aucthoritie That precation for the dead it neede to our Lord Yet in the Olde testament of a better recorde Dauid for his sonne which he had by Barsabee After he was dead would neuer concorde To pray any whit for his soules salubritie And in the ninthe chapter of Ecclesiastes These words are contrary to the booke of Machabées Which saith that dead men the truthe to discusse Haue no part of the worke that is done vnder Phebus And in case this were not any thing dissonant To the prayer and oblation done to Machabeus Yet to vs now it is cleane discordant For we haue attonement in light and not vmbrous For our heauenly father these words did expresse That he would be to vs a father of all mercy And he hath giuen vs Christ to fulfil his promisse Which hath purged vs with his bloud without rusticitie And hath satisfied for our sinnes to our taciturnitie And by him we are righteous perfectly iustified And to make right no right it is no veritie Thus nought is their purgatori which they haue specified â–ª And if one would aleage to the Corinthians where is said How our selues shall be saued yet as it were by fire That is by Christ the foundation which is laide By whose deseruing the spirite doth inspire With the burning zeale of charitie only at his desire To loue God and our neighbors causing repentance Making vs to remit all trespasses and ire Wherby we obtaine of our sinnes deliuerance For God him selfe is charitie and who abideth in it God remaineth in him and â—e in God againe In the forsaid Chapter it is shewed euery whit By Paules exposition though it be not so plaine For folowing immediate he saith these words againe Are yée not ware that the temple of God are yee And Peter in his Epistle he doth concord againe To much of this purpose without nebulositie For Peter saith that God wold haue al men to repentaÌ„ce Certifying that the elements shal waste with caliditie The heauens and the earth with euery work distance As who say who repenteth shal passe that minacitie And repentance procéedeth vpon grounded charitie Now what can our prelates allege for their excuse Except by a vsage of a false sequacitie This woord poenitentia the which they do abuse Diuers haue pronounced the truth of this worde As Erasmus and other right rutil of recorde How be it I would that infants both great and small Knew how it commeth of penitet the verbe impersonall Which is to forthinke and that with heart contrite And not to do penance our selues to iustifie But to walke of a new and therin to delite Which is great penance our vsage to pacifie It is plaine how Christe to the woman of Cananie Commaunded to sin no more other penaÌ„ce gaue he none Nor yet to no other nor to the théefe verily But said in Paradise thou shalt be with me soone And if we knowledge our sinnes he is faithfull saith saint Iohn And iust to forgiue vs our sinnes intâ—â—icate And to clense vs from all vnrighteousnesse in one Now this maketh purgatorie to be cléerely frustrate The fifth Article To the fifthe Article where as was required Seuen Bishops with others which they called heretical That proued said the king they shal be surely punished Howbeit we esteeme them true teachers substancial And this not proued then is it iudiciall They to haue like punishmeÌ„t which do this thing impute And being so far distrust he thought their words prodigal Neuer â—earing ne séeing them 〈◊〉 ne execute To this Article This request doth resemble a story in Isidore Which recounteth how king Philip besieged Athenes And but onely ten wise men he asked no more To be deliuered to put them to distresse But then the Philosopher called Demostenes He gaue counsell nay to that worke ruinous And for to eschue that formidolous busines He put foorth this fable to them commodious Wolues somtime quod he freÌ„dship to shepherds profred On condition that they would deliuer their houÌ„ds to theÌ„ For your dogs are those said they which hath our freÌ„dship barred Whervpon the shepherds deliuered the same TheÌ„ afterwards the wolues deuoured theÌ„ to their shame And in likewise quod he would they to our graâ—itude With great ferositie confounde vs to our blame For default of men sapient our Citie to delude Thus our wolues irat these Duns doctors rixant If they had obtayned would haue followed this fable Deuouring the elect all Chrystes lawes mitigant Depriuing the truth to rumpe euery sillable By craftie Silogysmes and reasons variable With counterfet gloses and sense tropologicall Craftily sophisticate with reasons appliable Making them to appeare to séeme anagogicall Thus would they haue ruffled rashed in their relatiues Searching night and day manupulus curatorum With the exoruatory of Curates and many inuentiues As Dorme securè and Gesta Romanorum With the annall vsage of Ceremones parati And the negotious