Au grand Empire par viendra tout un autres, Bonté distant plees de felicité, Rege par un issu non loing du peautre, Corruer Regnes grande infelicité. English. To the great Empire quite another shall come, Being farther from goodness and happiness, Governed by one of base parentage, The Kingdom shall fall, a great unhappiness. ANNOT. This needeth no Interpretation. LXVIII. French. Lors que Soldats fureur seditieuse, Contre leur Chef seront denuit fer livre, Ennemy d’_Albe_ doibt par main furieuse, Lors vexer _Rome_ & principaux seduire. English. When the seditious fury of the Souldiers, Against their Chief shall make the Iron shine by night, The enemy d’_Albe_ shall by a furious hand, Then vex _Rome_, and seduce the principal one. ANNOT. The Lord _de Thou_ doth judiciously observe, that the Pope being unacquainted with things belonging to War, as to Money, Victuals, and Ammunition, was easily persuaded by Cardinal _Caraffa_ to make war against _Spain_, for without being provided of all these things, he put his Armies into the Field, _nec satis perpendens quám a pecuniâ, milite ac cæteris rebus ad bellum necessariis imparatus intempestive arma sumeret_. In the 15. Book of his History: the Duke of _Vrbin_ had commission to raise 6000. Foot and 300. Horses in the Dukedom of _Spoleto_, and in _Mark_ of _Ancona_. _John Caraffe_ the Popes Nephew was made General of the Army, and being but Earl of _Mortor_, was Created Duke of _Palliano_, by the confiscation of the goods of _Mark Antony Colonna_. _Camillo Ursini_ was made General of the Forces in _Rome_, and in the Territory thereof; _Blasius_ of _Monluc_, the _Mars_ of his time, and by birth a _Gascon_, was sent by the King to help (with his advice and courage) the _Romans_, who are always fitter for the Breviary, then for the Sword. Besides these Forces raised within the Church Dominions, _Charles Caraffa_ gathered all the Bandittes of _Naples_ and _Florence_, and raised some Regiments of _Switzers_ that came to succour the Pope. With these Troops the Pope seized upon the most important places and persons belonging to the _Spanish_ party, as the _Coloneses_ and the _Vitelly_. These asked succours of the Emperour _Charles_ the V. who presently commanded _Ferdinand_ of _Toledo_ Duke of _Alba_ to succour them. He was then tasked in the _Piemont_ and _Milanes_, to resist the _French_ that were then under the conduct of the Marshal of _Brissac_. To conclude his design the better, he wrote many Letters to the Pope and the Colledge of Cardinals, full of respect and submission, desiring them to moderate their passion against the _Spanish_ party, but the Pope being angry by several reports, answered him, complaining of many things, which made the Duke resolve to the war, and to be there in person.