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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11248	Merry iests, concerning popes, monkes, and friers Whereby is discouered their abuses and errors &c. Written first in Italian by N.S. and thence translated into French by G.I. and now out of French into English, by R.W. Bac. of Arts of H.H. in Oxon.	N. S., fl. 1617.; Willet, Roland, b. 1588 or 9.	1617 (1617)	STC 21510; ESTC S110774	55,403	144

onely by meanes of his tooth-pickers and that they could more preuaile in procuring him fauour with the Prince then the Lord Ianotin But said he if yee well consider it see Capuchins are verier fooles then I in that you thinke and stedfastly beléeue that by your good workes you may be able to free your selues from sinne and seruitude of the Diuell wherein you are pacifie the anger of God towards you purchase his fauour and become his children and inheritors of the kingdome of heauen and which is more that your said workes can more preuaile with God then Iesus Christ his welbeloued Sonne in whom hee is well pleased The 35. Apologue by which is shewed what the Popes are and what is their authority THe Pope beeing dead the Cardinalls could not agrée in the creation of a new Pope for the Gibellins would haue a Gibellin and the Guelfes would haue a Guelfe to be Pope and although they had already béene some monthes in the Conclaue yet were they still so obstinate that euery one of both parts had sworne that hee would much rather make the Diuell Pope then one of the contrary faction Now the Diuell well knowing their mindes appeared to them in the forme of a man and shewed them that by delaying the creation of a Pope they did wrong both their Church and themselues exceeding much and that seeing they could not otherwise agrée they were best to choose him to be their Pope saying vnto them If you will elect mée I can greatly increase the Popedome seeing that none of the Counsells of the great Seigneurs are hid from mee and moreouer being that I haue no Children nor Parents I will bestow all the benifices and offices and distribute all the treasure of the Church only amongst you and your friends These conditions so wel pleased them all that they agréed to elect him and called him Siluester the second After this it happened on a time that a Cardinall returning from the Popes Pallace was demanded of a friend of his which met him from whence he came And hee answered that he came from the Pope of whom he had obtained plenary indulgence and remission of all his sinnes but his friend said what Do you not know who is our Pope Doe you beléeue that the Diuell is able to forgiue sinnes Then the Cardinall replied and said other Popes héeretofore haue béene sinners not onely full of vices but also the very fountaines of all impiety and oftentimes worse then the Diuell himselfe and do you thinke that being such they had power to giue indulgence and remission of sinnes Yes said the other as they were Popes though not as sinners In like manner said the Cardinall he that is now Pope hath power to giue remission of sinnes as he is Pope although not as Diuell so that it sufficeth that they be Popes to saue men for the rest it is all one whether they be good or bad men or Diuells but I said the other beleeue that onely Iesus Christ can forgiue sinnes and not the Diuell nor his Ministers and that God hath ordained the Diuells to be his executioners and not his Apostles The 36. Apologue by which is shewed the folly of the Romans who yeeld themselues to the Pope THe Lord Duke of Melphe being sent for by the Emperor to vndertake the gouernment of Sienes tooke Roome in his way and visited Pope Clement who disswaded him from going thither saying that the Sieniands were madbraind and furious people and that if any toy should come into their heads they would either kill him or chase him thence with great disgrace but the Duke answered and said I beléeue that to be true which your Holinesse saith that if they should become madmen they would either kil me or driue me thence and yet I hope I shall spéed well enough for the Romanes would doe the like to you if they should become wise men yet you are here at Rome without feare without all doubt then said the Pope if the Romans were well in their wits they would not indure me and therfore we kéepe them alwayes drunk with the swéet Maladeies of S. Peter The 37. Apologue by which is in part shewed what and how great the authority of the Popes is AN Astrologer went on a time to Pope Paul and foretold him that in the yeare 1549 the heauens by reason of some maligne influences would threaten him a very grieuous malady with great danger of death and the Pope demanded of him whether he knew any remedy Yes said the Astrologer if you will goe that yeare to Germany and abide there you shall auoid the danger that is true without doubt said the Pope for the Germans will take away my life and by that meanes I shal be deliuered from all maladies but tell me may not I auoyd the danger if I continue still at Rome there is but one way said the Astrologer which is seeing you haue the Keyes of Heauen that you kéepe them fast shut all that yeare so that the influences may not descend vpon you Is that sufficient said the Pope Yes said hee for if the Soules which are spirituall cannot pierce the Heauens and enter into Paradice unlesse you open them with your Keyes the influences which are corporall can much lesse come downe vnto you if you kéepe them well shut vp in the heauens but said the Pope what meanes may we vse to shut them the same said the Astrologer which you vse in opening them that is make a signe of the Crosse and command them to remaine shut At this the Pope laughed and departed The 38. Apologue wherein is discouered the cruelty and impiety of the Spanish inquisition THe Spanish Inquisitors or rather Inquinators and defilers of the faith being desirous to extort and violently take away the goods of a simple but rich Countriman cited him to appeare before them with an intent subtilly to examine him in all the Articles of faith hoping that being hee was a simple and ignorant fellow altogether void of learning they might easily intangle him in some of his spéeches so put him to death as an hereticke and lay hands on his goods Well the Countryman at the day appointed was present and they with seeming graue religious countenances demanded of him what he beléeued and he said I beléeue that which the holy Church belieues Tell vs said they what the holy Church belieues that which I belieue said hee And though they proposed diuers questions vnto him they could not draw him out of this answer for when they said vnto him dost thou belieue that the Masse is a sacrifice agreeable to the will of God and that it profiteth the dead and that the breach of the commaundements of the Pope is a mortall sinne hée answered still I beléeue that which the holy Church beléeues What said the Inquisitours dost thou beléeue nothing else but that which the holy Church beleeues Is it not sufficient said the Countrey-man

