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A00423	The stage of popish toyes conteining both tragicall and comicall partes: played by the Romishe roysters of former age: notably describing them by degrees in their colours. Collected out of H. Stephanus in his Apologie vpon Herodot. With a friendlie forewarning to our Catelin Catholikes: and a brief admonition, of the sundrie benefites we receiue by hir Ma: blessed gouernement ouer vs. Compyled by G.N.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English. Selections	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; North, George, gentleman.	1581 (1581)	STC 10552; ESTC S101744	72,594	99

him out of his kingdome established the cowherd in his place which he his successors enioyed for euer after He that desireth to heare more of these fables shall find his fil of them in the Legend of y e Saints liues where this much worse matter is written for a truth of them And also Nicephorus reciteth that manye yeares after the death burial of S. Iohn Chrisostome his body did dayly speake would both aske answere to questions And that the Emperour Theodosius did write letters to him But the Booke called the Conformities of S. Francis with Iesus Christ mentioned of so oft afore was neuer compiled without the aide and consent of the Diuell himselfe For one of the greatest myracles that Christe héere on earth didde was the raysing of Lazarus from deathe to life which was as common and easie to S. Francis and his Disciples as it was to drincke a glasse of Wine And S. Francis vsed it as a sporte to kil to the end he would shew his power to quicken againe as is recited in these proper wordes in the leafe 120. Locus est dictus de Nuceria in quo beatus Franciscus fecit illud insigne miraculum quod cuiusdam medici filium primogenitum prius occidit contritum suscitando restituit The valor say they of Christ was nothing comparable to the myracles of S. Francis for Christ was transfigured but once S. Francis 20. times Christ changed water into wine but once he thrice Christ suffred the griefe of his woundes but a little while he whole two yeare togither And as concerning myracles to make the blind to sée the lame to goe and to driue Diuels oute of the possessed Christe cannot compare with S. Francis and his followers For they haue giuen sight to more than a thou●ād blind they haue restored the limmes to more than a thousand lame as wel men as beasts and they haue forced the Diuel to flye out of more than a thousand menne and women Is it possible that any Christian eare coulde heare them preach these horrible blasphemies in open Pulpit not spit in their face or rather teare them in péeces Yea when they were not ashamed to conclude that Christe was but a counterfaite to S. Frauncis and in these damnable termes that he was not worthy to pull off his hose affirming with full gorge that he did far excel surpasse y e Apostles the Saints al the Angels And in the 17. leafe it is said he was a Patriarke a Prophet a Postle a Martyre a Doctor a Confessor a Virgin an Angell a Saint most conformed to Iesus Christ And in so 49. they name the 12. Apostles of S. Francis Petrus Chatanei Iohannes de Capella Philippus Longus c. And as Iudas Iscarioth was reiected out of y e felowship of the Apostles for betraying their Maister Christ so Iohannes de Capella was deiected from S. Frauncis bicause he was proued to detest his profession And further they do ascribe vnto hym the title of Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iewes For firste they inuested hym wyth the title of Iesus bycause he was in nature qualitie condition and conformitie moste like vnto him And of Nazareth for that he was a moste pure virgin They called him King bicause he kept both the inward and the outwarde laws And for that he was full of melodie and ioy soliciting all the world to the prayse honor of God they sayde it was a speciall signification of the Iewes Beholde the conclusion of this most diuelishe and infernall inuention of the Popes Saints which ascended to y e highest degrée of most vngodly blasphemie It is no maruel though they helde him and others hys like in that curssed credite when they so bewitched the wits of all men as they thought no reuerence too muche to be with great deuotion done to any parte or parcel of them yea and it were but to a patche of their apparell As at Tryer in the Abbey of S. Symon they helde the Pantaphles of S. Ioseph for a great relike And at Aix in Germanie his bréeches and our Ladies smocke The smocke greate ynough for a Giant and the bréeches too lyttle for a Dwarffe And in some places they reuerenced for relikes their pottes and their spoones And at Gennes they honored the Asses taile that carryed Christ and in Loraine the holy Hay that was in the racke where Christ was borne At Arles among the Augustines at Vigand in Languedock and at Florence the stones that stoned S. Stephen were hadde in great price They also honored the Arrowes that were shot at S. Sebastian