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A04873	The popish kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist, written in Latine verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and englyshed by Barnabe Googe; Regnum papisticum. English	Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563. Agriculturae sacrae libri quinque. Book 1-2. English. aut	1570 (1570)	STC 15011; ESTC S109280	147,386	198

hie That nothing in the worlde be founde of any maiestie But he possesse and conquere it and therefore doth he wright Himselfe as heyre apparent to the Empire here of right Whereto he hath perswaded Kinges and men of eche degrée Which wonderfull aboue the rest appéereth vnto mée But all men with the name of God he rules and threatens heare And with the same so stops their mouthes that none dare hisse for feare Against that shamelesse wicked face ne bragges he thus alone But vseth his vsurped powre deliuerde him of none He maketh Kinges and giues the crowne to such as serue him best Whereby he gets him trustie men still ready at his hest Who if they waxe vnruly ones or happen to rebell He plucks them from their kingdome straite casts them downe to hell With dreadfull lightning ouerwhelmde and doth discharge anone Their subiectes from alegeance due absoluing euery one If that they attempt with weapon to defende their realme and right Then mooues he other Kings in haste and Princes for to fight And forth he sendes his proper bande and all his force withall So that although the Prince be strong he cannot match them all If leauing warres they list to striue with writing openlye And to commit their cause and right vnto some councell hye In vaine it is no councell sittes without his owne consent Nor may giue sentence otherwise than after his intent And thus poore Prince no remedie but yéelde he must at last And aske forgiuenesse for his faultes and his offences past Most humbly bowing downe his knées or falling on his face And kissing though against his will his féete for hope of grace The stories tell that once there was an Emprour great of might Whose necke was stampt and trode vpon by this deformed spright And vsde with most dispitefull wordes whereby may plaine appere What powre the Pope doth chalenge ouer Kings and nations here That of the Church of Christ he is not head nor Lorde alone But of the vniuersall worlde and subiect vnto none Wherefore such Kings as wisedome haue doe heare and nothing say And dare not moue their lippes against the man that beares such sway But are content to holde their peace and iudge their hap most sweete If once they may attayne to come to kisse his holy féete Ne woulde they doe this same to him that sittes in Turkish feate Nor to the mightiest Prince on earth though he were neuer so greate And better were it sure by much a thousande times to dye Then that such shame shoulde thus redownde vnto such Princes hye But as the Lorde of heauen and earth this same to him they do And whatsoeuer he commaundes they straight are readie to If that he will them warres to make than Armour out of hande They weare and Cities strong they sacke or spoyle some welthy lande They pill and powle and quite deface the faire and plesaunt realmes They waste they ransack distaine eche place with blouddy streames If that he bid them take the life or cast in dreadfull flame The learnde vnlearnd the Lord the meane they straight fulfill the same Ne thinke it lawfull for to spare their parentes in this case Nor kinsemen nere they burne and kill whereas it likes his grace Although they know no cause thereof nor haue not wayde it right Yea though they know that it be naught and onely came of spight Yet his commaundments must be done for thus the father will And doth commaunde that euery lay man be contented still With whatsoeuer he appoyntes not asking how nor whye In things that touch the Church of Rome but let the sentence lye Besides the Courts of euery Prince to him must subiect bée If any happen to mislike that they may francke and frée Appeale vnto the Court of Rome A wonderous powre and might In things that long to God and man to giue a iudgement right But be not thou herein deceyude for this as all the rest Doth smell of gaine which how he gettes he taketh for the best So many things of Kings and Dukes and commons doth he gaine They fréely graunting since for that he giues the heauenly raigne Faire Countries Castles Dukedomes States famous cities large For blessed lyfe he doth receyue as things of little charge For Bishops often vse the ayde of Kings in trifles small But Kings Dukes haue néede of Popes to saue their soules withall What cannot lewde perswasion doe with cloake of godlinesse And more he hath decréede that such as doe his lawes transgresse That all the rest his enimies be who cannot with this porte Both Kings and Emprours ouerthrow much more the poorer sorte Who would not feare the anger of so great and blacke a traine Therefore doe Kings full warely flye and wisely eke refraine From speaking euill of his grace whatsoeuer hath bene donne And farre from such a God and from his lightnings fast they runne Thus in the meane time lyues he safe and frée from euery man Since none he knowes may be his mate nor none aboue him than Nor any that dare with him striue or stoute against him stande He enters league with Princes and with kinges of euery lande With Cities and with people great that liue at