faithfully executing the Kings command and that the King spake them not in his anger be you assured that he hath spoken the truth for so well am I perswaded of the Kings wisedome that I know hée would not publikely haue spoken a thing of so great importance if he had not bin certaine that it was true What said the Pope will he take the Popedome from vs perswading his subiects that we are not Pope then the Embassadour said If you bée not truely Pope the Popedome cannot bee taken from you because you neuer had it and if you bee although all England doe not hold you to bée Pope yet are you Pope notwithstanding withstanding then said the Pope wee will be Pope in other places where they will accompt vs sa and not in England wher 's they will not haue vs Pope It followeth then said the Embassador that if you be accompted Pope in no place you are not Pope at all It is true said the Pope If it be so said the Embassadour the Popedome in it selfe is no true thing but onely a dreame and imagination of men Wherefore the King my maister saying that you were not truely Pope said the truth The 82. Apologue by which is shewed what kinde of men the Popes and Popish Bishops are THere was on a time a Bishoprick of Florence void and a young man of the same place well knowne to be a very wicked man made all the meanes he could both with money and friends which hée had at Rome to obtaine it and indéed the Pope would very willingly haue bestowed it on him in regard that hée offered great store of money for it but hée was ashamed considering the qualities of the person notwithstanding hée said to them which did solicite him in the matter procure the Lord Duke to giue vs good information of him and we wil confer the Bishopricke on him Then the young mans friends went vnto the Duke of Florence desired him that it would please his Grace to write vnto the Pope and giue good testimoniall of him for all his preferment did depend thereon and the Duke answered that he would doe it without lying wherefore to satisfie them and performe his promise hee wrote vnto the Pope that the young man was worthy not onely to be Bishop but also to bée Pope meaning thereby that he did abound with all kinde of wickednes Héerevpon the Pope not vnderstanding or rather faigning that hee did not vnderstand his meaning as if the Duke had said he had béen a very honest learned and religious man presently made him Bishop The 83. Apologue shewing the great fault of the Emperour Phoca THere were certaine learned men talking and reasoning together of faults which Emperours of Rome had committed and in the end they concluded that the grossest and most pernicious fault of all was that of the Emperour Phoca when he granted to Boniface the third that he should bee Bishop of Bishops for thinking to giue him the keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen hée mistooke himselfe and gaue him the keyes of Rome and of the Empire Wherefore it was Phoca and not Constantine who did enrich the Romane Church The 84. Apologue whereby is shewed what are the deeds of the Popes VVHen Leo was made Pope the Florentines made a great triumph because hee was the first Florentine Pope and at that there was a man of Gennes in Florence who making as though hee did not know the cause of their reioycing demanded of some of the Cittizens why they made such a great feast and they as it were wondring at his question said what Doe you not know that wee haue a Florentine Pope Is that then the cause said the other of your feasting and reioycing O foolish people There is no place except Rome which hath had more Popes out of it then Gennes so that if Popes would make their Countries happy ours had excéeded others in happines whereas it is now more miserable then any other and principally by reason of Genuan Popes which haue ruinated it as Florentine Popes wil ruinate and destroy Florence The 85. Apologue whereby is shewed what are the exercises of the Monkes A Certaine Proctour of the law being desirous to become a Monke of S. Benner did discouer his minde to some Monkes of the same order and they promised him to speake to their Abbot about it not doubling but they should preuaile Now when they did first commence their suite the Abbot enquired of them of what profession the person was And they answered that hee was a Proctour who did frequent the Courtes of Law and had béene exercised in pleading Then said the Abbot let him not escape vs by any meanes hee is the man wee would haue for if he knowes how to plead well he cannot choose but bee a good Monke and so they receiued and inuested him The 55. Apologue shewing of what sort the Monasteries are and what ought to bee done vnto them THere was in times past a Monastery of Nunnes which by reason of factions and dissentions raigning in it according to the custome of all other as also for many other respects might very well bee called hell The Abbesse well knowing it on a day called all the Nunnes together into the Chapter house and said vnto them Yée sée plainely how miserable our life is in this place where wee liue as it were in a coniinuall hell and without doubt if we perseuere in this kind of life wée shall one day goe to the other Ye know well that when wee came first into this Monastery wée were pure as Angells chast humble deuout feruent to call vppon God charitable and full of all vertues but thinking to come hether as to the schoole of perfection wee are become crafty proud factions vnchast enuicus disobedient couetous yea filled with all kind of impiety and yet euery day wee grow worse and worse so that without all hope wée shall be damned if wee doe not in time seeke some remedy Wherefore I earnestly intreat you that if yée know any meanes to redresse it ye will impart it to mée and if it bée good I wil very willingly put it in practise Then one of them said I thinke it good that we resigne our offices to nouices who are Angels in respect of vs and that wée choose out of them one to bée Abbesse another to bee Uicaresse and another to be Mistres of the schoole and so for all other principall offices and this wee ought to yéeld vnto because they are not yet entred into our factions nor diuided among vs but are pure and vertuous so that wée béeing gouerned by them may procure our owne safety and after our deathes the Monastery will bee reformed But all the rest opposed themselues against her saying Truely that were a faire matter that wee should become nouices againe and now at length obey them which yet sauour strongly of the world and it were a great credit surely for vs that the