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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31050	The monk unvail'd: or, A facetious dialogue, discovering the several intrigues, and subtil practises, together with the lewd and scandalous lives of monks, fryers, and other pretended religious votaries of the Church of Rome. Written by an eminent Papist in French. Faithfully translated by C.V. Gent.	Barrin, Jean, ca. 1640-1718.; C. V.	1678 (1678)	Wing B920A; ESTC R213529	50,045	154

failed not with a smiling countenance and his head half out of his Hood to go to her and to acquaint her that Mass would soon begin and that for her sake he would forward it These small kindnesses were a means that at his passing through the Church procured him now and then some favourable looks which proceeded in that fair one rather from civility than from any inclination she had for that Bald-pate But he took it in another sence and this Lady falling sick and having for three or four days been absent from Mass this good Father missing her makes an inquiry and having understood the reason fails not to give her a visit and to assure her how much he was concerned for her Indisposition and to profer her such small services as he was capable of withal acquainting her that if she pleased he would bring her some Relicks from their Church and some of St. Nicholas's small loaves by which several people had received ease F. All things are well spoken of a Monk and you set him out so well that methinks I see him P. And you may imagine this Woman could not chuse but thank him and tell him she was most infinitely obliged to him for the care he had of her health and that she did most willingly accept his kind proffer But Father says she pray what rare Relicks have you We have says he the holy Thorn one of St. Margarets Bones one of Charles Barroness's Hose These are curious Relicks replies the sick Woman but what virtues hath St. Nicholas Bread So many says the Monk that sometimes several thousands of poor people have been cured by it of the Ague in one City or Country It quells the rage of evil spirits it quencheth fire and preserves houses from an irreparable conflagration calms the wind and the waves of the Sea diverts hail and tempests from fields and helps to defend from thunder nay it makes a person Musquet-proof F. It would be good to make of it Ammunition-bread for the Soldiers P. Be patient it makes barren Women fruitful and preserves the fruit of the womb after conception and eases their pains in Child-birth It maintains in health whosoever eats of it it keeps from ill luck those who carry it about them it brings away from the tender throats of young Children the bones of fish bits of glass needles nails and the like which they may have swallowed unawares It cures all Fevers nay evil and pestilent also Epidemical ones and the most incurable diseases preserves from all poysons delivers whole Cities nay Provinces from the Plague In short it operates many other Miracles of the like nature Father says the good Woman how much shall I be obliged to you if you will be so kind as to bring me a little of that blessed bread and of those holy Relicks To which he agreed and in the morning comes and brings I know not what sowed up in a fine bit of Taffity tyed with a Ribbon at the end and after a small Preamble made in commendation of those Relicks beg'd leave of the Lady to tye them about her neck then presenting them to her to kiss he pull'd the pin from her smock and puts this mystical remedy between her two brests F. O the Knave she was a weak Woman P. Hitherto there was no great harm but these brests being uncovered did so far move him that he cried out Ah Madam what a many beauties must I receive a wound from the same place where I intended to bring help O Madam I beseech you suffer me at which words he kist her brest she not being able to hinder him F. O the thief P. That was not all F. You are going to tell me some Roguery P. I must acquaint you with the matter how it was acted there is no harm in making vice to appear in all its colours to cause horror of it why then this devout Father coming upon the bed would have this woman to touch another kind of Relicks F. O the infamous fellow O the villain P. This caused the Woman to cry out and my good Monk too alas Madam alas Madam have compassion on me But hearing some body coming up he was forced to lose his prize and as if nothing had hapned thrusting in again his head into his Hood and holding his Beads in one hand running to the Maid who was come up by reason of the noise he told her very soberly That her Lady had just now felt a violent pang which had caused her to cry out and that she should be very careful of her in the mean while says he I will go and desire our Fathers to pray God for her So my Pilgrim saved himself F. O Tempora O mores P. You cause me to laugh with your Exclamations These are small matters I could tell you other Stories which would make you cry out at another-guess rate F. But