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A00423	The stage of popish toyes conteining both tragicall and comicall partes: played by the Romishe roysters of former age: notably describing them by degrees in their colours. Collected out of H. Stephanus in his Apologie vpon Herodot. With a friendlie forewarning to our Catelin Catholikes: and a brief admonition, of the sundrie benefites we receiue by hir Ma: blessed gouernement ouer vs. Compyled by G.N.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English. Selections	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; North, George, gentleman.	1581 (1581)	STC 10552; ESTC S101744	72,594	99

The Stage of Popish toyes Conteining both Tragicall and Comicall partes played by the Romishe roysters of former age notably describing them by degrees in their colours Collected out of H. STEPHANVS in his Apologie vpon HERODOT With a friendlie forewarning to our Catelin Catholikes and a brief admonition of the sundrie benefites we receiue by hir Ma blessed gouernement ouer vs. Compyled by G. N. Printed by Henry Binneman ANNO DOMINI 1581. Cum Priuilegio TO THE RIGHT HONOrable Sir Christopher Hattō Knight Captaine of hir Maiesties Garde Vizchamberlaine to hir highnesse and of hir Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsaile SAge Sibilla right honorable said to Aeneas that no way could be closed againste Vertue affirming that al actions happily succeeded whatsoeuer the attēpt be Virtute duce And Theodorus Biblian der defineth Vertue to be inuested with diuers titles according to the diuersity of hir proper motions as in discerning the deceit of mans traditions in choosing the veritie and in flying false Hipocrisie she is called Prudence in maintayning Gods glorie in withstanding the Popes tirannie and in defending the true felowship of Christian societie she is named Fortitude in suppressing Idolatrie in embracing mercie and in aduauncing the ministers of his heauēlie maiestie she is saide to be Iustice in moderating Romish furies and weake affections in qualifying Popish quarrels and peruerse cōditions in vsing either to bring both to the true vse of Gods word she is tearmed Temperance A Prince with these pillers doth euer preuaile a tree with these brāches doth euer blossom a body with these members ouercommeth the labours of Hercules Besids these general graces of Vertue there are two special precedents chiefelie to be loked into the cause and the execution both which your honor whose forward fauour to al Christs professors vnder hir Maiesty among the rest of right honorable long since considered of performing confirming executing the effect in such famous sort as the whole Worlde is amazed and mated at hir Maiesties moste happie and blessed gouernement whereby you haue hitherto proued in your noble person Sibillas sayings to be true that nothing can preuaile against this diuine Vertue which some define to be God himselfe And now seing his auntient and opposite enimie the Pope hath foysted in among vs Petifoggers who like sheete stealers tinckers or Connyskin buyers creepe in corners to vtter their trash my fortune being by a French man to meet with a packe of their paultry I presume in humble sort to present the first shew therof to your honor wherin if I play the bad Pedler so your honor pardō me I force not for truelie I am not their feed Broker I haue entituled it The Stage of Popish toyes as a most meet tearm for the matter the sum substance wherof I confesse to haue collected out of H Stephanus in his Apologie vpon Herodot who coateth thē in theyr Couchanele colours and therfore if any part haue his wrong dye I must yeelde to the fault and excuse my Author But my selfe without vaunt a martial professor and continuallie armed to the proofe with a seruisable dutiful hart to your honor I hope my errors shal passe for the easier payment and be the better born with for that hereby I affirme this auntient Emblem In vtrumque paratus and vow my daylie prayer for the proceeding and encreasing of that which God at the first placed in you and is according to the saying of Plato No man to be noble without a heauenly inspiration Your Honors most bound seruaunt in all humble duetie GEORGE NORTH ¶ The Stage of Popish toyes THe Locretians had a speciall law worthie to be noted of all good gouerned common wealthes and chiefely of vs Englishmē in these dangerous times if euery one would looke into his dutie as he ought For whosoeuer presumed to call in question any thing that passed by the decrée of those who were authorized by the Prince to deuise publish and establish good lawes among them should be fréely heard so he came collered with a halter about his necke to the end that deliuering probable argument to maintaine his presumption confounding in reasonable iudgement the same he argued on and approuing his Councell to stand more with a common wealth he was vnarmed of his Hempe highly commended and preferred both by Prince and people But if he were conuicted in his arrogancie and found more busie to reproue than wise to maintaine he was straight trussed vp according to deserte whiles his fault and follie was in memorie