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A19713	Pasquine in a traunce a Christian and learned dialogue (contayning wonderfull and most strange newes out of heauen, purgatorie, and hell) wherein besydes Christes truth playnely set forth, ye shall also finde a numbre of pleasaunt hystories, discouering all the crafty conueyaunces of Antechrist. Whereunto are added certayne questions then put forth by Pasquine, to haue bene disputed in the Councell of Trent. Turned but lately out of the Italian into this tongue, by W.P. Seene allowed [sic] according to the order appointed in the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Pasquillus ecstaticus. English	Curione, Celio Secondo, 1503-1569.; Page, William, fl. 1566.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594, attributed name.; Phiston, William, attributed name.	1566 (1566)	STC 6130; ESTC S109155	162,493	234

forth vnto vs whiche they kepe in prison And sith they onely had the handling of the booke of peace and liberty the common people thought that they had taken all thinges out of that booke and they with cursed and abhominable lyes tooke out here a piece and there a piece and with straunge and fearefull miracles and with fayned dreames of purgatorie kept the poore people in so greate feare and wonder that they were constrayned to beleue their wicked deuises and lyes If thou do consider their lawes and the waightes and heauy burthens that they haue layd on mens shoulders thou wilt sweare that the Iewes law is an hundreth tymes more pleasaunt and easy than theirs Marforius What haue we therefore to doe herein Pasquine To haue recourse to the Gospell and not suffer our selues to be led by the nose for the Gospell hauing bene hytherto through these mennes councels dead and now rysing againe it behoueth them to run to the same their olde remedies And therefore as I sayde not long since do they deuise straunge fashions of Masking garmentes that they may the better vnder colour of them kepe the Doltes and Asses of the worlde still deceyued and subiect to their diuelish and stinking Religion Marforius Do they then séeke other wayes to bring such as beleue them into distruction Pasquine So I heard say there aboue nor it can not be otherwise beleued for that they sée their enimy Christ already come abrode with his simple and plaine Gospell whiche is the sworde that must cut all their throtes Marforius Ah tell me I pray thée my god Pasquine sithe we are entered into this talke howe Christ being now come abrode hath made these men so much to suspect thē selues Pasquine What knowest thou not then Marforius No. Pasquine Hast thou euer read the Gospell Marforius Neuer for I gaue my selfe wholy to the study of the Clementines the decrées of Popes Ilface the decretals and extrauagantes of Popes Pasquine Thou haste good cause therefore to be ignorant Now will I tell thée bycause thou mayst vnderstand the whole matter that good Iesus Christ teaching a certaine Pharisie the way to eternall life taught it him to doe it all in two pointes in the whiche two the whole way that is to say all the lawe and the Prophets are contayned Which two pointes who so euer doth obserue doth al that the lawe and the Prophets commaund and the two poyntes are these Loue the Lord thy God vvith all thy heart vvith all thy minde vvith all thy soule and vvith all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe To loue God therefore and thy neighbour is the way that bringeth thée to heauen the which way Christ onely knewe that came downe from heauen and then againe went vp thyther And bycause euery man desireth to knowe it some haue sought it and hauing founde it out haue minded to follow this onely accomting all other for false and euill wayes and so haue they begon to forsake their whorish pilgrimags to scorne their scrupulous fastings to hate all their abhominable superstitions haue reformed all their whole life in the loue of God in loue toward their neighbor Marforius Then Christ hath not cōmaunded their order of Friers Pasquine I haue told thée already that Christ requireth sinceritie and puritie in those y ● be his to leaue counterfeyting and outward shewes to the wolues to y ● mōstruous beasts y ● haue nede to disguise them selues if they wil not with their true countenaunce vncoūterfeyted make those afeard whom they séeke to deuour Marforius If the thing be so what thing is there in the worlde more to be desired than the Christian life the which forsaking al vanities that haue no respect vnto godlinesse studieth onely to haue the loue of God and of his neighbour If the true bishops and preachers did preache as they ought to doe this shoulde be the very health of cōmon wealthes and the conseruation of the felowshippe of men and the true life of our soules For what thing could be more dere to mankind than that man should be a God to man Pasquine Thou sayest well Marforius but thou séest that the simplicity of Christ is an offence to men in these dayes euen as it was to the Iewes while they were in the desert To whom God meant not to