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A19713	Pasquine in a traunce a Christian and learned dialogue (contayning wonderfull and most strange newes out of heauen, purgatorie, and hell) wherein besydes Christes truth playnely set forth, ye shall also finde a numbre of pleasaunt hystories, discouering all the crafty conueyaunces of Antechrist. Whereunto are added certayne questions then put forth by Pasquine, to haue bene disputed in the Councell of Trent. Turned but lately out of the Italian into this tongue, by W.P. Seene allowed [sic] according to the order appointed in the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Pasquillus ecstaticus. English	Curione, Celio Secondo, 1503-1569.; Page, William, fl. 1566.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594, attributed name.; Phiston, William, attributed name.	1566 (1566)	STC 6130; ESTC S109155	162,493	234

maner the tenth night as they do to their husbandes And howe also an other trayterous Frier with an host poysoned brought to his death Henry the seuenth Emperour of that name Then hearde we a noyse a busteling and such a confusion that we thought they would haue made a Pope Marforius Whence came that noyse Pasquine From y ● Diuelles who kept consistorye Marforius Knowest thou what things were treated of Pasquine They treated of those selfe same thinges that I tolde thée were treated of in that councell that was kept in the Popes heauen They cryed al with one voyce downe with the Lutheranes as Rebels enimes and destroiers of the infernal kingdom And one of them proclaming silence such as in that place coulde be sayde Cursed Diuels you knovve that from the beginning of the first man hitherto vve haue had alvvayes trybute of the vvorld and vvhen our kingdom did most flourish in ryches came that greate enimye of ours vvhome here belovve vve can not name and vtterly destroyed vs vve then vvith our subtilty and earnest trauaile stirred vp so many sundry sortes of Fryers thervvithal our vvicked brother Antechrist by vvhiche meanes so manye and great trybutes so freshlye came from all partes vnto oure kingdome that it is novve become more ryche than euer it vvas before But last of al hath our enimy begīning on the north parts raysed vp so many of his faythfull in all Europa and almost throughout the vvhole vvorlde vvho haue discouered the Pope to be Antechrist and hys Fryers to be Ipocrites that you see that the vvay that leadeth dovvne hyther and that in tymes past vvas vvonte to be so vvell troden is novve become full of grasse and thornes and if vve do not prouide the better vvill be altogether shutte vp True it is that our brothers the Dominicanes and other manye and our vvicked brother Antechrist vvith his mēbers the Cardinals Prelates and all other vvith shauen crovvnes and the princes also of the vvorld do all their endeuour in our furtheraunce and fauour killing the vvelbeloued of our enimy This notvvithstanding it is your office and dutye to pricke forvvarde vvith all the povver you can make our ministers the Fryers priestes and all such as be ioyned in league vvith our faithfull brother Antechrist that they more novve than euer they did before do persecute imprison and dryue out of the vvorlde all those that giue to our enimy onelye the prayse that vnder dyuers Images vvas vvont to be giuen to vs those also that haue charity that doe forgiue iniuries receyued that doe giue great almesse other like vvorks to vs most cōtrary that by these meanes the number of our enimyes may be deminished the number of our cōfederats incresed Here against spake the other diuels saying that things must not so be done for we sée already quoth they by plaine experience that the more those men are slayne and destroyed the more they do increase Then spake an other Diuell And why quoth he take we such thought for this matter Haue not we our ministers the Market monsters that worke better for vs than we oure selues can desire Is not the Citye of Rome yet in his chiefest glory the which we may call our infernall Ierusalem One Diuell spake againste this an other against that so y ● being al full of wrangling cōfusion euen as is it the vse in Fryer houses they departed all without any agréeing Yet did they all apply them selues some in one sorte other in an other to cause the number of the dampned soules still to be increased albeit not one of Christes shéepe can perishe How fowle these things were to be sene how great feare and horror they brought with them there is no tongue that can expresse it Marforius I beleue it well but sawest thou any other thing that may be tolde Pasquine I sawe many other thinges but amongst the rest euen as in Gods true heauen I sawe the Catholike Church of the faythful to be the espouse of Christ euen so sawe I in the bottomlesse pitte the Malignant Church of Rome to be the Diuels whore And as that was in the world in so great trouble is now with hir most swete espouse Christ in vnspeakable happynesse euen so this malignant Churche that was in the world in so great feliciie is now with the most cruell diuell in vnspeakable payne and sorrowe Marforius Didst thou knowe there belowe no one friend of thine Pasquine No friend of mine but I knew in dede