is not a Religious person punished when he is guilty of the like follies P. Yea verily when it s known wherefore it ought to be taken notice of that whatever misdemeanors Monastical Order fall into they still strive to preserve the out-side that is to say to maintain themselves in esteem and reputation especially the Mendicants whose Revenue is partly assigned upon the benevolence of the publick so that when some scandalous fault is committed the same is punished because that scandal has that of evil with it in respect of Monks that if peoples charity be cooled their Kitchin grows cold and 't is a stumbling block which breaks the pots and pans which being a common interest amongst all Religious persons the Delinquents miss not to be cried out against and to be chastised Nevertheless with this Distinction that in case it be a poor fellow whose talent reaches not to bring Grist to the Mill he has his fill of a Prison bestowed upon him but if he be a Grand-man of the Order a Doctor of Paris a Reader of Divinity a Preacher or some great man of the Fraternity he is sent to another Monastery far off with special and honourable Commissions F. It is then very serviceable amongst them to be indued with Talents P. Yea truly I know one who was very well indu'd with that of Preaching and is a very handsom man but otherwise mighty debauched who having got a Nun with Child at Tulin in Dolphine was streight-ways sent to Dole where he did Preach with so much seeming zeal that he was taken for a Saint and women who knew nothing of this matter cryed out Blessed be the womb that bare thee F. This is the advantage which such kind of people have when they have committed some fault in one place they need only transport themselves elsewhere where they are not known and where as if nothing were they begin new pranks 'T is not so with an Ecclesiastical person who is tyed to his Benefice and if he be tardy his Crime appears upon his door that I may use

Attorneys Butchers according to the leave he hath given us which we will send to be baked at Mrs. Fluries Father Guardian having given these orders in less than two hours time comes twice as much as meat as was required The Lieutenant sends six pints of most excellent Wine the Hostess at the Golden-Cross two Woodcocks Father Guardians devout Lady besides a Pye of Potatoes sent Cakes Biskets and Mackroons and Mrs. Fluries added a large Liveret to a Loin of Veal which was taken up at the Butchers P. You had wherewithal to make merry F. And so we did P. You have named one Father Ralph I knew in Averna one of that name whose Beads as he said had the vertue to cause barren women prove with Child So that there was no barren women in any place where that Father had been but were advised to make use of Father Ralph's Beads F. I know not if he be the same they have amongst them several of that name but seeing we are talking of the Capuchins I would fain know why those same and the Barefooted Augustins wear those great Hoods like an Hypocras-bag P. I 'le tell you then as that Bag serves to refine and rectifie Liquors separating the pure from the impure so those people have purified and rectified St. Francis's and St. Austins Order and having filtered as it were those two Orders in memory thereof they carry the figure of the Bag on their heads P. You have at this time paid me all your arrears but what do you say of their great Beards P. I say they are at present what they were formerly the sacred Forrests in the midst whereof the Gods had their Oracles that their hair are pretious excrements and are as many small threds wherewith Cupid chains Ladys hearts F. You have again satisfied me this time I would fain make love to those Beards P. What to those Beards You never saw any thing so gallant upon my faith I jest not but speak in good earnest F. Yea with this ridiculous garb and these naked feet P. Alas so far is it from being a hinderance that I will make it appear to you it doth promote their passion First Women have extravagant and irregular appetites which is the occasion that they fancy those Satyres Secondly When they are in love they have great care to keep their arms and their feet white to make that curious Sex greedy to pry very far in them whereby they affect deeply their sight and imagination which being gained I give you leave to judg whether the rest make any resistance F. What you say in this is very likely P. Therefore on this subject I will make you laugh at an adventure which befel a friend of mine at Lyons whither he went last winter about some affairs He lodged at a Widows house infatuated by those hooded fellows and he told me that upon a Sunday after dinner having kept himself in his Chamber a writing till two of the Clock and intending to seal his Letters there being no Maid to bring him a Candle the Mistris having sent her to obtain pardons from the Carmelites he went to the Kitchin to light his Wax-Candle where he found his Landlady rosting two Woodcocks and two Partridges The man seeing this fine