

Force me so forceth / and wylleth me to wryte

Truely for the truths sake and nothynge for despyte

¶And nowe briefly to my purpose / the effecte is thys

Of late I wrote two lybelles / not thynkynge to offende

But perceyuynge amonge vs thynges to be amys

Styll styrrynge and procurynge vs lewdly to contende

Of suche indecent ordre / I desyred the ende

For the whych cause onely / I toke on me to wryte

Truely for the trueths sake / and nothynge for despyte

¶But nowe I well perceaue / I rubbed some on the gall Obsequium amicos veritas odium parit. Tirentius

Whiche causeth them to grunte / and ernestly to grone

Wel, (be as be maye) I can not do with-all

It wyll not from the flesshe / that is rooted in the bone

For my true m[ea]nynge / some shewe theym-selfe full prone meanynge] maenynge 1540

By sclaunder to deface me / with all theyr power and myght

Nothynge for the trueths sake / but all for mad despyte

¶They name me a papyste / and saye / I do not loue

None other but Papystes / and men of popysshe mynde

The trewe tryall wherof / I referre to God aboue Homines veritatem dicentes a malis odio habentur. Ad gal. 4

And consequently to others / what they can proue and fynde

O man malycyous / that woldest so fayne blynde

The good intentes of others / which truely do and wryte

Labourynge theyr destruccion / through serpentyne despyte

¶If iustely you can proue / as you declare in wrytynge Qui loquitur iniqua non potest latere, nec preteriet illum corripiens iudicium. Sap .i.

That I loue none, but papistes, than may you wel mayntain

Me to be a traytour / both to God / and our good kynge

To the iuste tryall of the whiche / I woll dryue you playne

For you it is to late / to call in your wordes agayne

Though as a lurkyng lorrel / your name you woll not write

Bothe you shalbe knowen / and your deuelysshe despyte

If you haue knowen / any such treason to be in me Morte digni sunt non solum qui ea faciunt sed etiam qui consentiunt facientibus, Ad Roma .i.

Then you in your dewtye / haue bene very neglygent

The parte of euery true hert / towardes his Kynge shuld be

What he knoweth against his grace / furthwith to make euydent

Who conceleth others treason / as a traytour doth consent

Wherfore this your doyng / may appere / to ech mans syght

Nothynge for the truethes sake / but all for lewde despyte

¶You declare furthermore / that lately I rebelled

Agaynst the Kynges maiestye / and his councell all

For the whiche sclaunder / I am greatly compelled

Before the hygher powers / this matter for to call

As surely I woll do / doubte you it not at all Omnis qui facit iusticiam ex deo natus est .i. Io .ij

At whose handes I woll aske / but iustyce and ryght

Specyally for the truethes sake / and nothynge for despyte.

Yet Cathon the wyse / doth teach me / and byddeth me not to care Cum recte viuas ne cures verba malorum Arbytrij nostri non est quod quisque loquatur. Cato.

So as my lyfe be honest / let the wycked saye theyr mynde

We can not forbyd mens speche / wherfore let them not spare

Nature in euery-thynge / woll shewe her proper kynde

Whiche to be proued true / is easy ynough to fynde

In that / that you haue done / sparynge not to wryte

Nothyng for the truthes sake / but all for mad despyte

¶That / wherewith you be greued / is alwayes forth-commyng

My name playnely therunto / I woll it not denye

And I redy to be punysshed / for suche my doynge

If I haue so deserued / and can be founde cause why Quare non timuistis detrahere seruo meo. Nu .x.

Wherfore you be moche to blame / so to rayle and crye

Openly detractynge me / agaynst all lawe and ryght

As I am / I woll be knowen / so shalbe your despyte

¶I could say some-what more, but I mynde not to contende Ex fructibus eorum cognos[ce]tiscognoscetis] cognostis 1540 eos. Math .vij. cognoscetis] cognostis 1540

As the tree by her fruytes / is alwayes chyefely knowen

So I doubte not / by your workes / before this mater ende

You shalbe well perceaued / and what blastes you haue blowen

A[n]d what kyndes of sede / euery other man hath sowen In insidijs suis capiuntur iniqui. Prou .x.

Wherfore I do aduyse you / be sure you stande vpryght

I doubte not to ouerthrowe you / in your owne despyte.

Your boke doth open mater / not mete I shold here touche Tempori seruiendum est. ad Romanos .xij.

But within shorte tyme / it shall shewe it-selfe more playne

Your doynges well declare / how in herte you styll grouche

And agaynst whom, because you can not youre wyll obtayne

Your malice doth so blynd you / and byddeth you not refrayne Malicia eorum excecauit eos Sapien .ii.

But throughly to procede / blusteryng with force and myght

Forgettynge cleane your dewtye / and all for mad despyte

And now to conclude / O Dauyd holy prophet and kynge iudica me deus and discerne causam meam de gente non sanctasancta] sanctam 1540 ab homine iniquo and doloso erue me. Psal .xlii sancta] sanctam 1540

Unto god omnipotente / moste hyghe and eternall

In Psalmyst here with the / wyll I crye and synge

Iudge thou me (o Lorde) that arte iudge ouer all

Discerne thou my cause / and let me to the call

To be rydde from the wycked / which labour day and nyght

Thy veryte to vanquysshe by deceytfull despyte

¶And as thou arte Lorde of lordes and kynge of kynges

Preserue our noble kynge / our moost precyous treasure

With Katherine our Quene, and graunt that theyr procedynges

In longe lyfe maye prospere / vnto thy wyll and pleasure

And to Edwarde our Prynce / that moste redolent floure

Infuse in theym thy grace / and helpe we maye be quyte

Of these sectes sedycyous / so swellynge in despyte

¶God saue the Kynge.

His doynges among trew men / shuld not be had in place

That feareth to tell his name and shameth to shewe his face Qui male agit odit lucem. Ioh .iii

¶By Thomas_Smythe, seruaunt to the Kynges Royall Maiestye

And clerke of the Quenes graces councel (thoughe mooste vnworthy[)] vnworthy)] vnworthy 1540.

¶Imprynted at London in Pater_noster_rowe, at the sygne of our lady [of]of] 1540 omits pytye by Iohnn_Redman /

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