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A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

Maister G.L. and the other two for Maister I.B. sent thē by Sir P.S. who also requested of the receiuers to haue saide a Pater noster for his fathers soule another for his mothers the third for himselfe with whiche if also they will adde one for me who am partely causer of the sending of them to thē I P.S. hope to requite it euery graine yéeldeth a thousande dayes of pardon The other loose beads were sent to other friends to like purpose but howe muche affiaunce both the sender and receiuer do attribute to these baggages wer both too long too shamefull to write but at the least they yéelde more dayes of pardon in one yeare than there be natural daies in two yeres 14 These are likewise hallowed graines sente ouer with promise of infinite dayes of pardon to al those whiche wil buy them 15 The Popes common Seale to al Bulles To which purpose Christe with his bloude hath bought vs not with golde The Pope for gaine both Christe and vs dothe sell. My life saith Christ to saue your liues was solde My trashe saith Pope will kéepe you all from Hell. Lament your sinnes saith Christe and followe me My pardons saith the Pope must set you frée My Kingdome is not of this worlde saith Christe Let him that woulde be chiefe be made your thrall Upon the earth saith Pope I am the highest The fullnesse of my power includeth all Nowe if the Pope and Christe do thus agrée Howe can the Pope on earth Christs Uicar bée Legatus and Apostolus are one In sense I meane they differ but in tongue Christ had but twelue apparantly is known The Pope forsooth hath such a shameful throng As euery King he can salute with one And yet he wanteth not a beaste at home And of the twelue that Christs had here on earth One traitorlike was euer gladde of golde And he beganne and since Christs pretious deathe Euen Iudas-like these Prelates aye haue solde The merites of his agony and smarte And say oure health consisteth in their arte Well Christs Apostles were poore Fishermen And taught the worlde the sacred worde of life And for their paines were whipped nowe and then Some stoande to death and some were kilde with knifes His Saincts were slaine for that they blamed sinne They preached Truth and spent their liues therein The Popes are Lordes and mates with euery King They come from him that neuer felte no want They take good golde for al the trash they bring They must haue store they care not who haue skant His Saintes are such as séeke their Princes spoile Their countries sacke and conquest of the soyle Shewe one such I pray you The Diu'lish Monke that poysoned King IOHN Doth prooue alas this Tragedie too true The Mayde of Kente may well come forth for one That sought to change our Hony into Rue But as they sought so God that is most iust Did yéeld them méede and will do still I trust And howe The Monke THe heartes of Kings are in the hande of God Their rule and powre are lent them by the Lorde The Tyrant stout is but his scourge and rod The godlie Prince also he doth avorde Where he doth please and straightly hath appointed No violent hande to touch the Lordes annointed This Monke forsooth that Symon Swynsted hight A Swine in déed and quite deuoyde of grace When that King Iohn had broughte this Realme in plight From Rebelles rage to somewhat better cace In doubt the King who in that Abbey lay Should touch their state deuisde this wicked way I wil ꝙ he vnplace this cruell King And ridde hys life thoughe I do die therefore For why sayth he it is a worthy thing For one to die to saue a number more I can but die and die I will herein And kill my selfe a Martyrs name to win Then goth he to the greasie Abbot straight And breakes to him the treason in his thought Who wéepes for ioy and nowe concludes the baight Whereby alas this Regicide is wrought The Monke will die to kill his liege and King The Abbot eke absolues him of the thing And thus absolvde the Monke and Abbot parte Forthwith the Monke doth to a garden go And there beginnes experience of his arte He takes a Tode and beats and prickes it so As that same Tode through rigor of the paine Casts vp his gorge wherewith the King is slaine The same he puts into a cuppe of wine And to the King he commes with smiling cheare My Liege saith he here is a draft so fine As like to it thou neuer drankest yeare I will beginne accept it at my hande This washaile shall be ioyous to thy lande The Monke therewith did drinke a hartie draught And humbly gaue the rest vnto the King Who dranke the same whereby his death he caught A wicked déede and lamentable thing A miser