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B00220	A bloodie tragedie, or Romish maske. Acted by fiue Iesuites, and sixteene young Germaine maides. Presented in a church (within the dukedome of Bauaria) at the high altar, in the citie of Miniken in Germanie, in March . 1607. / Translated out of the High-Dutch, and printed at Nuremberg by Iohn Lankenberger.		1607 (1607)	STC 14526.5; ESTC S93353	11,019	28

to Rome and obtained the Popes Bull for him and his fellowes or rather disciples to goe on pilgrimage to Ierusalem But the Turkes and Venetians being at that time in warres together they went no further then Venice and were there made Shorne-priests being then but seauen in number by the Popes Legate who lay Resident in Venice Afterward Pope Paulus the third confirmed their order preuided their number should neuer excéede thréescore Yet afterwardes his Holinesse vpon better consideration decreed that their number should not bee stinted nor that their Order which hee called the Societie of Iesu shoulde bee tyed to any certaine place of abiding Thus was a poore lame Souldier the roote of this Trée which now spreades into so manybranches and because they were ashamed to bee called Ignatians or Layolons after their fathers name hee being so poore they tooke vpon them a more haughty title and would néedes bee called The societie of Iesus that is to say Iesuites When they lay thus in the cradle of their rearing they vowed a perpetuall and willing pouertie to fight as Souldiers vnder the Banner of the Crosse to bée chaste to exercise workes of charitie and onely to labour about the winning of soules for heauen These were at first their lawes to these were they sworne But the windes haue shifted their places since and now this Societie of Iesus vtterly renounce the societie of Iesus they row vp and downe nowe no more in the shallow and narrow streames of pouertie but hoist vp lustie and loftie sayles in the Seas of Auarice and Ambition Now birdes of their owne feather doe abhorre their singing for the Secular Seminaries who drinke of the same cuppe and the same draught which shee who sits vpon the Purple Beast and poures out to them both and who march in the same ranke with the Iesuites haue and doe euery day more and more in bookes publikely printed vtterly condemne them They say the Iesuites are bloody and stirrers vp sedition in Christian Kingdomes that they are lyars that they are proude that they delight in rich apparell that they are wherried vp and downe in Coaches that they haue traines of followers at their héeles as if they were great Earles or men of blood that they are Epicures and make their belly their god that they are lasciuious and loue women hauing Gentlewomen for their chamber-maides and young wenches for their bedfellowes that they are now the onely statesmen in the world and deale in no other affaires but the titles of Princes the genealogies of Kings the liues of succession the bestowing of Scepters where they please that they are théeues murtherers Machiauells and the onely couseners of the whole world Thus O you subiects of the Dukedome of Bauaria haue I shewed vnto you the pictures of these Iesuites as they went at the first and and haue pulled off the Vizards vnder which they haue gone masked a long time since and haue now their faces discouered and made bare by some of their owne fellowes Sithence then that with their owne fingers they lay spottes of inke vpon one anothers chéekes it shall bee no shame for mee nor let it bee held as a malitious act of my penne neyther can it straine their Societie with more dishonour then alreadie stickes vpon them for other crimes if Idraw forth to the life and to the trueth the monstrous and vgly shapes of those impieties which of late they haue begotten and these they are In the Citie of Miniken these Iesuiticall Maskers vsed to walke vp and downe the streets dayly such granitie was in their loekes such holynes hung vpon their lippes and such authoritie wayted on their presence that in all places where they came heades stood bare before them knees were bowed vnto them and the vpper hand was giuen them their order required no lesse the shewe which they made of Religion deserued asmuch These obseruances which all men bestowed vpon thē made thē swell into pride and to desire more to be obserued so that they who were the markes for all eyes began in the end to cast their eies vpon the Citie with more curiousnes and to marke others By which meanes the flames of a burning Lust caught hould of fiue of these wanton gazers They willing lie embraced the heat of it and added what fewell flesh and bloud could make to nourish the fire in somuch that the eye which yesterday was enamoured of one beauteous face to day dotes vpon a second and the next day is almost blind which immodesty stareing on a third By which meanes fiue Iesuites became fiue lasciuious Louers no fewer thē Sixteene Virgins must sacrifice their chast bodies to satisfie their lust How to skale these Maiden-forts many Stratagems were inuented to court the young Damosels was hard but to conquere them seemed more hard and almost impossible To sommon them to a wanton parley stood not with the dignitie of the Iesuiticall profession to be Suitors in the way of mariage was against the orders of their society and to court so many openly had bin to their euerlasting scandall Some newe some seacret and some strange nets must therefore be spread to take these Doues In the