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A60213	The fryer, or, An historical treatise wherein the idle lives, vitiousness, malice, folly, and cruelty of the fryers is described : in two parts, tragical and comical : collected out of sundry authors, and several languages, and caused to be translated into English / by James Salgado ...	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing S376; ESTC R16369	87,870	357

go after vanity to swear and forswear to go to the Taverns and never enter the Church and to follow the ways of this World more then the ways of the Lord. The Fryer again said my Son this is a good anger and as for me I cannot lay upon thee penalty but did not sometimes this anger bring you to the committing of a Murder or to the Slandering of a Person or to the doing of some other injuries to him To whom Mr. Capelleto said O Lord Master Fryer You appear to me a Man of God and how do you speak such things if I had had the least thoughts of committing any of these Villanies you speak of do you think I should believe that the Almighty had kept me thus long Such doings belongs to the wicked and doleful wretches of which when I espyed one I always said to him God convert you The Fyer said immediately Now my Son God lend thee his Blessing tell me have not you born false witness against your Neighbour or spoak any bad thing of him or took away something from him without his consent Answers Capelleto never did I speak bad of any but I had once a Neighbour who without any reason of the World did nothing else but beat his Wife and of him I spoke ill to her Relations so great compassion I had for this poore Gentlewoman when ever he was fuddled did abuse her God knows how The Fryer said to him again just now you told me you had been a Merchant dist not thou cheat any Person according to the custom of Marchants By my Faith Answered Mr. Capelleto Mr. Fryer I doe not know who it was but there was one had payed me my mony he ow'd me for some Cloath he had of me and I put it into a Chest without having counted the same a month after I found there was four pence above my due and I not finding the man after I had kept them a whole year for to give them again to him distributed the same to the Poor The Fryer Answered that 's a small matter and in doing so you did well And after this the Holy Fryer did ask him many other Questions he upon them all Answering at the same rate as before He was proceeding to the absolution to whom Mr. Capelletto said Master Fryer I have yet one sin which I have not discovered to you The Fryer asking what it was he Answered I remember I made once a Servant of mine to sweep the room on the Lords day and so did not pay that due reverence I ought to that day Oh said the Fryer that 's but a small thing No replyeth Mr. Capelletto do not say it is a small matter for the Lords day ought to be very much honoured for on that day did our Blessed Saviour rise from the dead The Fryer said again did you commit any thing else Master Answers Capelletto I once un●wars did spit in the Church The Fryer smiling a little said my Son this thing is not to be heeded we that are Religious spit there all day long whereupon Capelletto imediately said And thereby you commit a great Villanie for nothing ought to be kept so neat as the Holy Church in which we render Sacrifices unto the Lord. In short such ●ryes as these he told many at last he began to sigh and afterwards to cry stoutly as one which could do it very well when he pleased The holy Father said My Son what doth all you Cappelletto answered Ah me Master Fryer because one sin is resting which I never confest but have the greatest shame imaginable to disclose it and whensoever I think upon It I always cry as you see now at this present and as for me I am perswaded God will never pardon me this my exorbitance The simple Fryer presently replyed Out upon you my Son what do you say If all the sins that were committed by all Men or that shall be committed for the future as long as the world stands should be in one sin●le man and he 〈◊〉 be sorry for them and repent as I see you do so great is the bounty and mercy of the Almighty that he should freely forgive them to the Confitent and therefore speak frankly and without fear Mr. Capelletto answered again all the while crying most bitterly O● my Father my sin is too great and I can hardly believe I shall obtain pardon for it from the Almighty unless you help me with your Prayers The Fryer said Tell it freely for I faithfully promise to interceed for thee Mr. Cappelletto wept further and said nothing and the Priest comforted him and desired him to tell Afterwards Mr. Cappelletto having held the Fryer a long while in amaze made a great sight and said Good Father since you have promis'd to pray to God for me I am reso●ve● to tell you Know then when I was a very little B●y I gave bad language to m● M●th●r and having said this beg●● to 〈◊〉 again most cruelly The Fryer ●n●●cred● O my Son 〈…〉 this to be 〈◊〉 great ●s 〈…〉 not some people ●lasphem● 〈…〉 days and 〈◊〉 they but truly repent the freely forgives them and do not believe but he will for 〈…〉 you this Do not cry be comforted for truly if you had been of them that crucified our Saviour and