vprightnes that what he had suspected to be false he would not haue sent it for a truth in open tables to all after times and prosperities Out of his Chronicle written in Italian and Printed at Florence in the yeere 1478. this I translated into Latine in the yeare of our Lord God 855. Iohn English helde the High Priesthood two yeares fiue months and foure daies The Church was vacant for one month He is not placed in the Catelogue of the Popes because he was a woman who in her nonage of a certaine louer of hers was brought to Athens in the habite of a man there in diuers studies and sciences she escaped their knowledge and did prooue excellent After when she came to Roome shee ascended such a height of fame that she was had in admiration with all men whence it happened by concord suffrage of the best the supreame honour of a Pope was attributed vnto her Which thing afterwardes betrayed it selfe to the world In her time in the Citty of Brixie three dayes and three nights it rayned meruailously blood and in Fraunce appeared monstrous Locusts hauing sixe winges and sixe feete and teeth very hard flying through the ayre admirably which after were all drowned and suffocate in the Sea of Britaine From whence the carcases of them were beaten to the shoare and did so corrupt the ayre that a great part of the inhabitants there dyed This Petrarch dyed in the yeare of our Sauiour Christ 1374. Iohn Bocace inwardest friend to Petrarch both for his wit and for his similitude of study and manners an other he doth rehearse this Ione and describe her first called Gilberta as he saith in his booke of noble women Chap. the 99. which in these words he concludeth To detestation of whose filthy whood and contynuance of memory of her name euen vnto this day the chiefe Priestes of the Rogation with the rest of the Clergie and people going to doe Sacrifice they abhorre that place of her child borne in the middest of her iourney and omitting it they decline thorough by waies and streetes and so that detestable place spurned at reentring home they end theyr iourney which they began There is also placed in a booke to be seene the picture and spectacle of the Child-birth of the Pontificall with circumstances of Cardinals and Bishoppes standing by like Midwiâ—es or Nurses That same booke of Bocaces making is turned into the Germaine tongue of a Phisition in the Citty of Vlâ—â—es and Dedicated to the Dutchesse of Austria in the yeare 1473. Imprinted in the same Cittie with olde Caracters rude and with all the picture of her bringing foorth her childe To this doe agree certaine rimes consonant in Italian out of an olde hande written booke taken whose tytle is Historia de Doâ—ne Famose and of famous Women Historia de Donne Famose Gionâ—â—ni settiâ—o infra queste astute La seâ—â—a gloria del Pontificato Administro con cure altâ— c. Eper in temperantia lei difâ—sâ— Noâ— fâ—câ— asua lasiâ—ia c. Un giâ—rno acâ—â—dde e fu vicina alparto Una solemnita est â—matae digna Onde conâ—iâ—â— chel suo termin coartâ— Sâ—e discoperto in procession venâ—re Dâ—â—e a quel tempo il figlio in â—â—rrâ— hasparto E con dolor fâ— vista partorire In presentia del pâ—pâ—l con tormento E l vne l'altro lor vita fiâ—ire Interpretation word for word The seauenth Iohn amongst these wâ—ly snares The summe and glory of the richest Seate A Ione for Iohn did minister with cares And wanting temper did her selfe defeate Withouten cesse by her lasciuiousnes It fell vpon the feast neere lying downe Solempnity high holy and of fame As ought her terme restraine her triple crowne Detect To Letany all as they came Layd instantly her birth vpon the earth With dolors doome how soone she was vnbent With peoples eyes how sore she was torment So he and she did dye forlorne in lent Anthony Archbishop of Florence in the second part of his history to the narration of Ione out of Martine the peniâ—entiary repeated he weueth this same Webbe saith there is a certaine signe of a marble Sculpture in the way where this happened placed there for a memoriall of the matter And to the matter hee proclaimeth as a thing so wicked so prophane yet not far from the Temple this saying of S. Paule O altitudâ—â—â—pientia sâ—ientia Des c. As if our good God had procured and perfected this punishment not as if that wicked fiend the Deuill foule and abhominable had been the sole author of it yet the end hee saith if it were true as graunting yet to none is there any preiudice by this of Saluation because neither the Church then was without a head which is Christ c. yet he speaketh doubtfully in a plaine case least a blot so filthy to the Church otherwise pure should not appeare to be abhorred