Monke with smooth and smiling showe To kil a King the Lords annointed so This deadly drinke on either side thus tane The Monke vnto the Farmorie doth go His guts do swell his belly breakes in twaine A death too good for him that liued so To slaye hymselfe thereby to kill his King A traytrous déede and detestable thing The King also a thrée dayes after that Gaue vp his life to liue with God aboue The Abbot and the Monkes whiche ioyed thereat Concluded then that for the constant loue The murdrer bare to them in doing this Their Popishe aide should bring his soule to blisse And graunted by decrée in Chapter Courte Thrée other Monkes continually to sing For his swéete soule that did preuent the hurte Of them and theirs by poysoning the King So as by massing meane the Diuell must misse The earthly Diuel whiche durste accomplishe this Lo double murder is absolued here A Thiefe doth kill himselfe his King to slay The holy Monkes herewith not only beare But make a meane to take this sinne away Thoughe God doth saye full plaine Thou shalt not kill The Pope doth say againe He did not ill If God and Pope herein not disagrée Then ayre and earth are both in nature iuste But from suche Popes the faithfull flocke are frée Which in the death of Christ alonely truste Triumph oh God beate backe thy foes againe And graunte our Quéene long dayes and good to raigne AMEN IF other men be of my nature and conceite then surely in reading this short repetall of the destruction of king Iohn they are in double wise perplexed the first for that a noble king after many battel 's fought with forraine foes many conflicts with his nobilitie set againste him by the Pope many cursses and excommunications pronounced against him by the Pope himselfe shoulde nowe at laste bée murdered by a foule fatte false flattering Monke And the second for that the same Diuel incarnate must to the delusion of the world and to make a path way to teach the practise of Prince murthur be in a

auntiente house of Westmerlande and the deathe of the Earle of Northumberlande and manye other as Norton Markamvielde and others whyche haue steyned themselues with Treason and vndone their houses for euer There were also at that time many Bayliffes and Constables to the number of thrée hundred or vpwarde hanged whiche well deserued it in that they commaunded menne in the Quéenes name to goe to that Campe the Camp where the Rebels lay But Northerne men may say that euill is that camping where the Gallowes winnes the Goale These thyngs will not be forgotten in the North partes these hundreth yeares And therefore take héede Papistes and thinke that Northerne men will not Rebell for they haue payde for their learning You maye not vaunt as you were wont to doe saying you were sure that all the North would take your partes for if you make your reckning so you recken without your hoste for neyther Lordes nor Lurdeynes can rayse them withoute commaundemente from the Prince Therefore good Subiectes vouchsafe to reade this little Booke whereby you may learne to obey the Quéenes Highnesse truely and to detest the Popes fayned holynesse vtterly Thys little Booke or Letter was written in Anno 1537. and in the thirtith yeare of the Raigne of our late Soueraigne Lorde of famous memorie Kyng HENRYE the eyght at what time Reginalde Poole was made Cardinall for Cosma and Damian by Paule the third Bishop of Rome so as the Papistes can not mislike it for the noueltie for it carieth some antiquitie and was written aboue fortie yeares sithence Thus for my part I fare like hym whiche hathe founde a Purse or Capcace of another mans and then like a playne true dealing man maketh enquirie who is the owner of it Euen so doe I cause thys little Booke to bée newe Printed that the right owners may be knowen And sithence they be dead long agoe that the Quéenes good Subiectes maye haue it amongst them as the authoures meante it in their lyfe time And thus I ende praying God to endue hir Maiestie with perfecte health and all felicitie long and triumphantly to raigne and rule ouer vs and to turne the heartes of Papistes and to make them all good Subiects to the glorie of God and strength of the Realme Amen w. w. The Argument of the foresayde Booke or Letter commended vnto thee TH' aspiring mind causd Reynold Poole to swarue And to become a Traytor to the King Troth tryes it out and law and iustice bring Vnto his mates such death as they deserue He quakes for feare and through the Seas doth carue To Rome and there is by the holy Pope Made Cardnall and obteynes a larger scope With might and mayne Poole then the Pope doth serue And sayth the King may not be supreme