a great number of these siely shéepishe siely women that thou séest go all day vp and downe with a Réede in their hand of whom if thou demaund whyther go ye good mother B they aunswere I goe to the Stations for the soules of my father my mother I knew there Iohn Ecchius I knew ther Pighius I sawe there Albert Byshop of Chiozza there saw I Gilbert Bishop of Verona I sawe there many of the Sorbonists of Paris and I saw there to tell thée at a worde all those y ● in my traunce I sawe in the Popes heauē I saw them in their right being in Hel where they are in so greate a depth of miseries tormentes and sorowes that we whyle we be tormented by them in this world ought yet to haue great cōpassion of thē pray to the Lord for thē that he vouchsafe to deliuer them out of so great miserie Marforius Was there nothing sayde to thée by anye one that knewe thée Pasquine There were many of them that desired me that I woulde tell their kinsfolkes that are here that they should not follow their footesteps that they might not come afterwardes into those tormentes and the Bergamaschi prayed me heartily that I would giue warning to their heires that they should spende no more money in Masses nor in anye other thing for their soules for in any wise the Money is caste away Marforius What answere madest thou to thē Pasquine I sayde they haue the Gospel to the which if they giue no eare lesse wil they giue eare vnto me Marforius So answere Abraham to the riche man but what sayde they to this Pasquin They gaue me most boyling sighes for answere they renewed with double force the dolefull woes their torments were doubled their flames of fyre increased the smoke and stinke grewe still greater their sorrowe waxed more vehement they cryed our Misericordia and were not heard their wéeping and gnashing of téeth augmented they called and cryed for death and all in vayne euery thing was death their howlings grew greatter euery thing was fyre euery thing was smoke euery thing was Diuels euery thing was sorrowe tormenting miserie rage and so great infelicity that bicause I was neyther able to sée it nor heare it sith the very Deuils thēselues were weary of it I prayed myne Aungell that he woulde bring me backe hither agayne and so it was done Marforius

Pasquine in a Traunce A Christian and learned Dialogue contayning wonderfull and most strange newes out of Heauen Purgatorie and Hell Wherein besydes Christes truth playnely set forth ye shall also finde a numbre of pleasaunt hystories discouering all the crafty conueyaunces of Antechrist Wherunto are added certayne Questions then put forth by Pasquine to haue bene disputed in the Councell of Trent Turned but lately out of the Italian into this tongue by W. P. Seene allowed according to the order appointed in the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions Luke 19. Uerily I tell you that if these should holde their peace the stones would cry Imprinted at London by VVylliam Seres dwelling at the Weast ende of Paules at the signe of the Hedgehogge To the Reader SVCHE HATH bene the miserie of these latter dayes good Reader euery where and yet is in some places the more is the pitye wher iniquitie hath gotten the vpper hand that the truth findeth few friends and canne euill be heard especially the truth of Gods holy Worde but so odious it is to mens eyes and eares suche is the nature thereof as any other thing else be it neuer so vayne wicked or abhominable might be muche soner allowed and heard than the truth of Religion and the more that such wickednesse tēded to deface or ouerthrow the truth of Gods holy worde the better was the same welcome the more ioyously receyued and embraced So as the truth receyuing this open iniurie though not suppressed by al yet oppressed by the most was driuen therefore to lye close and secretly to walke with Nichodemus by night for feare of Iewish Christians and in caues dennes and other vnknowne places lyke as in the tyme of former tirranny to haue hir conuersation and abiding declaring still as she might hir naturall operation to many and wayting in the meane season the appointed tyme of hir delyueraunce And if it so chaunced hir to be seene or heard abrode for the candell whelued vnder the Busshell wil burne a hole throughe and shewe it selfe then straight way must she so be scaled ordered and prompted by Pollicie who must be hir Tutour as she must not therefore seme so roughe as to rippe vp matters that are raked long since in the ashes but muste talke a farre off and either cloth hir s●lfe with the misty cloudes of darke and doubtfull speach which few shal vnderstand and must offend no man or else must appeare altogether to be so plyaunt and in such glaring garments as least may become clawing and well pleasing talke and nothing else and such as shall curry all men and cut no one For the which cause the authour hereof called Celius Secundus Curio an Italian a man surely zealous and godly learned lamenting this great and malicious kinde of blindenesse as a thing moste daungerous both for bodye and soule thought good and his bounden duetie to relieue thereby the mindes and consciences of suche as not wilfully but for want of due knowledge went groping in by pathes at none