The standing Image of which he maketh mention the Esauites doe suppose that it hath not the shape of the woman and her infant but of some Priest with his boy going afore him to Sacrifice least otherwise they should â—aâ— nothing to contradict it The way that declyneth from the right way as in all other matters so in this they doe take it to be the most commodious way for them to goe in presession whereas we doe heare by others that haue with contemplation curiously behelde both say this way is more commodious and shorter then the other But some thinke this monument of such dishonor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the most memorable place of all others is distroyed abandoned and vnbound now and a good while agoe to abolish or to deminish her fame with vs the Heritiques and aduersaries to the Church of Roome that doe so play on stages and stirre it vp in this our time As with all the visage of this popit or little Pope momit or little mome in the Citty of Seene in the primary Church there made with a womans face with this inscription Femina de Anglia But all English men defie her and together with many other Popes which are now a fewe yeeres past eyther cald in or remooued away as we heare William Iames Monke of Ecmondence neere to Alcmaria in a parchment booke now two hundred yeares past as far as I can coniecture written doth containe the liues of the Popes in meeter such as were vsed in that time to be composed too too curiously euen vnto obscurity therin being obserued the number of Sillables and the rithme which such as they are as touching this Ione accept I pray you Priusquam reconditur Sergius vocatur Ad summa qui dicitur Iohannes huic addatur Anglicus Moguntia iste procreatur c. The Lyons gone the Seriant is vntoomb'd one calde To climbe whom trauel had with child benuÌ„b'd Ione stald Would flying fame of her had neuer humb'd she faid Whom England nam'd but Mens did bring her foorth Whom
in grosse of regaining and reuenging from all vice and fault the Maiestie Pontificâ—ll at this day is deliuered will perswade vs with their loquence that this is a fiction and that no such thing could be Albeit vpon the matter there iâ— no great moment in it whether it bee a fable or a veriety of this Pontificall and Great-bellyâ— yet to expresse in this pageant their harlots foreheads and the whoores faces of these Parasites and how much in other great matters they are to be beleeued and trusted vnto and that men may be warned and armed the more from their frawde I will with Gods helpe truely repeate the breuitie of Historio-Graphers as many certaine as haue beene seene of me their testimonies the matter in fact not a fiction and affirmed and confirmed by them which being red let any stoute and iust arbitrator censure whether more faith and credite is not to bee ascribed vnto the tradition old and concenting together of so manie excellent men in pietie and integritie or rather vnto the deniall new and neuer heard of before of a fewe fresh Hipocrites and Gnathos denying what they lust and affirming what they lust in fauour of their owne Maister Of al that truly are read of the men of our time as I suppose the most ancient writer of this Feminine Lord is olde Raphe Flaniencis a benedictine Monke alleadged in the centuries of the Ecclesiasticall Historie and whom Trithemius termeth a briefe Cronicle which the Authors of the Centuries name Polycronicon they say that he writ it referring his age vnto the yeare of our Lord 930. my selfe haue not yet obtained the reading of it but they scite the fifth booke of Radulphe Chapter the 32. To produce the first that I haue red I haue Marianus after his natiue country sirnamed Scotus whose honestie and veritie by this may be esteemed that the fellowship of the Benedictines both Cullin Fulda Mons receiued him and striuing with entertainement at his first comming into Germany where he dyed Anno Domini 1086. He in the third booke in the sixt age of his Cronicle in fewe words sheweth the matter to be so ignoâ—inious and especially in that time not to be ripped vp nor heaped vpon yet of all faithfull Historiographers not to be preâ—ermitted neyther in briefe he saith thus In the yeare of Lotharius the 14. the woman Ione succeeded Lâ—â— for two yeeres fiue monthes and foure daies This testimony of Martine the Esauites doe eleuate and make light of because in their manuscript bookes it is not extant But with what face can these falsaries require that in this matter or manner can trust be giuen to them who themselues in describing omit what they lust and thinges that other men write some they eate out and some they blot out The Coppy which the