libertie And able are to decke the fieldes with lustie cheualrie In fine both wise and ware he is in euery kinde of case If all be still and blessed peace doe reigne in euery place Then straite he stirres and moueth warres and helps the stronger side And will be sure to gaine a fléece whosoeuer lose beside Thus séeking his commoditie with losse of others bloode Sometime himselfe to battell goeth with fonde and frantike moode His Gotish bearde long hanging downe in shirte of mayle arayde Safe shrowded in his Corselet close all gilt and ouerlayde Thus glistering all in armour braue with spoyle and pillage rife He closeth stately townes with trenche and threatneth losse of life Vnto his foes with cannon shot he battereth downe a pace The loftie walles or lying long doth cause them sue for grace And yelde for feare of famine vp their townes and goods withall Then puttes he whome he list to sworde for wordes and trespasse small And so to Rome returneth straite his triumph with him ledde Lo thus vpon the earth doth liue our chiefe and soueraigne hedde Canst thou declare a worthier wight or more excelling grace Then bring him forth peruse the time and searche in euery place Hence sendes he downe his power into the smokie pitte of hell With charmes and solemne ceremonies and dayes agréeing well Where though he cannot cléerely lose the damned soules from chaynes Ne quench the furious firye flames nor ceasse the raging paynes Nor breake the swift still turning whéeles nor kill the dreadfull snakes Yet with his voyce their torments all and gréeues more light he makes So that the wretched soules haue ease whilst certayne howres last Ne burnes the fire nor gnawes

graces protection vvhose long prosperitie vvith the happie successe of your most noble and renovvmed children I earnestly desire God to preserue From Basill the .20 of Februarie 1553. The Popish Kingdome The first Booke THe straunge disguised shape and faith of popish prowde estate The sundry orders and the dayes they yerely consecrate Good Muse declare my force to weake can not therto attaine Ne can disclose the mysteries of such a matelesse raigne Oft haue we hearde the thundring fame of Scythian sceptor great The Turkes estate and of the Indians farther distant seat The warlyke Parthyans powre beside and stately Persian charge And of the Romanes all men knowes the auncient empire large But these are nothing in respect if any man doe way The farre surmounting maiestie and powre of popish sway Whose Lordship lifteth vp it selfe vnto the heauens hye And all the earth whereon we dwell to him doth subiect lye And all the Deuils déepe in hell at his decrées doe quake So that the thréefolde engyn of the worlde he makes to shake Nor vnaduisedly we speake nor rashly thereof fayne The Pope himselfe doth chalenge this in wordes and writings playne And lustily he doth defende the same with tooth and naile Drawe neare therefore Calliopey and let thy force preuaile And thou Apollo graunt thyne ayde great matters here I sing Whereof the fame blowne forth abrode all Europe makes to ring Guide you my lately verse begunne by perfite path and plaine Disclose the secret mysteries of this so sacred raigne For though it thorowly be knowne and easily appéeres To euery Wight that here hath séene the ende of thirtie yéeres The yonger age yet knowes it not ne children haue it séene That haue bene taught to treade the steppes of Christs religion cléene And what of our posteritie that many yéeres to come Shall not attayne to knowe the fayth nor toyes of stately Rome Being many a hundred myles from thence and dwelling farre away This booke shall well instruct them than and shew them halfe the play If wormes doe not consume it first nor Marchauntes occupye It for enclosing of their wares that they farre hence doe bye Our question first is if from heauen this lustie bloud doe spring And whether thence he slipped downe from that almightie King Or rather from the Stygian flouds he raysde himselfe so hye Created first by Sathan and the spirites that damned lye To be a plague to Christian fayth and vertuous famylie To fill the worlde with troubles broyles and wretched miserie Such as are bent to search the same bring many causes strong And weightie arguments and proues the chiefest here among They from the fruites doe first deriue and long they féede their eies To viewe the monstrous shape that doth from doubtfull parent rise It is not much amisse if that we say he came from hie For Lucifer the Prince of pride and all his companie That now doe trouble all the worlde from heauen downe did fall At his commaundment and his worde that guides and gouernes all From heauen eke fell out the floudde that all the worlde did drowne Besides on Sodom came from thence both fire and brimstome downe What if the monstrous sinnes of men wherwith the world did swarme Prouoked God to sende this plague for their deserued harme Men made but small account of Christ Gods worde esteemed vayne Eche heart was then peruersely bent and truth had in disdayne Fayth was not to be founde at all ne loue coulde once be séene And hellish sectes had put to flight the true religion cléene Eche eare was then set open wide to learne deuises mad And ioyde to heare of teachers new though they were neare so bad No difference made of right or wrong none sought the perfite way But euery man with willing minde did yéelde himselfe a pray What maruell was it now