Socrates gaue lesse libertie to his Citizens for he woulde haue no lawe disputed of openly not of those that had the authoritie to reforme them much lesse that any other eyther publikely or priuately shoulde dare maintaine argument of them For he considered how lawes are scanned when they come to the discussing of the common sort If Englande whose gouernment by Gods great blessing executed in the person of our most sacred Soueraigne had the lawes of Locretia or the sharpe preceptes of Socrates our Papistes durst not for the rope contende so openly nor for feare of due iustice presume so boldly of their errours as they doe But such hath bin hir Maiesties mercie to them all in pardoning prolonging bearing and forbearing hoping that God woulde conuert them or dutie reclaime them couering with equal care to confirme hir louing subiects in one minde in one obedience and in one profession as they abusing hir gratious clemencie wax more indurate and wilfully runne into all the ylles that may be If they would desire God to giue them the true knowledge of his worde and stedfastly perseuer in prayer to be instructed by his holy spirit no doubt but his diuine Maiestie would so open the eyes of their reason as they shoulde sée what daunger they dwell in to the euerlasting destruction of their Soules and what cunnyng hath kepte them in their errour from the beginning which true iudgement can no waye bee attayned vnto vnlesse wée constantly continue in prayer till we perfectly féele and iustly finde in our selues his heauenly blessing confirmed in vs. Howe manye in all ages euen from the first creation of man haue deliuered in the testimonie of their bloud the most abhominable abuses of that Romishe Antichrist on whome you so much depende howe manye of all Nations moste excellent and learned wryters by the authoritie of the sacred Scriptures haue published infinite volumes shewing approuing the most ioyfull fruites of the true perfect profession of Christ crucifyed and howe these two doe differ in all degrées no true Christian but knoweth so farre as God may excell man is not to be doubted But so farre as his wickednesse may match with y e hatefull sinne of Lucifer to the malice of the heauenly Maiestie this proude beast presumeth on Haue the cloudes of errour so couered you as you cannot sée hath the mystes of ignoraunce of meshid you as you will

booke of his epistles sheweth further how a night ghost was consured sor sayeth he there was a certaine Prieste that helde his Néece in the house with him who had good store of money and to the ende to drawe somewhat from hir he lapped himselfe in a shéete and towardes midnight entred hyr Chamber counterfayting a spirite the woman y t was wise perceyued in part the mistery and therefore caused another of hir kinsemen the nexte night to come and lye secretlye in the Chāber by hir who in lieu of a coniuring booke brought a good cudgell filling hys heade with drinke to be the hardyer the spyrite appearyng as afore beganne wyth hys fearefull noyse pitifullye to cry when the Coniurer who had not yet disgested hys Wine sodainely sette vppon him and so basted hym on both sides saying if thou be the Diuel I am hys Damme as he had vtterly spoyled him if he had not the sooner discouered himselfe In the yeare 1569. there was in Ausburge in Germanie certayne seruaunts belonging to one of greate worshippe who made no accounte of the suttle secte of the Iesuites Wherevppon a foule of the same feather promised theyr Mayster hée woulde easilye remoue that opinion from thē to the performaunce whereof he disguised himselfe into hymselfe and putte on the habite of hys firste founder the Diuell And after hyding hym in a corner of the house to the whyche place one of the mayde seruauntes by hyr Maysters appoyntment was sent thys Iesuite in the forme of a diuel so feared hir as she had like to haue gone oute of hir wittes whiche she presently reported to one of hir Masters men persuading him in no case to come neare that way The felow notwithstanding thought to proue whether hir feare procéeded of any assured cause wente to trye it vppon whome this Iesuite diuell or Diuell Iesuite in the moste horriblest manner he might fastened his counterfaite tallants The fellowe partely prouided afore looking for some such mater drew out his dagger wrought a myracle by killing of the diuell Thus you may sée that the opinion whiche euerye one had in their holinesse furnished them with all diuelishe inuentions to maintaine the same And therefore we ought greatly to reioyce in God and our Quéene that the true profession of the Gospel hathe so opened the eyes of Englande that we may beholde all their abuses in their perfect kind For now God wil not suffer that such which purely in faith and sinceritie call vppon his holy name in Iesus Christe his son shall feare or doubt any of those damnable deuises where before they were wont by their daily familiaritie with the Diuel to haue him continuallye conuersant among them p●actising by spirites his instrumentes of darkenesse to holde the worlde in blind errors Whiche a Protestant alleadging to a Papist for the better signe and token