Printer of Basile did imitate came foorth of the Librarie of the Colledge of Saint Bartholmewes in the Citty of Frankeford by the commandement of the Bishop of Mens in which exemplare these words which they deny to be in their coppy were found coÌ„texed With like fidelity they denie this story also to be found in a certaine olde booke of Cronicles of Sigisbert a Monke which in all other his bookes are expressed and are to bee read in this manner Fame reporteth that this Iohn was a woman and knowen familiar to some one onely who it seemed imbraced her being great with childe she was deliuered being Pope Wherefore some doe not number her amongst the High priestes Therefore he maketh no number of that name Sigisbert liued in the time of Henry the fourth about the yeere of our Lord God 1110. I finde next vnto Sigisbert Martine sirnamed of Polone a Monke of the order of Preachers penitentiarie vnto Pope Nicholas the third after Archbishop of Consentinâ— at the yeare of our Lord 1320 whose Narration of Iohn the Pope is this Iohn English borne at Mens sate in the Seate two yeares and fiue months he dyed at Rome and all the offices were void theÌ„ for one month This Iohn as it is affirmed was a woman And when in her childhood of a certaine louer of hirs shee was brought to Athens in mans apparrell she did so profit in diuers Sciences that no one was found to bee comparable vnto her in so much that afterwardes shee reading at Roome openly obtayned great Masters to be her schollers And then in the Citty she being of great fame by her conuersation and science by counsell of them all she was chosen to be Pope But in the Papall seate by her familiar friend shee became pregnant with childe yet vnskilfull of the time that women recon for their birth-right when shee was tending her iourney from Saint Peters vnto Lateranâ— the Popes Pallace being inuironed betwixt the Colossis and Saint Clements Church she fell in labour and was deliuered and afterward when she was dead she was buried there as it is said in the Colossis Now because that my Lord the Pope dooth alwaies shunne that place that way it is beleeued on all sides that he doth it for detestation and hate of that fact Neyther is it put into the Catelogue of the holy high Priestes as well for the sex of her womanhood as for the deformity of so fowle a deede These same wordes wholy in a manner are to be red in the booke of Richard the Monke of Cluniacens the tytle whereof is The number of the Romane high-priestes which is kept in the Librarie Which words a man very honest certainely tolde vnto vs that he saw them at that place written being there about sixteene yeere agoe Richard was before Martine and was his antecessor a hundred and fifty yeares vpon Trithemius report This same expresse and so cleare a narration of Martine the Popes owne penitenciary which office is not a little credite among these vaine Paper-puffed men in which he behaued himselfe so that for his reward he was indued with an Archbishopricke by the which no body could be more certaine of the Actes and Histories of the high Priestes then he might And yet these Esauites chiefly Bellarmine do enuic still-that before Martine Polone not â—ne betraied this to the memory But haue you not marked how both Sigebert Mariane Radulphe and Richard were all before him yea and many more out of whome he but gathered these and other things too as hee himselfe in the Proaeme beginning his Chronicle doth well signifie And besides that Mariane in the verie entry of his worke doth rehearse out of whose monuments hee heaped vp this story who were eyther all of them interred then or else done to dust some where or being dead they were dismembred and lay hid not any aliue But if it were true that Martine was the first that euer commaunded this to writing shall we therefore thinke it to be a fable Many thinges certes in stories both diuine and prophane we read of the which their owne Authors hauing heard it of olde men
their elders and betters did first before any others comprehend it in writing And should we therefore doubt in ambiguitie of the truth of all these writers and matters Anastasins the keeper of the Librarie they alleadge with others in that same time suruiuers being Chroniclers doe make no mention of Ione the woman High-priest As though all men wished it and as if no man in his secret opinion and iudgment could thinke it a thing so vnworthy of the Pontificall seate euen at which themselues blushed but would not be content to passe it to the sinke of obliuion in silence to all posterity slumber and funerall of such a fact As touching certaine Greeke writers Zonaras and others that they did decline