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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31050	The monk unvail'd: or, A facetious dialogue, discovering the several intrigues, and subtil practises, together with the lewd and scandalous lives of monks, fryers, and other pretended religious votaries of the Church of Rome. Written by an eminent Papist in French. Faithfully translated by C.V. Gent.	Barrin, Jean, ca. 1640-1718.; C. V.	1678 (1678)	Wing B920A; ESTC R213529	50,045	154

waiting-woman I was sorry they were disturbed for they were in the way of discovering pleasant rogueries F. Ay that would have been as good as a farce P. I could tell you likewise of a pleasant quarrel which the Minimes were the cause of F. How the Minimes Are those fellows known there P. Yes they made themselves to be very well known F. Pray let us by all means hear this P. They had for a long while observ'd the haunt and watch'd for an opportunity to get in among them to accomplish their design They accosted one Mrs Isabell who had been a Chambermaid in that House and having given her the Habit and Cord of St. Francis of Paula they sent her being well documentized before-hand to give a visit to her old Mistress And this cunning baggage having made her first Complements did so manage her business and so often handle her Cords that the good old Gentlewoman demanded of her what it was then she who waited for nothing else told her that it was St. Francis of Paula his Cord and you see Madam I still wear his Habit I was very much troubled with a pain in my Kidneys since I lay in last and knew not how to get any ease when an old Woman whom I beseech God to bless continually for it and who lives near the Minimes of Place Royal giving me a visit did counsel me to take the Habit and Cord of St. Francis of Paula and since I have been perfectly well Says the old Gentlewoman you do me the greatest kindness in the world to acquaint me with this news Is there such a Friery of them O yes Madam and a very lovely one too I do assure you that I will shortly get one to gird me withall for I have such intolerable pains in my back that they e'en distract me The good old Gentleman who was now pretty well recovered came in as we were just speaking thus Ah! my Dear says she do you not see Mrs Isbell in the Habit and with the Cord of St. Francis of Paula She tells me that since she hath worn it she finds her self very much relieved of a pain she had in her back here about the small I will an 't please God and if you will let me Dearest wear that holy Habit and be of that Friery I am very well contented you should says her Husband but it were convenient that you should first speak to one of those good Fathers Sir replies Mrs. Isabell I will take care of that I know one who is a most zealously religious person but besides if you please I will cause the Taylor who made me this Suit to come hither Ay do with all my heart said both the old Folks and presently after the Lady tript away as cheerfully as if she had been half cur'd already F. Ha! This went not much amiss for the first Scene P. I will acquaint you with the sequel of it The Taylor comes the next day to make her this Habit and the day following fails not to wait upon her with the principal of the Minimes of Place-Royal a person of a very venerable aspect and one who had abundance of Crosses and Meddals hanging at his Girdle besides he was a man that could speak rarely well and he complemented our old Gentleman and his Lady in a most delicate stile I remember amongst other things he said That when it was told him how that her Ladyship would be one of the Third Order of St. Francis of Paula the whole Friery testified a a most incredible joy at the news for it immediately ran throughout the whole Order insomuch that it caused a publick acclamation there that it was not a greater honour for his most happy Patriarch to have been sent for by Lewis the XI and to have been received at the Court of so great a King than for himself to have the freedom of Ingress and Regress into so pious and devout a Family and to have the honour of being imployed to give her Ladyship the Habit and Cord of his Order That indeed both the Habit and the Cord did appear in the eyes of the World but as a vile and contemptible thing and of a dark and dead Colour but that in Gods esteem they were pretious and not only of a Lively but of a Vivifying Colour That clothing ones self with that dark Habit her Ladyship did Cloath her self with a Cloud but that it was of one of those whereof Job did speak which did enlighten or else of that Cloud mention'd in Exodus in which the Lord was pleased to cause his Glory to appear Gloria Domini apparuit in nube so that hereafter he did look upon her Ladyship not as a mortal person but like unto that Angel in the Revelations whom St. John saw cloathed with a Cloud F. That Father did lift up himself very much in the Clouds But however here is on this Habit very much Imbroidery both of the Old and New Testament P. After some other Complements and Discourse not belonging to our business to prepare the Lady for the worthy receiving of this Habit and Cord he read unto her a Lecture of the Rule of the Third Minimetan Order contained in a small Book which he presented to her how that by that Rule the day you are received into the Friery you must confess your self and receive the Sacrament Therefore the next day the Lady intending to be received did acquit her self of all those pious duties in the Chappel of the House Confessing her self to that good Father hearing Mass receiving the Sacrament and the Habit and Cord at his hands but before she came to this last action this venerable Patriarch seeing you term them so could not keep himself from playing one of his Pranks He then acquainted this good old Lady That although by the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis of Paula Lay-people were only to have the Cord with two Knots as it is in the 7th page of the said Rule yet notwithstanding to oblige her Ladyship and to unite her to their Order by a more particular Tye he did bring her a Cord with five Knots the same which these Monks wear who are honour'd with the Order of the Priesthood that by that means she might enjoy all the Immunities Prerogatives Preheminences Blessings and Unctions belonging to the Holy Priesthood that as it was an extraordinary favour which as yet had not been granted to any Lay person that the Concession might be the more sure and authentical he had caused the whole number of Monks to assemble themselves who unanimously had granted that priviledg whereof there was an Act passed signed by the whole Fraternity which they would cause to be ratified by the most Reverend Father General which being done the said Act should be recorded in their Register for a perpetual memorial F. Ha! here were rare flourishes indeed as soft as your Oil of Aramont P. After this he reads the Indulgences which the