perfyght obedyence Condempnynge all soch as do it not in effect I shewe what synne is I burdē sore mānys cōscyence To hym am I death whan hys lyfe is infect Yet if he take hede to Christ I hym dyrect Forgeuenesse to haue with lyght helth saluacyon Least he shuld dyspayre fall into dampnacyon Infidelitas Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha A pastyme quoth A I knowe not the tyme nor whan I ded laugh so moch sene I was an honest man Beleue me and ye wyll I neuer sawe soch a spott I wolde ye had bene there that ye myght haue made the fort Moseh lex Where woldest haue had met tell me good brother 〈◊〉 Infidelitas At the Mynorasse ser late yester nyght at complyne Moseh lex At the Mynorasse Why. what was there a do Infidelitas For soch an other wolde I to Southampton go In dede yesterdaye it was their dedycacyon And thydre in Gods name came I to se the fashyon An olde fryre stode forth with spectacles on hys nose Begynnynge thys Anteme a my fayth I do not glose Lapides preciosi Moseh lex And what ded folowe of thys Infidelitas I shall tell ye ser by Gods blys Then came Dame Isbell an olde Nōne a calme Crowynge lyke a capon and thus began the Psalme Saepe expugnauerunt me a iuuentute mea Moseh lex And what includeth thys mysterye Infidelitas A symple probleme of bytcherye Whan the fryre begōne Afore the Nonne To synge of precyouse stones From my youth saye she They haue confort me As it had bene for the nones Moseh lex I assure the playne I set not by soch gaudee Thy vsage shewe the to be brought vp amōge baudes Infidelitas It was a good world whā we had soch wholsō storyes Preached in our churche on sondayes other feryes With vs was it merye Whan we went to Berye And to our lady of grace To the bloude of hayles Where no good chere fayles And other holye place Whan the prestes myght walke And with yonge wyues talke Than had we chyldren plentye Than cuckoldes myght leape A score on a heape Now is there not one to twentye Whan the Monkes were fatte And ranke as a ratte With bellyes lyke a Bore Then all thynges were dere Both befe breade and bere Now grudge the iourers sore Whan Byshoppes myght burne And from the truth turne The syllye symple sowle Than durst no man creake Open mouthe nor speake Of Christ nor yet of Powle Now are the knaues bolde With Scriptures to holde And teache them euery where The carter the sowter The bodger ther clowter That all wyll awaye I fere At vs so they pulle Our lyuynges are dulle We are now lyke to fall If we do not fyght For the churches ryght By the Messe we shall lose all But I praye ye ser tell me what is your name ▪ Moseh lex The lawe of Moses to lye I were to blame Infidelitas In these same partyes what do ye now intende Moseh lex Mankynde to refourme that he hys lyfe amende I shewe what synne is what thynge pleaseth god I confort the iust and the yll I ponnysh with rod. The cōmen people haue thought it commodyouse Dyuerse Goddes to haue with rytes superstycyouse My cōmaundement is to seke one God alone And in all their nedes to hym to make their mone Amonge the Gentyles was it thought nō iniurye If a man wer hurt to slee hys aduersarye Thys thynge I forbyd and saye thu shalt not kyll Lawe is the reuenger the man maye do no yll Some persones there are that inordynatlye loue Those are perswaded all thynges them to behoue Whych I inhybyte saynge contynuallye No rape shalt thu do nor yet commyt aduouterye Thu shalt do no theft nor couete that is not thyne Agaynst thy neyber shalt thu not falsely dyffyne Infidelitas We maye do nothynge if we be pynned in thus Neyther yow nor God to that hardetrade shall brynge vs. We must haue one God worshypp hym alone Marry that in dede wolde make a Turke to grone If we be stryken we maye not stryke agayne A proper bargayne and dyscretelye vttered playne For cumpanyes sake ye saye we maye not loue I defye your worst and to yow there is my gloue Moseh lex What thu wylt not fyght thy wyttes are better thā so Infidelitas In the quarell of loue I shall proue ye ere I go By the Messe I thynke to put ye to your fence Moseh lex Thu were moch better to kepe thy pacyence Infidelitas Naye by cockes sowle frynd I must lay ye on the coate In loues cause to fyght ye maye sone haue me a floate Naye haue at your pysche defende ye if ye maye Moseh lex Soch a fole art thu as seke thyne owne decaye If Iones meddle to the it wyll be death Dedyst thu neuer hear that lawe sleath ī hys wreath Infidelitas By the blessed lorde than wyll I playe Robsons part Moseh lex Whye what part wylt thu playe Infidelitas By cockes sowle geue ouer so sone as I sele smart Moseh lex It wyll be to late if I ones cupple with the. Infidelitas Then lete me alone and we shall sone agre And I shall be glad to be acquaynted with ye Moseh lex Acquayntaunce good fellawe thu mayst sone haue of me Infidelitas The worst fault I haue I am hastye now and thā But it is sone gone I toke it of a woman But what meane those tables that ye haue in your hande Moseh lex Kepe sylence a whyle and thu shalt vnderstande Thre thynges I declare the first are the preceptes morall Next the lawes iudycial last the rytes ceremonyal The morall preceptes are Gods cōmaundemētes ten Whych ought euermore to be obserued of all men The lawes of Nature the morall preceptes declare And y e plesaūt workes to God they teache prepare They sturre man to fayth prouoke hym also to loue To obeye to sorne and to worshypp God aboue In two stonye tables God wrote them first of all That they shuld remayne as thynges contynuall The first hath but thre whych tēde to Gods hygh honour Geuē hath the seconde they concerne our neybour The first doth expounde the first lawe naturall The next the other makynge them very formall In sprete is the first y t we shuld God honour loue To outward workynge the seconde doth vs moue Forbyddynge all wrōges preseruynge iust marryage Norryshynge true peace and other godly vsage Infidelitas What is the effect of your lawes Iudycyall Moseh lex Soch thynges to cōmaunde as are cyuyle or tēporall From vyce to refrayne and outwarde iniurye Quyet to conserue and publyque honestie These are to support the lawes of the seconde table Ceremonyall rytes are also commendable In holy dayes garmētes temples consecracyons Sacryfyces vowes with offerynges expiacyōs Whych are vnto Christ as fygurs types shadowes As Paule doth declare in hys pystle to the Hebrues