in Poictiers and at Lambeske in Prouance And in my opinion séeing the Stones and arrowes were accompted so holy the Archers and Stone-casters were worthy some glorie But to the ende the Reader shal not muse ouer much vpon these suttleties to shewe that the world had no eyes neither in their heads nor in their vnderstanding but as willingly or wilfully blinde suffered themselues to bed led into all absurditie I wil recite a certaine historie whereby you may the better beholde their simple follie When Nicodemus tooke our sauiour Christe from the Crosse he saued so muche of hys bloude as filled one of the fingers of his gloue with the whyche hée wrote sundrye myracles By reason whereof being hardly persecuted by the Iewes he was compelled in the end to conuey it awaye by a maruellous meanes For he didde write in a péece of parchment al the myracles he had done with the whole circumstance how the misterie shoulde be vsed and closed the bloud with the parchment in the bill of a bigge water fowle for my Author maketh no mention of his name and hauing bounde it and trimmed it in the beste manner he myght he caste it into the Sea and commended it to God Whose blessed wil was that after this Saint Bill by the time and terme of 1000. or 1200. yeares had sayled through al the Weasterne and Easterne seas it shoulde in the ende arriue in Normandie where at this day doth stande the Abbey of Bill And beyng by the boysterous billowes caste ashoare among other baggage on a heape of bushes it hapned a good Duke of Normandie one that was a founder to such follies in those daies to be hunting of a Hart in those quarters where sodainely he hadde loste bothe Déere and Dogges til at last he spyed them before thys bushe all on their knées the Hart first and the houndes harde behinde him and as some write they were at theyr prayers This sight moued the Duke to greate deuotion who reuerentlye sought the place where he founde thys pretious Bill with the contents thereof whych caused him to build an Abbey in the honor of it naming it the Abbey of Saint Bill where this beautifull myracle is yet to be séene adorned wyth such sundrye riches as this Bill doth now féede a number of bellies Here is to be

his lewd life so knowne as some common spéeches went of it shamed not in his sermon to say my Mistrisses of S. Martins I am so great a mote in your eye that you prattle of me in euerie place and for a matter that is lesse than nothing Ah good Ladie is it so straunge a case for a holy Frier to get his Hostis daughter with childe I am glad it was no worse for I perceiue you would haue made it a more wonder if she had gotten me with childe Oh shamelesse sort of Sodomits that would so abhominably abuse the place prepared to preache y e word of God in but howe could you deliuer better matter from you when there was no better substance in you As is further manifested by the example of a Priest of Orleance who hauing his concubine in a ielousie called hir to a Tauerne where after he had shewed hir the countenance of continuall friendship in his good cheare he dyd leade hir into a priuie Chamber where laying hir vppon a bed with a razer that he brought for so wicked a purpose he cut hir throte for the which murther he was onely condemned to perpetuall prison A searcher of Venice séeing two Friers goe a borde a ship with a fardell or small packe he supposing it had bin some forbiddē Marchādize or else some goods vncustomed which ought by their lawe to be forfeited he woulde néedes sée what it was they carried But the Friers contending with him would not suffer him by no meanes to open it vntyll by force he was faine to vndoe it himselfe wherein he found the heades of two men newly cut off which was sodainely shut vp after they had enchaunted a worde or two into the searchers eares notwithstanding the matter being after known it made a questiō whether those wares were customable or no. Such was the secret Merchandize of these holy fathers one of the chiefest cōmodities they gathered their treasure by And further to proue their tyrannous minds y e best mean they had to hold al y e world in feare of thē at whose hands ther was no redresse except it were sought at the Sea of Rome I will tell you of an vnthankful and trayterous Prelate excéeding any spoken of before The Duke of Limburge deceassing without heires there grewe great warres betwéen the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Gelderland which of them should enioy the same both claiming to be next in successiō to it In y e end fortune gaue the Duke of Brabant the victorie who tooke the Byshoppe of Collen prisoner for that he had ayded the Count againste him and deliuered hym in custodie to the Earle of Mounte in Henault where he was kepte captiue seauen yeares vntill he hadde yéelded to all suche conditions as the Duke demaunded of him After the Bishoppe was deliuered he requested the Count to accompanie hym to Tuits a village ioyning to the Rhene ouer against Collen the which he