preparation said to the Woman Madam what is the meaning of this do you make a Wedding to day no says she it is for some Gentlemen who are playing at our Neighbours that have prayed me to let these be roasted here because their Jack is broke he returning to his Chamber saw upon the stairs two Barefooted Austin-Fryers to whom immediately the Landlady did open the door This caused him to defer sealing his Letters to see the result of things in the interim while the Landlady was showing them to a Chamber he returns into the kitchin and slips into a Chamber joyning to that which they were gone into and which was only parted with a Wainscot-partition by good-luck there was in that room a Table covered with a Carpet which reach'd down to the feet of it there my man hides himself where he over-heard pleasant things F. This is worth a great deal of Money P. The Landlady then having conducted those two black Capuchines into the other room told them that Mrs. Jane would come immediately that in the mean while she must needs make a step into the Kitchin then he heard one of those Augustins ask the other for his Comb and without doubt it was to Comb his Beard It was no sooner done but Mrs. Jane came in This Father which had spoke before told her You are most heartily welcom you have delivered me from a great pain I did even tremble for fear lest you should not come at all I did not intend to fail you replys Mrs. Jane I have sent my Maid to hear the Carmelites who are people which keep them long and told her that I went to Vrsula's you are said the Father the most obliging and most lovely person in the world Well well said Mrs. Jane let us bar complements at this time O what a warm hand is here says the Father Ah do but mind the fervour of my soul you are a great kisser saith Mrs. Jane what a white arm is that not so white as that fair brest replys the Augustin F. And what did his companion do in the mean while P. You ask me the same question which I did that Friend he went presently said he to me to the Landlady who said O how plump they are Jesus and how white tool without doubt he did shew her his legs After this the Roast-meat being set upon the Table come say they we must dispatch here shall us wash I love mightily that good Father N. says the Landlady he hath helped to Cook the meat see how his sleeves are tuck'd up he hath reason to shew his naked arms for upon my faith they are very white I had rather see that white skin than all the small Goslings of our Town you would not think added she that one of our boarders came into the Kitchin whilst I was turning the spit whom I fob'd off with a pretence that it was for some Gentlemen who were playing at one of our She-neighbours who had brought it me here to Roast because her Jack was broke he swallow'd the Gudgeon presently and so went up to his Chamber again F. I should not have been able to have forborn laughing had I been hid in the same place where your friend was P. Why he was very near spoiling all as he told me and was forced to go from under the Table not being able to contain from laughing any longer besides he was in haste to carry his Letter to the Post-house and had it not been for that he had heard the end of the Comedy F. Certainly he heard enough but who 'd have thought so much of these Turlupins P. Why do you give them that name F. It is in derision P. You have

corrigias patenter omnibus apparentes c. That is to say that all the Priors and all the religious persons of the order of St. Austin should be cloathed with their antient cloathes wearing broad and long sleeves whence it follows which he added that there are no other besides the Augustins wearing shooes and stockings and with great sleeves who follow the true institution of St. Austin and who are his true religious persons F. What could the Barefooted ones answer against such concluding reasons for going with shooes on and for the sleeves too As for my part I should have adjudged the girdle for those who wear shooes and not to the Barefooted P. The little Father knew very well how to ward off the blow he said that the true Monks of St. Austins order ought not so much to tye themselves to his habit to his wearing of shooes and to his sleeves as to his vertues and that those were his true Children who were religious observers of him in goodness rather than in exterior things which contributed nothing to perfection This hypocritical and specious answer did so much please the old Gentleman and his Lady that the other whatever he alledged could not be heard so that he went away highly incensed leaving to his enemy the field free and open F. So then the controversie was decided in favour of the little Augustins as to the distribution of the girdle P. Yes this affair was dispatched but the reformed Monk knew much better how to gird it about the good old Ladies waste assuring her that it had been sent by Reverend Fathe Barnard called the Father of Miracles who had blessed it and caused it to touch all their reliques of the