Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	hear_v	read_v	scripture_n	2,730	5	6.0291	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09142	The returne of the renowned caualiero Pasquill of England, from the other side the seas, and his meeting with Marforius at London vpon the Royall Exchange VVhere they encounter with a little houshold talke of Martin and Martinisme, discouering the scabbe that is bredde in England: and conferring together about the speedie dispersing of the golden legende of the liues of the saints.	Pasquill, of England, Cavaliero.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 19457; ESTC S114218	23,237	32

THE Returne of the renowned Caualiero Pasquill of England from the other side the Seas and his meeting with Marforius at London vpon the Royall Exchange VVhere they encounter with a little houshold talke of Martin and Martinisme discouering the scabbe that is bredde in England and conferring together about the speedie dispersing of the golden Legende of the liues of the Saints ❧ If my breath be so hote that I burne my mouth suppose I was Printed by Pepper Allie Anno. Dom. 1589. PASQVILS RETVRNE TO ENGLAND Pasquill and Marforius PAS QVILL Thou art the man MARFORIVS I looked for though I little thought to meete thee so suddainly vpon the Exchange MARFORIVS Euer since you tooke shipping at Grauesende I haue had the disease of a Marchants wife so loue sicke in your absence that myne eye was neuer pulde from the Wethercocke and longing like a Woman for your returne I neuer sawe gale of wind blow merrilie out of the East nor heard any Ship shoote off her Ordnaunce in the Thems but I ranne presently to the water side to discouer your comming in I wonder how I missed you PASQVILL Neuer maruaile at that I haue learned to maske it while some of Martins good freendes stood watching for me at Lambith bridge I came to an Anker in Sandwich Hauen But of fellowship tell me howe hath my Countercuffe beene intreated MARFO It requireth a Summers day and a Winters night to tell you all It was verie welcome to the Court thankfullie receiued in both Vniuersities the Citties of the Land doe giue you good speeches as for the Countrey after the plainest manner with hart and good will they are ready to greete you with a Cake and a cup of Ale in euery Parrish This onely is the thing that greeueth them they know not what Pasquill is They desire in all places of the Realme to be acquainted with you because they would bring you intelligence thicke and threefolde to further your volume of the liues of the Saints PASQ. I thinke I shall prooue a state man my packets come in so fast alreadie that I beginne to swell in Bookes as bigge as Surius If any desire to knowe what I am tell them that I was once a Barbour in Rome as some report and euerie chayre in my shop was a tongue ful of newes Whatsoeuer was done in England Fraunce Germanie Spaine Italie and other Countries was brought to me The high and secrete matters of Lordes Ladies Kings Emperours Princes Popes Monarchs of the world did ring euerie day as shrill as a Bason about my doores In memory whereof as Mercurie turnd Battus to a stone for bewraying his theft it is thought that one Pope or other mistrusting the slipprines of my toūg blest me into a stone to stoppe my mouth Others affirme that the Cittie of Rome to requite mee with honour when I dyed erected me a little monument of stone with a bodie heade and hands thicke and short answerable to my stature and set it vp in the open streete where I assure you I haue stoode manie yeeres in the rayne my face is so tand with the Sunne and my hyde so hardened with the wether that I neither blush when I byte any man nor feele it when any man byteth me MARFO I wonder how you were able to continue there PASQ. To heare euery mans talke that passed by was better then meate and drinke to me In steede of apparrell in Summer I wore nothing but paper lyueries which manie great men bestowed vpon me to their great cost in Winter I care for no colde because I am a stone MAR. I beseeche you Sir tell me how came you into England PAS Beeing once somwhat busie with Signor Iacomo about a pretie wench kept at Frescata for the Pope his Fathers tooth Gregorie the thirteenth terque quaterque shooke his white head at me with such a terrible looke that I was a feard hee would haue smytte my head into Tyber with a Thunderbolt Neuerthelesse the olde man beeing of a mylde disposition and very mercifull I receiued a pardon for that fault At the last hearing the Schollers of the English Seminarie merrie as they returned from thier Vineyarde and full of fine tauntings when they talked of the Sectes and opinions spronge vp in England I stole out of Rome by night to make tryall my selfe of the trueth of theyr reports When I came to England for the good will I carried to my olde occupation I entred at London into Sprignols shop where the first newes I heard among two or three Gentlemen as they were a trimming was of a Martinist a Broker the next doore by which with a face of Religion hauing gotten other mens goods into his hands was