search of Sermones discipuli And many mo than these besides their decrees With constitutions and decretals with suche suttle lyes Albertus de Secretis with Phisionoma Scoti With much Arte Magike as Negromancie Some would studie Orminancie and some Piromancie Some Idromancie some Geomancie Some Pedomancie and some Ciromancie Some Palmistrie with the science Mathematice Lacking Christes musike and his geometrie With all his astrologie and all his arsmetice And also with their Metaphisiks and arts supersticious Ouer many to rehearse with their Philosophie Would haue hindred Gods word to good meÌ„ meticulous But thanks be to Chryst and the high deitie Their purpose is defeted with all their vapiditie To the honor of god and our most christened Monarchie Our prince imperiall and flowre of Nobilitie Which the Prelates named an vniust Heresiarchie Now therfore let all men which haue inspiration Looke for a sickle for the harnest dothe approche Let them sing alleluia and make iubilation For the winter is past and the sominer doth incroche To the Romane Antichrist and all his friends reproche Yea the Figtrée is gréene both faire and pulchritude My selfe of the small buddes a Sallet did incroche And me thought it was pleasant right swéete dulcitude For thanked be God sainct Frauncis cowle is spied And sainct Brides head with sainct Hellyns quickingtrée Their girdles inuented and their faire hayres died With their chaulke oled for the milke of our Lady Sainct Sithe and Trenians fast with works of idolatrie As sainct Nicholas chaire and sainct Anthonies hell With Turpine stone and Moyses yarde so thée With S. Katherins knots S. Anne of Buckstones wel And S. Wilfred Foorne of Ripon to kepe cattel froÌ„ pain And his néedle which sinners can not passe the eye With S. Iohn H. Peters grease for to coÌ„serue the braine And S. Thomas hoode of Pomfret for migreme the rie And S. Cuthberts staÌ„derd of Duresme to make their fees to flye And S. Benets bolte and S. Swithens hell
for their indecent actes onerous But signified our prelates with the whips of damnation For selling Christes sheepe and his doues most amorous And least the elect shuld haue iudged the thing permanent Marke the prompt purueiance of the diuine deitie For the Iewes asked a signe for to proue him negligent Destroy this temple quod he and within dayes thrée I shal build it againe and Iohn saith verely He meaned of his body the temple omnipotent Thus to the Iewes parables he spake in obscuritie But to his disciples he shewed the truth indigent The Apostles remembred after the resurrection What Iesus Christe saide and vnderstoode the scripture And the temple vaile roue at his death and passion Which signified by similitude the temple lost his cure Saint Steuen and S. Paule this thing doe discure Saying of a suretie who wil vnderstand That the highest of all dwelleth not I make you sure In no temple nor mansion made with mans hand Moreouer Saint Steuen toke scripture to recorde The Prophet saith heauen is my seat and earth is my fote stole Then what house wil ye build for me saith the lord Or what place shal I rest in to make my propre soile Hath not my hands made all this by my ministration Meaning who can edifie a better thing than I And all things I sanctified in the inchoation And the earth curssed for Adam for Christ do I sanctifie To these woordes predict Esay the Prophet He saith to what thing should I regard too than But only to the pure simple contrite espirite And the fearer of my woords meaning by a man And sacrifice he dispraiseth in as odious wayes as he can So doth Dauid also with the outward operation Accepting a faithful humble contrite man And nother stone ne place ne foren demonstration Iesus commaunded to make our supplication In our conclaue priuely and to shut fast the doore And Paule intmate his messe and his iteracion In a chamber where the yong man fel in the store Whome to life he reuiued after his fal and pressure And two yeares in his lodging he made his predication Without superaltare I dare make you sure Thus saide he his messe with a heauenly incantation To the Hebrues we may see the things ceremonial Are extinct and expired and cleerely abrogate By Christ our sauioure and if they were moral Fructuous abundance commeth by their workes operate But life euerlasting that is by Christe preparate And we are sonnes to Abraham and his heirs naturall By faith and fidelitie but not of fleshe carnate And in likewise Gods temple and one body mistical Yet this notwithstanding it is conuenient To haue places appointed by lawes positiue Where the congregation may méete indifferent To receiue Christes sacraments their faith to reuiue And to pray in Communion with harts intentiue And to heare Christes woords and true Euangelion So men in their hearts could