as the Esauites suppose from their institute purpose and that it was proposed by them only to handle the matters of theyr owne Emperours and Churches and not of the Romane High-priestes and for their hatred this cause of shame they opened O but doth not Leonicus Chalâ—â—condilas an Athenian in the sixt booke of his Demonstration of Histories rehearse the manner and rites of the electing and proouing of a new High-priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. That is they place him who is chosen vpon a sell hauing an open hole by which his golden fleeces hanging downe of some one deputie to this office they are handled that it may be knowne whether he is a man for they perceiue that in times past a woman crept into the See of Rome because her sex was not discerned and therefore almost ouer all Italie and the westerne regions the men doe apparentlie shaue their berdes And when she was great bellied shee was going to a certaine sacrifice and there brought foorth her infant in the view of the people wherevpon for sure knowledge and no doubt they handle the manly parts and he that feeleth cryeth alowd A man is our Master And now I will not alledge that their argument of authoritie brought in negatiuelie and so drawne foorth according to the Logicians is nothing worthe As for example if you reason thus Frisingensis Vribergensis who then liued did neuer remember vs of that inhumane and more then Scythian insulte and reuenge of Alexander the third in which he spurned Frecoricke the first Emperour of that name prostrate before his feete exclaiming in the troope to a circumstance of his flatterers the Psalme Thou shalt make thy perambulation vpon aspes Basiliscus c. Ergo they that did write of this doe make a lye a sâ—und argument An other obiection of Bellarmine is that the writers of this storie differ amongst themselues whether she were borne in England or at Mens Alas alas Martine dooth not so write as they cauill that England was her natiue countrie but that shee was syrnamed of England being borne at Mens Iohannes Anglicus natiâ—â—e Moguntmus and not as Bellarmâ—ne placeth the Comma and calleth Martine a simple man Iohannes Anglicus natione Moguntmus and saith Martine knew not whether Mens were in England or in Germanie a friuolous excuse But this thing Iacobus Curiâ— Hosemius sometimes Phisition â—nto Alvâ—â—â— Bishop of Mens and Cardinall in his Chronicle he confirmeth â—â— saying After that the Saxons were ouercome by Charles the great and reduced to Christianitie there came out of England vnto Germanie men learned for propagation of religions sake and amongst them the Father with the mother great with childe of this woman being banished brought foorth this daughter of hers at Mens and named her Gilberta And thence it commeth that she was syrnamed of England And I pray you what maruaile were it if a matter â—o prodigious and hideous should be tolde of some one waie and of some an other waie of which the true men would set forward trueth and lyers would eyther conceale the trueth or depraue it They obiect that at Athens then was no studie of learning and Philosophie they prooue it out of an Epistle of Synesius who went the ther in the time of Theodosius the yonger when there he found no Schooles But Synesius doth not write that he found altogether none not a flock nor a heare but not a handibredth not eyght ounces or inches of learning that he found not such store there as he thought he should haue found There were also then Colledges of Docters and Schollers yea in other neighbor cities of Greece at Thessalonica and Constantinople where the studious whom the fame and former opinion of great Athens conceiued had deceiued might very well bestow themselues Obiection The high Priests at that time did not dwell in Vaticane but in Latherane what doth this hinder it but that Martine should declare a trueth He dooth not say that the High priest went fooâ—â—h in Procession from his palace Vaticane vnto Latherane but froÌ„ S Peters whose house then was there without all controuersie or I am fowly deceiued From that house returning in his pompe groned as mountains do brought forth a Mowse It doth seeme to these wandering Esauites that Martine was a most simple man â—â— one that writ many other fables it dooth seeme to vs the contrarie that he was a man of a noble stomacke and true harted not any fableâ— for else his Chronicles would not haue been written out into so many examplars and manuscripts before any Printers were euer borne in so much that in all the best instructed Libraries it might haue beene found And then our videtur is so much the more auaileable then their videtur for