had such a penitent heart as I see you have you should be pardoned Mr Cappelletto sayed again Oh me My Father what do you say my sweet Mamma that boar me nine months in her womb night and day and carried me about her neck more then a hundred times should she be abused by me it is a very great sin and if you do not pray God for me it shall not be forgiven to me The Fryer seeing there was nothing else left for Mr. Cappelleoto to say did immediately absolve him and gave him his blessing counting him the holiest man in the World as being intirely perswaded it was all truth Mr. Cappelletto had confessed And who should not believe it was so hearing a Man upon his death bed speaking so as he did And after all this the Fryer spoke to him Mr. Cappelletto with the help of God you shall shortly recover But if it should happen that God should call your blessed and well-disposed So●● to himself will you be pleas'd that your body may be buried in our Cloister To which Mr. Cappelletto answered Sir I would not have it be any where else after I received a promise you should pray God for me for to pass by that I always had a particular devotion for your Order Wherefore I desire you that as soon as you come to your Monastery you may cause to be brought to me the real body of Christ such as you do consecrate every morning upon the Altar for that though I be unworthy I may with your good will receive it and afterwards the holy extream unction that so I who have lived as a sinner should

if I be of those Women for the number is infinite that pays homage to the most a bominable parts of a stinking and infected Goat No no Satan hath no power over me The Spirit that visits me every Night is a good Demon who giveth me advise in all things I am to do If you do vex or provoke him you 'l quickly feel his Wrath and Vengeance The Father and Mother after they had made Remonstrances seeing to their great Grief that they but lost their labour resolved to lock her up in a Dungeon if she would not be otherwise and to make her die miserably Moreover they gave her attendance more then usual whereat she was tormented with spite and gave all bad Language to the Gentlewomen that were about her that in short it was a wonder to be●old ber In the mean time it 〈◊〉 out that the Lord Abila made a ●●yage because of some Affairs concerning the Government he ●ad of the City of Mavia He intended but to go and to come again for that he might give Orders about that evil he lest in his ●ouse When he was departed the good and vertuous Lady her ●other was always near her Daughter She incessantly represented to her the Justice and the Love of God invited her to ●onfess her Sin and to beg Mer●y for her Faults all this time this Wretch bore with great impatience their holy admonitions ●ut yet a great deal worse the ●uards which were at the night time about her because they hindred her from conversing freely with her beloved At last sh● not willing any longer to hea● those holy discourses of the Lad● her Mother endowed with P●ety and Religion without regard or respect which we owe to them who brought us forth into the World the detestable Daughter by the instigation of the Devil who already had an intire Possession of her attempted the most horrid deed that can be imagined against which the great Lawgiver Solon would discern no Punishment because he could not perswade himself that a crime of that nature could be committed by the hands of Men. It was about eleven a Clock at Night when the darkness cloatheth all things with silence when this infernal Fury rose out of her Bed she lay in and going out of her Chamber entred into her Mothers Chamber who was in a fast sleep upon her chast and innocent Bed the youngest Son of the six of about five or six years of age was lying at her side The Paricide with a great and large Knife drew near to the Bed and so promptly cuts the Throat of her from whom she had received Life that the poor Gentlewoman could not as much as cry out An old Gentlewoman lay next to her who having leap'd out of the Bed runs hastily towards her Mistress and finding her weltring in her own Blood slang open the Window of her Chamber and began to cry out for help The Domesticks of the Castle came hastily to see what it was and amongst the rest the eldest Son of the House who perceiving this sad and lamentable Spectacle immediately fell down and swooned away Having recovered his Spirits he runs to the next Chamber catches up a Sword to revenge upon this execrable Woman the Death of so good a Mother And he had undoubtedly done it had he not been prevented by some that were thereabouts who laid open to him That in a matter of such consequence the common course of Law was to be taken and not a private Revenge to be used and therefore they forced the Sword out of his hand Nevertheless the grief which he conceived at this sad accident made him vomit out many reproachful Words against the Murtheress and put in him so great a desire of Revenge that he could not be hindred from beating her with his Fists and disfiguring her Face with his Nails and if they had not drawn her away he had certainly strangled her This Wretch was presently secured by a Safe-guard expecting the coming of the doleful Father