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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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