because whatsoeuer maketh against them that they contempteously and scoffingly with a nose of Simon and crooke backed are wont to mocke at when with reasons they cannot confute it There is another Martine of the family of the Minorits in his Chronicle to which hee giueth tytle The floures of time pertaining euen till Charles the fourths time that reporteth the same of Ione adding this also that she adiuring a certaine man possessed with a Deuill demaunded when the deuill would depart vnto whom the euill spirit verâ—ifying answered Papa pater patrum papissâ— pandito partum Et tibi tunc edam de corpore quando recedaâ—â— Good Pope our Fathers Father send foorth our mothers mother And then from thee Ile start when I from her depart I haue seene this Chronicle in written hand in Latine and in the Germaine tongue with types Imprinted at Ulmes in the yeere 1486. This notable woman perhaps esteemed that it would come to passe that the very deuils and all would be obsequious and obedient to giue place to her indeed as to a familiar and well deseruing fauorite and minion of theirs For as it is said she writ a Booke of Necromancie of the power and strength of deuils Francis Petrarch a man on euery side chiefe I suppose they will not deny him to be of so sound iudgement that betweene a fable and a history he knew well enough how to discerne and to be of such grauity and
sentence yeelds was more then womans worth By Sex as sequence plaine demonstrate doth Abbreauiate voice though Annals do exceed Of her of whom lesse said the better meede She was the Queene Amason by our creede But Mens her natiue bowre relinquished She studious sought and schooles vnfinished Of Colchis learned men diminished Of Roome the walles by her wit raised were As musicke Thebes or Athens Phrines geare Her sex exalted she was nere the neare Tis said her seruant holpe her to a sonne At hand she climb'd a horse at noone Neere weeping Crosse Precession was begun Enormity Gods shamed in our Citty In Clements streete a childe borne without pitty Both by Colossis buried nothing witty Shal Poets know that Popes do in by hate And loue by reason of this mortall fate And all we misse the way to heauen gate O then denie that euer we so slided And that her name is from our names deuided This Poet heere saying de qua breuiâ—s dicta minus ledunt dooth insinuate that he himselfe is ashamed of this declaration and feares least some should bee offended with it he adioyneth Ione to Sergius after Leo the fourth was past In the Chronicle of Albert Abbot of Stadeâ—s which endeth in the yeere of our L. 1255. lately Printed at Helmestade he is named Iohn the seauenth and a little after Iohn the nynth there being left out and omitted Ione the eyght Otto Bishoppe of Frisingens of equall age with Fredericke the first in his first booke in his Catelogue of Popes placed Iohn the woman in number the seauenth as doth the Sculpture and grauen Image at Seene in Tussis Which diuersity and perturbation in Chronicles rise vp of this because certaine of the Antyquaries did altogether exclude this woman others did conclude and agree of her but placed her in a spare place distant out of order as the Author of Fasciculus Temporum the fardel of flowers hath and as heere this Poet of theirs doth intimate it was done But it is no more absurde that such a Pontificall should confound the order of history then that Pontifex puer pera the woman Pope with his Feminine name and nature shoulde disturbe all the Rules in Grammer In the antique Chronicles Augustiano written in Latine hand I red this Furthermore not farre from that tempestious tyme of the yeare of our Sauiour Christ 855 there was at Roome a Pope Iohn the eyght named qui mulier a hee woman yea that filthy harlot Gilberta of Mens ledde about in mans apparell of a certaine Monke of the Monasterye of Fulda both thorough Greece and Italie a beast moste littered I would say lettered and moste learned moste changeable and crafty Camelion like escaped out and indued with a Pope-doome inscaped in the Citty likewise Raphaell Ualaterane in his Commentaries Dedicated to the verie Pope Iulius the second was not afeard to write thus of Iohn Iohn Englishe whome they call a woman in her desembling habite otherwise most famous for learning they say was ouertaken in the way where shee brought foorth a Childe Now let vs produce Platina who albeit hee had tryed the cruelty and seueritie of the Pope Paule the second towardes him yet hee feared not to write of Ione vnto Sextus the fourth which story now as vaine these pield fellowes doe reprooue so farre were they from indyting or penning it they durst not write a word of it the which