The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O.
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- The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O.
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- Figueiro, Vasco, gentleman of Portingale.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Richard Field for Iohn Harison,
- 1592.
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- Sainte Ligue (1576-1593) -- Controversial literature.
- Europe -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00734.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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TO THE GENTLEMEN READERS.
COVRTEOVS Gentlemē, to your censures I commit this labour of mine, small and simple, it is the first (I will not say) it may be the last. If you accept and applaud it, I am throughly animated to en∣ter into some matter of more cōsequēce, & such as I know shalbe acceptable. VVhat the vulgar either imagine or speake, I care not: for with Horace.
Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.
It is no feather of fancie, for that I accompt it base, to fetch such light marchandise so farre as Valen∣tia. If you expect extraordinarie elegancie, I an∣swer, that a Translator is bound rather to search fit words, to expresse his Authors meaning, then in∣uent words running on the letter, to content ouer∣curious fancies, which I contemne as dictionarie method; and thus much can I assure you, that al∣beit it hath no title fetched from the Bull within bishops gate, as a figge for a Spaniard, yet doth
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it discouer so succinctly and briefly, a Spanish imi∣tatiō of Machiauellized axiomes, that what other volumes at large, this in a leafe doth plainly de∣monstrate. If any obiect, that this treatise serueth for french men, and not appertinent to vs. I an∣swer, that their wit reacheth no further then their owne home. For is not our Iland the marke that Philips ambitious humour especiaily aimeth at? hath he not sent his inuincible Armada, to make a conquest of our vltima insula? Nay would he not repute him selfe an absolute Monarch, if he might but get any interest within vs? And haue not we a viperous brood of puritan Papists, and reconciled Leaguers, that dreame vpon a new inuasion? with good foresight by this treatise they may be war∣ned, and true subiects armed. VVhich suc∣cesse God graunt.
Yours H. O.