of our true profession sayde You maye the sooner vnderstande by this that our re●igion is good and sound doctrine For since Gods word was preached among vs we haue not séene nor heard of any night ghosts to trouble vs. The other supposing this argument to serue beste for his purpose replyed saying it is rather a token that God hath taken his grace from you for that nowe the Diuell hath no more to do considering he doth accompt you al his owne Alleadging this example written by Eneas Siluius sometime Pope Pius the 2. whiche hée tooke out of the Legend of Saint Benet and the historie is thus Saint Benet trauailed to a Couent of Monkes where he founde a heape of vncleane Spirites combatting with the holy Fathers of that place and all to remoue them from theyr good workes Sainte Benet at another time returning to the Abbey found an euil spirite sitting idlely wagging his legges and beating his héeles togyther with cold whom he coniured to shew him the cause of hys idlenesse he aunsweared we are to make wars wyth Cloystermen and such as be the seruauntes of God and not against those whose dreames trumperies and blasphemies do already serue the Diuel This was well applyed if Sainte Benet had bene by to haue paraphrased further vppon it for none wil deny but that the suttletie of the Diuil is suche as he séeketh to encrease hys kyngdome by all the meanes he may and howe can hys glorie be greater than to kéepe that carefully which he hath gotten cunningly And also it is a general rule that a conqueror doth triumph in nothyng more than in holding in due obedience those that are become his vassals which must be by the presence of him selfe or by his chiefest ministers And seing the Diuel wanteth no experience hauing as much foresight as so proude a Spirite may haue if we be so assuredly hys owne as that Papist would make vs he woulde not be from vs in person as a friend to fauor vs or in power as a iealious foe to lose vs considering y e holy league so termed by the cōsent of so mightie Papists haue promised to make vs reuolt if it be as y e petie Papist sayeth frō him But as it is only natural reason that those grosse creatures of the Popes desire to be satisfied by so in reason they know it is as much wisedome policie to kéep as it is prayse glorie to get whiche in my opinion y e féend would foresée as a principle if he held vs so dear as this his darling winning y t gole in his own conceyt w t one stroke alleageth he doth therfore it is to be beléeued y e Diuel wil not dwel but where he hath some interest and may be welcome And y e which is most true the Pope his best beloued as he cannot forbear him so he dare not spare him so far of séeing Gods warriours are comming with a rolling crench towards him And as in al martial marches there are euer some straglers who care neither for Country Captain nor cause but follow only to pray vpon the spoyle of others so the Papistes of present time that séeme to muster vnder the banner of true Christians vexed with the frensie of these forlorne spirites in the image of Englishmen come rogyng and stragling among vs as a newe founde Iesuite of late did who couet nothing more than the ruine of theyr Country that they mighte with the Diuell theyr Maister haue a part in the bloudye bootie But to proue indéed howe Sathan the chiefe Maister of sinne dare not be where the word of God is truelye taughte the sacred Scriptures in euerye text doe testifye As in Matthewe the 8. Marke the 5. Luke the 8. Paule 2. to the Corin 6. Chap. c. Although the inuention of man be greate whose proude iudgement hath presumed on many things yet truely hys iniquitie in his own nature did neuer deuise a more damnable blasphemie against God and his Saints than y t booke entituled Legenda Aurea Wherein there are many passages so far from Decorum that if the

once by their good prayers deliuered from thence they answered no why then quoth he it were a needlesse charitie to giue any thing for him y t is alredie in safetie therfore I thinke it a godly policie to kepe my money in store to pleasure some other poore soule not yet deliuered so sent thē away fasting A Venetian told y e Popes legat y t his holinesse was euil councelled at the first for it had bin more wisedom said he to haue published y t he could haue deliuered soules out of hel rather than out of Purgatory for touching Purgatorie it is to be considered whether there be such a place or no but for Hell there is no question since the whole world beléeues there is one What treasure this toye of Purgatorie brought to your mother holy church the pride of your Pope holy father with al his marked traine of Coules crownes and tippets haue in all ages testifyed The French king being at Rome where séeing the pompe of the Popes court and specially of the Cardinals asked y e Cardinal of Autgnion if the Apostles of Christ went so sūptuously apparelled he aunswered no but your Maiestie must consider sayd he that states with time do alter for the Apostles were fishers liued in those dayes when Kings were shepheards If you suppose it a reproofe to our profession the lacke of sounde learning in some our ordinarie Ministers looke