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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08355	A disclosing of the great bull and certain calues that he hath gotten, and specially the monster bull that roared at my Lord Byshops gate.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1570 (1570)	STC 18679; ESTC S121900	11,305	35

¶ A disclosing of the great Bull and certain calues that he hath gotten and specially the Monster Bull that roared at my Lord Byshops gate ❧ Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate EXperience of the leud lustinesse vnchastitie of Popishe clergie hath long agoe ministred an olde tale how a person of a towne hauing the lordship annexed to his personage as many haue by reason therof was by speciall custome charged as in many places they be to kéepe a common Bull for the towne wherby theyr cattell and his tithe might be encreased which Bull had great libertie and is by custome not poundable It happened that complaint was brought to him by hys neighbors of the insufficiencie of his Bull that he dyd not get calues so plentifully as in tyme past they were wont to haue The person a wise man of good skill as it should seme c●used hys Bull to be tyed fast and hys crowne to be shauen and then let him goe saying now goe thy way there was neuer any bad of thys marke he will get calues I warrant him So is it happened that of late a holy Bull I thinke some Iupiter is come for loue of hys Io or rather for iust to some leud Pasiphae arriued in this land It is the great persons bull which person was wont by custome to finde common Buls for all England when he claimed or vsurped the Lordship of England as annexed to hys personage It is the same Bull that begat the famous Monecalfe that of late yeares made the terrible expectation Of late being against custome empounded or kept from breaking of hedges as he was wont to do and from spoyling of seuerall pastures he grew to some faintnesse But now hath his owner new shauen hys crowne sent hym to get calues agayne for encrease of the townes hearde and the persons tithe And surely the experience is notable for since he came ouer so lately disguised he hath light vpon certaine ranke kyen who I thinke by their long forbearing are become the lustier that is treason superstition rebellion and such other and with them he hath so bestirred him that by the helpe of maister Doctor Harding Sanders and other some there some here iolly cowkéepers and herdemen of Popish clergie which sent and brought him ouer brake open for him the seuerall hedges and senses of true religion obedience allegeance fayth and honestie he hath begotten a marueilous number of calues in fewe yeares that is since the yeare 1567. he hath begotten multitudes of all the formes of calues hereafter mentioned beside other in the wilde woodes not yet knowen lastly he hath begotten a most horrible monster of whom shall hereafter be entreated He hath begotten some traitorous calues as the practisers and vnderminers of the state Some rebellious calues as those that haue combred the realme with vnhappy sedition Some deinty calues with white faces as dissembling hypocrites that watch their time Some calues with blacke faces as black soule and his fellowes common bleaters and railers at true religion Some Apostaticall calues that haue forsaken fayth and do impugne the knowen truth Some tame drousy calues that with their brutishe superstition can not raise vp their heads from ground nor their eyes to heauen Some mad wilde calues as Roges and Rumor spreaders Some running and gadding calues wiser than Walthams calfe that ranne nine miles to sucke a Bull for these runne aboue nine hundred miles And no maruell for they desire not to sucke milke but bloud Some calues with hornes and some without some with power running fiercely some pushing with their vnarmed heades as eluishly as they be able Some doctor calues some proctor calues and some of other degrees Some weyward calues euer running backward and athwart without regard of ditch behinde them or hedge before them Some calues whom no fense will hold no not the brode sea Some cow calues some bull calues Some calues that neuer wil be but calues though they liue these hundred yeares Some winking calues Some suttle vndermining calues And some fonde licking calues there he that be none of the same Buls calues but calues out of Gods own hearde seduced by leude companie of other stray calues These in séeking to licke woundes whole do not onely licke poyson into their owne bodies but also enuenime other therby and specially the good damme with whose wholesome milke them selues be fedde This Bulles calues since they receaued their sires blessing are waxen wilder then they were no heardman can rule them but as if the gad flye were in their tailes they runne whisking about or of mere eluishnishe will taste no wholesome and naturall foode The Monster of whom I tolde you is no way so fitly to be described as by the olde tale of the ancient Poetes that seme as it were to haue foreshewed him in figure as followeth Pasiphae Quéene of Creta not sufficed with men conceiued inordinate vnnaturall and therewith vntemperable lust to engender with a Bull. Neither regard of vertue honor kindnesse nature or shame in respect of God her husband her countrey her selfe or the whole world could restrayne her violent rage of vncleane affection Yet wist she neither how to wooe the Bull nor how to apply her selfe vnto him A meane at length was founde to make this vnkindly coupling There liued then a cunning craftesman Dedalus the selfe same Dedalus of whome it is famous how he made hym winges wherewith by cunning guiding him selfe he passed seas countries at his pleasure And winges he made also for Icarus his sonne to fly with him But the vncunning Icarus climbing to neare the sonnes heate his winges melting fell into the water and gaue name to the sea This fine Dedalus to satisfie the wicked Quéenes feruor of lust to match her and the Bull in abhominable copulation framed a cowe and so made couered and vsed it with leud deuises and therein so inclosed and placed the good innocent and vertuous Lady that of the Bull she conceiued the abhomination of the world and in time brought forth the monster Minotaurus halfe a Bull and halfe a man fierce brutish mischeuous cruell deformed and odious To shroud thys monster from common wonder yet therewithall to deliuer him the foode and contentment of hys crueltie the destruction of men a Labyrinth or Maze was builded by the same cunning Dedalus wherein Minotaurus the Man bull or Bull man lurked and men passing in thether to him by entanglement of the Maze vncertayne error of wayes were brought to miserable end till at length valiant Theseus furnished with the policy of wise Ariadna receaued of her a clew of thred by which leauing the one end at the entrie he was continually guyded and preserued from the deceauing Maze and hauing slayne the monster by conduct of the same thred safely returned The appliance hereof to the experience of our times hath an apt resemblance not to proue but to shew the image of some

