The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

But when these mischiefs are wrought in rebellion by them that should be friends, by countrymen, by kinsmen, by those that should defend their country, and countrymen from such miseries, the misery is nothing so great, as is the mischief and wickedness when the subjects unnaturally do rebel against their prince, whose honour and life they should defend, though it were with the loss of their own lives: countrymen to disturb the public peace, and quietness of their country, for defence of whose quietness they should spend their lives: the brother to seek, and often to work the death of his brother, the son of the father, the father to seek or procure the death of his sons, being at mans age, and by their faults to disherit their innocent children and kinsmen their heirs for ever, for whom they might purchase livings and lands, as natural parents do take care and pains, and be at great costs and charges: and universally in stead ⟨p. 581⟩of all quietness, joy, and felicity, which do follow blessed peace and due obedience, to bring in all trouble, sorrow, disquietness of minds and bodies, and all mischief and calamities, to turn all good order upside down, to bring all good laws in contempt, and to tread them under feet, to oppress all virtue and honesty, and all virtuous and honest persons, and to set all vice and wickedness, and all vicious and wicked men at liberty, to work their wicked wills, which were before bridled by wholesome laws, to weaken, to overthrow, and to consume the strength of the Realm their natural country, as well by the spending and wasting of the money and treasure of the prince and Realm, as by murdering of the people of the same, their own countrymen, who should defend the honour of their ¹prince, and liberty of their country against the invasion of foreign enemies: and so finally to make their country thus by their mischief weakened, ready to be a pray and spoil to all outward enemies that will invade it, to the utter and perpetual captivity, slavery, and destruction of all their countrymen, their children, their friends, their kinsfolks left alive, whom by their wicked rebellion they procure to be delivered into the hands of foreign enemies, as much as in them doth lye.

But when these mischeefes are wrought in rebellion by them that shoulde be freendes, by countreymen, by kynsmen, by those that should defende their countrey, and countreymen from suche miseries, the miserie is nothyng so great, as is the mischeefe and wyckednesse when the subiectes vnnaturally do rebel against their prince, whose honour and lyfe they shoulde defende, though it were with the losse of their owne lyues: countreymen to disturbe the publique peace, and quietnesse of their countrey, for defence of whose quietnesse they shoulde spende their lyues: the brother to seeke, and often to worke the death of his brother, the sonne of the father, the father to seeke or procure the death of his sonnes, beyng at mans age, and by their faultes to disherite their innocent chyldren and kynsmen their heires for euer, for whom they myght purchase lyuynges and landes, as naturall parentes do take care and paynes, and be at great costes and charges: and vniuersally in stead