For thy wycked doynges thy ponyshmēt now doubled Ignis ip sū precedet the Prophete Dauid sayth thus Arque inflam mabit in circuitu inimicos eius A consumynge fyre shall ronne before the iudge Hys enemyes consumynge they shal fynde no refuge Ob scelera culpas hominum ritusque nephandos In cineres ibit tellus tenuemque fauillam As Mantuan writeth for the wyckednesse of the. The earth to ashes by fyre shall turned be Ignis flamma Infidelitatem locum exire coget Infidelitas Credo credo credo I saye Credo credo credo To the deuyll of helle by the Messe I wene I go Deus pater Exit As ye haue seane here how I haue strycken with fyre The pestylent vyce of Infydelyte So wyll I destroye in the fearcenesse of myne yre All sectes of errour with their enormyte Whych hath rysen out of that inyquyte For as it is sayd that my hande hath not sett Shall vp by the rote no power maye it lett The Apostle Iohan in the Apocalyps doth saye He sawe a newe heauen a newe earth aperynge The olde earth see were taken cleane a waye That heauē is mānys fayth that earth hys vnderstandynge Whom we haue renued by our most secret workynge The olde cancred earth exylynge with the see Whych is superstycyon and Infydelyte A newe Hierusalem the sayd Iohan also se As a bewtyfull bryde prepared to her husbande Our true faythfull churche is that same fayr cytie Whom we haue clensed by the power of our ryght hande As a spouse to Christ in euery christen lande Bannyshynge the sectes of Babylonicall poperye That she in the sprete maye walke to our glorye Resort ye thre lawes for yow wyll I clere also Of soch infeccyons as by Infydelyte Ye haue receyued That ye with her maye go Declarynge the wayes of Christen lyberte That vs she maye take without perplexite For her only God and be our people styll In our lawes walkynge accordyng to our wyll Omnes simul At your commaundement we are most blessed lorde Deus pater Approche nyghar than and ye shall be restorde Thu lawe of Nature we first begynne with the Restorynge the agayne to thy first puryte Auoyde Idolatrye Auoyde vyle Sodomye We charge ye no more thys lawe to putryfye Kepe styll that same hart for a sygne perpetuall That thu were written in mannys hart first of all Thu lawe of Moses geue me that vayle from the No longar shalt thu neyther blynde nor croked be Hens thu Ambycyon and cursed Couetousnes I here bannysh yow from thys lawe euer doughtles Lose not those tables whych are a token true That thu in the flesh shalt euermore contynue Thu lawe of the Gospell though thu be last of all In operacyon yet thu art the pryncypall From the I exyle hypocresy and false doctryne With all that depende vpon the papystycall lyne Reserue the same boke for a sygne of heauēly poure For that boke thu art that Iohan from heauen ded deuoure Naturae lex Euerlastynge prayse to thy gloryouse maieste Moseh lex Our heauēly gouernour great is thy gracyouse pytie Christi lex Of mankynde thu art the eternall felycyte Naturae lex Now leauest thy seruauntes in thy perpetuall peace To do the seruyce from hens wyll we not ceace Moseh lex For our eyes haue seane what thu hast now prepared For thy peoples helth whych hath bene here declared Christi lex A lyght thu hast sent whych is thy ioyouse Gospell To the consolacyon of the howse of Israel Naturae lex In reioyce of thys make we some melodye Moseh lex The name of our God to prayse and magnyfye Christi lex I assent therto and wyll synge very gladlye Hie ad Dei gloriam cantabunt In exitu Israel de Aegypto Velaliud simile Deus pater Now haue we destroyed the kyngedom of Babylon And throwne the great whore into the bottōlesse pyt Restorynge agayne the true fayth and relygyon In the christen churche as we haue thought it fyt Depurynge these lawes so to contynue y t. Man is our creature hath grace in our syght To dwell with hym now is our whole hartes delyght Man is our people hys God we are agayne With hym wyll we haue contynuall resydence Awaye wyll we wype from hym all sorowe payne He shall no longar dyspayre for hys offence Nor haue ī hys sowle any carefull doubt of conscyēce The olde popyshnesse is past whych was dāpnacyon We haue now renued our christen congregacyon Grande fourth christē fayth take our aduertysemēt We here appoynt the to gouerne our congregacyon Se thu do nothynge without the admonyshment Of these thre lawes here Enprent their declaracyon Of my swete promyses and than make thu relacyon To my folke agayne that they maye walke to me Without popysh dreames in a perfygt lyberte Fides Christiana Most heauenly maker in y t thu doest commaūde me Euermore wyll I full prompt and dylygent be Deus pater Thu lawe of Nature shalt teache man God to knowe And that to refuse wherby any yll maye growe Naturae lex From thys your precept shall I not varye I trowe Deus pater The ache thu hym also to worshyp one God aboue And hys poore neyber to prosecute with loue Moseh lex I hope blessed lorde to do as me shall behoue Deus pater And thu shalt teache hym to loue God in hys hart And those to forgeue by whom he suffereth smart Christi lex In your appoyntmentes wyll I do also my part Deus pater Worke thu in the hart a knowledge necessarye In the flesh worke thu by outwarde ceremonye Change thu to the spret the workynges of these two And cause our people in a perfyght waye to go Take hede christē fayth to the teachynges of these thre And moue our people to walke in the veryte The promyses we made in all these thre at Gospell We wolde thu shuldest so to our congregacyon tell Our euerlastynge blessynge be with yow euermore Omnes simul To thy swete name lorde prayse perpetuall honoure Fides Christiana It hath pleased God to put me in thys offyce To gouerne hys churche and christen congregacyon And therin to do as ye shall me entyce Geue me I praye yow soch wholsom exhortacyon As maye be to Man a clere edyfycacyon And I wyll be glad to take your aduertysement As it shall become any chylde obedyent Christi lex Ye speake it full wele thā marke what shall be sayed And dylygentlye loke that it be obeyed Naturae lex The effect of me is for to knowe the lorde Euerlastynge stronge most gracyouse and godlye And as touchynge Man to haue fraternall concorde Fauer to norrysh and to do non iniurye To kepe couenaūtes made and loue true matrymonye These noble effectes so temper yow in Man That them to fulfyll he do the best he can Moseh lex The effect of me is for to worshyp the lorde As one God alone and to fle from Idolatrye Nor to
A Comedye concernynge thre lawes Compyled by Iohan Bale Baleus prolocutor IN ych commen welthe most hygh prchemynence Is due vnto lawes for soch commodyte As is had by them For as Cicero geueth sentence Where as is no lawe can no good order be In nature in people in howse nor yet in citie The bodyes aboue are vnderneth a lawe Who coulde rule the worlde were it not vndre awe Lyke as Chrysippus full clarkely doth dyffyne Lawe is a teacher of matters necessary A knowledge of thynges both naturall and deuyne Perswadynge all truth dysswadynge all iniury A gyfte of the lorde deuoyde of all obprobry An wholesom doctryne of men dyscrete and wyse A grace from aboue and a very heauenly practyse Our heauenly maker mannys lyuynge to dyrect The lawes of Nature of Bondage and of Grace Sent into thys worlde with vycyousnesse infect In all ryghteousnesse to walke before hys face But Infydelyte so worketh in euery place That vnder the heauens no thynge is pure cleane So moch the people to hys peruerse wayes leane The lawe of Nature hys fylthy dysposycyon Corrupteth with ydolles and stynkynge Sodometry The lawe of Moses with Auaryce and Ambycyon He also poluteth And euer contynually Christes lawe he defyleth with cursed hypocresy And with false doctryne as wyll apere in presence To the edyfyenge of thys Christen audyence Of Infydelyte God royll hymself reuenge With plages of water of wylde fyre and of sworde And of hys people due homage he wyll chalenge Euer to be knowne for their God and good lorde After that he hath those lawes agayne restorde To their first bewtye commyttynge them to fayth He is now in place marke therfor what he sayth Actus Primus Deus Pater I Am Deus pater a substaunce inuysyble All one with the sonne holy