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A FAITHFVL ADVER∣TISEMENT OF SEGNIOR VAS∣CO FIGVEIRO A GENTLEMAN OF Portingale unto the rebellious French.
IF the Gréek Achamenides shewed himself so carefull for the safetie of the Troians his sworn enemies, that after hauing dis∣coursed of the horrible cruelties, that the Prince Vlysses and his people had recei∣ued by the hand and tooth of the cruel An∣tropophage Poliphemus, he admonished them to fly with diligence from the Sici∣lian shore, the repaire of that inhumane Cyclops. It séemeth vn∣to me, by a more forcible reason, as well for the auncient alli∣ance which our nation hath had with the French, as also hauing bene disciplined in a better schoole, then that of this barbareus infidell: that I am obliged, by the lawes both diuine and hu∣mane, to demonstrate vnto you, so much as in me lyeth, the good affection which I beare vnto you. Then (Sirs) being induced by this example, and many other good reasons, knowing by experi∣ence, the tyrannicall and barbarous gouernment of Philip king of Spaine, the vniust vsurper of our kingdome of Portingale. And séeing you Frenchmen (I speake to the ignorant, and those which are gone astray) are come like the Troians to the Sicilian shore, to cast the anchor of your turbulent rebellions, and indis∣créete affections, still longing for noueltie, in the daungerous and vnassured port of the inexorable ambition of this Philip. My desire is to aduertise you as a good neighbour & charitable friend, to weigh your anchors spéedily from this port, making sayle to the shore from whence you haue strayed: that is, to returne to