who came two or three days after But who can sufficiently express his grief to find so sweet a Companion with whom he had lived so long in peace and quietness bereaved of Life by her to whom she gave it O Lord said the sorrowful Gentleman I must needs have greatly offended you for that you permit so many mischiefs to fall out in my House I beseech you O Lord to appease your wrath or else to exercise your vengeance upon my blame-worthy head Alas my poor wife How comes it that I had so little wisdom to leave you here alone without advising with my self about the cruel Designs of this Infernal Fury If I had been here peradventure this execrable Wretch had turned her hands upon me and my death had been a safeguard for your life for the love of which I would have sacrificed my own a thousand times O cruel Viper what Punishment can one invent which should be answerable to thy unnatural deserts Thus this good Gentleman lamented abandoning all patience and moderation and giving himself wholly over to his grief He desembled a just and innocent Job who notwithstanding his cruel and extreme Afflictions did neither curse his Creator nor murmur against Heaven So the true Servants of God patiently suffer Adversitie order'd for them by the same Providence by which they receive their Wealth and Prosperity Afterwards he caused his execrable Daughter to be enclosed betwixt four Walls and a true Information to be taken of the horrid Crime by her committed The Process being made he went to the King of Meroe and to his Privy Council to desire they would give Orders to execute Justice His Majesty having thorowly weigh'd the whol● matter and finding that neither Fire nor Sword nor any other Punishment could expiate the greatness of the Crime sentenced the young Woman to die such 〈◊〉 death as her Father would inflict upon her giving him power either to augment or to lessen the Torments according to his pleasure As soon as ever she was condemned the Evil Spirit advertised her that she should neither eat nor drink any thing but what they that brought it to her should taste before hand And so persisting in her Wickedness threatning to kill her Father and Brother at last she died miserably either by Poyson or by starving her self to death An abominable Cruelty of a Fryer committed for the accomplishing of his detestable Lechery and the ensuing Punishment for it IN the Dominions of the Emperour Maximilanus of Austria was a Convent of Fryers of great esteem near unto which a Gentleman of Quality had his House This had such a great kindness for these Religious Persons that for their sake and Service nothing was so dear to him but he would have parted with it thereby to have a part in their good works fasting and chastizings of themselves And amongst the rest there was a lusty and well shaped Fryer whom the Gentleman chose for his Father

world The Gossing was ready to fall a laughing bu● restrained her self from it t● make her talk more and said God bless me Madam is Ange● Gabriel your Gallant indeed And if ye say so it is very well for you 〈◊〉 but I did not believe the Angel● did any such thing Oyes answered L●setta and because I seeme● in his eyes fairer then any Lady in Heaven he enchanted by m● beauty comes very often to diver● himself with me The Gossip being departed from Lisetta thought that time to be a hundred years long wherein she ha● not the opportunity of rehearsing the whole matter At las● being invited to a feast in the ●ompany of many Gentlewoman ●ery orderly recited the History ●hese Gentlewomen told it to ●heir Husbands and to some o●her Dames and they again to ●thers so that in less then two ●ays all the City of Venice was ●ill of it But amongst the rest ●nto whose Ears this History ●ad been brought were the ●riends of Lisetta which with●ut saying any thing to her de●ermined to find out this An●el and to know whether he ●ould fly or no and in order to ●hat they many nights stood at ●er Dore holding watch It ●apned that this same came to ●ryer Robert's Ears who one ●ight to reprove the Gentlewoman went to her and after he had put off all his Clothe Lisetta's Relations that had see● him going in shut the Doors o● her Chamber after him for tha● they might catch him Which Fryer Alberto perceiving and seeing who they were run out o● that Chamber into another an● having no other means whereby to escape opened a Windo● right over against the grea● Channel all the City of Veni●● standing upon Water and from thence threw himself down into the River Which being ver● deep and he knowing how t● swim received no hurt at all and having swum but on th● other side of the Channel presently retired to a House which at that time was open desiring the Landlord of the House th●● ●e for the love of God would have his Life telling him in the ●●ean time some story or other why he came there about that ●our and naked The good Man being moved with compassion and having an occasion to go out about his business put him into his own Bed telling him he should be there till his coming again and after he had locked him up he went his ways about his affairs The Friends of the Gentlewoman entring the Chamber found that the Angel Gabriel having left his wings behind him was flown away Whereby