ghost in essence To Angell and Man I am incomprehensyble A strength infynyte a ryghteousnesse a prudence A mercy a goodnesse a truth a lyfe a sapyence In heauen and in earth we made all to our glory Man euer hauynge in a specyall memory Man I saye agayne whych is our owne elect Our chosen creature and seruaunt ouer all Aboue the others peculyarly select To do vs homage and onour name to call Acknowledgynge vs for hys author princypall Indued hym we haue with gyftes of specyall grace And lawes wyll we sende to gouerne hym in place Steppe fourih ye iii. lawes for gydaūce of Mākynde Whom most inteyrly in hart we loue and fauer And teach hym to walke accordynge to our mynde In clennes of lyfe and in a gentyll behauer Depely instruct hym our mysteryes to sauer By the workes of fayth all vyces to seclude And preserue in hym our godly symylytude Naturae lex Of duty we ought alwayes to be obeysaunt To your cōmaundement for iust it is and plesaunt Moseh lex Your preceptes are true of perpetuall strength On iustyce grounded as wyll apere at length Christi lex Proudenesse ye abhorre with lyke inconuenyentes All they are cursed wych go frō your cōmaūedemētes Deus Pater Our lawes are all one though yow do thre apere Lyke wyse as our wyll is all one in effect But bycause that Man in hymself is not clere To tyme and persone as now we haue respect And as thre teachers to hym we yow dyrect Though ye be but one In token that we are thre Dystyncte in persone and one in the deyte Naturae lex We consydre that for as concernynge Man Foure seuerall tymes are moch to be respected Of Innocency first of hys transgressyon than Than the longe season wherin he was afflycted Fynally the tyme wherin he was redemed Of pleasure is the first the seconde of exyle The third doth ponnysh the fort doth reconcyle Moseh lex Whā Angell was made thys lawe he had by by To serue yow hys lorde and with laudes to prosecute Thys lawe was geuen Man in tyme of innocency In no wyse to eate of the forbydden frute These two lawes broken both they were destytute Of their first fredome to their most hygh decaye Tyll your only sonne ded mānys whole raūsome paye Christi lex Whan Angell in heauen and Man in paradyse Those lawes had brokē The lawe of wycked Sathā Impugned your lawes by craft subtyle practyse Where yow sayd Eate not He sayd vnto the womā Eate Ye can not dye As Godes ye shall be than By thys first of all your lawdes Man proued true And Sathans lawe false whych he now dayly rue Deus pater Lete hym thā beware how he our lawes neglect Only to Angell and Man we gaue lyberte And they onlye fell becommynge a frowarde sect Not by our mocyon but their owne vanyte For that we gaue them to their felycyte Abused they haue to their perpetuall euyll Man is now mortall and Angell become a deuyll Lose Man we wyll not though he frō vs doth fal Our loue towardes hym wyll be moch better than so Thu lawe of Nature teache thu hym first of all Hys lorde God to knowe and that is ryght to do Charge and enforce hym in the wayes of vs to go Thu lawe of Moses And Christes lawe fynally Rayse hym and saue hym to our perpetuall glory ▪ Naturae lex For tyme of exyle than I must be hys teacher Deus Pater Yea for thre ages both gyde and gouerner From Adam to Noah from Noah to Abraham And than to Moses whych is the sonne of Amram Naturae lex Where must I remayne for the tyme I shall be here Deus Pater In the hart of Man hys conscyence for to stere To ryghteouse lyuynge and to a iust beleue In token wherof thys hart to the I geue Hic pro suo signo cor ministrat Thu shalt want no grace to confort hym with all If he to the fayth of my first promyse fall Moseh lex Then my course is next for tyme of hys pōnishment◠Deus Pater For thre ages more to the must he consent From Moses to Dauid frō thens to the Iewes exyle And so fourth to Christ whych wyll Man reconcyle Moseh lex Where shall I swete lorde for that same seasō dewell Deus Pater With soch harde rulers as wyll the people compell Our mynde to fulfyll withuot vayne gaudes of fables For a sygne of thys holde these same stony tables Hic pro signo lapideas dat ei tabulas All they that obserue our lawes inuyolablye Shall euery where prospere increase and multyplye Christi lex Then I perceyue well my course is last of all Deus Pater What though it b◠so yet art thu pryncypall Our all the worlde thy beames shalt thu extende And styll contynue tyll the worlde be at an ende Christi lex Where shall I father for that same tyme perseuer Deus Pater With the faythfull foet must thu contynue euer Thu shalt my people returne from farre exyle And for euermore to my grace reconcyle Take thys precyouse boke for a token euydent A seale of my
couenaunt and a lyuynge testament Hic pro signo datei nouum testamentum They that beleue it shall lyue foreuermore And they that do not wyll rue their folye sore Blessed shall he be that yow my lawes wyll kepe In cytie and felde whether he do worke or slepe Hys wyfe shall encreace hys land shall frutyfye And of hys enemyes he shall haue vyctorye The skye wyll geue rayne whaÌ„ seasonable tyme shall be The workes of hys haÌ„des shall haue prosperyte Cursed shall they be that wyll not our lawes fulfyll Without and within at market and at myll Of corne and cattell they shall haue non increase Within their owne howse shall sorowes neuer cease Neuer shall they be without byle botche or blayne The pestylence poxe wyll worke theÌ„ deadly payne Shewe thys vnto Man byd hym take good hede Of our ryghteousnesse to stande alwayes in drede We vysyte the synne and the great abhomynacyon â–ª Of the wycked sort to thirde and fort generacyon Thu lawe of Nature instruct hym first of all Thu lawe of Moses correct hym for hys fall And thu lawe of Christ geue hym a godly mynde Rayse hym vnto grace saue hym from the fynde Our heauenly blessynge be with yow euery chone Omnes simul All prayse and glory to your maieste alone Christi lex Here styll to tarry I thynke it be your mynde Naturae lex My offyce ye knowe is to instruct Mankynde Moseh lex Than God be with yow we leaue ye here behynde Finit Actus primus Incipit Actus secundus Naturae lex Exeunt THe lawe in effect is a teacher generall What is to be done what to be layed asyde But as touchynge me the first lawe naturall A knowledge I am whom God in Man doth hyde In hys whole workynge to be to hym a gyde To honour hys God and seke hys neybers helth A great occasyon of peace and publyque welth A sore charge I haue Mankynde to ouer se. And to instruct hym hys lorde God to obaye That lorde of heauen graunt I may so do my dewtie That he be pleased and Man brought to a staye Hys bryttle nature hys slyppernesse to waye Moch doth prouoke me But if God set to hande He shall do full wel For non maye hym withstande Infidelitas Brom brom brom brom brom Bye brom bye bye Bromes for shoes and powâ—hâ—rynges botes and buskyns for newe bromes Brom brom brom Marry God geue ye good euen And the holy man saynt Steuen Sende ye a good newe yeare I wolde haue brought ye the paxe Or els anymage of waxe If I had knowne ye heare I wyll my selfe so handle That ye shall haue a candle Whan I come hyther agayne At thys your soden mocyon I was in soch deuocyon I had nere broke a vayne Naturae lex That myght haue done ye smart Infidelitas No no it was but a fart For