faithfully discriue Euery place as necessary as it for saluation Of Religion Now touching the Abbots to liue with paine solitarie It is a morall vertue for so did Elizeus Elias and Iohn and sithens Christes mortalitie Diuers Monks and women haue led a life vertuous Bothe togither confecte so sayth Eusebius In likewise did Ephraim Macarie and Martine And also Sainte Ierome and Hellodorus Liuing in pouertie like to Christes discipline These with perfite loue and with a pure deuotion Knowing that by Christ they were iustified and redéemed They kept them selfe solitarie vpoÌ„ their owne méere motion By no mannes coaction but fréely vnconstrained They passed of no liuing nor yet the world esteemed But solde that they had and tooke wilful pouertie Thus liuing sole alone therby they rather déemed To followe Christes crosse with all their simplicitie They watched and abstained when that the flesh rebelled To mortifie themselues to kéepe perfect chastitie Many vertues voluntarie they wrought vncompelled As prayer with the minde but not with lippes only Louing one God in their communion busily The profession of baptisme was their whole intention They passed of no belles no senser nor ceremonie But to kepe gods coÌ„maundements that was their inueÌ„tion They liued by works industrious as did the Apostle Paul And I suppose sectante to his fibralitie Was better than theirs and more beneficiall For many were conuerted by suche publike libertie For to be made a gasing stocke he thought no inanitie Yet the lawes of God in him was irrefragable He liued chaste and sobre alwayes in mendacitie For where God inspireth man is not culpable There followed after Palla and Marcill Eustochin and other with contemplation Then Gregorie and Montane began an other spell So did Benet make Religion after an other fashion Putting in olde Uessels new wine of delectation And patched a newe clout to a broken garment olde Professing this and that by a newe altercation Thus mark with a hote yroÌ„ their coÌ„science néeds they wold But Sainct Bernard reformed those little abusions After that Frauncis Norberius and Dominick come to And of them is come Sectes with diuers yll conclusions As Collectes and Mynors and Obseruaunts also With a monstrous multitude of Frier beggers moe Professing Coule and Cap with things of ociositie Not trusting Christ a meane sufficient in woe But mixeth him with others for their opportunitie But nowe Religion is a vile abomination For Peters name was Cephas which is a very stone And we are liuing stones by Peters declaration And Christ is the head Capitall and other head is none But they haue this reuersed and lefte this Church alone And haue gotten a newe God euen Daniels desolation And haue set vp Cragges coopert with houses many one To cloke their déedes libidinous and incest fornication They incline with their heades to figure humilitie With garments dysguised as the Pharisies dyd before But alasse they lack their pricks to put them in memorie And the precepts described in their garments euermore But Tunica inconsutilis that is not in their lore Thereat muse I much in their actes scrupulous But tuâ—he it were to colde it is abiect therfore And they néede mediatours moe than Christ Iesus They mumble with their lippes with rich Copes kels And chaunting with their chastes lyke Owles in a frost They duck they sence and they trumpe vp their Bels And sprynkle water fast but the red Cowe is lost Candles are illuminate and let on euery post Before a gorgious Idol freshe figured and gylt And though it maye be suffered yet thereby hath ben lost Many a Christian man and many a soule spylt Of Images and Religion But let vs leaue things léeful and kéepe things expediente For I may eat drynk sléep but it profiteth not my soule But in my coniecture that is not expediente The which may prouoke to a thing preiudiciall And questionlesse the first commaundement is morall Although there were Cherubyns in the temple edified It was but a shadow and
He hath pleased his father and giuen life perpetuall By his true obedience and made iustification He hath ouercome death and sin by his painful affliction And borne our iniquities vpon the crosse crucified And made vs reuiue by his resurrection And by him and by Baptime from sin we are mortified And as he is shall we in ioy bee glorified So that we beléeue it without mutabilitie For he is our Sauiour by all Prophets prophecied Therfore let vs trust him with hope and fidelitie For his payne and death he asketh our amitie To obserue his precepts his kindnesse to reuiue But for this life â—iurnall which in equalitie To any parte sempiternall no man can contriue As a day to Methusalie or any life aliue And the furies infernall and the ioyes celestiall Excéedeth mans brayne and nature to describe As things incomprehensible