head Two learned men which do lament his fall Send him this Booke that follie to forbid Yet he God wot regards it not at all But like an Asse doth for a Scarlet hatte Forsake his God his King and Countrey flatte B.G. B. G. To the Reader THou séest right gentle Reader in the fourtéene short lines last before written the argumente of the Booke or Letter whiche was written to Cardinall Poole which my right Worshipfull and approued good friend when he had perused and ioyed to sée and reade desired greately to perticipate his benefite vnto thée chiefly bycause the wéede whiche at that time choked the minds of the subiects of the triumphant King of immortal memorie Henry the eyght our late Soueraigne Lorde touching the Supremacie now eftsoones breaketh forth to the intollerable annoy of the déere and louing subiects of our most dread naturall and soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Quéene of Englande France and Irelande defendor of the faith and in earthe of the Church of England and Ireland next and immediately vnder Christ the sole and alonely supreme head the daughter and vndoubted heire of hir saide late father King Henry the eyght But what haue I said Supreme head in earth of the Church of England and Ireland next vnder Christ Yea forsooth what make you then of the Popes holynesse may be your demaund I aunswere that I make of the Bishop of Rome so farre forthe as he be a Christian and the seruaunt of God the like and as large accompt for his circuit though not with so great dutie bycause I am an Englishman and not of his Dioces as I make of any Bishop in Englande within his iurisdictiō vnder oure sayde Soueraigne Lady so long as the same Bishop of Rome kéepeth him within his compasse and acknowledgeth himselfe subiect to the King of that Territorie but so farre forth as he standeth harlot like vpon the type of hys worldly pompe I take him to be that Antechrist whiche Paule calleth the man of Sinne and child of perditiō You may further aske me howe if the Pope himselfe be King there I answere that how if with how if not for if Christ whose Uicar on earth the Pope claymeth to be sayth Iohn 18. My Kingdome is not of this world the Pope if he be not Antechrist can not haue kingdome in this world Me thinkes I sée the Papist smile in his sléeue for in déede he is a smooth faced fellowe at this my simple conuersion saying that I haue framed a goodly argument that is bycause the Kingdome of Christ is not of the world therefore the Popes holynesse may not be a King in Christendome as if it should be said bycause the Kingdome of HENRYE the eyght reached not ouer Europe therfore ELIZABETH his right heire may not be Quéene of England and Ireland Let me smile wyth him againe I pray you for I will yéelde him that Kingdome in Christendome which Christ did weare the earthlie Crowne of let him likewise yéelde to euery King royaltie in his owne Kingdome That I will yéelde it the Papist laugheth agayne and so must I to for in déede for me to yéeld to the Pope a terrestiall Crowne in earth and for the Pope to yéeld vnto me a celestiall Crowne in Heauen haue both like warrant and like follie and may be equally laughed at if damnable things include iest for I without treason to my Prince can not thinke the one nor he without Treason to Christ grant the other for Christ hathe reserued the Spirituall Supremacie of his vniuersall Churche vnto himselfe and the terrestiall gouernement of his people to earthly Princes vnder whome they are gouerned and tryed as golde in the furnace and happie is that lande and people whyche haue a godly Prince on earthe to beare the sway and haue Supremacie héere nexte vnder God and amongst the happyest we Englishmen most happie in our gracious Quéene ELIZABETH whose lyfe and Supreme gouernemente I beséeche the almighty Lorde long to continue ouer vs And the same God for hys Chrystes sake hathe bestowed that supremacie on oure Quéene within hyr owne Realmes whiche the Pope falsely chalengeth through all Christian Regions For there is no