they thinking themselves scorned and affronted gave to the Gentlewoman the basest Language they ever could think on or invent and at last having left her comfortless returned to their own house with th● apparel of the Angel In th● mean time the break of the day appeared and his good Land Lord being in the Market heard saying how that the Angel Gabriel had been gon the nigh● past to lye with Madam Lisetta● and being surpriz'd by her Relations out of fear flung himsel● into the Channel and no body knew what was become of him and thereby concluded immediately that it was the same Person he had in his House Coming home and having told him all the story after many other propositions said That if the Fryer would not have him to tell to her Relations he was there he should make fifty Ducats to come immediately which was ●one After this Fryer Robert desiring to depart thence had this answer from his Landlord I have no other means to bring you out but one which if you will not admit of I do not know what to do To day we are making a great Feast in which some will bring a Man divised in a sh●pe of a Bear and another will b●i●g one diguised as a Wild Man so one will do one thing another another and in the Piazza of S. Marco we will make a Chase which being finished the Feast will be done and after that every one goeth with him whom he brought thither whither he pleaseth If you will be-before they spie out that you are here that I conduct and carry you to that place in one of the disguises I 'll afterwards carry you whether you please Otherwise I do not see how you can go out without being known especially the friends of the Gentlewoman being for certain perswaded you are hereabouts have all over sent out Guards to catch you This though it appeared very hard to the Fryer as to go out in that fashion yet for fear which he had of Lysetta's Friends condescended to it saying he would be led where it should please the other and he might lead him as he thought best himself He having anointed the Fryer all over with Hony put some down upon him and a Chain about his Neck and a Mask upon his Head and gave him a great stick into one of his Hands and two great Doggs which he had brought from the Shambles into the other and sending some Man he had bespoke into the Market made him cry if any one had a desire to see the Angel Gabriel he should repair to the Piazza of S. Marco This was a Venetian Loyalty This having been done alter he had brought him forth he made him to go before him and so holding him fast by the Chain followed him and not without a great noise of many who asked Who is this Who is this Conducted him to the Piazza Where when they were some stood from behind and some from before of them that having heard the cry upon the streets were come thither a multitude without number At last the Landlord carried this Fryer to a place higher then the rest and bound this his Wildman to a Post faining that as he would stay for the time of chase in the mean time the Flyes and Wasps he being all anointed with Hony made him feel the greatest smart immaginable Afterwards seeing the Piazza to be very full making as if he would have unchained his Wild man took the Mask down from Fryer Robert and said because the Wild Boar doth not come the chase cannot be run that you may not loose your labour by comming hither in vain I do desire you to see this 〈◊〉 Gabriel who to comfort the Venetian Gentlewomen descended from Heaven upon Earth When ever the mask of was took down Fryer Robert was kown by all against whom all lifted up their voyces calling him the most horrible names th●t ever any Knave deserved throwing moreover at his Face one foul thing or another And they kept him along time in this ●●●nner till at last the noise of this Trigedy coming to the Ears of his Brethren the Monks they being moved by it came thither and having thrown a Fryars Cap upon his back and unchained him carried him not without a great noyse of people behind their backs into a House and afterwards put him into prison where if it may belived after a miserable life departed

and consequently should storm not only at our Houses for to rob them but also should assasinate our Persons wherefore at every side we are in a sad and pidkeled condition in case he should dye Mr. Capelleto who as we told you did lye next to that place where they thus discoursed having a very sharp hearing as we commonly see the Sick have did hear all they said of him Whom he made to be called and said to them I desire you heartily not to doubt any thing about me nor to have any fear of receiving any Damage by me I have understood what you have spoke together of me and am assured that things will not run so as you conceived they should but they shall run quite contrary ways I have done so many injuries to the Almighty in my Life that if I doe one more in the Hour of my Death I do not think there shall be one more or less Therefore procure the Godliest and the most understanding Fryer you can find to come to me if any such can be found And leave the rest to me for I will so heatly accommodate your business and mine that your self shall judge it to be well done and shall be abundantly satisfied The two Brothers who had no hopes of the