aboue things naturall Now hauing this affirmitie of gladnesse and dolor A man would worke for the glory or for the paine repeÌ„t But to him that thinketh iustified he is by our Sauiour Baptised is he with the espirite omnipotent Which comforter by instinction deliuereth the talent To some lesse or more with charitie inflated To loue God and his neighbor in spite of the Serpent From the ground of his hert his sinnes shall be abated And if the flesh rebell seuen times on a day Yet by fayth and hope he shall be tutelate Agayne to reuiue and his sinne done away With perfect charitie in his harte condurate This confessed maketh the law and him coadunate With grounded repentaunce to walke of a new And when he doth not Chrystes fayth is vacillate And he must turne agayne to make his charter new But this fayth hath no man but by inspiration Though they can speake Ebrue Greke Latin or Caldie For they are borne of God and elect in creation And trust not to their works like to a Pharisie But inward from their hearts they worke them of dutie So that Scripture coÌ„mand theÌ„ by gods diuine testament For by christ coÌ„meth their fauor their truth their verity And the house is built in vayne without God consent And Chryst for his brethren in baptisme regenerate Gods sonnes by adoption doth euer make attonement As though they be damned by their ill works operate Aswell as for Adam as ofte as they repente And one may get heauen to fulfil euery commandement But nature can not that without Gods coaction For Adam for an apple was damned by the Serpent And neuer was able to make satisfaction For the man Microcosinus the which was wounded sore With the théeues disobedience and incredulitie The Priest nor the Leuite would not him restore But Gods sonne the Samaritane Chryst full of pitie With wine and oyle annoynted his maladie And caste him on his horse and had him to his stable And gaue two pence to the kéeper to sée his enormitie And payed the sum total to heale his wounds miserable But our Prelates beléeueth that vice naturally Destroyed the body by Aristotles lore And that vertue by Zeno and mo in Philosophie Giueth quietnesse of minde and the body doth restore But for life euerlasting they doo not looke therfore And though they ascribe the soule intellectiue Or immortall yet they thinke it flyeth euermore But mo thinke like beasts our soules be but sensatiue But thinke yée that Plato or the Philosophers olde Would haue iudged Adam and his posteritie To be damned by an element either hote or colde Or by nature working by moysture or deciccitie Or the sacrifice of a beast should giue fertilitie And make attonement where there was offence Oh here the blinde Balaams may euidently sée Howe loue asketh loue with perfecte obedience Now he that worketh good works shall be saued And he that trusteth in his works shall be damned And that worketh not good works shall be damned And he that dyeth in ill works shall be damned He that dispaireth for his works shall be damned And that thinketh he sinneth not shall be damned For Chryst came not for the righteous deliuerance But for to call sinners to perfecte repentance The seconde Article Now to the seconde article to their proposition To answere sayd the king it needeth a distinction But if we knew quod his grace of what Church ye ment We doubt not a response to your incitament But meane what Church ye will by your improbitie And we wil proue therein we haue nought institute But Gods law and mans for all your procacitie With more grouÌ„d thaÌ„ our auncesters before haue execute He shewed theÌ„ Edward the first with the .v. vj. Henry His noble auncesters of famous memorie To their owne vse subuerted of Abbeys a multitude Some a hundred some mo then accounted no turpitude In like wise his graÌ„dmother ten bishops with the Cardinal TheÌ„ maruelled he that rather they had a knaue or twain To lead a prophane life than he their Prince naturall To enioy them from forenners his charges to sustaine To the Article Churche It was reason to know their purpose effrenate Whether they meaned Christes churche the christen congregatioÌ„ Or the Lapidous sinagoge procript relegate The great citie I suppose of the whore of Babilon For Christ of the true Church he is the corner stone The which the edifiers and builders refused But alasse for pitie his church is almost gone These Antechristes with faces them selfe haue so abused For Paule saithe that we are the temple sanctificate And Cephas Iohn and Iames séemed pillers for to be Peter and Paule tabernacles them selfe do nominate And Christ to the Samaritane saide woman trust me The time is and shall that in espirite and veritie The true honorers shal honor but not in the mountaine Nor yet in Ierusalem for my father verily Is a spirite and requireth suche honor