giue any other than these two commaūdements nor to burthen them with outward things as he had done with them in Egipt and before in the tyme of y ● Patriarks who without any Ceremonies without any Churches of stone without any other maner of Superstition did highly please God But they began to rebell and would nedes be laden with Ceremonies as they had séene the Egiptians and forthwith they fashioned a Calfe and began to honor it and to make vnto it the it bankettes and their pastimes with their Ceremonies séeking to folowe the Egiptians which the Lord God when he sawe determyned to burthen them with so great a number and waight of Ceremonies that neyther they nor their fathers were neuer able to beare as Saint Peter sayth in the Actes of the Apostles Euen so iust is it come to passe at this present that forthwith when mans folly would not be content with Christ onely with those two plaine precepts the deuine iudgement let mans folly fall into so depe a sea of Ceremonies and Superstitions that if y ● infinite goodnesse of Iesus Christ had not succoured vs we should all haue bene drowned therin Marforius O wretched O vnhappy men nay dull beastes that when they may be the seruauntes of Christ will rather become slaues to so euident follyes as these which are not of any maner profite nay rather of suche hurt as can not be imagined And for asmuch as I sée Christ doth not stirre vs to any other thing than this Pasquine Truely he doth not stirre vs vnto any other thing nor séeketh any other thing at our handes for when he shall come to gyue iudgemēt he wil not say to vs haue ye bene at Masse haue you obserued the thirde rule of Saint Fraunces are ye Uirgines nor suche other thinges but he will aske vs whether we haue obserued that which with so great diligence he lefte vs written in his Testament while he sayde Peace I leaue vvith you my peace I giue to you vnto the end that you loue one another And this shall be knowen whether it haue bene obserued of vs when he shal say vnto vs. I vvas hungry and ye gaue me no meate I vvas thirstie and ye gaue me no drinke and suche thinges like vnto these the which who so euer hath done shal go with him to heauen who hath not done them shall goe to hell although he had heard all the Masses of the worlde and though he were more than a virgin

without superstitions and falshoods commaundeth vnto vs the loue of God and of our neighbour it is therefore no maruel that the Iewes and Turkes become not Christians seing the Christians deuided into so many sectes with the which also they dare take vpon them to call them selues spirituall being altogether carnall Paule in the first to the Corinthians cryeth out against these sects saying If any of you say I holde of P●ule an other I holde of Appollo an other I holde of Cephas the fourth I holde of Christ are ye not carnal is Christ deuided Marforius I knowe these errours very wel I will that from henceforth thou be my Grat●an and my Panormitan but thou shouldest preach this about the streates Pasquine I woulde gladly do it but I feare the decrée of that flemish Pope Marforius Peraduenture thou meanest Adrian Thou canst not speake Dutch wel Pasquine Atrian thou must say for so a man may sée in his Epitaph Marforius Thou nedest not doubt any more of him for he is dead Pasquine So woulde God that this that now is and all that shall come after were with all their traine and trash that belong vnto them but yet for al this there want no priute watchers I haue heard say y ● Chietti hath spoken the Diuell and all againste me in that théeuishe consistorie Marforius And why Pasquine Bicause I tolde him his true proper natural name that is to say h●pocrite but let him doe and say what he will for I set not a turde by him sith I am made immortall and become a God aswell as he is besp●rited and become a Diuel Marforius But now returne a little and tell me the cause of thy going to heauen Pasquine It was this that I haue tolde thée for that I sawe these Saintes to be so farre different from that they were sometime I would nedes goe to heauē purposely to sée whether they haue there aboue the selfe same nature For me thought it a thing vnlikelye that this Saint Mary here belowe that hath the painting on hir face that hath crownes full of Iewels on hir heade that hath Chaynes aboute hir necke that hath Ringes on her fingers that hath so costly and so many sortes of garmentes vpon hir like one of those yong Girles of olde time me thought it not I say that this was al one with that most humble mother of the Lorde and so much the more I confirmed my selfe in this opinion bicause I sawe this Lady to be most couetous moste desirous to heape vppe treasure and most nigardly in spending it and if she let any thing of hir owne goe out of hir handes shée delt it most wickedly so that I sayd often to my self if this be th● Lords mother why hath she not compassiō vpon her sonne whom she séeth euery day in y e church where she is goe aboute asking almes Marforius What sayest thou hath Christ nede then Pasquine Yea in the poore that represēt