pastyme of my hart I wolde ye had it forsoth In serupp or in sowse But for noyaunce of the howse For easement of your toth Now haue I my dreame in dede God sende me wele to spede And swete saynt Antony I thought I shuld mete a knaue And now that fortune I haue Amonge thys cumpany Naturae lex Why dost thu call me knaue Infidelitas I sayd I wolde be your slaue Yf your grace wolde me haue â–ª And do your worke anon I wolde so rubbe your botes Therofe shuld from the rotes Whan ye shuld do them on Naturae lex Thu art dysposed to mocke Sone mayst thu haue a knocke If thu with me so game Infidelitas Your mouth shall kysse my docke Your tonge shall it vnlocke But I saye what is your name Naturae lex I am the lawe of Nature Infidelitas I thought so by your stature And by your auncyent gature Ye were of soch a rature Whan I first heard ye speke Ye commoned with God lately And now ye are hys bayly Mankynde to rule dyscretely Welcome syr huddy peke Naturae lex If thu vse soch vyllanye I shall dysplease the trulye Infidelitas By the masse I the defye With thy whole cuckoldrye And all that with the holde Naturae lex Why dost thu me blaspheme And so vngodly deme Infidelitas For by thys blessed boke I went ye had bene a coke And that made me so bolde For a coke ones hauynge age With â— face demure and sage And auncyent to beholde As yow haue here in place With a hearde vpon your face What is he but a coke olde Naturae lex Ye are dysposed to dallye To leape and ouersallye The compasse of your wytte I counsell ye yet in season Sumwhat to folowe reason And gnawe vpon the byrte Infidelitas Then after our great madnesse Lete vs fall to some sadnesse And tell me what ye in tende Naturae lex God sent me vnto Man To do the best I can To cause hym to amende Soche creatures as want reason My rules obye yche season And that in euery bondre The sunne and mone doth mone With the other bodyes aboue And neuer breake their ordre The trees and herbes doth growe The see doth ebbe and flowe And varyeth not a nayle The floudes and wholsom sprynges With other naturall thynges Their course do neuer fayle The beastes and byrdes engendre So do the fyshes tendre Accordynge to their kynde Alonlye man doth fall From good lawes naturall By a frowarde wycked mynde Infidelitas Now wyll I proue ye a lyar Next cosyne to a fryar And on the gall ye rubbe Ye saye thy folowe your lawe And varyee not a strawe Whych is a tale of a tubbe The sunne ones in the clyppes Awaye the clerenesse slyppes And darkened is the daye Of the planetee influence Aryseth the pestylence To manye ones decaye Doth not the see so rage That non can it aswage And swellowe in towne and streate The ayre whych geueth breathe Sumtyme infecteth to deathe By hys most pestylent heate The beastes oft vndemure Whych were left to mannys cure Wyll hym sumtyme deuoure Thus are your rules forgote As thynges of slendre note In creatures daye and houre Naturae lex It is the wyll of God To vse them as a rod Of hys iust ponnyshment Whan Man doth not regarde The lorde nor hys rewarde Nor to hys lawes consent They neuer are so ronnysh But when God doth Man ponnysh For hys vnhappynesse From God they neuer fall Nor from lawes naturall Doynge hys busynesse Infidelitas And yow are the same lawe That kepe them vndre awe By youy most polytyke wytt Naturae lex God hath appoynted me Mankynde to ouerse And in hys hart to sytt To teache hym for to knowe In the creatures hygh and lowe Hys gloryouse mageste And on hys name to call Or power celestyall In hys necessyte To thynke hym euerlastynge And wonderfull in workynge And that he createth all Both gouerne and conserue From them he neuer swerue That to soch fayth wyll fall Infidelitas In dede here is good sport But why do yow
resort Vnto thys present place Naturae lex Man alwayes to exhort To seke all helth and confort Of the only God of grace First in the hartes reioyce And than with open voyce To worshypp hym alone Knowledgynge hys deyte Hys power and eternyte Whan he shall make hys mone â–ª Infidelitas I shall kepe ye as well from that As my grandame kept her cat From lyckynge of her creame Naturae lex What wylt thu kepe me fro Tell me ere thu farther go Me thynke thu art in a dreame Infidelitas From causynge of Mankynde To geue to God hys mynde Or hys obedyence Naturae lex What is thy name tell me Infidelitas Marry Infydelyte Whych neuer wyll agre To your benyuolence Naturae lex Thu cannyst not kepe me from man Infidelitas Yet wyll I do the best I can To trouble ye now and than That ye shall not preuayle I wyll cause ydolatrye And most vyle sodomye To worke so on gracyouslye Ye shall of your purpose fayle Naturae lex I defye the wycked fynde With thy whole venemouse fynde God putteth now in my mynde To fle thy cumpanye Infidelitas Ye are so blessed a Saynt And your self so wele can paynt That I must me acquaynt With yow no remedye Naturae lex Auoyde thu cruell enemye I wyll non of the trulye But shurne thy cumpanye As I wolde the deuyll of hell Infidelitas Exit And are ye gone in dede Small wyttam be your spede Except ye take good hede I wyll be next of your counsell Now wyll I worke soch masterye By craftes and sutyle polycye The lawe of nature to poyson With pestylent ydolatrye And with most stynkynge sodomye That he shall haue no Foyson Where are these vyllen knaues The deuyls owne kydâ—yn slaues That them I can not se. I coniure yow both here And charge ye to apere Lyke two knaues as ye be Sodomismus Monachus Ambo is a name full cleane Knowe ye not what I meane And are so good a clarke Infidelitas By Tetragrammaton I charge ye apere anon And come out of the darke Sodomismus Intrantsimul Haue in than at a dash With swash myry annet swash Yet maye I not be to rash For my holy orders sake Idololatria Necromantic Nor I sonne by my trouth Cha caute a corage of slouth And soch a comberouse couth Ych wote not what to do Infidelitas At Christmas and at Paske ye maye daunce the deuyll a maske Whyls hys great cawdron plawe yow soch a prati mynyon And yow now in relygyon Soch two I neuer sawe Is not thy name ydolatrye Sodomismus Yes an wholsom woman verelye And wele seane in Phylosophye Mennys fortunes she can tell She can by sayenge her Aue marye And by other charmes of sorcerye Ease men of toth ake by and bye Yea and fatche the deuyll from hell She can mylke the cowe and hunte the foxe And helpe men of the ague and poxe So they brynge moneye to the boxe Whan they to her make mone She can fatch agayne all that is lost And drawe drynke out of a rotten post Without the helpe of the holye Ghost In workynge she is alone Infidelitas What sumtyme thu wert an he Idololatria Yea but now ych am a she And a good mydwife per de Yonge chyldren can I charme With whysperynges and whysshynges With crossynges and with kyssynges With blasynges and with blessynges That spretes do them no harme Infidelitas Then art thu lyke to Clisthenes To Clodius and Euclides Sardinapalus and Hercules Whych themselues oft transfourmed Into a womannys lyckenes With agylyte and quyckenes But they had Venus syckenes As writers haue declared Sodomismus Lete her tell fourth her matter Idololatria With holye oyle and watter I can so cloyne and clarter That I can at the latter Manye suttylters contryue I can worke wyles in battle If I do ones but spattle