Kempe, published in 1587, and entitled "A Dutiful Invective against the moste haynous Treasons of Ballard and Babington ... together with the horrible attempts and actions of the Queen of Scottes.... For a New Yeares gift to all loyall English subjects." The author of the verses is not Kemp the player, but a writer of some treatises on Education. _Cf._ "Dict. Nat. Biog." _A DUTIFUL INVECTIVE_ The Scottish Queen, with mischief fraught, for to perform the will Of him whose pupil she hath been hath usëd all her skill; By words most fair, and loving terms, and gifts of value great: For to persuade your hollow hearts, your duties to forget, And for to be assistant still, her treacheries to further, Wherein she reckons it no sinne though you commit great murther. Such is her heinous hateful mind, who long hath lived in hope, By such her subtle lawless means (and help of cursëd Pope) Both to deprive our sovereign Queen of her imperial crown, And true religion to repel, God's Gospel to put down. * * * * * Wherein you fully did conclude that it could never be, Except you first conspired her death, by secret treachery. And thereupon consulted oft, and sundry ways did seek For to perform this devilish act, which you so well did like. Next unto this your promise was to lend your help and aid, With all the force and power you could, to foes that should invade. And thereby for to set at large that Queen whom I did name, Who always in her treacherous mind, doth nought but mischief frame. * * * * * _THE CAUSE OF ALL OUR TROUBLES_