Christi pedit omne malum ✚ Crux Christi dat omne bonum ✚ Crux Christi aufert poenam aeternam ✚ Crux Christi salua me ✚ Crux Christi sis super me ante me post me ✚ quia antiquus hostis fugit vbi vidit te ✚ Crux Christi salua custodi guberna rege me Thomam portantem hanc notam diuinae Maiestatis tuae ✚ Alpha Omega ✚ Primus ✚ Nouissimus ✚ Mediū ✚ Finis ✚ Principium ✚ primogenitus ✚ Sapientia ✚ Virtus Which may be thus Englished This is the Epistle of Saint Sauior which Pope Leo sēt ouer to King Charles saying that whensoeuer any man caryeth the same about him in the day or else in what day soeuer he shall reade it or shall see it hee shall not bee killed with any Iron toole nor be burned with fire nor be drowned with water nor any euill man or other creature maye hurte him And these are the words The Crosse ✚ of Christe is a wonderfull defence ✚ The Crosse of Christ bee alwayes with mee ✚ The Crosse is it which I doe alwayes reuerence ✚ The Crosse of Christe is true health ✚ The Crosse of Christe ouercommeth the sword ✚ The Crosse of Christe doth loosen the bondes of Death ✚ The Crosse of Christe is the Truth and the Way ✚ I take my Iorney vppon the Crosse of the lord ✚ The Crosse of Christe beateth downe euery euill ✚ The Crosse of Christe giueth all good things ✚ The Crosse of Christe taketh away the paines euerlasting ✚ The Crosse of Christ saue me ✚ Oh Crosse of Christ be vpon me before me and after me ✚ bycause the auntient enimie cannot abide the sight of thee The ✚ Crosse of Christ saue kepe gouern direct mee Thomas bearing this note of thy diuine Maiestie ✚ Alpha and Omega ✚ firste ✚ and last ✚ middest ✚ and end ✚ beginning ✚ and first begottē ✚ Wisdome ✚ Vertue ✚ This thing that thus the Crosse of Christe doth show Must néeds preuaile and take the full effect The argument is strong there is no man I trow The Crosse of Christe that will or maye reiect But whiche is meant his dome his death and smarte Or else the Crosse which man did make by arte Know mortal man ▪ the Crosse was made of wood The like whereof is yet vpon the ground But our safe port consisteth in the bloud Of Iesus Christ the meane which God hath found Againe to get which Adams fall had lost Not else to winne for any worldly cost If so then take these trifling toyes as vaine And trust to Christ which bids thée come at call Christ séeketh thée the Pope doth séeke his gaine And will for golde make chaffre of vs all Let Pope be Pope and truste in Christe alone For Crosse of life besides his death is none But yet reade this next Iuggling trick I pray thee and take it for thy labour It was neuer deuised so cheape nor heretofore solde for so little money Hoc carmen nunquam dicetur sed super hominem Mulierem puerum feretur pro latronibus VAdo venio ad vos cum amore Dei cum humilitate Christi cū sanctitate beatae Mariae cum fide Abraham cū iusticia Isaac cum virtute Dauid cum potestate Petri cum fiducia Pauli cum verbo Dei cum potestate Gregorij cum oratione Clementis cum flumine Iordanis ꝑ ꝑ c. p. 9. L. e. g. a. q. q. est p. t. i. K. a. b. 9. L. K. 2. a. x. T. 9. t. b. a. m. 9.2.4.2.1 b. p. x. c. 9. K. que A. 9.9 p. o. qq 3. Vince Pater ✚ vince Domine ✚ vince Alpha w. Adonay ✚ Iesus autem ✚ Transiens per medium illorum ibat ✚ In nomine Patris ✚ filij ✚ c. Which may be thus Englished I Doe goe and I doe come vnto you with the loue of God with the humilitie of Christ with the holynesse of blessed Marie with the faith of Abraham with the iustice of Isaac with the vertue of Dauid with the might of Peter with the constancie of Paul with the worde of God with the auctority of Gregorie with the prayer of Clement with the floud of Iordane ꝑ ꝑ c. p. 9. L. e. g. a. q. q. est p. t. i. K. a. b. 9. L. K. 2. a. x. T. 9. t. b. a. m. 9.2 4.2.1 que p. x. c. 9. K. que A. 9.9 p. ● qq 3. Oh only father ✚ oh only Lord ✚ oh only beginning and end our Lord ✚ Iesus ✚ passing through the middest of thē went ✚ In the name of the father ✚ of the son ✚ c. This charme at any time néed not be sayde But man or wife or childe that beareth it Of these at al néede not to be afraide The charme it selfe will therof set him quite Thus hath it vertue more than I can tell Or else the effect therof is very smal But if you reade and marke it very wel The shew is gay and blasphemous withall But prating Prelates which proll and prie for pence Wey God nor Diuel so gaine may grow from thence Yet another Hoc scriptum inuenit Ioseph Aromathia super plagam lateris Iesu Christi digitis Domini scriptum cùm tolleretur Corpus d● Cruce Quicunque hoc super se portauerit mal● morte non morietur si in Christo crediderit Et in omnibus angustijs cito liberabitur Nec timeat aliquod periculum huius mundi c. Thus in English IOseph Aromathia did finde this writing vpon the woūd of the side of Iesus Christ written with the fingers of God when the bodie was taken from the Crosse whosoeuer shal carrie this writing about him shal not die any euill death if he beleeue in Christ and in al perplexities he shal soone be deliuered nor let him not feare any worldly daunger at al. And this is the writing as followeth FOns ✚ Alpha ✚ Omega ✚ figa ✚ figalis ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Emanuel ✚ Adonay ✚ O ✚ Rentone ✚ Neger ✚ Sahe ✚ Pangeton ✚ Comon ✚ A ✚ g ✚ l ✚ A ✚ neray ✚ Eloy Ihe ✚ Marcus ✚ Matheus ✚ Lucas ✚ Iohannes ✚ ✚ ✚ Titulus Triumphalis ✚ Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum Ecce dominicae crucis signū fugite partes aduersae vicit Leo de Tribu Iudae Radix Dauid Alleluya Kirieleison Christe eleison Pater Noster Aue Maria Et ne nos veniat super nos salutare tuum Oremus Omnipotens sempiterne Deus parce metuentibus propiciare supplicantibus Here hast thou séene my friend foure noble things The first came down from heauen vnto the Pope Which he must yéeld to Charles that noble king Therein to put his comfort life and hope For he and his and all that beare the same Are therby quit from dolor sinne and shame An Epistle is the second writing flat Sent to the Pope by Sauior the Saint So long as Charles doth

the Duke of Vrbin of hys Dukedome thereby to place the one of them in his stead And he endeuoured the like againste the Duke of Ferrary but preuayled not howbeit hée made Iulius hys Nephew a Cardinall In the yeare of oure Lord God .1521 the first day of December so soone as he had heard that the Frenchmen were vanquished slayne taken prisoners and banished out of Italy by the Emperoures subiects and his power in the middest of his pottes being merrie and laughing beyonde measure he gaue vp the ghost and in a good minde when he beléeued not that there was Heauen or Hell after thys life Wherevpon Actius Sennazarius pleasantly writeth thus Sacra sub extrema si fortè requiritis hora Cur Leo non poterat sumere vendiderat In english And if thou aske why Leo could not take the sacred ryte In his last houre the reason was that he had solde thē quite A prettie iest if serious things be gamesome Māmon hath deliuered to Belsebub his patrimonie the iudgement apperteyneth to God and there I leaue it Of another Pope Vrbanus quintus ad Grecorum Imperatorem misit tres Agnus dei cum versibus infrascriptis BAlsamus munda Cera cum Chrismatis vnda Conficiunt Agnum quod munus d● tibi magnum Fonte velut natum per mystica sanctificatum Fulgura de sursum depellit omne malignum Peccatum frangit vt Christi sanguis angit Pregnans seruatur simul Partus liberatur Dona defert dignis virtute distruet ignes Portatus mundae de fluctibus eripit vndae In Englishe Vrbanus the fifth sendeth to the Emperor of the Gretians three Agnus Dei with the verses that folowe Balme waxe water of the Chrisme an Agnus Dei make Which worthy Iem of my free gift to thee I do betake For as it is of water made and sanctified by speach So in effecte as Christes bloude the vertues thereof reache Eche lightning to suppresse and driue away eche sinne It helps the child wife doth yeeld hir child succes therin It giueth to the worthy man rewarde and quencheth fire It saues the wight that bears the same frō waters rage ire On the backe side of whiche Latine verses whiche were lost from an Archpapist I finde these conclusions written viz. From lightning and thunder From fire and water A woman in trauell From all euill spirits And also these two verses are written vppon the backe side thereof whiche I thinke not incident to that matter for that heretofore I haue hearde them properly alluded in an other sense The verses are these and concerne Mariages I suppose Prima dies grata est secunda aduena gratae Tertia grata parum quatridiana fetat They may be thus Englished The firste day is honourable the second commendable The thirde tollerable the fourth abhominable Good Reader here I haue with long discourse Laide forth these Popes euen somewhat plaine to thée Thereby the better to direct thy course In playnest wise their packing parts to sée Digest it wel and wey the thing aright And then no doubt thou wilt detest them quite Their trinkets here I bring vnto thy showe As if it were into a Market place Peruse them wel and viewe them all arowe And fansie those wherein thou findest grace And fancied once doe take them for thy hyre Accept my paine I do no more requyre ¶ A description of certaine of the Popes vvares and merchaundize of late sent ouer into England 1 SVperaltare is a quadrant or stone four square of Marble and hathe at euerye corner and in the middest a Crosse and is halowed these stones are portible and scrue to say Masse on in any secrete place where there is no Altare and to that purpose are they sent ouer into Englande 2 This Crosse representeth the Crosse of Christe and the very Crosse it selfe once hallowed and bestowed in secreate place where it maye be honoured or else caried about man woman or child and being strengthned with the Epistle of Saint Sauior saueth and defendeth them whiche beare it from al manner of perill both bodily and ghostly as