for certaine They confesse and denie not that the christen coÌ„gregation Is a Church espiritual but they Iacob signified The other Church moral pouring out of the stone And after the Tabernacle the temple was edified And Christ saide the temple the golde sanctified And my house shal be called the house of oration Where he whipped them in the temple these woordes he specified And a place for to worke in it needeth to saluation But I say the stone tabernacle and temple that stoode Was figures of Christe for by disobedience Of Adam the earth was maledict of God. Wherfore God and his word with mans true diligence Sanctified those things to giue God reuerence But now all creatures are blessed and dedicate By Gods word and his prayer by Christes due obedieÌ„ce And worthely restored to their first estate Nowe where Christe saide the temple the golde sanctified And that my house shall be called the house of oration At that time these shadowes might wel be specified For they were not ful defined to his mortification But where he whipt the sellers for their il ornation It was not only
and Sodomie The third office the mundayne occupation Was commaunded to Adam in Genesis we may sée And by the holy ghost and his inspiration The influence thereof hath muche diuersitie For the profite of man and his vtilitie And in Moyses law commaunded was the same And Chryst of his goodnesse and benignitie This office and power did not correct ne blame He commaunded not to care for meate drinke and cleth As who say our minds on such things should not be But to prouide it and haue it he hath confirmed both For he vsed it him selfe in his cathedralitie Paule sayth worse than an Infidell in cenositie Is he which will not for his housholde prouide Peter and Paule to seruaunts for industrie Commaunded to obey their maisters for their guide Muche Scripture recordeth this office not prophane If they be wrought in fayth they be good works no doubt These shuld be always operous mens nedes to sustaine And not inproÌ„pt but assiduous their works to bring about As to delue to dike to spin to grinde or boulte For their housholde charges and their reparation Be it Tinker or Cobler which setteth but on a clout They may worke when they nede hinder no saluation For necessitie Paule wrought and made diuers tentes And for error of the weake as I suppose and gesse But our Prelates should not so hauing léefull stipends For feare of filthy lucre and hindring their office Artificers and laborers should worke this businesse And Iusticiers do iustice with all their might puissance Here the hande and the foote can not well expresse Nor the foote to the loynes I néede not thy assistance This churche or body muste haue a head generall Which is Chryst God and man our Lorde essentiall And his generall minister for gracious influence Is the holy ghost promised by his magnificence And I am with you sayd he vnto the worlds ende That is with vs say the prelates for his churche can not erre That is not so say I marry God defende For of all creatures there is no men werre Was the holy Ghost in him that deceiued Celestinus With a trumpe in his eare and so got the Papasie Or with him that tooke out of his graue Formosus And dight him in a chayre in his pontificalitie And stroke of his head to reuenge his olde iniurie And one depriued another without any fayle And made him ride to Rome to his incommoditie With his face reuersed spectant to the tayle One bequest him selfe long life by the spirit of prophesie And soone after brake his necke without incolumitie And through discorde in seuen yeres there were puppets nyne And one through strife put out anothers eyne And Semachus and Laurence and many mo did come To the Romane Sée with great abhomination And fortie mo then these in Catholico pontificum Their déedes are not described for their great detestation Thrée at once was a trifle for the roume to compare Or with the Arians opinion Liberius infecte Their vice in ten volumes one can not well declare As Ioane English a woman their puppet elect Which trauelled in procession which is an ill respecte That the holy Ghost with them shuld gouerne domine For let their déedes be wayed vnto a true effecte And by al gracious vertue their works hath lost the signe I maruell by what signes they do thus inherite By thrée crownes or by crosses or pillers principall Or orders deuised should thus haue the espirite Or Myters Crochet or Crownes or hattes Cardinall With â—ippets or rochets or garments Pharisaicall Chryst vsed not this nor his Apostles deare But were prudent as Serpents and simple as doues all With pouertie and payne to make their fayth appeare They spake with new tongs without humane instructioÌ„ Some reuiued the dead and maladies mortiferous To palpe Serpents ne venime to them was destruction