hee confesseth is taken out of Martine and because they are induced before time and recited as his I will not repeate them nowe to which hee subioyneth these There are which obiect these two things That the Pope when he should goe vnto the Princely Court of Laterane for detestation of so foule a fact doth decline from that way of a set or consulted purpose and for because he would shunne the sight of such an errour whiles first he is placed in the seate of Peter which is bored thorough with a round hole that the secret parts may be handled of the last of all the Deacons there Touching the first of these obiections I wil winke at it for the second thus I thinke That Seate to be prepared to this ende that he that is constitute and ordained in such a Magistrates place for Magistracy wil soone shew what a man is may know himselfe not to be a God but to bee subiect to the necessities of nature as for example digestion and such like whence the seate is called meritoriously A close stock this that I haue said is commonly carried about but by vncertaine and obscure Authors which I therefore instituted to set downe briefly and barely least obstinately and frowardly I should seeme to omit that which almost all men affirme Let vs erre therfore with the multitude in this matter albeit it may appeare that this that I haue said is out of those things which may be by possibility beleeued to be true Hitherto Platina whose latter words whiles he saith fieri potuisse do manifest why he said Erremus cum vulgo least God wot hee should offend his Lords in affirming the story directly But the cause of the Popes declining the way he confesseth to bee the young childe of the woman High-priest But for the vse of the Stercorary stoole which he saith is not conuenient for such holines and diuine Pontificiality ô which y e simple foolish superstitious rout is of opinion that hee stooleth nothing but Ambrosia which hee eateth againe to be conuerted wholy into the substance of his deified body which vulgar so religious opinion of Gods Viccar made of earth O it is by no meanes to be dimished no no beware of that Againe if any necessities of humane nature remaining in him were to be represented by any right ô it were more decent to doe it by a dishe of sweete meates and by the receiuing of foode then that that it should be done by egestion of the excrements For by that Antecedent this consequent would ensue and come to light That He that doth eate he must stooles so againe He that doth stoole he must eate Plâ—niâ— remembring like the best remembrancer of a story naturall to the Grashoppers maketh them to haue no wicket neyther for a Cricket to voide excrements by he addeth with all neyther mouth to eate foode by And when brother Robert the French Dominicane in his booke of Visions written 300. yeares since doth report of this Throne to be seated in the Poâ—ch of the Pallace of Laterane by which the Pope is tryed whether he is a man and which he in an extasis or dreame did beholde to be made of Porphyrie stone such as others haue also exhibited vnto vs haue seene it what it was it is nothing likely that the Author of this common place of Aiax being Benedict the third by whoÌ„ he saith it was placed there should riot so insolently and impudently withal that he would prepare an instrument so precious out of
dialogue of Erasmus Hâ—tâ—en so noble so notable in writing depainting out the manners of your Iulius the second and such actes that when he was dead the gates of Heauen which with his owne keyes he was wonte to set open vnto other men at a price for money he could not vnlocke for himselfe and Peter would not open them to him when hee knocked that he might go to hell beneath with his company and his whole court of guarde being excluded Refell if you can these or expurge with true arguments and reasons the actes of these high Priests repugnant vnto the actes God it knowes of the Apostles as one end of the diameter is vnto the other the Axeltree of the world the East vnto the Weast which are of Iohn Bale of England set foorth all which a Christian man yea an Ethnick onely wel mannerd would feare to here them read Such a sinke of wickednes and for the most part of Popes thence from Iohns trauaile with childe vnto this our age is to bee felt If such like you indeuour to purge what else do you seeke but to wash a Negro to be white Seace you therefore froÌ„ hence foorth to cast a miste before mens eyes and to sell smoake for fire in such a world fit for Argus many eyes as this Leaue off leaue off to stuffe with strawe and deck vp your throne of Antichrist any more in vaine vnlesse your selues meane to inioye such flatterie