granted to willingly But as they passed the Bridge ouer the Rhene the Counte mistrusting no falshoode in his holinesse was taken by a certaine ambush of horssemen that the Bishoppe had appointed there for that purpose And to acquit the Counties curtesie good entertainment whiche was euery waye as honorable as might be he caused a Cage of yron to be made and set it in the Sunne And after annointing the pore Prince ouer with hony forced him naked to enter into it where hée long time endured the greatest languor and torment in the worlde with swarmes of flies that dayly fed on hym and in this sorte with paine and famine ended his miserable life Thys was the Bishoppes crueltie a vowed Prelate to the Pope ioyned with treason excelling the tyranny of Bucris and Phalaris An other Bishop of Collen named Henry hauing Count Frederike his captiue caused him to be brokē vpō a whéele his legs his thighes his armes his backe and his necke and after laid him out to be a pray to Rauens There were two Canons in Collen that vnder the coulour of great friendship inuited a Lorde of the same Citie to dinner named Harman Grin whom notwithstanding they mortally hated And séeming in courtesie to shew him a lion which they norished for the honor of their Bishop they trayterouslye trained him into the Cage where the beast was to be deuoured But the gentleman séeing himselfe brought into suche daunger tooke courage vnto him And wrapping his cloake aboute his lefte arme thruste it into the Lyons throate and with his right hand drew out his dagger and killed him whereby he saued himselfe and the treason discouered In the time of the Emperour Otton the great the Bishop of Magence séeing the famine that fell in the Countrie had such a compassion on the pore as he assembled a great number of them into a Barne the poore soules hoping to haue had some reliefe at the hands of his holinesse in that time of penurie which he caused to be set on fyre burned them al affyrming that they were but as Rattes and Mice in a common wealth that deuoured the graine serued to no purpose A charitable tyrannie procéeding from a godly care of a Popishe deuotion withoute anye cause or occasion of reuenge for the miserable creatures deserued no harme of him I had almoste forgotten a certaine Iesuite in Viena in Austrie who made it no conscience to abuse a merchantes wife whome he had vnder confession before al the Saints of eyther kinde not simply in the Church but behinde the high aultar and on good friday who being taken with the manner althoughe the faulte deserued as vile a death as might bée deuised yet he was only enioyned for penance to forbeare the saying of Masse thrée moneths which their Legate comming from Rome thoughte it so sharpe a punishment as he presently absolued him of it Whose ordinarie Masses were after founde of as good sauour tast and digestion to those that willingly deuoured thē as if they had bin said of the moste maydenliest Priest in the world So as if one would search the euils of all sortes committed by these rauening rabble that fed on the Churche hée shoulde finde them innumerable But as touching theyr punishments it was seldome or for the most part so light that it séemed indéede but a mockerie Where on the other side if any were only suspected to couet the true way to their saluation fire and sworde was layde vpon them with al the rigor and violence that might be Was it not a pitiful condition that the pore members of Christe dwelled in when they were as faine and with as muche feare to hide themselues in caues corners and other desolate places for reading of the Bible and y e new Testament as those that carryed counterfaite money or committed a worser crime For whosoeuer was taken with Gods Booke the onely Pilote to the Porte of oure redemption eyther in

his hande or in his house hée was sure to suffer death without al fauour specially if the holy Ghost confirmed him in it But such was the substance of his blessed worde and the heauenly fruits of the same as the more they persecuted the more zealous professors and faithful willing Martyres encreased by it For as our Sauiour Christe saith they helde the keyes of knowledge from vs neither entring themselues nor would suffer others to enter by them By whych their willing and wilful blindenesse bothe the one and the other fell into the bottomlesse Pitte of euerlasting darkenesse yet in their Pulpittes to féede the simplicitie of the tyme they would giue vs part of the Texte enlarged by their owne gloses And therfore to approue their learning to their lynes and theyr liues to the learning of those forefathers vppon whose doctrine the Papistes depend although I haue already saide sufficient to terrifie the stowtest to reclaime the faintest and to winne the weakest in conscience if Gods grace haue not vtterly abandoned them yet I wil bring in place for their better credite Oliuer Maleard a Frenchman and Mychell Menot an Italian two of the moste famous renowmed and learned preachers in their