[ 1139] The just Reward of Treachery, and false dealing.
PHilip Duke of Austria,* 1.1 paid the Ambassadours of Charles the fourth (who had betrayed their trust) in counterfeit coyn: whereof when they complained, it is answered, That false coyn is good enough for false Knaves; Iames the first, King of Scots, was murthered in Perth, by Walter Earl of Athol, in hope to have the Crown, and crown'd he was indeed, but with a Crown of red hot Iron clap'd upon his head, being one of the tortures wherewith he ended at once his wicked dayes and devices;* 1.2 And Guy Fawkes that Spanish Pyoneer, should have received his Re∣ward of five hundred pounds at an appointed place in Surrey, but instead thereof he had been paid home with a brace of bullets for his good service, if Iustice had not come in with a halter by way of prevention: Thus Traytors have alwayes be∣come odious, though the Treason were commodious; Let those Kill-Christs, and those State-Traytors,* 1.3 Sheba, Shebna, &c. all disturbers of present-Government, be never so industrious in contrivance, never so confident in the effecting of their treacherous designs,* 1.4 let them plot on, whet their wits, beat their brains, associate, confederate, take counsell together, break vowes, promises, and Covenants, swear and forswearr, yet all shall come to naught, toto errant Coelo, they are Heavenly wide, quite out, they shall miss of their purpose, and meet with disappointment, and the just judgements of God upon them and their Posterity in the conclusion.