that the Minotaure is not found out and such as enter into the Maze that is into folowyng of Popish reportes and deuises entangle them selues so that wanderyng vncertainely at length they may hap to perish in Daedalus engyne And iudgement they lacke the euident proufes considered that are in that behalfe to be ministred that beleue the report to be true of transferring that Bull to Protestantes deuises But I feare a worse thing for if they haue no wisedome that say so wise great persons can not beleue them and if they lacke not witte then can not them selues beleue it and so is their truth to the Prince to be perilously suspected The remedie resteth that some Theseus some noble and valiant counseller or rather one bodie and consent of all true and good nobilitie and counsellers follow the good guiding thred that is godly policie deliuered them by the virgine whom they serue and conducted thereby not onely may passe without error through the Maze and finde out the monster Minotaure that roared so rudely but also destroy hym and settle theyr Prince and them selues in safetie so as Pasiphae duely and deseruedly ordered Daedalus vnwynged and banished hys fethers ryghtly restored Icarus fayre drowned the cowe transformed the Maze dissolued razed the monster destroyed the calues after the cow perished sent with Walthams calfe to sucke theyr Bull Theseus may be victorious the virgine Ladie most honorable the land quyet the subiectes safe and Gods prouidence euer iustly praysed not vaynely tempted hys kyndnesse thankfully embraced his name louyngly magnified hys policies wisely folowed hys Religion zelously mainteyned But till these noble enterprises be acchieued it is not good to be hedelesse The Monster may be let out of the Maze when it pleaseth Pasiphae and Daedalus It is good to be awake Some men be wakened with tickelyng and some with pinchyng or pullyng by the eare that is some with mery resemblances and some with earnest admonitions Some be raysed out of sléepe with noyse as by the spéech or calling of men or by brute voyces as the roaring of Bulles and noyse of beastes that is either by aduises of them that warne with reason or with the bragges threateninges of the enemies or inklinges slipped out of vncircumspect aduersaries mouthes Some be wakened with very wisperinges as with secret rumors and intelligences Some agayne are so vigilant and carefull that the very weight of the cause and pensiue thinking of it wil scarcely let them sléepe at all But most miserable is their drowsinesse or rather fatall semeth their sléepinesse that for all the meanes aforesayd and specially so leude and loude roaring of so rude and terrible a Bull can not be wakened or made to arme and bestirre them till the tumult and alarme in the campe the clinking of armour the sounde of shotte and strokes the tumbling downe of tentes round about them the groning of wounded men dying on euery side of them treason force and hostilitie triumphing in their lustiest rage and Sinon that perswaded the safetie of the traiterous horse insulting among them yea till the very enemies weapon in theyr body awake them Such may happe so to sléepe as they may neuer wake Let vs all wake in prayer to god Let vs cry louder in sinceritie and deuotion than the Bull is able to roare in treason and blasphemie Let vs pray God to arme our Quéene and Counsell with all wisedome and fortitude and our selues with all fidelitie and manhoode and to repose our selues vpon confidence of their most blessed gouernance and redy with our liues and all that we haue to follow and serue them Let vs dayly and nightly pray God to send a curst Cow and a curst Bull short hornes or to be well capped or well sawed of that they budde no more for els it were better to take away head and all to be sure least honester then these calues be made calues or knocked on the head as though they were calues Surely as of a body there is but one head that can not be spared so in a body may be many hods that must néedes be spared as perhappes twenty byles euery one hath a head in which case there is no perill but least they goe into the body againe then perchance infect the hart bloud and put the body in danger And the onely perill of driuing them in agayne you wote is colde and colde handling Some of our botches be runne already of some theyr heads be broken some ryping and I trust shall be well launced or cleane drawne out in time In the meane time beware cold And God send maintayne the warmth of his grace Amen ¶ An addition declaratorie to the Bulles with a searching of the Maze ¶ Seen and allowed ❧ Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate THat ye be not deceaued good Readers for I sée it commonly mistaken I thought it good to let you know that the Bull which is published in Print in Latine and Englishe together with the forme of Absolution annexed vnto it is not the same Bull that was set vp at the Bishops gate as many suppose but an other For plaine explication of the truth ye shall vnderstand that there be two Bulles The one conteineth a power and forme to pardon assoyle and reconcile all such as would returne from the Christian Religion now taught in England which they call heresie and from obeying our Quéene and her lawes which they sclaunderously call schisme to the bosome of the Chirch of Rome which we may truely call Helles mouth The dispensation publishing and employing of this Bull was committed to Doctor Harding and so many other seuerally not onely to relieue those Popish Patriarkes with the gaine of that pardon but specially to send out those Archepapistes with that Bull of reconcilement among the Quéenes saint subiectes English Papistes as it were capitaines to strike vp their drommes to gather soldiers offering them great wages that should fight vnder the Popes banner for an other hed agaynst our Quéene that is remission of their sinnes as pure cleanenesse as when they were baptised restitution to the communion of the faythfull absolution from all sentences and from all paynes of Purgatorye and the enioying of life and kingdome euerlasting With these Bulles and this proclaiming of wages they haue bene gathering of rebelles euer since the yeare 1567. and haue withall geuen to very many of them prest money to be ready in rebellions that is certaine papers and badges of sondry formes some with a figure of Christ crucified some with fiue woundes and some other Since which time namely in the ende of Februarie 1569. when the late rebellion was redy layed and in hatching the Popes holinesse hath decréed an other Bull no dout at the speciall sute procurement instance and importunate calling on of our Englishe traitors and among other D. Harding and the rest that procured the other Bulles In this is conteined an arrogant tyrannicall