end by degrees some at one time some at another were they caught in the snares that were laide for them for vnder pretence either of confesion or to receiue instructions in some pointes of their religion were these Maidens drawne priuely first to the Chambers of their Lecherous Confessors and after by the sweetnes of their alluring tongues to bee visitants of this New Familie of Loue. Which forelocke of occation one of the principall of these holy Fathers one day taking hold of when he had in his company one of the fairest of the Sixteene whome they had marked out for spoyle and dishonour thus the dore being fast locked did his lust attempt to assayle her Sweetest Maiden wonder not that my hand trembleth feeling thus the soft touch of yours nor thinke it strange if either I blush or looke pale whilest I embrace your delicate and tender body let neither my lookes affright you beautifull Virgin which I feare are wilde as are my thoughts nor this forcible holding but not rough laying handes vpon you put your heart in doubt that you are beset with danger Assure your selfe pretie soule that the Infant in the mothers bosome is not more safe then you are in my chamber for I must tell you and you must beleeue I speake truth because my words flow from the zeale and ardor of true affection I loue you most intirely at your eies did I long agoe kindle a fire which I haue stroue to smother but the more ashes I throwe vpon it to couer the same the more vehemently doeth it break forth to consume me vnlesse the same eye that hath wounded send forth pittie It is your beautie most delicate creature that begets these woundes nor am I ashamed that one of my order and coate and souldier to

which houre rubbing his eyes to looke what time of day it was but s●…ing no light at length he began to remember in what Inne he had taken vp so cold a lodging and knowing it to be a Church he presently fell into a feare by reason of the place his minde ranne vpon nothing but graues which way soeuer he turned his head hee imagined hee spied men and women sitting in winding shéetes with the knots of the shéetes nodding too and fro on their heads as if they shooke with cold as well as himselfe did the least noise he heard made him beléeue it was the voice of a ghost if a mouse did but stirre in the next pew hee trembled as if hée had séene a spirit hee often felt the bench vpon which he sat and thought verily it had béene a coffin and did as often féele himselfe round about his body being no otherwise perswaded but that he was a dead man and had no cloathes on but such as men haue that are buried But to be sure it was not so he would speake to himselfe softly and knowing that he was certainely aliue he lift vp his hands to heauen which hee could not sée by reason of darknesss and praied coldly for the night was not warme that God would if it were his will turne him out of his doores hee cared not how soone Sitting in this perplexitie and conching downe lowe but not daring to lift vp his head yet sweating with the very selfe same feare which presently made him shiuer as much againe Behold hee heard the lockes of a doore flie backe at which noise his very téeth chattered in his head with the terror Anon he might heare the shufling of féete and the lamentable sound of a voyce strugling to vtter somewhat but he could not perfectly tel what by reason as hee imagined it was often stopt by some violence whilst it laboured to speake The poore Post being not willing to die hee knew not how for hee looked still to be knocked on the head as he sat péered vp by little and little with his eyes and spied round about the Church the glimpse of a candle the light put him into comfort but the noise that followed it went more colde to his heart then the panges of death it selfe They that were thus entered into the Church so early for it was now about thrée of the clocke in the morning were the fiue bloody Tragedians the Scaene was now on foote The Maske which the Iesuites intended for this nights Reuells was now newly come in The principall of them of whom in the beginning of this discourse we spake first being the chiefs Torch-bearer for he led the way carried a light before all the rest Those that were to dance their last heauie measures hand in hand with death were the firtéene young Damsells great with childe who were thus led in one by one for more state to the murther This first whose name was Elizabeth being she whose courting I told you of before Her did three of the Iesuites like three Furies hale in two by drawing her violently by the armes two behind her driuing her as forcibly forward with one of their handes euer and anon as she offered to cry-out stopping her mouth whilst the fift Fiend held a candle before the Diuell and lighted the other Foure who continued in this barbarous halling of the poore wretch till they had draged her vp to the High Alter The Post ventured to see all this and could haue sighed to see it but that he feared the wind of his breath would betray him Now stood the miserable condemned Prisoner on the Scaffold where shee was to suffer her executioners stood round about her there was no hope of a pardon there was no helpe to saue her from the Block The Lecherous Villaine that had deslowred her was the first that bid her kneele downe She with a trembling voice and a piteous looke asking why and desiring to knowe in what shee had offended him to bee thus torue in peices and to be haled like a sheepe to