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A02216	An Oration or funerall sermon vttered at Roome, at the buriall of the holy Father Gregorie the 13. who departed in Iesus Christ the 11. of Aprill, 1585 conteyning his maners, life, deedes, and last wordes at his death concerning the affayres of this present time : together with the lamentations of the cardinalles and whole clergie / faithfully translated out of the French copie, printed at Paris for Peter Iobert, dwelling in Harpe streate 1585 with the Kings priuiledge ; otherwise to be intituled, a sermon full of papisticall adulation and matter sufficient to procure the wise and vertuous minded to contemne such grosse and palpable blindnesse, and all persons to laugh at their absurde and erronious follies.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1585 (1585)	STC 12354.5; STC 12354+; ESTC S105874	10,634	30

An Oration or Funerall Sermon vttered at Roome at the buriall of the holy Father Gregorie the 13. who departed in Iesus Christ the 11. of Aprill 1585. Conteyning his maners life deedes and last wordes at his death concerning the affayres of this present time Together with the lamentations of the Cardinalles and whole Clergie Faithfully translated out of the French Copie printed at Paris for Peter Iobert dwelling in Harpe streate 1585. with the Kings Priuiledge Otherwise to be intituled A Sermon full of Papisticall adulation and matter sufficient to procure the wise and vertuous minded to contemne such grosse and palpable blindnesse and all persons to laugh at their absurde and erronious follies Imprinted Anno 1585. ¶ To the Courteous and Christian Reader SVch and so great Gentlemen is the obstinate and peruerse blindnesse of the fond and fantasticall Papistes that vnworthely they chalenge vnto them selues all Ecclesiasticall Rites and Priuiledges vnderpropping their ruinous ROMAINE Church with such fayre but rotten postes and extolling euen aboue God their whorish Antechrist with such glorious titles of holinesse honor that if God did not turne their wordly wisedome to follie and cause them by running headlong into grosse palpable errors to discouer their owne dotinges many true and perfect Christians might by their charming allurements be sinisterly seduced As I was thus sorrowfully meditating of these their polliticke illusiōs there came to my handes a Copie of the Oration or Sermon pronounced at Roome ouer the Corps of GREGORIE the xiij their last and leaud Pope which taking in my hand thinking to finde some excellent though erronious shewe of skill and learning after I had vewed and reuewed it ouer carefully I found such a confused Chaos of doting conceipts such an absurd fourme both of learning reason and methode that I could not but wonder how either Mas Doctor the Preacher could bee so impudent to vtter such balde stuffe afore so many stately Cardinalles or such mightie Potentates suffer the Corps of their new Sainct GREGORIE or their owne reuerende grauities to bee abused with the rehearsall of such fantasticall toyes But seeing their owne wordes may bee best witnesses of their follies I thought good to translate it into English that euen the simplest may see how simplie GOD wot these great Schoolemaisters deale in their greatest most waightie affaires For who would haue thought that the Cardinalles would not haue appointed such a learned Prelate to preach at the Funerall of so mightie a man nay as they say more then a man that his excellēt Sermō might haue bene a glorie to the dead Corps of their good Pope GREGORIE but seeing in such waightie affayres they bring forth such weake Diuinitie let the world iudge how carelesly and vnskilfully they will gloze ouer their small and ceremonious tromperies This shewe of their owne dotings then I hope shall bee a proofe or caueat for the godly to beware of their poysoned potions and to leane only to the true Church that is builded on the Rock Christ Iesus which happie successe in Godlinesse wishing to al men I commit you to the Almightie Robert Greene. In Papam Theodori Bezae Carmen SI qua fides Romane tibi est adhibenda Tyran●●… Larua tegit summi quem sacra Pontificis Auspicijs cuicunque tuis manus vncta refulget Et capite raso vertice splendet apex Quinque vbi conceptas tacito cum murmure voces Fuderit haec etenim pandere sacra nefas Ecce manus inter medias si credere fas est Vera caro euadit qui modo panis erat Non igitur te Pontificem nunc dixero verum Carnificem patrem dixero carnificum In eundem Non Pontifex sed Potifex Non Potifex sed Panifex Non Panifex sed Carnifex Est Papa Pater Pontifex An Oration and Funerall Sermon vttered ouer the Corps of the holie Father Pope Gregorie the xiij who deceased in Iesus Christ the 11. of Aprill 