good snccess of the business went nevertheless to some Religious Fryers and asked for a Holy and understanding Man that should hear a confession o● a dying Lombard and they appointed to them a Godly old Man who was respected as well for his Holy Life as for his great Learning in the Holy Scriptures for which all the Citizens had a great devotion for him and him they brought He comming into the Chamber where Mr. Capelleto lay Sick and having sit down at his side at the first began to comfort him with a great deal of kindness and afterwards asked of him how long it was since the last time he confessed To which Mr. Captlleto who had never been at a confession thus Answered Father my ●nly custom is to confess at least ●nce a Week excepting those ●easons in which I confess in a Week more then once but true 〈◊〉 is that since I fell Sick I have ●ot confessed this eight days so great was the tediousness which ●he infirmity had caused within ●●e The Fryer presently replyed My Son you have done very well ●nd so do for the future and be●ng you have confessed so lately 〈◊〉 shall have little Labour either ●o hear you or ●o ask you Que●tions Mr. Capelleto answered Master Fryer do not say so I ●ave not Confessed so often but ●hat I always had a desire to Con●ess all my sins again in general which I could call to memory ●rom the first till the last day of my Confession Therefore I desire you my good Father that you may be pleas'd to ask me puntually of all things as if I had never Confessed Neither doe you regard that I am so weak for I have a greater desire to displease this sinful Flesh of mine then by flattering of it commit such a thing as might cause the perdition and ruine of my Soul which was redeemed by the precious blood of our Savour These words pleased much the good old man and gave him reason to think he was pritty well in himself and after he had greatly praised this his custom he began to ask him if he had not committed a Sin of luxury To which Mr. Capelleto sighing Answered As to this good Father I am ashamed to ●ell you the truth fearing less I ●hould become guilty of vain Glory To which this Holy Fa●her Answered Tell securely ●or speaking the truth we neither ●in in nor without the time of Confession Presently Mr. Capelleto replyed since you make me ●ure of it I also will tell you I ●m as pure a Virgin as I came from my Mothers Belly O Blessed be thou from the Almighty quoth the Fryer how well have you done and doing so you have Merited by so much the more by how much you had a greater Liberty to do the contrary which we cannot have ●●r any one else that is bound to the Obedience of one Rule or other Then he asked him if he had not displeased God in Gluttony To which Mr. Capelleto sighing vehemently replyed I and often too For saith he besides the Lent Fast and other Fasts voved to the Saints I at least Fasting three days every Week in Bread and Water did drink the Water with great delight and at petite especially after I had undergon some Travel and was made weary either by long Prayers or else by Pilgrimage to some Holy Place and oftentimes I got a Stomack to have a Sallet of sour herbs to this my Chear To whom Answered the ●ryer my Son these sins are Natural and so small that I would ●ot have you to aggravate your Conscience with them it happens to every Body let him be never so Holy that he thinks it it good after a long fast to eat and to drink after wearyness O! quoth Mr. Capelleto Sir doe not speak thus because for my comfort for you must understand that I know that all our actions belonging to the Service of God ought to be done neatly and without defiling the Soul with the least of oversight and whosoever doth it otherwise he committeth a Sin The Fryer being very well satisfied said And I also am contented with your good conceit in those matters and thy pure Conscience pleaseth me mightily But tell me have you sinned in Covetuousness desireing to have more then you had need of or keeping that from another which you should not have kept Mr. Capelleto Answered to this Father I would not have you to take notice of it that I do lye hear in the House of these Usurers I have nothing to do with them but that I cam● hither to admonish and to correct them and to draw them away from this abominable gain and believe me I had done the business if God had not thus visited me for you must know my Father left me a Rich Man out of whose goods after his Death I gave the best part of them for the Glory of God and afterwards to maintain my self and be helpful to the Poor Members of Christ I bought some Marchandizes and by these to gain some profit and whatsoever I gated I always did go halvs with the Poo converting my moyety for my own necessary uses and the other giving to them for which the Almighty helped me so far that I always advanced in my things better and better You have done well said the Fryer but how often have you been angry O! quoth Mr. Capelleto this I say truly I was very often angry Neither could I withold my self seeing the vicious actions of all People in general which neither did observe the Commandements of God nor feared his Judgments There hapned many Hours in a day in which I wish my self more dead then alive seeing the youth to