if that the almightie gaue them vp And suffred them to drinke their fill of lying errors cup Besides when all was husht and still the chiefe and learned sort Gaue ouer booke and Pulpet quite and gaue themselues to sport Still woondering at the worldly pompe and hunting after gaine Eche one did séeke the others fall with hatred and disdaine The stronger put the weake to worse with ayde of Princely might Thus mallice touchte the high estates who wondered at the spight And muzde what madnesse moude them thus the priestes prelats great Shoulde thus with ciuill warres enuie eche one the others seat Of these disorders lewde and great what iudge you shoulde appéere But stoppes to sounde religion and this present kingdome héere While God th' offences punished of this distempered minde And ouerwhelmde the idle heartes with mistes and darcknesse blinde ▪ For both about one time began the fonde religion vaine Of Mahomet his foolish law and eke the popish raigne Two stubborne hornes to ouerthrowe both fayth and vertuous minde And for to drowne the doubtfull worlde with vice and errours blinde For one thing both of them we sée doe striue for to attaine Which is that no remembrance might of Iesus Christ remaine And that the searching out of truth from men be pluckte away That so in errors thicke and grosse they all may sooner stray Ne shalt thou much amisse affirme if that thou doest declare That God hath plaste them in the worlde as hornes that egall are For this the Pope himselfe presumes and plainely doth decrée And as a Key of fayth doth will that it beléeued bee But for the same we will not striue but easely giue him place Yet neyther can the Pope nor such as him doe here imbrace Denie but many things he hath at Sathans handes béene tought Which both in life and doctrine here he oft hath lewdely wrought But of this wondrous Empire great the heade I now declare Surnamed Pope a name that once to those that meanest weare Amongst the Bishops common was till such time as alone The Romish Bishop chalengde it resisted then of none What coulde they doe now was he great and to be fearde of all Not onely through his earthly force but powre celestiall This Pope doth boast himselfe to haue the keyes of heauen gates And braue in scutchin blaseth them that Kings and high estates And common people bent to lyes may know that none can clime To heauen to be placed there without his power deuine Without his warraunt or his graunt for in his gift doth ly The skies and happie life and whom he list he putteth by And with a worde he hoyseth vp vnto the starry raigne Euen whom he listes and where him likes he casteth downe againe Vnto the bottome deepe of hell he byndes and loseth all Euen as a perfect Marshall of the chiefe and highest hall To great an Empire sure is this and dreadfull power to heare Whereat great Dukes haue trembled and Princes quakte for feare Both noble men and people poore their countnaunce now let fall When as they heard the name of Pope

and spoylde him of his grace That now he is not worth a poynt in any kinde of place And as both Popes and Cardnalles with their pompe and passing pride And welthy Bishops fat euen so these kinde of men beside The Church of Christ full well may spare with losse and damage small For shame and hurtes and burdens are they to the people all Regarding onely this that prayse and glorie here assinde To Christ in darcknesse déepe to hide and kéepe the people blinde FINIS The popish Kingdome The .ij. Booke PErchaunce you looke I should declare their Consistories here The warehouse chiefe of all their fraude foule deceitfull gere Whereas for money crooked things are made direct and plaine And blacke is chaunged into white and white to blacke againe As pleaseth him that fightes with Fées and giues them golde at will. Such pregnaunt witte haue Doctors there and such the Proctors skill Where gaynes grow not with long delay vntride there hanges the case And where the Sutor is but poore and comes not of a pace With giftes they doe begin to féele and plye the case againe And prosecute it then as long as they sée giftes remaine Here iustice seldome time is séene but such as Plutos might Procures for gold with weight and shew weies down both law right By this they breake such mariages as Gods decrées doe knit And ioyne againe in wicked sorte such as are most vnfit Without aduice of Parents had contracted secretly Or fautie for some other cause or lewde infirmity Oft times the cause requires such filthy déedes and tales to tell As chaste and honest eares cannot abide to harken well Hereat they laugh a pace and wondrously themselues delight That thou wouldst swere they only sought with this to chéere their spright ▪ If that the wife be founde to be an harlot openly And from hir husbande with some beastly knaue away doth fly An other wife although the poore vnguiltie man desire He cannot haue though néedefull lust and housholde it require But is constraynde to séeke a hoore in countryes farre to rome With charges great and hindraunce of his businesse at home And after her in euery place to aske where she hath strayde In Churches markets and in townes to craue the Rulers ayde Whom if he cannot finde they graunt with great ado and strife That he another woman take but yet not as his wife But if that after many yeares the harlot come againe And wearied with hir lewde companions seeketh to remaine At home she hath hir place although