I can make corne and cattle That they shall neuer thryue Whan ale is in the fatt If the bruar please me nart The east shall fall downe flat And neuer haue any strength No man shall tonne nor bake Nor meate in season make If I agaynst hym take But lose hys labour at length Their wellys I can vp drye Cause trees and herbes to dye And slee all pullerye Whereas men doth me moue I can make stoles to daunce And carthen pottes to praunce That non shall them enhaunce And do but cast my gloue I haue charmes for the plowgh And also for the cowgh She shall geue mylke ynowgh So longe as I am pleased Apace the mylle shall go So shall the credle do And the musterde querrie also No man therwith dyseased Infidelitas Thou art thu for me fytt Sodomismus The woman hath a wytt And by her gere can syxt Though she be sumwhat olde It is myne owne swete bullye My muskyne and my mullye My gelouer and my cullye Yea myne owne swete hart of Golde Infidelitas I saye yet not to holde Idololatria Peace fondelinge tush a button Infidelitas What wylt thu fall to mutton And playe the hungry glutton Afore thys cumpanye Ranke loue is full of heate Where hungry dogges lacke meate They wyll durty puddynges eate For wante of befe and conye Hygh mynyon for monye As good is draffe as honye Whan the daye is whote and sonnye By the blessed rode of kent Sodomismus Saye fourth your mynde good mother For thys man is non other But our owne louynge brother And is very wele content Idololatria I neuer mysse but paulter Our blessed ladyes psaulter Before saynt Sauers aulter With my bedes ones a daye And thys is my commen cast To heare Masse first or last And the holy frydaye fast In good tyme mowt I it saye With blessynges of Saynt Germyne I wyll me so determyne That neyther foxe nor vermyne Shall do my chuckens harme For your gese seke saynt Legearde And for your duckes saynt Lenarde For horse take Moyses yearde There is no better charme Take me a napkyn folte With the byas of a bolte For the healynge of a colte No better thynge can be For lampes and for bottes Take me saynt Wylfrides knottes And holy saynt Thomas lottes On my lyfe I warande ye For the cowgh take Iudas care With the parynge of a peare And drynke them without feare If ye wyll haue remedy Thre syppes are for the hyckock And vj. more for the chyckock Thus maye my praty pyckock Recouer by and by If ye can not slepe but slumber Geue otes vnto saynt Vncumber And beanes in a serten number Vnto saynt Blase and saynt Blythe â–ª Geue onyons to saynt Cutlake And garlyke to saynt Cyryake If ye wyll shurne the head ake Ye shall haue them at quene hythe A dramme of a shepes tyrdle And good saynt Frances gyrdle With the hamlet of an hyrdle Are wholesom for the pyppe Besyden these charmes afore I haue feates many more That I kepe styll in store Whome now I ouer hyppe Infidelitas It is a spoart I
trowe To heare how she out blowe Her witche craftes on a rowe By the Masse I must nedes smyle Now I praye the lete me knowe What sedes that thu cannyst sowe Mankynde to ouer throwe And the lawe of nature begyle Sodomismus My selfe I so behaue And am so vyle a knaue As nature doth depraue And vtterlye abheire I am soche a vyce trulye As God in hys great furye Ded ponnysh most terryblye In Sodome and in Gomoire In the fleshe I am a fyre And soch a vyle desyre As brynge men to the myre Of fowle concupyscence We two togyther beganne To sprynge and to growe in manne As Thomas of Aquyne scanne In the fort boke of hys sentence I dwelt amonge the Sodomytes The Beniamytes and Madyanytes And now the popysh hypocrytes Embrace me euery where I am now become all spyrytuall For the clergye at Rome and ouer all For want of wyues to me doth fall To God they haue no feare The chyldren of God I ded so moue That they the doughters of men ded loue Workynge soch wayes as ded not behoue Tyll the floude them ouer went With Noes sonne ThaÌ„ I was half ioyned Whan he hys dronken father scorned In the Gomorytes I also reigned Tyll the hand of God them brent I was with Onan not vnacquaynted Whan he on the grounde hys increase shed For me hys bretherne Ioseph accused As Genesis doth tell Dauid ones warned all men of vs two Do not as mules and horses wyll do Confounded be they that to ymages go Those are the wayes to hell Both Esaye and Ezechiel Both Hieremy and Daniel Of vs the abhomynacyons tell With the prophetes euerychon For vs two God strake with fyre watter With battayle with plages fearfull matter With paynefull exyle than at the latter Into Egipt and Babylon As Paule to the Romanes testyfye The gentyles after Idolatrye Fell to soch bestyall Sodomye That God ded them forsake Who foloweth vs as he confesse The kyngedom of God shall neuer possesse And as the Apocalyps expresse Shall synke to the burnynge lake We made Thalon and Sophocles Thamiras Nero Agathocles Tibernius and Aristoteles Themselues to vse vnnaturallye I taught Aristo and Fulmus Semiramis and Hortensius Crathes Hyliscus and Pontius Beastes to abuse most monstruâ—uslye Infidelitas Marry thu art the deuyll hymselfe Idolotria If ye knewe how he coulde pelfe Ye wolde saye he were soch an elfe As non vnder heauen were els Infidelitas The fellawe is wele decked Dysgysed and wele necked Both knaue balde and pyepecked He lacketh nothynge but beles Sodomismus In the first age I beganne And so perseuerde with manne And styll wyll if I canne So longe as he endure If monkysh sectes renue And popysh prestes contynue Whych are of my retynue To lyue I shall be sure Cleane Marryage they forbyd Yet can not their wayes be hyd Men knowe what hath betyd Whan they haue bene in parell Oft haue they buryed quycke Soch as were neuer sycke Full many a propre trycke They haue to helpe their quarell In Rome to me they fall Both Byshopp and Cardynall Monke fryre prest and all More ranke they are than antes Example in pope Iulye Whych sought to haue in hys furye Two laddes and to vse them beastlye From the Cardynall of Nantes Infidelitas Well yow two are for my mynde Steppe fourth and do your kynde Leaue neuer a poynt be hynde That maye corrupt in man The lawe wryt in hys hart In hys flesh do thy hart Ad Sodo And hys sowle to peruart Ad Idol Do thu the best thu can Here haue I pratye gynnes Both brouches beades and pynnes With soch as the people wynnes Vnto ydolatrye Take thu part of them here Ad Idol Beades rynges and other gere With their abhomynacyon Idolatry with wyckednesse And Sodomy with fylthynesse To hys most vtter dampnacyon These two wyll hym so vse Ich one in their abuse And wrappe hym in soch euyll That by their wycked cast He shall be at the last A morsell for the deuyll Now vnderneth her noynges Idolatry hath kynges With their nobylyte Both dukes lordes knyghtes and earles Fayre ladyes with their pearles And the whole commenalte Within the bownes of Sodomye Doth dwell the spirytuall clergye Pope Cardinall and pryst Nonne Chanon Monke and fryre With so many els as do desyre To reigne vndre Antichrist Detestynge matrymonye They lyue abhomynablye And burne in carnall lust Shall I fell ye farthernewes At Rome for prelates are stewed Of both kyndes Thys is iust The lawe of Nature I thynke Wyll not be able to wynke Agaynst the assaultes of them They hauynge so hygh prelates And so manye great estates From hens to Hierusalem Pause now