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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

wee ought to dye to the world to the end to be borne in Iesus Christ. According to the soueraigne sentence and decree O ye Enhabitaunts of Roome wee see your great Bishoppe and mine is dead behold our Crowne is fallen our Loadstarre vanished away and our light extinguished And for my owne part O wretch and miserable man who am depriued of him of two thinges I wish for one that is either neuer to remember the good that wee haue lost either els calling the same to minde to finde some one that were able to giue me comfort correspondent to the greatnesse of the heauinesse whereinto I am fallen And in deede my selfe doe now come into the Pulpit vpon two seuerall occasions mere contrary each to other viz. to rehearse the greatnesse of the good that is taken from vs and to comforte those that sustaine the losse nay rather to doe two things which seeme to repugne each other for if it bee true that nothing doth more aggrauate the griefe of the losse then the remembraunce of the valew of the thing lost then doth nothing seeme more contrary to the comfort of the liuing thē the praises of him that is dead as in this cace wherein so farre doe the merites of the deceased exceed that the arrowes which pearce his heart that is depriued of him are the more sharp and grieuous Howbeit some man would answere that contrariwise by the commēdations of him y t is departed we doe declare that he is not dead but liueth and thus wee may by little and little asswage the sorrowe of our losse and domage in whatsoeuer maner But as it were hard for a Painter in the face of a sorrowfull person to represent a smyling countenaunce so doth it seeme to me a difficult enterprize to vndertake to comforte a man by rehearsing the vertues of him that is taken away from vs and that the more if we should enter into consideration of him y t is spoken of of your selues that are the hearers of me y t do make the discourse for in each of these three the same circumstaunces that seeme to make my enterprize easie are those that in deede doe yeeld it most difficult and troublesome As if a man should in respect of him say that if the multitude of his great vertues doe seeme to abridge my labour in seeking some argument whereupon to ground his praises so cōtrariwise the aboundaunce of so great vettues doe hold me so short that I can not certainly resolue vpon the choyse of one onely whereupon worthely to commend him For you if a man should say in that you all knewe him and vsed him to your great profite it should seeme sufficient for me onely to discipher matters so contrariwise your owne perfect knowledge together with your dealings with him would sufficiently open vnto you all my defaults in displaying of him And for my own part if an infinite courtesies and great fauours wherewith he hath alwaies gratefied mee doe seeme without seeking any cunning to breede in mee as much affection as is requisite so by contrary reason the great fauours and benefites wherwith he hath alwaies gratefied me doe not leaue me any cunning meanes to hinder me from hauing greater affectiō then is here to be required of me And this was the principall reason that moued me somewhat to refuse this so honorable a Commission vnto mee in many other respectes most welcome and to request you to appoint and commit to some other the charge to discourse hereupon and to leaue vnto me teares and lamentations onely But now vnto thee Oh my good master and father for so will I alwayes call thee doe I turne my selfe May it bee possible that this my oratiō which lately in thy life thou diddest harken vnto should now bee employed in praysing of thee beeing dead either that this my tongue which employing me to the seruice of this countrey thou diddest too greatly honor should now be occupied helas in lamentations for thy so hurtful death to all Christiandome And what hast thou then brought mee so ioyfully to Roome to the end here to celebrate thy funeralles Oh how that Commission to reade Hieremie might well foreshewe vnto mee but I perceiued it not that my Lecture thereof should ende in lamentations and now behould that diuination accomplished see Quomodo sedet sola Ciuitas how the Citie sitteth desolate notwithstanding it be Plena populo full of people also howe this spouse The Church of Roome who by greate brightnesse seemed to bee Domina gentium Lady of Nations now hauing lost thee Est facta quasi Vidua is made as it were a Widowe and as a Widowe all dipped in teares and lamentations willeth mee to celebrate the prayses of her deere spouse which she all wholy togither can not celebrate wherin although I can not as in trueth I am not able atteyne to the least parcell of thy desertes which are not well to be expressed yet at all aduentures I assure my selfe O happy soule that as in thy lyfe time thou diddest pardon mee a number of other imperfections so now thou wilt likewise forgiue mee this I knowe that as thou wert accustomed thou wilt make better accompt of the good will then of the glose and pompe of wordes and as discreete shalt well see that not onely I but also that no Oratour is able to atteyne to the type of thy commendations Among the which my Lords and ye my hearers I doe freely confesse that I haue greatly doubted whether I were best to begin as I take the maner to be at the greatenesse and eminencie of the famely from whence he is extract and at the first I was purposed so to doe and that y e rather because it is not yet scarce two monethes sence that my selfe heard him in this Temple discourse how our Sauiour Iesus Christ was content to bee borne of a Mother though poore yet Noble and discended of a Noble race also that Nobilitie was very effectuall euen to spirituall life as it may be sayd of him that is noble that whether it bee through conformitie or resemblance of mind with his predecessors either thorowe the remembrance of such things as they haue done either els through the effect of good bringing vp or for whatsoeuer other reason hee is better disposed to doe well that nobilitie serueth him as a spurre to goodnesse and a bridle to euill also that as the precious stone being ser in Gould maketh a greater shew then in Iron euen so the same vertuous deedes doe giue a more effectuall example when they proceede from noble personages then from men of base estate with other things which hee spake to the same purpose Howbeit I will not speake thereof in that it might be accompted rashnesse in mee euen in Roome to seeke to make his holinesse famely more famous then it is It may bee that some may say that this famely doth want glorious