1585. THERE is nothing so certaine as death either vncertain as the momēt therof Wherfore the holy Doctor saith Keepe thy selfe continually in that estate wherein thou desirest to dye And y e Prouerbe goeth that many a one thinketh himselfe in perfect health when he beareth death in his bosome To say the troth we doe continually carrie death about with vs. It is in vs immediatly after we take life and mouing in our mothers wombe and wheresoeuer we walke it is still at our heeles If wee take horse it is with vs If wee bee on the water it is the guyde of our Shippe so as we can neuer say death to bee absent from vs for our selues are very death and no part of our bodie immortall wherefore those that suppose themselues to liue in this world are farre deceiued in their owne opinions and the pilgrimage of man in this world is but a shadowe of life which vnto vs seemeth life but in deede is none The better therefore to describe the said shadow I will make an abstraction of the dead time of mans age from the full and greatest age that a creature can liue in the world First the longest age that mā can liue in this world is but sixe score yeares From sixe score yeres we must deduct the nightes for man when he sleepeth liueth not besides that sleepe is termed the Image of death so that deducting the nightes which comprehēd one halfe of the time man liueth but three score yeares in the world Whiles man liueth these sixtie yeares he liueth but the one halfe of them for if he haue one day of mirth and quiet he hath an other of sorrowe and care because griefe doth still secretly creepe into mirth And any person troubled with cares or vexed in mind doth rather dye then liue wee must therefore take from the sixtie yeares afore said the one halfe and so there remaine but thirtie Now let vs see whether in the space of sixe score yeares a man may not passe away tenne at the least in sicknesse mischaunces or other infirmities I may tell you there is no mā that liueth sixe score yeares in the world but at seuerall times and during his sayd age he hath aboue tenne yeares infirmitie and therfore we must take from the thirtie yeares which are the remainder of mans life yet tenne yeares and then there are but twentie left Which are now the twentie yeares of his life We must take them at his infancie and in his oldest age that is tenne yeares from his very childhood and the other tenne from his extreme olde age but sith aswell in Infancie as in extremitie of age there is no life but rather a liuing death I conclude that man hath not one only howre of life in this world also that whosoeuer seeketh life in this world doth much deceiue himselfe In heauen therefore it is that wee must assure our selues to liue and seeke for life but not vppon earth where death doth continually haunt vs. For

titles preeminence riches possessions Iurisdictions pretentions of rights patronages auncient petidegrees of their predecessors commēdations of learning prayse of armes noble famous alliances either in Italy or without and to be briefe all such things collected into one as being seuerally taken are sufficient to set a fayre shewe vpon a whole progenie Notwithstandin● all these things which are terestriall an● too common with others and for the causes aforesayde his holynesse perceiuing as hee perceyued all things that it is not enough for a horse to be of a good race except him selfe be also good and that they are happie and wise who as the sea doe not receiue the sweetnesse of this vaine glory of the riuers of their predecessors but returning their course and swelling ouer the mouthes of the riuers them selues can yeeld to their forerunners the reward of firme and permanent commendation so of that great nobilitie which he had brought forth of his mothers wombe with him hee did therein onely yeeld thankes to God for that his actions with their circumstāces thereby and in respect therof were more notable and exemplarie Oh most happy parson who in the middest of so great eminencie of birth could so well subdue pryde and in himselfe giue example vnto other Euen like vnto the pearle which although it lyeth in the bottom of the sea yet keeping it ●●●fe close in the shel and neuer opening 〈◊〉 it ascendeth to receiue the dewe of heauen we find therein no smell no sauour or droppe that tasteth of her sea but being pure cleare and white it seemeth to be formed euen in heauen We must not therfore take commendations of this people at the transitory things of the sea of this world and although he be therein extract of a most noble birth yet will I not say any more thereof as of that which is none of his But discoursing and speaking of that which properly appertaineth to himself I would aske whether his minde commaunded