dayes and to confirme suche other in the right path way of heauenlye truth as had tasted some little fruite of Gods holy spirite to write therefore this little worke which about XXV yeares since or there vpon he toke in hande and set forth what time Paule the thirde of that name a man of great worldely wisedome and admiration with christen Princes and a Religious professour of that diuellishe knowledge of Necromancie sate occupied Caiphas I should say Peter Chaire And so the authour following in some parte the politique councel of Saint Paule the Apostle who sayeth So that Christ be preached any maner wayes whether it be vnder pretēce or sincerely he reioyceth therein hath published the same his labour vnto the world vnder the pleasaunt name of Pasquine that aunciēt Romaine as a fit instrument to aduaunce Gods truth who for his same being acquaynted with all Princes estates and affaires and for his wonted mirth and straunge newes coulde the better spredde abroade the same and cause it to be more ioyefully receyued and read than if many great Potentates and Princes had commended it to the worlde with their priuilege and authoritie As to Pasquine and to tell thee what he is shall not nowe be necessarie for I will not holde thee with so long a discourse if thou can not other wise learne of him I shall referre thee to the booke it selfe where thou shall finde him fully described But nowe me thinketh I heare some nose wise papist make a very vnnecessarie obiection what sayeth he is Pasquine of Rome nowe become a preacher that was wont so to be talking alwayes against our holy Father and his colledge of Cardinals to whome it may right well be answered in this sorte as in that he is come from Rome hither to preach is to fulfill the saying of Christ that no Prophete is accepted in his owne country and therfore cannot be heard no more was Christ among his owne country men the Iewes which is straunge that C●ristes messanger comming to Christes Vicaire if there be any suche on earth shoulde be refused of audience bringing a true message but much more is it that for declaring the same for their soule health and saluation he shoulde be in daunger But to be banished his dominion for saying as he is commaunded passeth all law of God and men yea and ius gentium also And in that some will accompt him suche one as wil be alwayes talking at his pleasure I will turne suche ouer to the Poet Horace who sayeth Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat Why should not a Iester or a mery fellow tel truth And if that wil not serue to stop their blasphemous mouthes I will bring forth Saint Paule who sayeth If he himselfe or an Angell preach any otherwise than the Gospell which he preached let him be accursed whereby he inferreth that the message shoulde not be the better welcome or heard for the messangers sake but the messanger for the truth and worthinesse of the message he bringeth yea if he were a Diuell ought to be beleued To the matter it selfe I shal referre to thy direct iudgement so thou spoile thy selfe in the reading therof of all malice and affection wherein thou shalt see vnder the wittie and pleasaunte inuention of Pasquines going to heauen purgatorie and hell the whole packe of the Popes pedlary wares is opened not set to sale bicause men shoulde buy therof but rather to the shewe and brought to the touchestone of Goddes worde to be thereby tryed and seene what maner stuffe it is So as all men may see howe the Romish Apoticaries haue so conserued confected and couloured with the drugges other the fine deuises of their subtile Sophistrie all their whole pelfe and trumperie as meritorious Masses fayned miracles superstitious obseruances hypocriticall fastings paynted holynesse and Sodomiticall chastitie and that with their chauntings pypings gaye glistering shewes and sightes sweete

Counsel began not within seauen Monethes stoutly withstanding their decrée did euidently shewe what might be looked for at his handes and what his meaning was 60 Whether when the same Cardinall Contarine saide in a certayne writing of his to the Princes of the Empire that he hoped that it woulde come to passe that the Protestaunts woulde retorne to the lap of the church of Rome and they likewise in a wryting of theirs made answere againe in a wryting of theirs that of al men they woulde neuer doe so whether afterwarde I saye néeded anye talke betwéene them for the matter 61 Whether any ought in these dayes to be offended bicause the doctrine of the Gospel séemeth to bring dissentions and alterations sith that Christe saith that the same is a singuler token and most plaine demonstration of his worde which is to sende the sword and not peace and to set the sonne agaynst the father and the daughter against the mother 62 Whether that argument be of force which many in these dayes do holde ▪ that it is not to be beleued that God woulde haue our forefathers to erre vntyll this tyme and to be without the true doctrine for as much as by the same reason it may be asked why the same God hath suffred Africa and all Asia to fall into so horrible darknesse ▪ after they lost the lighte of the Gospell and newe doctrine brought in For it muste be confessed that all that