Chapter XXIX: French

Le grand Duc d’_Albe_ se viendra rebeller,
A ses grands peres fera le tradiment,
Le grand de _Guise_ le viendra debeller,
Captif mené & dresse monument.

English.

The great Duke of _Alba_ shall rebel,
To his Grandfathers he shall make the Plot,
The great _Guise_ shall vanquish him,
Led Prisoner, and a Monument erected.

ANNOT.

_Ferdinand_ of _Toledo_, Duke of _Alba_ in _Spain_, a faithfull servant of _Charles_ V. and _Philip_ II. his Son, after he had made several proofs of his Valour, and prudence in the affairs of _Piemont_ and _Milanese_, was commanded to go to _Naples_ and _Rome_, to succour the _Colonesse_, and others of the _Spanish_ party; to obey this command, the Author saith, _He went about to rebel_, not against his Prince, but his _Grandfathers_, _viz._ the Pope and the Cardinals, upon which the Senate of _Venice_ wrote to him, desiring that he would not trouble the Pope, seeing that all his Predecessors had fought for him, as the Lord of _Thou_ saith in his sixteenth Book; but he answered, that it was the Pope himself that was the cause of it, and that he was bound to oppose him.

During that rebellion to his great fathers, as the Author calleth it, the great _de Guise_, came with his Troops, and compelled him to a diversion, and to let alone Marshal _Strozzy_, the Cardinal _Caraffa_, Captain _Montluc_, _Camillo Ursini_, Captain _Charry_, and others; so that all the Countrey about _Rome_ was freed, and thus the Author saith, _the great de Guise shall come to quell him_.

The fourth Verse addeth two things, that a Prisoner was carryed away, and that a Monument was erected. History makes no mention of the Prisoner, unless it were that Captain _Montluc_, having taken by assault the Town of _Pianea_ or _Corsmian_, by a sink which he broke; the Captain _Gougues_ a _Gascon_ being a Prisoner of War in the Town, with many others, and hearing the cries of _France, France_, perswaded his Comrades to fall upon their Keepers, and to kill them with their own weapons and this Prisoner that was taken at _Montisel_, was brought back again into _France_, as well for his known Valour, as for his Warlike deliverance, and since that made himself famous in _Florida_.

_As for the Monument erected_, makes me think he meaneth the Constable of _France_, who was taken Prisoner at the Battle of St. _Quentin_, and by the Monument, he meaneth the _Escurial_, which _Philip_ the II. caused to be built in memory of that Victory, which obliged _Henry_ the II. to call back again in all hast the Duke of _Guise_ with all his Forces, or else _France_ had been in danger to be lost.