his person for he sayeth In as much as you haue done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye haue done it vnto me Yet notwithstanding if this hir some aske hir but one Dotkin she doth not giue it him but standeth vpon hir grauitie and looketh bigge without once chaunging hir countenance nor shewing any maner signe of cōpassion But when the holy Father goeth to Loretto when those most reuerend Cardinals when the spirituall fathers goe vnto hir she geueth to these generations all that she hath to spend vpon whores dogges horses and Ganimedes whiche I shoulde haue sayde first the which things I am right well assured were al farre wide without all comparisō from that true most pure virgin the Lords mother y ● which aboue all other things hated this filthy kinde of men beside that I was right well assured y ● those that be the very saintes in dede being with God who is most riche haue no nede of our goodes nor of our offeringes nor that they be so gréedy of glory nor sake not for such goodly Churches nor so riche Aultars and other ornaments whiche are in daunger to be one day robbed by the Turkes sithens suche as be the greate men in the worlde take not the same them selues These thinges are rather for the satis●ying of vaine witl●sse men than of Saints who neuer called them selues Kings nor Quéenes of heauen but the seruantes and handemaydes of God and woulde haue their dwellinges treasures in heauen where there is no daunger of Turkes for they goe not vp thither whiche treasures are not golde and siluer but iustice peace and ioy in the holy ghost And perceyuing newe by all these wayes aforesayd that these be no Saintes and seing that the worlde would enforce me to beleue that they be Saintes and that it were deadly sinne to speake euill of them I determined to goe to heauen to cleare me of this double Marforius I maruell that none hath sought this before thée Pasquine All haue lefte of for a certaine foolish and light beliefe and bycause they had holy thinges in small estimation being content with a false and wicked Religion the which hytherto I know not by what meanes hath holden the worlde sore bewitched And if there were founde any one that had begon to discerne the truth by and by haue they had their eyes closed that they should sée no further nor wade déeper for knowledge therin Marforius Thou hast tolde me y ● cause of this thy voiage tell me now how thou wentest vp and by what way and then what thou sawest there aboue For there must nedes be thinges farre diuers from ours from al that we can imagine or thinkeof Pasquine I will tell thée the whole so that thou hearken wel vnto me Marforius I hearken to thée say on Pasquine Séeking the way to go to heauen I coulde not finde it albeit I had red many things of Protheus Icarus and Menippus who men say wente vp thither but they tell not by what way Wherevpon I determined to aske one of these Angelles of it whiche all day goe vp and downe and they tolde me that there was none other way but by death that way I liked not bicause life is deare to euery man but by chaunce I found an other way Marforius And what way was that Pasquine That being in a traunce all these things should by reuelation be shewed vnto me Marforius Who taughte thée that way some Negromancer Pasquine Holde thy peace for this practise was deuised by holy fathers haste not thou read in the liues of holy fathers that Hilarius the Abbot standing on his féete in his chamber founde him selfe to be before the iudgement seate of God and there aunswered Pro contra Marforius I neuer read it Pasquine Hast thou not also read that booke intituled Memorare nouissima

Marforius I praye thée tell me some one of these tryfling toyes Pasquine Some one desireth that he be shewed vnto him y ● hath stolne his mony for this purpose is appointed the Aungell Colamiachel who sheweth him selfe in the forme of him that hath stolne it albeit they say that Saint Anthony of Padoa hath begon to take charge him selfe of these thinges whereof his Friers receyue greate gaine Marforius Oh cursed sorte of rascalles that dare be so bolde to constrayne a good Aungell to take vpon him the shape of a théefe Pasquine Beside that they desire to know whether the wife loue hir husbād or the swete heart hir louer or the Ganimedes his holy father To all which thinges there is no Aungell appointed but Saint Helene mother of Constantine who if the loue be like equall sheweth hir selfe with certaine faire Damosels and at a table plenteouslye furnished eateth with the Frier that is fasting but if the loue be fa●ned and naught worth she feareth the Frier with weapons with fiers with chaūging hir selfe into dy●ers shapes as into a wilde Boare into a Lion into an Asse who euil fauouredly crying séemeth to say that this loue is not to be trusted vnto Marforius Oh poore saint Helene is this thy reward for finding the Crosse that thou shoulde be driuen to search for the loues and for such foolish toyes of men Those examples be nowe sufficient for me I vnderstande the euill vse of things Tell me now