Some Disciples prophesied with many signes vertuous And said not master master and vsed things sumptuous For wheÌ„ Christ said I am with you vnto the worlds end That was with you with such elect to faith prosperous My grace by instinction wil I euer send Of the supreme head of the Church in earth Now to punishe not procéeding vpon the holy Ghost Within realmes politike there must be heads capital And to commaund those things to be done to the vttermost With all humane businesse and iustice terrestial Our prelates shuld not their works shuld séeme temporal Christes kingdom was not héere then who shuld haue the power But the owners of the soiles to kéepe truth legal Be he Marques or Duke Prince king or Emperor All power in heauen earth quod Christ is giuen to me Our prelates can chalenge by this no domination For they must follow Chryst in his humilitie And not in the power of his glorification Who would be maister must serue to do ministration And the disciple aboue his master should not bée It is inough to be equall by Chrystes declaration Now our Prelats by this shuld haue no gret souerainty When Chryst sayd all power that is to vnderstande Both kings power and euery power by my father constitute As now corroborate and put into my hande Their offices vnder me to do and execute For he came to lose no lawes by his father institute But to make that perfect which should giue life perpetual And that should those ministers alway execute And preache to all creatures the truthe euangelicall In the same Chapter it foloweth apparant His precepts should be obserued before which he had said And which is Gods giue it God these words are illustraÌ„t And which is Cesars giue Cesar no maÌ„ can this persuade And Peter for Christ and him tribute to Cesar paide some wil say like gentils they shuld haue no king ne lord This maketh not for their purpose by no reason made But against their Romaine Uiper al scripture to record When Christe said there shal be no king ouer you That was your rightuousnesse all other shuld transcend Yee shuld néede no law for vice yee shuld eschue For Christe came to minister all vertue to amend And not to haue a minister for that he would offend But for obedience and vnder gouernance When he payed the tribute that doth the truth pretend And Peter proueth it plaine Gods diuine purueyance Some wil say in the Actes and by Paule we may sée That the Apostles to Princes were not obedient In election ne vsage but among them selues frée To them I put the case by way of argument If the kings grace shuld send by his minde beneuolent Twelue discrete persons to the regions of Asia To the Turks laÌ„ds or Sophies to preach Christ omnipoteÌ„t And to Prester Iohns and the great Canis of Catha These wold elect those which in faith were constant To minister and preach and make predication And cleane abiecte those in faith which were variant And of the Turke and the Sophie make no reputation
by Nigromancie Gerebert had answere To sing at Ierusalem a Masse or euer he dyed And the Puppet sang at Rome in a Church or a Quere Called by that name or euer the spirite he espied And one Stephin of Angeo by a spirite had specified That he should dye in Pluma by which words ociabund He was resident from fethers and might them not abide And in a Castle so named he died like a vacabund One Alberice also Earle of Northumberlande Had answere by a diuell Grecia to obtayne Which made him resulte and ioyous to take in hande To conquere all Grece to his ligitious payne And made him to pampereske and to returne agayne To the countrey of Normandie where he had pollicite By king Henry of Englande a widowe for certayne A wife called Grecia thus was his chaunce finite Pirrhus of Appolline had suche a like responcion With diuers mo than these ouer long determinable But other wayes than this there is muche preuention By the figure sayd before as a spirite ineffable Might say to a maried man these words comfortable Thou shalt haue to thy wife lady Rosa or thou dye Here were a doubt whether he should wed the flore venerable Or to haue hir to his associate wife company Also one might say thou shalt haue viuacitie As many yeres as this yard wand is inches of length Now some would mete the inches and think no duplicitie Yet one might sure pernoske another way such strength As to rumpe or burne the yarde or to burne it to dust For then were the yarde not an inche of length at all And it not inches long then might a man proue iuste The destenie may be done by this color duall Also if a woman solde géese in the faire To one called Pecock and another swan nominate I had Géese Swans and Pecocks she might well declare Also one might by this color figurate Of a man called Foxe buy Turues parate And say I bought Turues which I thought to leide The which was Foxes