He took his occasion as a prudent Captain, when the news was brought to him that the Popes Forces were in mutiny against their General for want of pay, and made a great tumult in the night, hearing that he was approaching with a great train of Artillery. _Bzovius_ saith, that the Earl of _Montor_ regarded more his profit then the Popes Interest, and kept back a great part of the money that was to pay the Souldiers, whence proceeded this tumult, which helped much the Duke of _Alva_’s business. This is the explanation of the two first Verses of this Stanza, concerning the mutiny of the Souldiers that were in the Popes service, during which mutiny the enemy d’_Alba_ did not fail to vex Rome; this word the enemy d’_Alba_ doth not signifie the enemy of the Duke of _Alba_, as if one should say in Latine _Hostis Albanus_. He did then vex _Rome_; for in a short time he took _Ponte Corvino_, _Frusino Anagnia_, _Marino_, _Lavaci_, _Prœneste_, _Tivoli_, _Ostia_, _Neptuno_, _Alba Vico-Varro_, _Monte Fortino_, and almost all the places of the _Roman_ Territory. This did streighten _Rome_ so much, that the General _Camillo Ursini_ made several Trenches within the Walls of _Rome_, instead of preserving the outworks, as _Montluc_ would have persuaded him to do; the alarums were so great at _Rome_, that _Montluc_ was fain to encourage the _Romans_, and to make a Warlike Speech to them, which is inserted in his Works. Moreover, the same Duke began to seduce the Principals of _Rome_ by his friends that he had in it, but particularly by the cheat that he put upon the Pope; for his design being to prevent the _French_ Forces, and to surprize the Pope, he resolved to go streight to _Rome_, and to bring his design the better to pass, he sent _Pyrrhus Coffrede_ to the Pope, to see if there was any way of agreement, to the end that upon this proposition the Pope should mistrust nothing. In the mean time the Duke of _Alba_ was coming near _Rome_, at which the Pope was so angry, that he put this Embassadour in Prison, where he was kept till the conclusion of the Peace; in this sort were the principal men of _Rome_ seduced, having no thought of the _Spaniards_ approaches, this is the relation of the Lord _de Thou_, _Lib._ 16. LXIX. French. La grand pitie sera sans long tarder, Ceux qui donnoient seront contraints de prendre Nuds affamez, de froid, soif, soy bander, Passer les Monts en faisant grand esclandre. English. What a great pitty will it be e’re-long, Those that did give shall be constrained to receive, Naked, famished with cold, thirst, to mutiny, To go over the Mountains making great disorders. ANNOT.