a lyttle whyle Myne eares doth me begyle If I heare not a sounde â—yen folke hath sped I gesse It is so by the Messe Awaye now wyll I rounde Exit Naturae lex I thynke ye maruele to se soch alteracyon At thys tyme in me whom God left here so pure â–ª Of me it cometh not but of mannys operacyon Whome dayly the deuyll to great synne doth allure â—nd hys nature is full bryttle and vnsure By hym haue I gote thys fowle dysease of bodye And as ye se here am now throwne in a leprye I wrought in hys hart as God bad ernestlye Hym oft prouokynge to loue God ouer all With the inner powers But that false Idolatrye Hath hym peruerted by slayghtes dyabolycall And so hath Sodomye through hys abuses carnall That he is now lost offendynge without measure And I corrupted to my most hygh dyspleasure I abhorre to tell the abusyons bestyall That they daylye vse whych boast their chastyte Some at the aulter to incontynency fall In confessyon some full beastly occupyed be Amonge the close nonnes reigneth thys enormyte Soch chyldren slee they as they chaunce for to haue And in their preuyes prouyde them of their graue Ye Christen rulers so yow for thys a waye Be not illuded by false hypocresye By the stroke of God the worlde wyll els decaye Permyt prestes rather Gods lawfull remedye Than they shuld incurre most bestyall Sodomye Regarde not the pope nor yet hys whorysh kyngedom For he is the master of Gomor and of Sodome With Man haue I bene whych hath me thus defyled â–ª With Idolatrye and vncleane Sodomye And worthye I am from God to be exyled Pytie me yet lorde of thy most bownteouse mercye I wyll fourth mourne tyll thu sende remedye Promyse hast thu made to a gloryouse lyberte To brynge heaueÌ„ earth thaÌ„ wylt thu I trust restore me Incipit Actus tertium Moseh lex THe lorde perceyuynge hys first lawe thus corupted With vncleane vyces sent me hys lawe of Moses To se hym for synne substancyallye corrected And brought in agayne to a trade of godlynes For I am a lawe of rygour and of hardenes I strayghtly commaunde and if it be not done I thretten I curse and slee in my anger sone To God I requyre a
These are only fygures outwarde testymonyes No man is perfyght by soch darke ceremonyes Only perteyne they vnto the thirde cōmaundement Of the Sabboth daye tyll Christ the lorde be present In hys death endyng the whole Iudaycal presthode Infidelitas Good dayes myght ye haue ye speake it full wele by the rode I am a poore lad by my trouth bent ernestlye To wayte vpon ye and to be your very lackye Moseh lex What art thu called I praye the hartelye Infidelitas Graye fryre am I non by the Messe I cā not flatter I am Infydelyte to tell the truth of the matter Moseh lex And hast thu so longe dyssembled thus with me ▪ Infidelitas Yea for aduauntage to smell out your subtylyte Moseh lex Auoyde hens I saye thu false Infydelyte Infidelitas Naye that I wyll not by Yngham Trynyte Moseh lex Wylt thu not in dede thā wyll I fet hyther the poure Of iudges kynges to subdue the withī thys houre Infidelitas Exit Soch knyghtes wyll I haue as shall cōfounde thē all As Sadducees scrybes with the sect pharysayeal By helpe of my chyldren Idolatry and Sodomye The lawe of Nature I kest ones in a leprye I haue yet two more Ambycyon Couetousnes Whych wyll do as moch to the lawe of Moses Where are my whoresons that they come not awaye Auaritia Iurisconsultus Yea whoreson on thy face euen in thy best araye I wyll thu knowe it I am a worshypfull Doctour A Scrybe in the lawe and a profytable proctour Infidelitas By wrastynge the text to the scriptures sore decaye Infidelitas And what wylt thu do my fellawe Couetousnes Auaritia A vayle wyll I sprede vpon the face of Moses That nō shal perceyue the clerenes of hys cōtenaūce Whych is of the lawe the meanyng true ordynaūce Infidelitas Why what wyll ye saye vnto y e ten cōmaundemētes Ambitio We must poyson them with wyll workes good intentes Where as God doth saye No siraunge goddes thu shalt haue With Sayntes worshyppynge that clause we wyll depraue And though he cōmaunde to make no carued ymage For a good intent yet wyll we haue pylgrymage Though he wyll vs not to take hys name in vayne With tradycyons yet therunto wyll we constrayne No Sabboth wyl we with Gods worde sanctyfye But with lyppe labour and ydle ceremonye To father and mother we maye owe non obedyence Our relygyon is of so great excellence Though we do not slee yet maye we heretykes burne If they wyll not sone from holy scripture turne What though it be sayd Thu shalt do no fornycacyō Yet wyll we mayntene moch greatter abhomynacyon Though theft be forbyd yet wyll we contynually Robbe the poore people through prayer purgatorye God hath inhybyted to geue false testymonye Yet we wyll condempne the Gospell for heresye We shuld not couete our neybers howse nor wyfe Hys seruaunt nor beast yet are we therin most ryfe Of mē make we swyne by the draffe of our tradycyōs And cause thē nothynge to regard but superstycyōs As dogges vnresonable on most vyle carren fede So wyll we cause them seke ydolles in their nede And alwayes their groūde shall be for a good intēt Infidelitas More myscheues I trowe the deuyll coulde not inuēt Than your two can do by the Messe ye are alone Lyttle coulde I do were ye ones from me gone To the corruptynge of the lawe of Moyses Go forwarde therfor in your deceytfulnes Auaritia With superstycyons the Iewes ceremonyall lawes I wyll so hādle they shall not be worth ij strawes The lawes Iudycyall through cawtels and delayes I wyll also drowne to all ryghteouse mēnys decayes To set thys forwarde we must haue sophystrye Phylosophye and Logyck as scyence necessarye The byshoppes must holde their prestes in ignoraūce With longe latyne houres least knowledge to them chaunce Lete them haue lōge mattens lōge euē songes lōge Masses And that wyll make them as dull as euer were asses That they shall neuer be able to prophecye Or yet preach the truth to our great iniurye Lete the cloysterers be brought vp euer in sylence Without the scriptures in payne of dysobedyēce Se the laye people praye neuer but in latyne Lete them haue their Crede and seruyce all in latyne That a latyne beleue maye make a latyne sowle Lete them nothynge knowe of Christ nor yet of powle If they haue Englysh lete it be for aduaūtage For pardons for Syrges for offerynges and pylgrymage I recken to make them a newe Crede in a whyle And all in Englysh their conscyēce to begyle Infidelitas Rehearce vnto me the Artycles of that Crede Auaritia The artycles are these geue eare and take good hede First they shall beleue in our holy father Pope Next in hys decrees and holy decretals Then in holy church with sencer crosse and cope In the Ceremonyes and blessed Sacramētals In purgatory then in pardons and in trentals In praynge to sayntes and in saynt Frāces whoode In our lady of Grace and in the blessed roode They shall beleue also in rellyckes and relygyon In our ladyes psalter in fre wyll and good wurkes In the ember dayes and in the popes remyssyon In bedes and in belles not vsed of the turkes In the golden Masses agaynst soch spretes as lurkes With charmes and blessynges Thys crede wyll brynge in moneye In Englysh therfor we wyl it clarkely cōueye Infidelitas Yea and burne the knaues that wyll not beleue that crede That into the dytche