remayned after the preaching of the Gospell was onely in Europa the thirde and least parte of the worlde 63 Whether such as are in these dayes put to death in many places be verye heritiques in dede and albeit they be suche whether they ought to be putte to death or no for that Christ doth expresly commaund that we suffer the cockle to grow with y e corne not to roote the same vp 64 Whether the decrées of the Fathers of the Counselles ought to be referred and examined by the prescript rule of the gospel syth Paule so plainly said That other foundation than that was already ought not to be layed yet shoulde it come to passe that many ther vpon would buylde some golde some stouble some woode 65 Whether those solepmne and ordinarie disputacions of the Sorbonists doe any thing profite to the vnderstanding of the holy scripture syth they are altogether idle questions of vayne things crooked more than supercelestiall crabbed and Seraphicall the which neither they that speake nor those that heare them do at any tyme vnderstande and albeit they do vnderstande them yet are they neuer a deale the better by them or the better learned 66 Whether if the Pope woulde at any tyme suffer in a generall counsell if any shall hereafter be any one article to be pulled away from him that then it might not be truely saide affirmed that he is not the Churche forasmuche as hitherto he standeth stiffe in defence that the Church can not erre 67 Whether the Church that is to saye a congregacion of people may erre forasmuche as it is propre to mans nature to erre fal Then if it can not erre for that they allege where●two or thrée are gathered togyther in my name c. Whether then the Consistories of Popes Cardinalles and Byshops may erre syth these many yeares they haue called theyr counselles not to sette forthe Christes glory but more more to confirme and stablish their ryches and dignitie syth y ● the scripture telleth that in the latter times should spring horrible errors 68 Whether in matters perteyning to faith and our Saluation any other thing ought to be commāded beside the gospell syth Christ cōmaunded that his onely sonne should be heade and none other And sithe also that Christe commaundeth vs to beware of men and of their doctrine 69 Whether syth we plainely sée into howe fowle stincking abhominable errours we are fallen synce we lefte the prescript rule of the Gospell and opened the way to al mans traditions we ought not to haue great cause seing so many mischieues and incōueniences before our eies to become wyse to giue place casting aside al hautinesse of minde giue ouer our selues wholly to him whiche onely cannot erre who commaunded that in his commaundements we neyther tourne asyde to the right or left hande 70 Whether it ought to be confessed that it is a great miraculous misterie that religion which now is in disputacion hath of so small f●eble beginnings as by one man only who was notoriously condempned in the beginning and counted as an abiected to y e whole world or rather as a praye layed forth to al mē hath so sprede it self and growne to such a greatnesse that such as haue bene against it withstoode it may not iustely be affearde if they haue any witte at all 71 Whether such as will séeme to fauour the gospell thereby to be thought that they know much and do for all that flatter such as styre vp persecutions may be compared to Herode who made more conscience to breake his vnlawfull promise to a Harlotte than to saue the lyfe of so holy a man 72 Whether that saying of the Gospell who loueth his soule in this worlde shall loose it c. may not aptly agrée with the fyne worldly wise heads of oure tyme who for the doctrine of the Gospell will not for any little suspicion therof receiue losse or displeasure but liue pleasauntly and quietly kepe their riches and promotions vntouched 73 Whether suche as in these dayes do confesse y ● there are errours and in the meane tyme do not only contempne but also condempne such as do shewe them those errours be lyke vnto the Pharisies that said to him that was borne blinde and had receyued his ●ight of Christ we know that God spake to Moyses but who this is meaning Christe we know not nor whence he commeth 74 Whether suche as for certeine opinions in religion haue styrred vp horrible persecutions are become so madde therein that more crueltie cannot be deuised may not very wel if they wil acknowledge their offence confesse that they are the begynners authors of so outragious mercilesse butcherie and slaughter 75 Whether that saying of the Gospell least haply the Romaines come take away oure place Iohn xj do hytte iuste such Kings and Princes as will be borne in hande that if they receyue the gospell it will come to passe that their people will rebel and not be obedient 76 Whether that whiche Paule speaking of the doctrines of Diuelies whiche he in spirite foresawe shoulde arise do serue right for the Papists who for their tradicions slea and in sundry sortes do torment men which is the very nature of Sathan ▪ who is delyted with murther and blonde and whether the Protestants who persecute not their enimies are not much to be preferred before the Papists especially syth they haue both strongth and rychesse