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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00402	Wonderfull newes of the death of Paule the. iii. last byshop of Rome [and] of diuerse thynges that after his death haue happened, wherein is trulye set ... the abominable actes of his most mischeuous life. Written in Latin by. P. Esquillus, and Englyshed by W. B. Londoner.; Epistola de morte	Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1498-1565, attrib. name. aut; Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?	1552 (1552)	STC 10532; ESTC S112433	12,155	42

nowe at last yf at the least wyse he euer lyued But all his holynesse he left for Christe and his saintes thinking it ynough for hym yf but in title and name he mighte be called moste holy I come than quod I my moste trusty guyde and gladlye and willingly I do followe thee Forth we wente tyll we came vnto the Popes palace where we founde Paule breathyng a litle for he was at the poynt of death About hym were many diuelles but fewe men For they beyng sure he wold dye were othcrwise occupied some in riflyng his coffers and other some in stealyng his costly apparell with his siluer and golden vessell some aboute one thing and some about another as commonly menne are wonte to bee at so good a season Whyle these thynges were in doyng our holy father gaue vp his ghoste Then was there one whiche semed to be captaine of the fiendes and to be in authoritie aboue the reste who comming to hym sayd Sathanas saue thee thou pyller and worshippe of oure kyngdome And than takyng hym by the hand led hym downe into a certaine shadowed valleye The sydes whereof were so full of mooste hyghe Cypresse trees that the pleasaunte lyghte of the Sunne coulde no where gette in In the heade of this valleye was a verye stynkyng lake whiche I thinke eyther be Auernum or some other lyke Here Dracolicus for that was that Captayne Deuylles name because Paule wente naked commaunded a womans garmente of yron graye brodered with fiery serpentes to be broughte hym about that borders wherof wer Scorpiōs after the maner of a garde Than loe Paule semed to me to be wholy chaunged into a most foule doting old trot Contrary to Pope John who counterfayting the mā declared her selfe in bringing forth a sonne to be a very womā But I wondred muche at one thynge For in this garment I saw figured his most notable mischieues as māstaughter poysonynges treasons Incest abhominable aduoutries Than they put hi on shoes or rather bootes of swynes leather And set vpon his heade a foxe furre nyghtcap whereon they put a myter mete for thre crownes of whiche the first that wēt about his forhead temples was an * Amphisbene The secōd was of an Aspis the thirde was a Cerast with two hornes whiche did well set forth the top of the Mytre About his necke hong a chayne made of two wrethed Adders At his eare in stede of his earetyres crocked ii speckled frogges To this they gaue him loaden gloues and bracelettes of vipers that he shuld lacke nothyng of an whores attyre and garnishmēt Thē did thei set him vpō a great beast which had heare growē out of mās bloud which semed diuers with diuers coloured spottes In these spottes myght be read as they had be printed with a burnyng yron the names of al erroures and reuilinges of god and Christ that haue bene at any time sēce men were borne bothe of the Egipcians Phariseis Hessenes Hebeonites Maniches Arrians Maometans and Pelagians besides those whiche the Papistes haue inuented to the reproche of God and Christ. This beast had seuen heades and ten hye lyfted hornes and on euery horne a croune which signifieth a kynges power But Paul had caried with hym a golden cup lyke vnto these whiche the priestes lyft vp at the altare whyle they are at worke aboute his holy seruyce This Chalice caried he in his hande with suche gesture as the Germaynes be wont when they bid any man to drinke The ministers of hell led downe the hye by shoppe beyng thus decked through the lowe vallcye But Genius my ghost guyded me very pleasauntly by the righte side of the mountaine So that we lurking amōg the Cypres trees did the easilyer beholde from an higher place all thynges that were done and all the whole pompe of his Triumphe And whan we had goen a litle farther we hearde a greate noyse of horsemen that were cummyng And not long after through the monicion of Genius my ghoste I knewe Peter Aloysius the bishops sonne who hauing hearde of his fathers comminge came forth before to meete him for honoures sake And be beyng wrapped in a Goates skinne tyd vpon a Goate that was so byg that he semed to be greater then a bul At his brest in stede of a golden Bull hong a great Priapus And this Priapus whiche I greatly wondred at had a naked Pintell hanging in the middle parte of his body About Peter Aloysius were Catamites innumerable hauyng all the partes of theyr body finely clothed saue only theyr atses which beyng naked lyke Apes they shewed forthe The rest that were with hym tode vpon very great she goates And in theyr banners whether it were to fraye byrdes or no I know not they had images of Priapus There Petrus Aloysius with Constance his sister who also was his stepdame skarce knewe his father in that blacke band of horsemen For he had not that apparell that face that white horse nor that trayne after hym which he was wonte to haue in his lyfe time Neither coulde he haue knowen hym at all yf he had not marked well a certayne shape of a byshops mytre whiche they call a kyngdome his voice and speche But whan he was come nerer hym and that they had saluted one an other he sayde O father art thou also come downe hither whom I wold haue thought yf soules myght lyue longer than the bodyes whiche now alas to my payne I fele wouldest haue flyen vp into heauen For manye and that a great company of men worshipped the as a GOD. Thou promysedst heauen to them that worshipped thee Thou calledst vp soules agayne from hell Thou forgauest them muche punishment and peynes accordyng to the aunciente seueritie whiche returned to thy holy seate deuocion as of late dayes thou shewedst the prynces and people of Germanie whiche fell from the to a certayne I knowe not what doctryne of the gospel by thre by shops whiche were thy Legates a late●e Notwithstandyng those whiche were nerest about the as was I with fewe other knewe well to well that thou trustedst not thy selfe to those thynges whiche thou so muche boastedst of souldest to other but estemedst them as tales of Robin hode For I remēbre when thou affirmedst that there were no soules nor any hell at all but that thou didest defend them and saye there were suche because they were excellente and verye mete to deceyue men and not onelye to saue and defende riches and Empyres but also to get and obtayne them ¶ I thy sonne beynge instructed and seasoned with this noble doctrine thoughte nothing vnlawfull for me to do Hereof came my so many adultries both with mē and women Hereof came the slaughters and robberies frō hence came the sacrileges and blasphemous reuilinges agaynste God Christe and his mother the virgin and agaynste all the heauenly sayntes from hence came the innumerable myschiefes and all kynd of vngracious dedes which I folowyng that