the husbande it denie As loth to leaue the other for hir fruite and honestie These lawes no bookes of God doe teache but toyes of mortall braine And dreames of Popes wherewith the worlde defiled doth remaine A member is there of this same the polling Officiall And no small man he is but one that guides and ruleth all Him must you please and alwayes bribe and bring him money still If that you will your businesse frame according to your will. This fellow for the Bishop holdes and hurles the flashing flame And troubles men when often times no cause requires the same Wherefore if any time thou hapst for to be cited here Be sure that when thou comst thou dost some worthie present bere And so thou shalt with ioye depart and better satisfide By much then if thy cause were good or lawes were on thy side Who doth deny but money oft corrupts the common place But polshorne Priestes excéedes them all in any bribing case This kingdome hath an endelesse pitte whose dampes that dreadfull be Haue burst abrode and drawne the wealth of all the world we sée The eger Kite so foloweth not the Chickens here with care Ne lustie Egle doth pursue the faint and fearefull Hare As doe these men hange out their nettes abroade for gréedie gaine And laye their baites in euery place the simple sort to traine But to the Cannons let vs come who for the most parte all Are Gentlemen descended from some olde and auncient hall In olde time onely for such men as learned were and good Though of the common sorte they were this place appoynted stood Which men the people well coulde teache and helpe in euery thing And truly prea●he the worde of God and serue th' almightie king But when that riches once had hatcht Dame ydlenesse with care Nobilitie respe●ting ease and daintie Lordely fare Put out the common sorte although they learnde and Godly were And sent them to lesse holynesse and to more painefull gere These men about their shoulders weare the skinnes that hearie bée Of beastes hangde rounde about with tayles a proper thing to sée Sometime in mantels blacke they go according to the time As though they mournd when as no griefe their pleasant hart doth pine They muse why they should laught at be who would not laugh to skorne Such foolish weedes which if a man should weare that were not shorne The very boyes with rotten Egges and durt woulde him beray● Or to Phisition● woulde his friendes go sende him where he maye ▪ Be purged of this humor madde with pocions two or three These men suppose themselues great folkes and worshipped to bee They nothing haue to doe but that to Church sometime they come Arayde in linnen wéedes Cowles with frowning countnance glome Or in their Catskin whoodes with tayles and woonted iesture prowde Whereas their howres Canonicall they chaunt and sing alowde And that alonely with their lippes not praying with their minde This same is all their godly lyfe ▪ by which such welth they finde What profite they the people here what gaines the Church hereby Or may it not forbeare these men aswell as may the eye Forbeare the webbe and painefull pearle and be aswell without As may the perfite foote remaine without the féeble gout What woulde they doe how coulde they come to be such ●olly men If Damassus the Pope of olde had not deuised them Their howres canonicall and eke decréede with statutes sore No Priest should eate his breade at home and take no paines therefore They shoulde be mainetainde for their whoodes and foolish fonde araye And kept as ydle l●●bers still for pastime and for playe And in some places so they are for tender Sowles they haue gotte Least that with dayly singing they should straine their stratcht out throtte Some other in their romes doe sing whom Quier men they call These men for money doe dispatch the seauen howres and all Though neuer a worde they vnderstand for gaine is all their cheare Although it be but small for which it is a wondrous worke to heare How ioyfully they ringe it out and fill the Church with noyse How ech one striues for to excell the other with his voyce Thou wouldst suppose they all were dronke or some rewarde thereby For which they striue with all their might to get the victorie By meanes of these the Cannons are dischargde of burden

beholde the thing that may to yll encline Besides in Countrie language must he haue a perfite skill And remedie be had if that his wordes he vtter ill Nor onely in the vulgar tongue he must be throughly séene But also in the fountaynes swéete of Latine phrases cléene And taught the best Gramarians that olde or newe haue ben And read the purest wryters first as Cato teacheth him And heare the best least barbarousnesse do him in youth infect Which once a man he must forsake and vtterly reiect The Romane speach doth profite much as openly is séene Which of all other languages in Europe is the Quéene The auncient Romanes as they did their Empire large extende Vnto the frostie Northren pole where earth doth séeme to ende And to the flouds of Euphrates and mightie Parthians raigne To foote of loftie Atlas mount that doth the skies sustaine So was their tongue through all the worlde dispersed here and there And for their scepter and their sworde was reurenst eurye where For in this tongue the subiects all their aunswere euer had And all their prowde Edicts and lawes in this were likewise made And hitherto wheresoeuer the Empire large of Rome doth raigne In estimation is it had and