Pope Leo the tenth promiseth 3 IHS This pendent with the charme aforesaide begining Vado venio ad vos c. written and inclosed within the same and borne about man woman or child defendeth them from théeues and all other daungers in trauaile either by water or lande 4 The Agnus Dei was sent to the Emprour of Grecia by the Pope and hath as gret vertue as the bloud of Christ it selfe it is composed of Balme Uirgin waxe and Font water it suppresseth thunder lightning and tempest and helpeth women in their trauaile and saueth the infant c. and nowe is conueyed into Englande with promisses of like effect 5 Bulla is a patent from the Pope whereof there are sundrie some yéelde a vile sort of his blessings some a good sorte of his curses some his desperate excommunications communications but all sortes are sealed with lead the true impression of which seale followeth vnder the laste figure which is .15 6 This figure of a pierced contrite torne heart was cutte out in faire white paper wherein was folded a little Iette beadstone in the middest of the hearte lengthwise was written Bauariae granum benedictum and directed with these wordes To his louing friende E.D. with graunte of fiue hundreth dayes of pardon 7 A paire of hallowed beads of that proportion sente from a Catholike friende to an auntient Gentlewoman in England the beades were of Boxe with promise of safetie to the receiuer who did purchace them 8 A paire of beades of the like number but lesse beads ●ent likewise from one friend to another with promises of larger successe than hath fallen out God be praised therefore the beads séeme to be darke brassel or bright Ibonie 9 A Crucifix with Mary and Iohn vnder whiche are written these wordes Haec tres mihi spes These are my thrée hopes as if Christe alone were not of sufficient value 10 An other Agnus Dei which is hollow hath the gospell of S. Iohn written in fine paper and placed in the cōcauitie of the said Iewell worketh wonders in the defēce of such as weareth them in somuch as it defēdeth them frō all perills whatsoeuer 11 The figure discloseth it selfe For he knoweth not whether Christ or Mary be of greater power and therfore standeth in doubt whiche way to turne himselfe 12 Are one set or tenne greate Iet beads and they promise so many hundred days of pardon as they are recorded ouer in that is for euery one day wherin they are repeted euery one beade yéeldeth one hundreth dayes of pardon 13 These foure little beades whiche séeme to be vpon a string were hallowed by the Pope as all the reste were but they speciallye were putte in a péece of paper likewise hallowed in whiche paper is written as followeth viz. Of these foure graines two are for

but such as were commaunded by the generall counsell For aye the more precepts sayde he be giuen the more transgressors be founde Anno. 1271. Thus in what estimation the Scottes this long agoe held the Pope and his Legates this short Oration sufficiently sheweth And nowe of Englande IN the .xxix. yeare of the raigne of King Edwarde the first in a certaine declaration made against Pope Boniface the eyght by a singular learned man these words amōgst other were vttered I propounde also saith he that the said Boniface is wrapt in infinite manifest heynous sinnes his mouth is full of cursing his féete and steppes are swifte to shedde bloud he vtterly teareth in péeces the Churches which he ought to cherish wasting wickedlie the goodes of the poore and making much of wicked men that giue hym rewards persecuting the righteous and among the people not gathering but scattering bringing in new sectes of destruction that haue not bin heard of blaspheming the way of truth and by robberie thinking himselfe equall to the Lorde Iesus Christe which is blessed for euer And beyng most couetous thirsteth for golde coueteth golde and by some deuise getteth golde of euery people and vtterly not regarding the worshipping of God with feyned wordes sometime by flattering sometimes by threatning sometimes by false teaching and all to get money withall hée maketh merchandise of vs all enuying all things but hys owne louing no man nourishing warre persecuting and hating the peace of his Subiectes He is rooted in all vnspeakeable sinnes a contrarie and strife againste all the wayes and doctrines of the lord He is truly the abhomination of the people whiche Daniell the Lords Prophete described Therefore I answere that lawes weapons and all the Elements ought to arise againste him whiche thus ouerthroweth the state of the Churche for whose sinnes God plagueth the whole worlde And finallye nothing remayneth to him being so vnsatiable to satisfie him withall