into your Romish religion and you shall sée examples of sundry to be more sottish vnlearned and lesse witted thā the worst and simplest of our sorte As one commended to a Bishop to be made a Massing Priest whom he finding at dinner the Bishop to proue his Latine saide Es tu dignus he answered no sir I thanke you I will dyne with your seruauntes beléeuing that Dignus had bin to dyne An other comming to be Priested and asked who was father to the foure sonnes of Amon was set a ground and answered he could not tell and therefore was refused Who at his comming home shewed how hardly he was handled his father to instruct him said Ball my dogge hath foure whelps and who can be father to my whelps thou beast but Ball. This setled so great reason in his sonne that he was assured now to be admitted And so being asked the second time who was father to the foure sonnes of Amon he answered readily and wittily Ball my fathers dogge An other of the same stampe being demaunded what parte was best of a rosted Pigge answered the skinne which was well lyked and he admitted A byrd of y e same neast standing by being likewise asked what part of a Calfe was most delicatest and daintiest said the skinne for he séeing the others answere to passe for good payment supposed his coyne euery way as currant A certaine Frenchman that had serued a Scot was persuaded bicause he could a little reade to become a Priest When he should take orders the Bishop speaking Latine to him he answered that his maister vnderstoode Scottishe very well but for his part he had not yet learned it supposing the Bishop had spoken Scottish to him An other of more learning but of lesse wit being asked in Latine Quot sunt septem Sacramenta answered Tres Aspergillum Thuribulum Magnum Altare which is in English How many be the seuen Sacramentes the answere Three the Holye water Sprinckle the Sensar and the highe Altar And séeing occasion offereth it selfe to make mentiō o● holy water in pardō of the patient reader to iustifie so necessarie a matter as holy water is to your holy mother Church I wil not let slip the testimonie of thrée speciall authorities A certaine pleasant reproued bicause he did not put off his Cappe when the Priest sprinckled him with holy water answered if it haue power as you preache to passe to Purgatorie surelye it must haue muche easier passage throughe my Cap. A Gentleman of gallant spirit named Godon a Councellor of y e Parliamēt Court in Fraunce being present whē king Francis the first of that name was deuising with others the readiest meane how he might staie or encounter the Emperour who as the report went was cōming against him with a great power Godon hearing some wishe they had so many thousand Gascoynes and some so many thousand Launceknights with other sundrie wishes said to y e King séeing it is in question to wyshe if your Maiestie will pardon mée you shall heare my wyshe which shal be such as will cost you nothing where all the rest of theirs depende on great charges the King knowing his pleasant humor wylled to shewe what he woulde wishe sir sayde Godon I woulde wishe to become a Diuell but for one quarter of an houre that I might goe directly to the Emperour and breake his necke Truely quoth the King I sée nowe you are no better than a foole as thoughe the Emperour had not holy Water in his Countrey to chase awaye Diuels aswell as wée haue here in Fraunce In pardon of your Maiestie replyed Godon it may so be and I beléeue some young Diuell not skilfull of his crafte woulde flye the holy Water but such a Diuell as had at any time bene a Godon all the holy Water in the worlde coulde not feare him wherein he pleasantly touched the superstition of it A register in Paris named Lory hearing a Cardinall bemone his Minion for that shée was possessed of an euill spirit and could by no skill or cunning be fréed nor eased saide I can shewe you a readie remedie The Cardinall thrice glad offered any recompence he woulde desire Lory replyed my rewarde shall be no more then my cost and that is not muche you néede not to giue hir but one Clister of holy Water and that will chase all yll Spirites out of hir if the force and vertue of it be such as you saye we must beléeue I haue one pleasant proofe more of y e ignorance of your lacke latines worth the remēbrance which is of a professed Priest of Normandie that would néedes trauell to Rome for a licence to haue two Benefices who desired his Bishop to write to the Pope in his commendation imagining vpon his cōming what his holynesse would say to him and as he vnderstoode by others of his owne marke that had bin there for the like purpose he learned thrée Latine wordes sufficient as he supposed to serue his turne which for that it hath the best grace in Latine I am enforced so to deliuer it for after he had saluted the Pope saide Salue sancte Pater the Pope woulde aske Vnde venisti then he should answere è Normandia next his holinesse would demaunde Vbi sunt litterae tuae he shoulde say In manica mea and so take his letters out of his sléeue and deliuer them for Priests in those dayes commonly carried al their trashe in their sléeues This gallant glorying in his