the blynde the blynde maye lede Ambitio Then I holde it best that we alwayes condempne The Byble readers least they our acres contempne Infidelitas Yea neuer spare them but euermore playe the bytar Expressynge alwayes the tropes and types of thy mytar Ambitio Why what dost thu thynke my mytar to sygnyfy Infidelitas The mouth of a wolfe and that shall I proue by by If thu stoupe downewarde loo se hom the wolfe doth gape Redye to deuoure the lambes least any escape But thy woluyshnesse by thre crownes wyll I hyde Makynge the a pope a captayne of all pryde That whan thu doest slee soch as thy lawes contēyne Thu mayst saye Nor I but the powers ded them condempne These Labels betoken the lawes of senon cannon Ambitio I trowe thu woldest saye the ij lawes Cyuyle Canon Infidelitas As I spake I thought styll thynke by saynt Iohan Yea persecute styll the instructers of the people And thu Couetousnesse lete no bell rynge ī steple Without a profyght Tush take moneye euery whear So nygh clyppe and shaue that thu leaue neuer a heare Auaritia I caused the pope to take but now of late Of the Graye fryres to haue canonyzate Franciscus de pola thre thousād duckates and more And as moch besydes he had not longe afore For a Cardynall harte of the same holy order Thus drawe we to vs great goodes frō euery border Pope Clement the seuēth payed ones for hys
Antichrist Pseudodoctrina Lete me se where are the letters of thy orders Euangelium Where Christ hys self is not in these same borders No soch pryst am I as is anoynted with olye But the holy Gost for I am non of thys soyle Pseudodoctrina Here I attache the for a busye scysmatyke And wyll the accuse for an haynouse heretyke Laye handes vpon hym depryue hym of thys aparell Hic veste spoliatum sordidioribus induunt Loo thus wyll I hādle all thē y t shall take thy quarell Holde awaye with thys gere laye it fourth a syde hypocrisis Naye tarry brother myne for away shalt thu not slyde Euangeliū I am not goynge why doest thu slaunder me Infidelitas Burne hym to ashes and shewe to hym no pytie Pseudodoctrina Brent shall he not be if he wyll no more do so Fellawe how sayst thu wylt thu here abiure or no Euangelium I wyll neyther abiure nor yet recant Gods glorye Pseudodoctrina I offered the reason and therto thu wylt not applye Wele get the forewarde for thu shalt sure dye The temporall power shall iudge the to the fyre At our accusement and holy relygyouse desyre Euangelium Though yow for my sake impryson men cruellye Famysh them stocke them them with fagotesfrye Hurt me ye shall not for I can neuer dye And they foy my sake shall lyue perpetuallye Pseudodoctrina Here is a pratynge with a very vengeaunce hens Hypocrysis Exeunt cum eo Thys horryble heretyke now shall we well recompens Infidelitas Yea burne hym wele fryre and lete hym no longer raygne Laye on grene fagotes to put hym to the more payne By the messe I laugh to se how thys gere doth wurke He is lyke of thē to haue no more grace than a turke For soch knaues they are as a man shall not lyghtly fynde And take hell ouer Companyōs they are to my mynde My busynesse all is now at a good conclusyon That I haue here brought these iij. lawes to cōfusyon Now shall I be able to lyue here peaceablye And make frowlyke chere with hey how fryska Iolye The lawe of Nature I kest first in a leprye By the secrete helpe of ydolatrye and sodomye The lawe of Moses I made a crypple blynde Auaryce Ambycyon to helpe me were not behynde And now Christes lawe I haue brent for heresye By helpe of false doctryne my cosyne hypocresye On these same iij. lawes all other lawes depende And can not preuayle now these are at an ende If christen gouerners do not these lawes vpholde Their cyuyle ordynaūces wyll sone be very colde Well thys valeaūt George hath made them all to stoupe Cheare now maye I make set cocke on the houpe Fyll in all the pottes and byd me welcome hostesse And go call me hyther myne owne swete mynyō Besse Finit Actus quartus Incipit Actus quintus Vindicta Dei QVid gloriaris in malicia qui potens es in iniquitate Thu vengeable wretche replete with poyson and vyce Why doest thu thus reioyce in crueltie and malyce Thynkest thu that God slepeth wyll not hys defēde And that thy myschefe shall neuer haue an ende The bloude of innocentes to hym for vengeaūce call And therfor thys houre must I fearcely vpō the fall Infidelitas Thu sprete of the ayre I strayghtly coniure the here By panton Craton and charge the to com no nere Vindicta Dei Thynkest thu to stoppe me with thy folysh cōiuracyon Whom God sendeth hyther for thy abhomynacyon Infidelitas What art thu called thy name to me rehearce Vindicta Dei I am vindicta Dei in pōnyshment most fearce With water with swerde and with fyre I must the pearce Infidelitas Be good in thy offyce and thu shalt haue moneye and meate Vindicta Dei By fylthy rewardes thu cannyst not me intreate But that I wyll do as God hath me commaunded For if worldly gyftes my furye myght haue changed The vnyuersall worlde had not bene drowned with water Nor Sodome and Gomor with so fyery fearfull matter Nor yet the Israelytes with terrour of the sworde With hungre and pestylence in the anger of Gods worde Pharao in Egipte the plages had neuer felte Myght I haue bene stopped for syluer or for gelte Into Egipte I brought ten terryble pōnyshmentes Vpon the people for breakynge hys commaūdemētes Their wholsom waters I tourned into bloude I multyplyed frogges to poysō therwith their fonde I made waspes dranes them greuously to stynge And all kyndes of flyes sone after ded I in brynge Vpon their cattel I threwe the foule pestylence Both borche byle blayne they had for their offence Lyghtenynges and haylynges destroyed their corne and frute A swarne of hungry locustes their pastours destytute The space of thre dayes I gaue them palpable darkenesse I slewe the first gootē of mā beast for thy rudenes For I neuer stryke but for the Infydelyte Infidelitas Stryke for me quoth A By the mary Masse I defye the. Vindicta Dei What thu wylt not so thy braynes are not so lyght Infidelitas Anger me not to moch for if thu do I fyght Vindicta Dei All that wyll not helpe thy wycked workynges now Whan the stronger come the weaker must nedes bowe The lawe of Nature infected thu hast with a leprye Infidelitas Naye it was not I but that wytche Idolatrye And that polde shorne knaue that men call Sodomye Vindicta Dei. Of whom spronge they first but of Infydelyte Therfor thu shalt haue that plage of penalte Whych they first tasted for their inyquyre For those two vyces I drowned the worlde with water In token wherof I plage the with the same matter hic Infidelitatem lympha percutit Infidelitas Tush I defye thy worst Thys shall not dryue me hēce For after the floude with Cham had I resydence And so contynued tyll Moyses lawe came in With hys iolye tryckes a newe rule to begyn Vindicta Dei And hym thu corruptedest with Auaryce Ambycyō And so dedyst leaue hym in myserable cōdycyō Thu shalt haue therfor that than to them was due Most terryble barrayle the Israelytes vntrue That tyme ded suffer for their infydelyte Wherfor with thys swerde I iustlye bannysh the. Bycause thu shalt here geue place to Christes gospel Gladio Infidelitatem denuo cedit Infidelitas Yet wyll I not hens but agaynst ones rebell Sed not I remayne with Iudas and other more Whan Christ preached here taught them in vext hym sore Yes after that was I with Simon Magus With Saunder Copper smyth with Elimas and Demetrius And now I perseuer amōge y e rāke rable of papystes Teachyng ther shorlynges to playe the Antichrystes Vindicta Dei The innocent bloude of sayntes contynuallye Doth call vnto God to reuenge their iniurye Agaynst false doctryne and cursed hypocresye Whom thu hast raysed the glory of the Gospell To darken and hys fryndes most myserably to quell Wherfor thu shalt haue lyke as thu hast deserued
