mainly the work of the King and his court; as it had been in the days of
his father HENRY VIII.

For albeit thou diddest not cease to heape benefit vpon benefit,
during the reigne of an innocent and tendre king, yet no man did
acknowledge thy potent hand and meruelouse working. The stoute
courage of capitaines, the witte and policie of counselers, the
learning of 'bishoppes[1], did robbe the of thy glorie and honor.
For what then was heard, as concerning religion, but the kinges
procedinges, the kinges procedinges must be obeyed? It is enacted
by parliament: therefore it is treason to speake in the contrarie.
_p. 30._

The political shrewdness of the Writer on the entanglement of England in
the Spanish War against France, whereby we lost Calais on the 6th
January 1558.

They see their owne destruction, and yet they haue no grace to
auoide it. Yea they are becomen so blinde, that knowing the pit,
they headlong cast them selues into the same, as the nobilitie[2]
of England, do this day, fighting in the defense of their mortall
ennemie the Spaniard. Finallie they are so destitute of
vnderstanding and iudgement, that althogh they knowe that there is
a libertie and fredome, the whiche their predecessors haue
inioyed; yet are they compelled to bowe their neckes vnder the
yoke of Satan, and of his proude ministres, pestilent papistes and
proude spaniardes. And yet can they not consider that where a
woman reigneth and papistes beare authoritie, that there must
nedes Satan be president of the counsel, _p. 31._