but newe run away and left his wife to the charitie of the Parrish With this ridings I grew verie inquisitiue to know what Martin was A knaue quoth one a theefe quoth another he teacheth the Courte a Religion to robbe the Church And some of the Cittie that fauour him apt Schollers to take such an easie lesson begin to practise theyr cunning vpon their neighbors Hauing gotten this thred by the end I neuer left winding til I came to the paper that made the bottom I frequented the Churches of the Pruritane Preachers that leape into the Pulpit with a Pitchfork to teach men before they haue either learning iudgment or wit inough to teach boyes MAR. I pray you Sir why doe you call them Pruritanes PAS A pruritu They haue an itch in their eares that would be clawed with new points of doctrine neuer dreamed of and an itch in their fingers that woulde be noynted with the golden Aenulatum of the Church I knowe they are commonly called Puritans and not amisse that title is one of the marks they beare about them They haue a marke in the head they are selfe conceited They take themselues to be pure when they are filthie in Gods sight They haue a marke in the eye theyr lookes are haughtie They haue a marke in the mouth a yerie blacke tooth they are A generation that cursse their father MAR. How now Caualiero are you com to Scripture PAS Doost thou thinke Marforius that Pasquill hauing stoode so manie yeeres in the streets of Rome heard so many famous Clarks especially father Sware the Spaniarde and the sifted Greeke witte of Father Augustine and hauing spent so much time in priuate reading the best Bookes that night stirre vppe my deuotion I would skippe ouer the Booke of all Bookes the holie Bible No no I haue that volume in my hands when many a Martinist hugges a drabbe in his armes as you shal perceiue by the liues of the Saints I tarrie but for one packet of information frō Essex side and that worke shall come out of the Presse like a bryde frō her chamber spangled trapt with a full caparizon of the ornaments of this present age MAR. The Owles Almanack is expected at your hands as well

as that PAS That is a peece of seruice not to be neglected in his time I haue there sette down all the vpstart Religions in this Land The Anabaptists the Family of Loue the seuen capital haeresies for which som haue beene executed of late yeeres in Suffolke the diuersities of Puritans and Martinists with a number more which you shall heare of when that Booke is Printed A lamentable spectacle it will be to see so many faces in one hoode But GOD knoweth before whom I stand I desire not to cast it out as a block in the waies of men for any to stumble at or to stand at defiance with all Religion but as a Sea-marke to discouer the quicksands of newe Religions I haue heard that Bernardin Ochin a man of great learning whom I knewe in Rome to be the first founder of the order of the Capuchines being once tucht with the finger of Gods spirite began to detest the superstitions of the Church of Rome and fled to Geneua The same man had a desire also to visite England and during the time of his remaining heere he found so many blind Sects and Religions within the land that he turned backe like a dogge to his owne vomit and in some sorte he fell into the biace of the Church of Rome againe Vnhappie man that beeing once lightned looked backe to that Scicilian Aetna that spues vp sinoake and sulpher into the world to put out the eyes of men Vnhappie England that by the diuersities of opinions in Religion sette so many handes to his shoulders to thrust him downe that was so ready with a turne to ouerturne Howe these newe pampred factions at this day haue shaken the harts of many of her Maiesties louing people and made them Chamaelion like capable of any faith saue the right I leaue it to them that looke into it MAR. Take heede what you say it is a common report that the faction of Martinisme hath mightie freendes PAS Thats a bragge Marforius yet if there be anie such I shall find them in the end and against the next Parliament I will picke out a time to pepper them Though they were as high as the maste as sure as the tackling as profitable as the fraught and as necessarie as the sayles when the shippe is in danger ouerboorde withall What meaning soeuer some men haue in it I am assured that it can neither stand with policie nor with Religion to nourish anie faction in ciuill matters much lesse in matters belonging to the Church Quid prodest si vos contineat vna domus et separet diuersa voluntas What auaileth it saith one for men to be shrowded vnder one rooffe if they be not of one hart One secret faction in a Realme dooth more hurte then any generall plague or open warre The pestilence and the sword are two heauie scourges in Gods hand that deuoure many thousands of men in a little time yet they reach no further then the bodie but a faction deuours more and sweepes away both bodie and soule together Though the Iewes at the siege of Ierusalem were pressed by their enemies without the walles and punished with such a mortalitie within that the carkases of the dead