thus double words ornate Wil make a false sense true and a true a lye in déede Ouer this prophesies by true declaration Doth more resemble to nature than to words of vanitie As Daniell figured regions to beasts and variation So may we thinke for rapine the Cleargie And for true noblenesse a Lion to the Laiâ—ie May not Marlin meane thus by his words miraculous â–ª And a Dragon for his venime to compare to the coÌ„montie This doth appeare better than playne reasons linguous A thousand suche wayes in prophesies are contriued And Peter sayth the good hath no priuate exposition Then must the ill with subtiltie and ill be deuised As plaine it doth appeare by many an ill peruersion And specially in Yorkshire at this last commotion For amongst diuers people there was one right profouÌ„d Whose ende to perceiue there can be no direction Howbeit the beginning made diuerse not fremebounde Now this was their prophesie and their nugacitie Without a word added or a worde of minoritie Foorth shall come a worme an Aske with one eye He shall be the chiefe of that meinye He shall gather of chiualrie a full faire flocke Halfe Capon and halfe Cocke The Chicken shall the Capon slay And after that shall be no May. Of the first part of this we may haue some inspiration But the last parte is colored too far from mans minde Thus are diuelish prophesies made by such obiection That falshod in the ende that is their proper kinde Of the Mouldwarpe who wil scrute he shal the same find For thrée of the laste prophesies by Marline pagynate No man can finde true but abscondent and blinde And I can proue them playne bothe past and depopulate For in the English Chronicles who liste to aspicer In the last chapter of king Cadwalader They may perceiue an angel said the wil of god was plaine How the Britons shuld neuer more in Britaine raigne Till the prophesies sayd before by Marlin be fulfilled And that time should neuer be vnto the time future That the reliques of his body into Britaine wer traÌ„slated From Rome with the reliques of other saincts sure That hath ben hyd for the Paynim folkes persecution Which shall be published and found and openly shewed Then should they of that laude haue perfite restitution Here may be noted Marlins prophesies subdued For Henrie the seuenth Cadwalladers bloud renued And the kings grace maketh Britons by the number plural Which is very relikes it cannot be eschued Of flesh bloud and bone of the same stocke paternal Which is from Rome translated and that false obedience As supreme head in earth vnder Christ to sustentande And Gods word the reliques of other sainctes pretence Which for persecution of their sore fire brand Is now openly shewed all heretikes to granand Now thanks be to God for his great largition Now before the seuenth Henrie this doth promulgand The prophesies of Marlin haue ended their condition And this is the meaning of Marlins prophesie Where he saith that the right heirs of England shall end That is to continue shal that genealogie For euermore as the angel did pretend To Cadwalader wheÌ„ he promised his blud again to send â–ª And where Marlin saith sixe of the last kings In that of the last halfe he did comprehend To take where he list these were his meanings And by the seuenth Henry it is plaine manifest As for calling the same to be the land of conquest And it séemeth the fourth Edward the Mouldwarp for to be For diuers causes but for one most specially Which soweth his séede fatherlesse in a strange land That is by the king of his owne procreation which hath lost his Romain father the truth to vnderstaÌ„d Of whom therfore good men haue made declaration This is the Britishe Lion by Sibilla prophesied This is the Egle surmounting which Festome hathe notified This is the king anoynted which S. Thomas specified This is the three folde Bul which Siluester magnified This is the king which S Edward in words glorified Which shuld win Ierusalem with all the holy land And many realmes mo with the crosse that Christ crucified By his abundant fortitude without dint of hand Is not his grace a Lion and accompt his audacitie And a prodigious Egle high volant in things diuine And anointed with faith by the spirite of veritie And of faith hope and charitie a fierce Bul in trine He hath obtained Christes crosse as they did vaticine With the heauenly Ierusalem aboue Ezechias Repairing the true temple in vbertuous wayes to shine Maumetrie destroying as the vertuous Iosias Ye this is he which hath made al the Romain bels to ring Without pul of hand their false tongs papistical Hauing oile in his lampe he is a maiden king Though they take it otherwise by their senses carnal And in the true vale of Iosaphat the scripture canonical There no doubt but his grace is sepelite For doubtlesse all the English prophesies autentical