the rest of our first talke Pasquine With a good will Hauing therefore marked all these thinges well I setled my selfe to do all that herevnto was nedefull Here nere vnto the Coliseo is in the olde ruines a certaine hole vnderground whiche I thinke no man else knoweth of faire wrought with printed fygures of earth cast in mouldes with maruellous trim printings that yet remaine thether I resorted and brought with me my Matte the Hoode the holy Oyle the Stoale the Chaulke the Bole Armoniacke the perfume of Storax Beniamin and setting my things in order and after the coniuration once read I layde me downe to sléepe forthwith was I drowned in a most sounde slepe like vnto that which they haue which be troubled with the Lethargi Then me thought the heauen and earth came together and that euery thing returned to the olde Chaos and so I lost my memorie that me thought I was no more that Pasquine that I was wonte to be me thought that I had dronke the iuyce of Poppy While my braynes went thus whirling about I saw come flying from far of a great fire sore flaming and sparckeling It was of the fashion of the manifolde impressions of fire whereof Aristotle speaketh in his Meteora but the stirring of it was like the Rockets and Squibbes and whirling wylde fiers of Castell Angelo what tyme they celebrate the dismoll day of the Popes creation After it was come nere me it shedde it selfe all about me stretching out his beames in suche sorte as the Sunne is painted amids the which there was a man in a white garment who demaunded of me what I woulde haue I being thus moued partly for the straungenesse of the thing and partly for feare comming afterwarde by little little to my selfe thus with much a do I aunswered who art thou Lord he sayde that he was Hierusatanael appointed for true holy visions and if I would haue any thing that I should aske him Then did I in the best maner I could shewe vnto him the occasion of this my comming vnto him demaunding of him pardon for my presumption for that I a mortal man was so bolde to commaund one that is immortall affirming further that it shoulde doe muche good to the world if Pasquine who is counted a narrow searcher out of things might enter to see heauē My talke pleased him wel herevpon I begon to take a little heart of grace and the more for that he forthwith shewed him selfe to me with a countenance altogether pleasant he asked me into which heauē I would go affirming that there were two heauens into one of the whiche Christ ascended when he departed from the worlde from the which he shall also discende accompanied with his Angels to iudge the worlde The other was sithens builded by the handes of Popes and mortall men who had small skill in building When I heard that I was exceding glad seing I had found the meane to be out of doubt of the truth And I prayed the Aungel if it were possible that he would cause me to sée them both he promised me I should Then did the flame that compassed me aboute turne it selfe into the fashion of a Charet like vnto that which did cary away Helias vpō the which the Angel sat down and then made me sit downe beside him As we were moūted the Charet caried vs away through the aire vnto the Sp●re of the Element of the fire there chaūging our Charet we followed our v●yage and drawing already nere to the Spere of the Moone the Aungell sayde he would passe no higher turned the raynes toward the North going much further from the Sunne I sayd vnto him whither goe we Lorde he aunswered me to the Popes heauen which is on this side for the Lordes heauen is towarde the Southeast which is the highest parte of the heauen as this is the lowest and this standeth right ouer against the other as the Antipodes are vnto your Citte so that they be directly contrary And thus talking I saw a farre off a City so great that it séemed that Venice Constātinople Rome Cairo and Paris had bene al ioyned together the forme thereof was as it had bene a Maze And the same so mounting vp like a winding snaile made newe deuisions newe market places and new streates and in the toppe it had a great Castle so that standing without the Citie it was séene euery whitte within and all the streates of it might be casely counted but there coulde not one body be séene in it and that was bycause all the streates and all the Market places were inuironed with highe walles that stopped the sight but the walles of the Citie were full of Towers and euery Tower had his gate made wyth such wonderfull craft that there is no Maze in all the worlde that may be compared vnto them I sawe goe in out through these gates many spirites who onely can skill what subtile deuises the same be that are in them Marforius Thou paintest me out rather a Do●ecoote than a heauen frende Pasquine but what businesse haue those spirites to doe Pasquine When they went in they went loden some with Supplications some with Rosaries some with Beades some with Waxe some with Oyle some with Incense some with Golde some with Siluer some with Chaynes some with precious Stones but when they came out they came