Yt seemeth there is many papistes in these partes, which would doe us a mischeefe yf they could; yet the best is, the Emperour and them about hym are no frendes of Portingals nor Spa.
Yt is said their are many of these Xaxmas in their owne cuntrey up in swarmes and keepe the woodes, doing muchmischeefe and comiting many murthers, and canot yet be suppressed.
Indeed they haue doone great mischeefe in this Iland, & with extreme crueltie; but as for any conquest the first is yet to heare of.
Our third annoiers of the common-wealth are roges, which doo verie greatmischeefe in all places where they become.
Certes there is no greater mischeefe doone in England than by robberies, the first by yoong shifting gentlemen, which oftentimes doo beare more port than they are able to mainteine.
More whore, more Mischeefe first, I haue giuen you earnest Alc.
How rarely does it meete with this times guise, When man was wisht to loue his Enemies: Grant I may euer loue, and rather woo Those that would mischeefe me, then those that doo.
But that my hearts on future mischeefe set, I would speake blasphemy ere bid you flye: But flye you must: Vncureable discomfite Reignes in the hearts of all our present parts.
A plaguing mischeefe light on Charles, and thee, And may ye both be sodainly surpriz'd By bloudy hands, in sleeping on your beds Yorke.
To mourne a Mischeefethat is past and gon, Is the next way to draw new mischiefe on.
Marry this is Miching Malicho, that meanes Mischeefe Ophe.
May neuer glorious Sunne reflex his beames Vpon the Countrey where you make abode: But darknesse, and the gloomy shade of death Inuiron you, till Mischeefe and Dispaire, Driue you to break your necks, or hang your selues.
Now let it worke: Mischeefe thou art a-foot, Take thou what course thou wilt.
Alas the day: take heed of him: he stabd me in mine owne house, and that most beastly: he cares not what mischeefe he doth, if his weapon be out.
This dooing so much displeased the people, that if politike prouision had not beene, great mischeefe had immediatlie insued.
Sidenote: The mortall mischeefe of malice and diuision in a realme.
The cause of this mischeefe was not knowen to any, but onelie to the conspirators; for the remnant of the citizens being no partakers, imagined, that the Englishmen had made hauocke in the towne, and put all to the sword.
But if the king be not minded so to do, bicause he cannot misse him; let him vnderstand, that we will rather die in the field, than suffer such a mischeefe vnredressed.
The which good if it be imploied for the defense of your lands, the merchandizes of the same might haue had other course, and your said lands not to haue stand in so great mischeefe as they doo.
And first consider, what battell, what manslaughter, what mischeefehath risen in this realme by the dissention betweene the two noble houses of Yorke & Lancaster.
About Midsummer the Scots eftsoones entred into England, dooing much mischeefe with fire and sword, in like sort as they had vsed to doo before time, not sparing (as some write) so much as those houses wherin women laie in childbed.
First all the citizens of London which were authors of the mischeefe that had happened by the rebellion of the said barons.
It is verie much to be feared, least we doo feele hereafter some further peece of mischeefe to light vpon vs suddenlie.
The Scots also about the same time did much hurt and great mischeefe to the Englishmen both by sea and land.
Whereby it may well seeme the mariage not well made, of which there is so much mischeefe growne.
For his dissimulation onelie kept all that mischeefe vp.
The which matter might seeme verie strange, how such trouble and mischeefe should grow thereof, if the time were not considered, in which it happened.
And other places (though more remote) saw this mischeefe would quietly spread over all, if not prevented.
Thus this mischeefewas prevented, and y^e fear of a warr hereby diverted.
Thus being of such puissance, they did much mischeefe to the Englishmen that inhabited on the marshes, neither were the lords marchers able to resist them, although the earle of Glocester aided the same lords all that he might.
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