slee nor stele nor yet to beare false recorde To shewe what is synne and to seke the remedye Publyque peace to holde sore to pōnysh the gyltye From these good effectes se that Mā neuer swerue Than shall he be sure that God wyll hym preserue Christi lex The effect of me is for to loue the lorde In the innar sprete and to fauer frynde enmye And in all poyntes els with Gods wyll to accorde To preache remyssyon to saue and to iustyfye In Christ all to seke lyfe iustyce peace and mercye These heauenly effectes in Man so incorporate That he maye in sprete be newlye regenerate Fides Christiana More swete than honye are your thre exhortacyons And regestred they be in my momoryall Now wyll I forewarde to all the christen nacyons And sem effect these lawes obserued all To the abolyshment of the dreames papystycall Now the lyght is come the darkenesse dyeth awaye I trust in the lorde men wyll walke in the daye Good christen people to these thre lawes applye First knowe that ye haue a lyuynge God aboue Than do hym honour and hys name magnyfye Worshyp hym in spret as the Gospel yow doth moue Than obeye your kynge lyke as shall yow behoue For he in hys lyfe that lorde doth represent To sauegarde of the iust synners ponnyshment Se that ye regarde soch lawes as he doth make For they are of God as Salomon doth report Of these lawes doubtles those lawes their groundynges take To the publyque welth to geue ayde strēgth cōfort For preseruacyon of all the christen sort In no case folowe the wayes of Reygnolde Pole To hys dampnacyon he doubtles playeth the fole Saue a due respect vnto your contreye natyue Whych hath brought ye vp geuen ye norryshment Euen from your cradles to these dayes nutrytyue So that ye maye do to her welth and preferment My master to her no hatefull detryment A dogge to hys frynde wyll neuer be vnlouynge Lete reason in ye not lose hys naturall workynge Naturae lex Who lyueth without lawe shal perysh without lawe And ▪ therfor we haue thre lawes to yow descrybed That after their lyue ye shuld in your lyuynge drawe We ▪ haue also shewed how they haue bene corrupted By fowle Idolatres and sodomytes poluted By couetouse prestes and by ambycyouse prelates Hypocryticall fryres false doctours false curates Moseh lex Who hath restored these same thre lawes agayne But your late Iosias valeaūt kynge Henrye No prynce afore hym toke euer yet soch payne Frō Englāde to bānysh Idolatrye fowle sodomye Couetousnes Ambycyō false doctryne hypocresye It was he that brought Christes veryte to lyght Whan he put the pope with hys fylthynes to flyght Christi lex Frō dānable darkenesse as my bother here doth saye He hath delyuered thys realme of Englande godlye Bryngynge hys subiectes into the true path waye Of their sowles sauegarde if they now folowe it wyselye And left them he hath the same waye styl to fortyfye Hys noble sonne Edwarde soch a kynges of god elect As questyonles wyll perfourme it in effect Fides Christiana Praye all to the lorde for the longe contynuaunce Of hys graces lyfe in thys worldes habytacyon And that of hys nobles he haue true mayntenaunce In the pryncyples of thys most worthy foundacyon That he maye to Christ brynge vs from desolacyon Praye for quene Bateryne y e noble lorde protectour With the whole counsell that God be their directour Amen Into fyue personages maye the partes of thys Comedy be deuyded The Prolocutour Christen fayth Infydelyte The first The lawe of Nature Couetousnesse False doctryne The seconde The lawe of Moses Idolatrye Hypocresye The third The lawe of Christ. Ambycyon Sodomye The fourt Deus pater Vindicta Dei The fift The aparellynge of the six vyces of frutes of Infydelyte Lete Idolatry be decked lyke an olde wytche Sodomy lyke a monke of all sectes Ambycyon lyke a byshop Couetousnesse lyke a pharyse or spyrituall lawer false doctryne lyke a popysh doctour and hypocresy lyke a graye fryre The rest of the partes are easye ynough to coniecture A songe vpon Benedictus Compyled by Iohan Bale BEnedictus dominus Deus Israel Whych hath ouerthrowne the myghty Idoll Bel The false god of Rome by poure of the Gospell And hath prepared from the depe lake of hell Redemptionem plebis sue Et erexit cornu of mercy helth and grace That cruell tyraunt now clerely to deface Whose bloudy kyngedome demynysheth apace By the worde of God whych lately hath take place In domo Dauid pueri sui Sicut locutus est the lorde celestyall That Romysh Antichrist is lyke to haue a fall With hys whole table of sectes dyabolycall And now the nombre wyll florysh ouer all Prophetarum eius Salutem exinimicis now we maye dayly heare The enemyes of Christ with hym doth wytnesse beare Saul is become a paule and preacheth euery wheare Now maye we receyue most heauenly wholsom geare De manu eorum qui derunt nos Ad faciendam misericordiam The sonne of our God from hys hygh glory cam To redeme the synne of the chyldren of Adam And to remembre to faythfull Abraham Testamenti sui sancti Iusiurandum whych God hath made afore Vnto our fathers he wyll kepe euermore Promesed he hath if we regarde hys lore Forsakynge the pope with hys dampnable store Daturum se nobis Vt sine timore from Romysh tyrauntes fre The lorde graunt vs grace that we maye speakers be Of hys holy worde and therin to agre That in the Gospell and christen lyberte Seruiamus illi In sanctitate and purenesse of lyfe Lete vs now trauayle both mayden man and wyfe All ryghtwys doynges in vs be euer ryfe That we perseuer without debate or stryfe Omnibus diebus nostris To puer propheta elected of the lorde Kynge Edwarde the sixt to haue Gods lawe restorde Folowest Iosias therof to take recorde In all thy doynges and in Gods holy worde Parare vias eius Ad dandam scientiam for mennys helth sauegarde Christes holy Gospel by theis frelye hearde Wherin doth consyst their lyfe and full rewarde With preseruacyon from daungerouse icoparde Peccatorum eorum Per uiscera misericordiae Christ our dere master vs dayly ouerse Least we here perysh in our myquyte Our medyatour contynually is he Oriens exalto Illuminare swete lorde we the desyre To men in darkenesse and in the popysh myre Lete not hys baggage thy faythfull seruauntes tyre But vs delyuer from them and from hell fyre In uiam pacis Amen The commaundementes breuelye Loue thy lorde God Sweare thu non othe Thy sabbath kepe Please thy fryndes bothe Wytnes non yll Holde no mannys wyfe Brybe no mannys good Slee not with knyfe Wysh no mannys howse Nor oxe nor asse As thu wylt haue So thu lyke casse Thus endeth thys Comedy concernynge thre lawes of Nature Moses and Christ corrupted by the Sodomytes Pharisees papystes most wycked Compyled by Iohan Bale Anno M. D. XXXVIII and lately inprented per Nicolaum Bamburgensem