time Whose Paraphrase or rather sporting toyes vppon sundrie textes of the Scripture worde for worde firste in Latine and Englishe mingled as my Author in Latine and Frenche hathe pelmelled euen as I haue read it so I simply here deliuer it As for example we reade in the new Testament how Marie Magdalene acknowledged hir sin washed Christes féete with teares and dryed them with hir haire c. which they haue by their glosing discourse framed into a monstrous forme as followeth Quoad primum Magdalena erat domina terrena de castro Magdalen tam sapiens quod erat mirum audire loqui de sapientiaeius prudentia O ergo Magdalena quo modo venistis ad tantum inconueniens quod vocemini magna peccatrix Et non sine causa quod fuistis male consiliata Data est tribus consiliarijs qui eum posuerunt in tali statu Scilicet primus corporalis elegantia secundus temporalis substancia tertius fuit libertas nimia Primum ergo quid fuit causa huius mulieris perdicionis Fuit elegantia corporalis Videbatur pulchra iuuenis alta Credo quod non erat nisi 15. aut 16. annorum quando incepit sic viuere 30. quando redijt ad bonitatē Dei Quando pater fuit mortuus plena erat sua voluntate Martha soror nō audebat dicere ei verbum videbatur ei quod faciebat magnum honorem illis qui veniebant ad illam Quicquid faciebat erat viuere at hir owne pleasure and to make banquets and good cheare Hodie inuitare c. And within a little while after this poore foole abandoned erat in castro suo The rumor ran throughe all Iurie and the country of Galelie Omnino bibendo comedendo loquebatur de eo de eius vita Martha soror timens Deum amans honorem of hir house ashamed of the shame of hir sister videns quod omnes loquebantur of hir sister and of hir myracles venit ad eam dicens O soror si pater adhuc viuer et qui tantum vos amabat audiret ista quae per orbem agitantur de vobis truely he woulde thruste death into youre téethe Facitis magnum dedecus progenij nostrae And wherefore quid vis dicere Heu soror non opus est vltra procedere neque amplius manifestare Scitis bene quid volo dicere vbi iacet punctus Why do you trouble your selfe good Gentlewoman In all the great diuels name God be praysed nonne estis magistra mea Quis dedit mihi this valiant dame to controll my life Vadatis precor ad domum vestram scio quid habeo agerei ta bene sicut vna alia Habeo sensum intellectum to knowe howe to gouerne my selfe This is a goodly matter that I shoulde care for none but my selfe Martha rogabat eam vt iret ad sermonem consuleret aliquam hominem bonae vitae Magdalena dixit Ianitori non dimittas mihi intrare hoc castrum this mad sister of mine that brings nothyng hither but brawling chiding and vnquietnesse vbi non consueuit nisi cantus gaudij And after hée maketh a greate narration of the meanes that Martha made to haue hir come to the Sermon of our Lorde not telling hir what or who he was but vsing alluring spéeches said he was a faire yong man of a goodly personage O soror essetis valde foelix si possetis videre vnum hominem qui praedicat in Ierusalem Est pulchrior omnibus quos vnquam vidistis tam gratiosus tam honestus he hath so faire a countenance so good a grace so goodly of body you neuer saw his like Credo firmiter ꝙsi videretis eum essetis amorosa de eo est in flore iuuētutis suae And a little after illa coepit pulchra indumenta sua aquā rosaceā prolauando faciem suam coepit speculum Videbatur quod esset vnus pulcher Angelus Nullus eam aspexisset qui non fuisset amorosus de ea Ipsa ante se misit mangones portantes manye Cushions of Crimoson veluet vt disponerent sibi locum Martha videbat haec omnia fingens nihil videre sequebatur eam sicut si fuisset parua ancilla Christus iam erat in media praedicatione vel forte in secunda parte After he sawe howe they dydde honoure and reuerence to Magdalena euerye one wondering to sée hir come to a Sermon which when Christe perceiued he beganne to preache that pompe pride and brauerie was a moste detestable matter Tunc sayde he ipse coepit detestare vitia bragas pompas vanitates specialiter peccatum luxuriae contra has mulieres c. After this he reciteth how Magdalen was touched to the quicke with that she hearde in this Sermon and then thoughte on nothing so muche as on Repentaunce yet was in daunger to be turned by hir companions and customers and to be broughte to hir firste course of life venerunt saide he galandi amorosi rustici these Roysters qui dixerunt Surgatis surgatis facitis nunc the hipocrite vadamus ad domum Quae dixit O amici mei rogo dimittatis me non audistis quid dixit ille bonus praedicator de poenis inferni vobis mihi preparatas nisi aliud faciamus And a little after habebat in suo armariolo aquam of swéete smels quae vendebatur pondere auri Coepit querere de loco in locum de platea in plateam de domo in domum Quis hodie dabit prandium praedicatori Dictum est ei quod in domo Simonis And then he setteth forth the Oration shée made before shée kissed Christes féete in the washing of thē with hir teares and in the