honour great doth gaine Besides it famous is for holy bookes and woorkes prophane Wherein to haue no skill were to our husbandman a shame By this we tread the path that leades to eurye science hie Whereto by vulgar speach we neuer can approch so nie For this same cause and for the learnde and godly wryters sake That long tyme since in teaching Christ did paines and trauaile take Let him the Grecians tongue pervse and for the volumes graue Of Moyses and the Prophets olde the Hebrue let him haue And ioyne thereto the Chaldean speach the water that is shed Thorow many vessels cooles not so as doth the fountaynes hed Eche thing himselfe let him pervse and knowe the speach deuine And not depend on other men to preach as they assigne Therefore let him apply the tongues wherein were first enrolde ▪ The holy lawes that God did giue vnto our fathers olde And weigh the rules and title● well and what eche worde doth mean● Know perfitely that in the phrase he may be throughly séene For of the name a knowledge great in matters oft is found And fond it is for men to talke and not to know their ground Wherein a number great of men haue mooude the skilfull sort To laugh to scorne their ignorance whereof they made a sport For as in all things names and wordes doe greatly signifie So most of all in scriptures where both oft and commonly The letters small and little prickes doe misteries containe Which no good man will sleightly way or count as matters vaine The figures and the diuers tropes that in these speaches are Let him beside well vnderstand for oft the sense they marre That are vnskilfull in the same whereby they vtter lyes Vnto the simple common sort in stéede of verities Whence springs such heapes of errors nowe as at this day doe raigne ▪ Or hurly burlyes that do rage among the people vaine But onely that a great sort are so to the letters bounde As can no Metaphor allowe nor any figure sounde Of this must mischiefe néedes ensue no tropes yet I allow Except the text require the same or charitie auow For in the scripture certaintie the people must be taught And one thing still that they may know what good and what is naught Nor méete it is to force the phrase to senses many mo When nothing doth compell thée from the verie wordes to go Least things assurde be doubtfull made and charitie be broke Nor any phrase may iudged be by figure to be spoke Except the same in other place be open told and plaine For else to thinke a mysterie in figure hid is vaine That speach doth most delight the eares and winnes the peoples prayse That sundrie sortes is varied oft and turnde a thousand wayes But thou take héede thou dost not wrest the text out of his kinde Nor play with holy scriptures for to please thy foolish minde Which now is vsde of many men a dreadfull thing to sée Consider thou and ponder well what thing may méetest bée And profite most the common sort and rude vnruly traine Before that thou delight their eares or play with them in vaine Not onely olde Palaemons arte our husbandmen must haue But great Chrysippus cunning to and skill of Zeno graue Not therewithall to scolde or brawle as schoole men vse to play Or to beguile the simple sort and wipe the truth away But better to defend the dartes of deadly enimie Or for to breake the snares and ginnes of such as teach awrie For theirs it is aboue the rest to aunswere all men here That question mooue of faith and hope or doubtes that doe appere To kéepe their doctrine and their flocke agaynst the gréedie woolfe Now if they know the snares and trappes and depth of euery goolfe ▪ And easly can discerne the truth and falshood put away Then still the truth they shall preserue and neuer it betray Nor cause it to be iested at nor for to suffer wrong For if to mortall mysers here destruction doth belong That know not Christ the sauiour hie nor his religion pure What shall we of the teachers thinke whose want of skill procure Not to themselues alone but to a hundred thousand mo By error harme who led to hell by their perswasion go Who doubtes that reading of the workes of famous Cicero Is néedefull for our husbandman and well agréeing tho The art of speaking faire and plaine this méetest is to know The pleasant filed speach that from the learned breast doth flow The quick and well perswading tongue that knowes wel how to deale ▪ What matters secrete for to kéepe and what for to reueale And to obserue the chaunge of time the persons and the place This is the plowe of husbandmen that riddeth worke apace Let children out of order prate and people gape and gale It doth beséeme a preacher well by art to frame his tale Nor any thing against vs heare the minde of Paule doth make Nor yet vnlearned kinde of wordes that Christes Apostles spake Where diuers causes euer be as hath bene alwayes sayde Effects are diuers to be séene and to be thorowly wayde We may not therefore follow them in euery thing aright Since that our causes differ much and case is altred quight Who knoweth not that otherwise we alwayes ought to speake Vnto the learnde and skilfull sort than to the yong and weake The first beginnings of our fayth they did the Gentiles teach Which néeded not a filed phraise and curious tongue to preach But rather of the power of God to mooue them therevnto Wherefore the Lorde did giue them power great wonders for to do That might vnto the worde giue force though learning were away That thus perswaded to the fayth