by such deuises and aduises you would perceiue receiue and take more easilie from your Patrons the commodities of this present life feelinglie being honored with the opinion of sanctimonie of your disciples boyes and yong men and of the fatuate common people indeed many of them being Midas riche whom your adulatorie ould songes do please All which if you deeme them more acceptable then Christian veritie sinceritie and blessednes holde on hold on to lie laugh flatter and face to simulate and dissemble to playe the Historions to abuse religion vnto cursed fraude vntill ye trie at last that God will not be deluded if happely you will differ in this one and in all from your Coryphaus and from his purple mantle crew to thinke there is a God who bringeth all humaine soules vnto the vniuersall iudgement after this mortall life To him be all honor and glorie both now and euer Amen Trino vni sit omnis laus honor gloria Amen T. B. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mundum pellectum For Pellicio is with blandishment to intice therefore the whore of Babilon is called pellex quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Gel. lib. 4. c. 3. Scala Gemonia were the sleds for the damned in Rome Cor. Tacit 〈…〉 they lay in Auentine in the thirteenth â—e gion of the Citie Canentes Vernaculum Vile Theatrum eat pessum Cortina lebescat Senica nunc Comus cesses adulteria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus panim pro papa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the triple Crowne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trianios Puer perium Radal Flauiens by y e course of nature might bee at it so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they re fer his age vnto 930. the fact was done 75. yeares before hee dyed if this reference bee true in 855. I remember I haue seene this in Sigisb Gembl 1. Milo Smith a famous Doctor shewed me the booke printed at Paris Nor am I ignorant that Bellarmine answereth in ipsius Si gisberti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non inneâ—itur but without witnes that it is Sigisb owne hande written now aboue 500. yeres saue onely on Iohn Molane lately liuing Doctor of Louane who it may be pluckt out the leafe now is ready to sweare with Beilar that it is not in the first coppy and that they knewe Sigisb owne hand 500. yeeres since written it were a miracle if they sufâ—er any coppy now to remaine in their Territoryes much lesse in their Libeâ—ties therefore I beleeue Bellar. and Mollane both in this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ab authoritate negatiue Vocatus de Anglia As many men are called Iohn French Iohn Holland Iohn Ireland that neuer were in any of these Nations much lesse borne there Cardinall Bellarmine saith very ill Ne vestigium quidem literarum in tâ—ta Gracia Resprâ—pâ—ana non prucula phano Monumentum quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Grace That Fleece One Peece The birth Vngirth Oâ—irth Plaine-waies By-waies Noon daies Frisingensâ— Seene not farre from Rome a famous Citty which Breanus Captaine of the French built for his olde soldiers and for his poor Anno ante Christi aduentum 362 Author Pompo â—â—â—s Lib 3. Basilica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly a hall of iudgement as Hesiod intendeth where the Iudges are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doniuorâ—s Iudices Budâ—â—s 〈…〉 ciolum 〈…〉 Porphyre stone is that we call Marble or Lapis Numidicus of the Romaines indeed a stone out of Numidium so named of the colour because it dooth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 glitter like Rubish or Iron or the priuie stoole might be porphyretica and perforata both euen as they report O inexpected and intollerable blasphemie open to the world by Cardinall Bellarmine Ab infimo Diâ—conâ— membruÌ„ attractatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O â—ane à tergo quem nulla Ciconia pinsit Exoleto They are men that haue bin wanton boyes and are growne out of vse by reasoÌ„ of age of which kind not a few these ◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so the Syrians terme their princes as the Sunne rising they make their God and the Papists doe call their Pope a God D. deum nostrum papuÌ„ these are ment by Pontanus heare But ô were they now serued which flow so out of kinde euery where as Alexander Seuerus plagued them whom his predicessor Hielogabalus kept hee sent them all to shipwracke to the Ilands Read Cicero pro Milone and Herodian lib. 5. Clodius vt secum semper scorta semper exoletos semper lupas ducebat filthye wanton Boyes and greedie Shee wolues that is Common whores