but onely the vnsatiable mouth of Hell and the fire whiche cannot be quenched continuing for euer And thus gentle Reader saying as Pasquillus sayd Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse reuertar Quum leno aut meretrix scurra cinoedus ero Which may be thus Englished Oh Rome farewell the sights I see suffize I le backe again But whē I wil be baud or whore or scolde thine am I then I take my leaue of thée and of all these auntient matters and pray thée to holde the same opinion of Rome whiche Fryer Mantuan a Poet of later time helde and properly vttered in these two verses following viz. Si quid Roma dabit nugas dabit accipit aurum Verba dat Heu Romae nunc sola pecunia regnat In English thus If Rome yeeld aught they are but toyes she taketh glistring golde For words alas Rome nowe by coyne hir royall raigne doth hold And amongst those gifts of Rome I will for thy farewell yéeld thée one more of the Popes benefits which perchance may pleasure thée if thou neuer vse it It is forsooth a medicine to staunch bloud by words And I wil tell thée howe thou shalt come best cheap by it but first to the wordes whiche are these L●ngius miles perforauit Lancea ✚ latus Christi continuo ✚ exiuit sanguu redemptionis ✚ et aqua baptismatis ✚ In nomine Domini cessat sanguu iste ✚ In nomine spiritus sancti amen ✚ and after say S. Ihons Gospell In principis erat verbum verbum erat apud Deum Deus erat verbum c and this wil suffize so thou do it in order wherein I wil tel thée thy readiest beste cheape waye bycause I sée thou arte affected Turne backe againe to the place in this booke where the Popes wares are desciphered and vnder the number of 10. thou shalte finde an Agnus Dei which is hollow that must be bought get it as good cheape as thou canst for I wil haue nothing for my counsell then muste thou gette written in fine parchment or paper by the hande of some deuout religious man the Gospell of S. Iohn and the charme aforesaide but take héede that he be well contented for his labour or else it auaileth not This writing muste he put into the Agnus Dei and close it vp againe and weare it about thy ne●ke by a string of purple or crymson silke and so soone as thy nose bléedeth clap it to the Gospell and then if it bléede trust me no more Vale. Conclusio We see the bird ful braue abroad and free from euery ill Is brought to baine through Fowlers fraude by sweete ●●co●ding quill The hony harlots sugred speach so snares the minde of man As wisest wits in wantons webbe is tangled nowe and than Bur beaten fishe can safely swimme and by a piercing looke Foresee the fraud of fishers ●rie and shunne both bayte hooke So he that stirs his beaten ba●ke by compasse carde and skill At laste obtaines his wished porte holds himself harmlesse stil. No fish nor fowle by craft nor skill nor youth by female fraudes Haue bin deceivde as al the world hath bin by Romish gaudes An apple or an egge may call a child to Butchers boule The Pope by baggage beads and buls hath bittē many a soule His blyssyngs e●st haue made vs blyth who hath not feard his curse His buzzing bees haue bleard our eies whiles falshod fild their purse What Diuel bewitched worldly wits that none estate could scape But gaue their goodes as if it were for mowing of an Ape Nay worse for happy had we bin if none but coine were lost We left our God and folowed Baal bought the Diuel with cost Shake off therefore this costly course and bea●en nowe beware Of fisher fouler foxe or Diuell the Pope hath craftiest snare Foresee therefore in time his Cha●ibdes and his Scill The compasse of the worde of God auoydes the daungers still And brings thy beaten barke from storms to port in perf●●e test Where through the bloud of Iesus Christ his saincts for aye arc blest To which when that our noble Q. hath livde the age of No● And beaten quite conquered Baal God sēd hi● soule with ioy And graunt eche subiect still to see that vnder Chris●i● earth For England is no supreame head but Queene Elizab●th ●end loyaltie and loue in al confound hir foes and ●●en ●hall Babilon be ouerthrowen which● gra●●● oh god Amen FINIS B.G. Alia Conclusio THe wādring wight that succour seekes in dāgers deep distresse As Hecuba when greedy Greekes did ransackt Troy possesse Is fayne to try such foraigne friends as league of former loue Yeeldes cause to trust but fortune lends to glad spoiles to proue For in the end yong Polidore King Priams sonne was slayne By fathers friende wo worth therefore the loue that lokes for gayne Then England seeke thy Prince t' obey and aske no foraigne ayde Shake off in time the shauelings sway whome truth hath nowe bewrayd The Qu. by