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STC entry 19483, entitled The Popes Complaint to His Minion Cardinals, Against the Good successe of the Bohemians and their generall Proceedings (London, 1620?), is a verse satire, probably the prototype for John Taylor's The Suddaine Turne of ffortunes wheele (1631) in the same genre. The latter not only deals with a similar and connected subject but also follows the general pattern of the first, although within the context of a later decade. Where Taylor gloats over the stunning victories of Gustavus Adolphus over the Imperial and Catholic forces, The Popes Complaint celebrates the confusion of the same forces by the initial successes of the armies of James I's son-in-law, …