did dunge the ground yet they neuer went to the wall till they grewe to be factious fell to taking one another by the throate Giue me leaue a little Marforius to shift my sayles and come towardes Italie They that were wise prophecied long before of the state of Rome that it should neuer decay but by diuision Which came to passe For when the factions of Sylla and Marius Caefar and Pompey Anthonie and Lepidus brake foorth the florishing Cittie beganne to cast her lease The great Empire of great Alexander like a flame of fire in a heape of flaxe when it was at the highest did shed it selfe suddainlie in the ayre and came to nothing by the dissentiōs of those that succeeded him The proude neck of the Graecians for all their wisedom was after the like manner brought vnder the Persians and Macedonians If we rolle our eyes at one side into the bosome of our neighbour Fraunce wee shall perceiue that although it were many times inuaded in the skyrts of the Countrey by the Romans yet it remained inuincible till Caesar toke holde of the discords within the Realme My head is full of water and my cheekes be wette when I thinke vpon Constantinople whose particular iarres layde her gates open to the Turke vnder whose captiuitie she groneth to this day A faction in a Kingdome may wel be compared to a spark of fire it catcheth hold at the first in some obscure corner in a Shoppe in a Stable or in a ricke of Strawe where it lyeth couert a little time but by little and little it gathers strength till it reare it selfe vp to great houses Pallaces Princes Courts and at last it rageth and ouerruns whole Citties Countries without quenching before they be vtterly ouerthrowne In the time of Iustinian the Emperor about the credite and aduancement of two colours Blewe and Greene there grew in Constantinople two mightie factions which made such a head the one against the other that in one day it cost many thousandes of men their liues and the Emperor himselfe was brought in great hazard both of his Empire and his owne person Vpon as light an occasion in the Dukedome of Florence for the two colours of Blacke and White verie pestilent quarrels began there and the factions of the Bianchi and the Neri breaking forth like a lightning out of the Clowdes scourde wasted the Country where they went These were but litle sparks in the rushes that euery man treadeth on and very trifles at the first yet you see how foule a Cockatrice may be hatcht of so small an egge If I shoulde rip vp the stomacks of some in England when wee consider the brawles the Garboyles the tragicall exclamations for Church apparrell may wee not say that England is falne into that fantasticall faction of Florence for Black White Wher had this brable his first beginning but in some obscure corner in the tippe of the tongue of some blind Parlor-preacher in the land in shoppes in stalles in the Tynkers budget the Taylors sheares and the Sheepheardes Tarboxe I doubt not Marforius but it will wither where it sprang and ende at where it began in shame and ignoraunce Thou knowest that the surest proppe of all Princes is to promote true Religion and to keepe it inuiolable when it is established for this is the well tempered Morter that buildeth vp all estates He that honors me saith God I will honor him But this chopping changing of the Religion of the land which was acquited of accusations in the time of the famous K. Edwarde the fixt and now aduaunced by the happy raigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiesty approued by the wisedom both spiritual temporal of the whole

I haue read and heard of many that haue followed their humors that haue affected any pillage of the Church When Symon the mutinous vppon a particular grudge hee bare to Onias the high Priest had enformed Seleucus the King of Asia of the Churches Treasure the King sent Heliodorus his Treasurer to seaze it to the Crowne Heliodorus came like a Foxe to visit and reforme the disorders of C●elosyria and Phaenice When the high Priest perceiued that reformation was his errande but golde he sought the graue countenance of Onias was striken down and the people beholding their Father heauie ranne some to the Temple some to the Cittie-gates some stood in their windowes looking out some gadded vppe and downe the streetes like Bacchus Froes franticke for the time and all ioyntly lifted vp their hands their eyes and their voice to heauen for the defence of the Church Treasure Heliodorus was no sooner entred the Treasurie to take the spoyle but there appeared to him a terrible man in Complet Armour of Gold mounted on a barbed Horse which ranne fiercelie at the Kings Treasurer and trampled him vnder foote Therewithall appeared also two men of excellent strength and beautie whipping and beating him with so many stripes that hee was carried out of the place speechlesse and without any hope of life at all But because Martin will say the Bookes of the Machabees are Apocrypha and Sprignols man told me as he trimd me the other day that there is a new Barbar in London about to shaue the Bible wherin he finds somwhat that he