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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	pope_n	rome_n	4,587	5	6.8117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02171	The Spanish masquerado VVherein vnder a pleasant deuise, is discouered effectuallie, in certaine breefe sentences and mottos, the pride and insolencie of the Spanish estate: with the disgrace conceiued by their losse, and the dismaied confusion of their tronbled [sic] thoughtes. Whereunto by the author, for the better vnderstanding of his deuice, is added a breefe glosse. By Robert Greene, in Artibus Magister. ...	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1589 (1589)	STC 12310; ESTC S105848	19,550	42

and haue prooued rauening Wolues and sub●erters of Christ and his doctrine Their great pompe vnfitting for the humble puritie of Christes Disciples their extreame couetousnesse selling the giftes of the holy Ghost for money their open Simony their secrete ●●gling in dispensation for sinnes their Whordomes and their Sodomie their palpable and grosse heris●es main●ained not with Peters doctrine but with Paules sworde with rigours not with reason prooues that since Peters time Peters seat hath pleaded Sede vacante and that these shauelings are not his successors but approoued by their liues and doctrine to be professed Antechristes Peter was humble and spent his time in praier and preaching these are proude and meddle with states Empires kingdomes and Monarchies pulling down one and creating another hauing Emperours knéeling at his féete and casting off their crowns with his toe treading on their backes and blasphemously applying the text to him selfe Calcabo super Aspidem Leonem These presumptuous thoughtes were not founde in Peter who imitating his Maister Christ walked abroade to féede his Flocke this the Pope I meane following the aspyring attempt of Lucifer is carried on mens shoulders and yet in his hereticall Bulles to blinde the People hee calleth himselfe Seruus Seruorum guarded not as Peter was with the faythfull of Israel but either with his stout Cardinalles Copesmates of Caiphas Crue or with some detestable Courtizans the best imblazers of his profession Long did this Monster maske in a Shéepes skin partlye couered by his owne pollicies and partlye by the fauour of Princes but at last breaking out into his own● proper shape his name and nature was discouered so that Pardons his Bulles his Excommunications his Curses nor such Paltries could preuaile but he was manifestlye laide open for Antechrist to the world So that his verye Countrymen Italians nursed vp vnder his nose séeing his detestable life his great profession and little performance his hereticall pompe vsurped in his Papacie could not but in conscience in their bookes pen downe his sundry abuses and great absurdities as Pasqum Mantuan Iohn Boccac● Petrarch and lately Ludouico Ariosto who in one of his Cansons describes him for a monster thus Ariosto Qui●i vna Bestia vscir de la Foresta Par●a di crudell vista odiosa bella C'hau●a l'orecchie d'Asino e la testa D● lupo e i' denti per gran fame asciuta Branchi hauea di Leon l'altro chi resta Tutta era volpe parea scorrer tutta Et Francia Italia espagna Inghilterra L'Europa e l'Asia alfia tutta la terra Here the Poet describeth this Monster this Antechrist the Pope to be in forme like a beast his eares like those of an Asse the h●ad of a Wolfe leane and il fauoured as insatiate of his pray the clawes of a Lion and what resteth resembled a Foxe This monster saith he had ouercome al France Italy Spaine England Europe Asia nay the whole world triumphing in the pompe of his iniquitye till his date being expired the terme of his raign ended diuerse princes hating to brooke the imperious rauening of such a reasonlesse monster sought to hunt him out off the Forrest and therefore sent diuers good and expert Blood-houndes to rowse him from his Denne as was Iohn Husse Ierome of Prage OEcolampadius and Zwinglius After Luther and the Duke of Saxony who for the defence of the trueth mainteined wars against the Church of Rome The Hunts-men that pursued this Monster in chase was first Francis the first of that name king of France who was so wh●t that he thrust his sword to the hiltes in the ribbes of this beaste Next him Maximilian of Austria Third Charles the fift Emperour who with his speare passing eager peirced y ● throat of this monster but he that with his bore-speare stabd him in the breast gaue the déep mortal wound was Henrie the eight king of England who séeing the abhominatiō of that proud Antechrist by his lawle● dispensations for coin the abuse his shauelings vsed in England their massing masking their gluttony and lecherie the falsnesse of Religion lastly the extream abuse of their profession flying to the text whatsoeuer my father hath not planted shall be rooted vp by the rootes hee suppressed their Abbeyes pulled down their sumptuous buildings scarce left one stone vpon an other subuerted their estate chāged their religiō for blind Papistry gaue vs the light of the Gospell This his own Countriman Ariosto re●eateth in the same Canson in an other Stanzo thus Ariosto La Chanea fui elza n●lla pancia La Spada immersa a la maligna fera Francesco primo hanea Scritto di Francia Massimo homo d'Austria a par seco era E Carlo Quinto Imperator d● Francia Hanea passata ill monstro alla Gorgiera Et l'altro chi d● strale gli fige il petto Lottau● Henrigo d' Inhil-terra e d●tto This Monster wounded thus by so worthy a woodman who knew how to strike his game with aduātage féeling the wound incurable yet somewhat salued and but nowe rubbed a fresh by our mightie and famous princesse Elizabeth daughter to that renowned Henry who with her father rightly taking vpō her the Ecclesiastical supremacy hath vtterly raced abolished al his trash and traditions as absurdities heresies out of her Churches of England and Ireland hating the Pope as Antechrist and the Church of Rome as that whore of Babilon figured out in the Reuelation This cause maketh this Monster to stir so that to reuenge he bent al his pollicies suborning diuerse false Traitors to attempt her death perswaded thereunto by false Iesuits and Seminaries sent by him into these our partes which the Lord discouering hath geuen them their hyre and mightely preserued his annointed seeing these pettie practises could not preuaile nor his Bull would not carrie any credite he ●lieth to incense princes to bende their forces against this our little Iland which defended by God and gouerned by so vertuous a Princesse as GOD hath chosen after his own● heart standeth and withstandeth their forces without aide of speare or horse hauing the wind and sea Captains sent from aboue to quell the pride of such hereticall enemies of the Gospell so that the Pope séeing his purposed intent could not spéede as in a doubtful anguish of mind ●ell into this bitter passion Neque Petrus neque Paulus quid igitur restat ¶ Phillip king of Spaine attired like an Hermite rydeth towardes the Church on a Mule only attended on with certaine his Slaues that are Moores and saith thus Iub●t Ecclesia dissentire non a●deo GLOSSA. PHILLIP of Spaine no●●●ed from his infancie in the darke and obscure dungeon of Papistry led as one blinded with the vale of ignorance by this proud Antechrist drunke with the dregges of that poyson which the whore powreth out to the ●inges of the earth pleasaunt in ta●t but more bitter then worme-wood in the mawe offered by