a slaugter-house Her Rauisher bid her bee patient to vse few words not to dally with her foule but to settle her thoughts to meete death like a Christian and demaunded of her if she could be content to dye I am quoth she content to dye but I befeech you my Lords play not you the cruell hangmen nor lay my blood vpon your reuer end heads If God say this is my last houre his message is welcome but bee not you the Murderers of an Innocent Maiden Oh I haue lost the honour of that name amongst you which was as ●eare to me as life it selfe Let me not l●…e my life amongst you least you 〈◊〉 too many sinnes vpon your soules I sweare vnto you my Lordes if you will giue me life it is a wretched gift which I b●gge at your handes for it is a miserie for me to liue but if you will graunt me life I will renounce my C●…y forsake my Parents flye from my kinred and acquaintance or if I ●…te with any so vnhappy as to knowe me I will deny my owne name or if I cannot do that yet will I neuer publishe yours nor what you haue done vnto mee And you most Holy Sir that haue pulled the fruites of my Chastitie looke vpon mee with an eye of pittie I coniure you by the Religion which you professe by your S●…ietie by the loue which at the first you ●are me and by the Babe in my Wombe of which you are the Father spare mee Oh spare mee if not for my owne sake for happylie I haue wr●nged you or 〈◊〉 not now gratious in your ●ight yet for the Infants sake within mee who euen strugleth at this instant in my body to get away a● hauing knowledge I thinke what is comming towards it saue that which is part of your selfe that neuer offended you Not a word which shee spake but came forth with such abundance of teares that euen the Marble in which thee kneeled sweate droppes of water because it bare vppe men that were harder then that on which they trode In this manner did shee pleads for life in this manner did shee complaine But they that had made a Couenant with Hell which they could not now breake remembred what state of daunger they stoode in if shee and the rest liued and therefore one of them casting a Corde a bout her neck to pull her body downe to the ground the rest held her whilest hee that had before the vse of her faire bodie was now the destroyer of it and with a greate Iron Bullet beate out her braines This first Scaene of Death being Acted the rest of the big bellied Damosells were in the same manner fetched forth of their Chambers which had beene their Iayles and were ledde to the Church to bee married to Death Their lamentations were a like because their wronges were a like but all pittie and pyetie being hid in the darknesse of so foule a night and crueltie vsurping their hearts of purpose to giue grace to so hort●… a Tragedie and to make it more full in the end the last of the ●…rt●…e closed vp the Iesuites Play Whilest in stead of an Epilogue their bodies which as they were murdered were throwne behind the Alter and were in one graue behinde the Alter buried By this time the Sunne who cannot abide to bee present at murders arose and looked red with anger that his pale sister the Queene of the night should suffer such damned impieties to bee done in her dominion chéering therfore the miserable Post with his golden beames which hee sent into the Church to reuiue him that was more than halfe dead with the sight which he had seen At the length when the Murderers were fled to their nests like Owles at the approching of day his light both called vp the morning and called out the poore fellowe out of the polluted Temple who with his hayre halfe an ende went home and related to his Host the circumstance of all thinges in which hee had beene the onely sad speetator The Host vpon this relation tooke the Post along with him to the Citizens house who had lost his Daughter whose name was Elizabeth the Father albeit his childe whome he loued déerely had béene for a long time missing being informed of the bloodie Night-worke of the Iesuites woulde hardlie beléeue that men so reuerenced for their Religion coulde descende into such basenesse and godlesse acts To the Magistrate therefore was the Post carried before whome hee constantly ●…ing in his former discourse was notwithstanding committed to prison because a matter of such moment was not to bee published for trueth from the report of so meane a person when it concerned the liues and repulation of men so great as the Iesuites The fellow being thus committed the Magistrates went discréetely to worke and at last ●…iring to the Church which had béene stained with the blood of Innocents and made a Shambles vppon some farther presumptu●… probabilities the ground behinde the Altar was broken vp and the murthered bodies found as the Post had discouered Thereupon the Iesuites were sent for to the B●…e-house and after many inquities and 〈…〉 the Post like●…se ●…ua voce ●…ing to their faces and accusing th●… the fact was openly con●… for which they were by order of the lawes of the Countrie adi●…ed to die the 〈…〉 their 〈◊〉 and death being th●… All the fiue Iesuites being placed in a Wagon and drawne through the Citie had their flesh at nine seuerall times pinched with hot burning pincers from them and in three seuerall parts of their bodies great peeces sliced away with kniues then were their arme● and legges broken on the Wheele and 〈◊〉 were they left languishing till they expired the Post being rewarded for his watching all night out of the common purse of the Citie FINIS