would haue cleane discarded I will deale with such Scriptures as preuent them of all euasions How dangerous it is to gelde the Church goods the end of Ananias and Saphira shal witnes for me for though their death was the punishment of their sinne in lying yet I trust Martin will graunt me that they were drawn to that sin by the corde of Sacriledge And if a greedie desire of withholding that from the Church which thēselues had giuen was of force to open such a windowe to the deuill that they were presently giuen ouer as a pray to the iawes of hell to lye and dissemble with the holie Ghost howe many foule sinnes and howe many greeuous plagues are to be feared in this Lande which alreadie hang at the ende of the lyne of Martinisme and would speedilie be puld vpon our heads if we should but beginne to take that from the Church which we neuer gaue It may be Mast Martin will flappe mee in the mouth with his politique reason that it is good for the Realme to maintaine their warres by the Church reuenewes because forraine inuasions are dailie looked for But to meete with his wisedome at the halfe sword I remember that Aegipt in the time of Ioseph the Patriarche felt so extreame a famine that the fift parte of the Lande was sold to releeue the Lande yet the Patriarche in all this care he had both of the Countrey and the King to succour the one enrich the Coffers of the other neuer attempted any sale of the lande of the Priestes nor once diminished the same If the holie Patriarche in so great extreamitie neuer venturde to alienate the possessions of Idolatrous Priestes though it were to the releefe of a whole Kingdome with what face dares anie politique in the world curtoll the maintenance of the Church of God and vntile the houses that by religious Princes haue beene consecrated to Gods seruice Let vs see the good that ensueth of their deuices let England be warned by the praesidents of other Nations Celce the Constable of Gertrund King of Burgonie hauing vnder the authoritie of the king his Maister enriched himselfe with the goods of the Church was one day in the Church at his deuotion and as he hearde the Prophet read that proclaimes a woe vnto them that ioyne house to house and land to land he gaue a shrike suddainlie in the congregation and cried out this is spoken to me this curse is vpon me and vppon my posterite and afterward died miserablie In Fraunce Lewes the sixt surnamed the great was once a protector of the priuiledges of the Church for perceiuing that the Conte de Clerimont the Lord de Roussi the Lord de Meugn the Lorde de Beuuieu and others had rifled the Bishopricks and Churches within the Realme he caried Armes in the defence of the Church against them and compelled them to restore their robberies to the Church againe The same King L●wes the great vrged wyth extreame necessitie in his age beganne at the last to pull the Church himselfe But S. Bernard one of the Lampes of the Church of GOD in those dayes sollicited the King with diuers Letters exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course at the last perceiuing that neither entreatie nor reproofe was able to withdraw him he began to darte out the thunderbolts of the Church and to threaten him that hee shoulde shortlie feele the iudgment of God vpon him which suddailie came to passe for by the suddaine death of the young Prince his eldest Sonne the staffe of his age was broken MAR. You haue made Signor Caualiero a sad discourse yet I feare all this will not saue the Bishopricke of Elie from shiuering it selfe into many peeces PAS What remedie Marforius Though I be but a stone I am not so sencelesse to presume like a Martinist to teach her excellent Maiestie how to weare a Crowne Her highnesse beeing so richlie furnished with so rare and high graces from aboue and knowing which way to hold the Scepter of the defenders of the faith better by her owne experience than by the wisedome that is euery day powred into her bosome by the counsels of others for Pasquil to come in nowe with any aduice for her were to cast God wot one little droppe of water into the Sea Therefore whatsoeuer I haue alreadie spoken in this behalfe or shall vtter hereafter when Martin or his Maister prouokes me to single Combat I cowch it heere with all dutie and humilitie at her Maiesties sacred feete I know the humor of a Martinist to be such as Dauid described long agoe Our tongues are our owne who is Lord ouer vs An ambitious desire to sitte in the doores of euerie mouth to be seene and talked of hath made thē surfet and shaken them with many colde fittes of the Feuer of Eutydimus Hee was a wrangling Logician that had rather say any thing then seeme to be conquered in disputation which made him as a man mad and impudent to maintaine by argument that his dog was his father and the father of all the world he grew so peruerse and so slippery in his conclusions that he proued as quick as an Eele in euery quirke the harder he was griped the sooner hee slipt out of euery hand But Pasquill is made of another temper hee acknowledgeth the least Magistrate in the Land to be Lord of