not his bodie Also whether it were possible to find a bodie more withered afflicted macerated dried vp or pale through the effect of austere and hard penaunce Other mens bodies O Christian hearers are for the most part wished to bee of this or that forme because they yeeld such or such inclination to the minde but in this I will shew you a matter worth the noting that is that here the cace was altered for it was the minde that ministred inclination to the bodie so that beeing waxen altogether spirituall had not extreame need forced him hee neuer desired meate drinke or bodily rest and he liued in such sort as it was a miracle whereof helas wee haue but too soone seene the issue how hee could liue so many yeares but rather liuing was dead And for my part I assure you I neuer euen in the hart of Somer kissing his holy hands good God shall I neuer doe so more found them other then colde wherein there was no heate except the same proceeded of some excesse or immoderate labour or of some motion of a sodaine feuer O most deare bodie O most holy members But looke yet once againe vppon them O ye Romaine people and say Are not these the very handes which so often haue beene ioyned together and lifted vp to pray offer Sacrifice for vs Bee not these the feete that haue trauailed so farre for our sakes Is not this the head that neuer imagined any thing but for our benefite Is not this the heart that burned in loue of vs O deare members O members so deare What You then shall goe vnder the earth And what You must be buried Helas my God! who is it that thou hast taken away frō vs And wherfore do ye hide your selues For my part none but onely death shall euer plucke out of my heart the liuely Image of that so welbeloued countenaunce Especially in this act wherein with your eyes toward heauen as it were smiling and with an Angelicall countenaunce I see you depart and remaine dead But it is time for vs O Christian hearors to proceede to matters of greater importance which are so many withal so intangled one within an other that I could not finde any more fit meane to part and deuide thē neither do I thinke that we can take any better course then the very course of his holy life and there to beginne When he was a litle childe he was very deuoute and it is well knowne that God euen in his first youth wrought in him merueilous signes of singuler goodnesse The like is read of S. Basile S. Gregory S. Dominick S. Frances and many others as was to bee seene in this young childe say they that doe remember it namely that at his returne frō the Colledge all the delight that that age vsed to take in any other thing he tooke only in framing of little Aulters adorning of small Chappels and counterfaiting of holy thinges Matters which although the wisest may thinke too base for this place for the occasion now ministred yet would I not onely not disdaine but also take great and singuler pleasure in the same And although some doe say that among such serious affayres such small trifles should haue no place yet do I delight to shewe how commendable not onely graue matters but euen such small thinges were in him Concerning the rest according to the proportion of his age or rather beyond the reach of that age as occasions doe encrease so must my stile arise his holinesse beeing past the inferiour Schooles and comming to studie the Law it is not possible to make an ende of writing with what modestie and grauitie hee there passed the yeares of his studie he was apparelled in Clarkes attire but which was of greater importaunce he obserued Clergie maners much continencie as it is supposed perpetual virginitie with modest behauiour no vanitie continual studie These were his exercizes and to be briefe although through our mishaps the Vniuersitie wherein he studied were not vsually either the quietest or the holiest in the world yet might the writing of Naziauzene concerning the Great Basille and the towne of Athens be applied to him Like as there is one riuer which flowing through the Sea taketh no bitternesse thereof also a certaine beast that liueth in the fire consumeth not euen so he with great quietnesse passing these troubles and with soueraigne vertue such vices did first and most worthely atteine to the doctorall degree and afterwarde was called to Roome and made Cardinall onely through desert for his learned studies and not by fauour as the most part doe now vsually practize A happie departure a blessed iorney for al the holy Church but especially for this great Citie of Roome which haue receiued so great benefites and so much comfort at his hands Notwithstanding whatsoeuer affayres he had in hand yet did hee daylie applie his studie at a certaine howre and so continued his studie euen to his