Russet-cross F. But was their no jealousies amongst the four orders that remained in favour P. Yes you may easily imagine it as much because they did all make their visits to one and the same end as because every one of them did cry up his own order above all the rest F. Well but what did those juglers say then P. The Carmelites did attribute to themselves the right of eldership above all the others saying That they were from the time of the written law before the Advent of the Messiah that they were descended from Elias that their orders were before all the rest That he was the fountain of Elias running down from mount Carmel and having been instituted by Elias had been renewed by Elizeus and other children of the Prophets as also by the great forerunner of the Gospel of Christ Jesus St. John who had been superiour of the Carmelites order F. That observation is very pretty I never heard before that St. John had been a Carmelite neither can I believe it yet for St. Luke says he never drank any Wine P. That it was he who restored and renewed it in the new-law that their order was to endure to the end of the world to oppose his founder Elias to Antichrist that they had been dispensed by Honoricus the fourth from the jurisdiction of Princes and Bishops that they were the Brothers of the Virgin that there were three years of indulgence for those who should call them by that name The Jacobins did brag of their rooting out the Albigenses to have been made great Masters of the Holy Palace to depend only upon the Pope to have the right and preheminence of Preaching in all Pulpits without the Bishops consent to have the priviledg that noble-men and their Ladies should come and be confessed before them and to no other that they had power of administring the Sacraments where-ever they thought fit to conclude that they were exempted from all manner of Ecclesiastical censures F. What a deal was here P. The Capuchins lifted up their voice like a Trumpet and vapour'd that in St. Francis 's order had been 6 Emperours 40 Kings 15 Princes 66 Dukes 60 Marquesses 117 Earls 465 Kings Sons or Emperours 6 Popes 57 Cardinals 12 Patriarchs 128 Arch-Bishops 590 Bishops 920 Martyrs and 57 Canonised Saints F. And of what did the Barefooted Augustins boast I pray now P. Those black Turlupins why they call'd themselves the Professors of the Hermetick-life which they made to appear by the length of their Beards and by the nakedness of their feet the legittimate Children of St. Austin his not only pretended but truly reformed Monks they did also display all their portentous miracles which they daily performed in their Church of our Lady of Lasier in Dauphine F. But what miracles were they that they did so much then brag of Let me hear of some if you can remember any P. One day the Physician being come about some indisposition of our good old Lady one of these Augustins which were there acquainted us with a miracle newly wrought upon a young maiden named Joane Mole which had been condemned to be hang'd at Valentia for having thrown her Child into a River This Augustin acquainted me then that a Capuchin-Fryer named if I forget not Father Marcelin of Montel having been appointed to accompany this unfortunate woman to the place of execution did make a vow to go and say Mass and give thanks in the Osier-Chappel to the holy Virgin in case she did deliver this maiden from this infamous death The which vow being renewed by the Capuchin at the sight of the Gibbet the success proved thus That after execution the maid having been cut down was found to be alive and after some respite began to speak Truly this Capuchin-Fryer made a very equitable vow says the Doctor to keep from the hands of Justice a Mother which had drowned her Child But Father do you call this a miracle yes surely 't is one replyed the Augustin ay but I do not call that a miracle says the Physician 't is an effect which may be attributed to a natural cause for besides that there are examples enough to prove that a criminal hath survived his punishment may it not be likely that the executioner may have been greased in the fist on the behalf of a young woman for whom the Capuchin might have made vows Alas Sir miracles are not to be jested withal says this Austin-Fryer with earnestness I jest not with miracles replys the Physician but I deny this to be one for without being in any necessity to bring reasons peculiar to my profession why will you not have it so that the executioner may have spared a maid for whom a Capuchin-Fryer had a kindness and that being granted me as it may be very probably believed then it will prove but a miracle of love which hath triumph'd over the rope of an executioner after it had triumphed over that belonging to the Capuchin-Fryer We all bursting forth in a laughter by reason of this pleasant joke the Father was so confounded that he could not reply otherwise save that Physicians had no religion and did acknowledg no other Deity besides Nature F. But if you please we 'l return to those