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A00423	The stage of popish toyes conteining both tragicall and comicall partes: played by the Romishe roysters of former age: notably describing them by degrees in their colours. Collected out of H. Stephanus in his Apologie vpon Herodot. With a friendlie forewarning to our Catelin Catholikes: and a brief admonition, of the sundrie benefites we receiue by hir Ma: blessed gouernement ouer vs. Compyled by G.N.; Apologia pro Herodoto. English. Selections	Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.; North, George, gentleman.	1581 (1581)	STC 10552; ESTC S101744	72,594	99

learning triumphing of his Latine mumbled so much of it as he did forget the first part which put him into such dispaire as he ment to returne yet hoping that the image of our Ladie whose chaplaine he was vowed would do him some good he went into a Chappell to performe his deuotion where by y e appointment of our Ladie as he after reported the Priest in his Masse recited Salue sancte parens which was to our Norman the greatest ioy that might be For when he came to the Popes presence he saide Salue sancte parens the Pope amazed at this new salutation answered Non sum mulier y e Priest dwelling vpō his instructions followed with his lesson è Normandia y e Pope thus crossed said Diabolum habes the poore Priest replyed In manica mea supposing he had said well If men could be more ignorant than these Massing maies were let the wise iudge and no maruel for their onely studie consisted in a speciall care howe to liue easilye and dai●tily Was it not ridiculous to sée those that séemed most prosounde and wisest to vse in their Sermons so great absurdities ●or one alledging the authoritie of Seripture to confirme the credite of the Masse enterpreted Inuenimus Messiam We haue founde the Masse An other to proue their crossing by Scripture affirmed that Signa autem eis qui crediderunt Make the signe of the Crosse on those that haue beleeued Among which braue interpretations is to be remembred a Curate in the Countrey of Artoys that had a processe against his parishioners for pauing of the Church who alledged this text of Scripture for his purpose Paueant illi non paueam ego whereby he affirmed that S. Hierom said that they shoulde paue the Church and not he Also what way their glose had gotten vpon this place of Scripture Confitemini alter vtrum Confesle your selues to the Priest all the world doth knowe Truely in this abuse consisted their greatest glorie for althoughe their shamelesse liues séene to the open viewe of the wise were sufficient to reproue them and confound them yet in this priuate confession they practized more villanie than any honest Christian can endure to heare or reade which shall be hereafter partly touched in his place Yet to shewe you in some sort their absurditie and vaine glorie I will deliuer you two examples short and pleasaunt A certaine Mason comming to be shriuen by his Curate who had learned great wordes to countenaunce his credite with his Parishoners to the ende that he would séeme a profound clearke and wise among them demaunded of him you must suppose with open mouth whether he were Auaritious who answered no art thou quoth he Luxurious he answered no art thou not Superbous he answered no Art thou not Inuidus or Irous The poore man ignorant of these termes still answered no y e Priest in a rage saide what art thou then a simple Mason sir quoth he as you may sée by my Trowell A poore shepheard being likewise asked by his ghostly father whether he had kept the commandements of God answered no whether he had kept the commaundementes of the Church he answered likewise no what hast thou kept then quoth he nothing sir saide the poore shepheard but my shéepe Although the Pope thought it requisite that these Massing Priestes should haue no more learning than née●e● them yet sauing their honour some of the greatest could mistake their Latine aswell as the rest For Henrie the. 8. of famous memorie sending among other things to Francis the French King and the first of that name twelue great Mastiues as parcell of his present writing thus Mitto tibi duodecem molossos twelue degges which Prat his Chauncellor and a great Sorbonist Doctor tooke to be Duodecem muletos twelue moyles and therefore desired his Maiestie to giue him him the twelue Moyles that King Henrie had sent It is straunge sayde his maister that Moyles shoulde be sent me out of Englande and therefore willed to sée the letters where the king founde the errour and Prat perceiuing it said he mistooke Molossos for Mulettos And séeing I haue occasion to call this Prat into the play the more to manifest vnto you his couetous life matched with tyrannie his miserable death ioyned with blasphemie being of the Church of Rome a professor and of y e poore members of Christ a cruell persecuter I will deliuer you the same which is written of him simply as I finde it This Prat after he had bailded a faire Hospitall which the king séeing saide it was not large yn●ugh to lodge all those that Prat had made poore fell sicke of such a horrible disease as the wormes did guawe and pearce throughe his stomacke not without cursing despiting of God both for payne and extreme impatience occasioned aswell by the griefe he felte as of the hatred he had to sée all his Cofers sealed vp that he sayde thus it is to serue the King both with bodye and soule This Prat was the first in Fraunce that brought and presented to the Parliamente house the Inquisition of Heresies he gaue forthe the first Commission to execute those that spake against the Romishe Church whose blaspheming death confirmed the crueltie of his life for cleane forgetting God and his mercie he manifestly shewed what Saint he serued Also Ponchar Archbyshop of Toures following the erection of a burning Chamber he was by the fire of God burned himselfe which beganne at his héeles and féete and increased so vpwarde throughe all his bodye as they were fayne to cut his members by péece meale away One Iohn Ruze a Councellor also of the Parliament y e cruellest persecuter of Christes professors in his time was likewise punished by y e secret fire of God y t he felte himselfe burne as in a furnace shewyng no signe of remembring God his whole body consumed withal and so dying in most horrible blasphemie he refused to call to God for mercie And as the Diuine iudgement was executed vpon this so was it vpon another Councellor of y e Court named Claude de Asles for the same day y t he gaue sentence for y e burning of two true professors immediately after vsing y e companie of his harlot in the verie act was taken with an Apoplexie and so sodainely dyed Likewise one Iohn Menier Lorde of Oppide a follower with all his force for the burning Massacring of Christ in his mēbers was taken himselfe with such a burning strangurie as with the paine thereof he fell into so extreme impatience y t he blasphemed God euen to his last breath saying why should not I curse him whom those damnable Lutherans did glory and praise in the middest of their tormentes By this the reader may iudge in what miserie those men dwell whose consciences giue them such horrible assaults as a late Chaūcellor of Fraunce mightily combatted by his conscience at the

mindes can shew you on whych foote you halt as finely as you séeme to tredde I must shew you that you will not sée how God performes in hyr Princely parson the same he denyed to hir predicessors She hath réedifyed the wals of Ierusalem and raysed his holy temple to the highest not she but God in hir gouernement hath made a brazen wal about you hir earely rysing and late watchyng I meane in the Image of hir honorable instruments preserues you kéepes you defendes and protects you from all perill you néede not languishe in vncertaintie of life as other nations doe youre house is youre Castell your Beds your Bulwarks your goods your glorye your wiues your worship and comfort your daughters not rauished and your selues not slaued at the tyrannous pleasure of straungers all these blessed giftes you forget séeke by secrete sedition a hatefull innouation among vs. Wisedome willeth you to loke into your owne safetie and reason sheweth you no rule surer thā to dwel in duety by the one you are taught foresighte by the other obediēce which considered kepte and followed you may triumphe among good subiects To loue God sincerely your Prince faythfully is the assured protection both of body and soule then if you offende the first howe can you iustly say you fauour the last when you know hir Maiestie only séeketh to set forth hys glorie doe you desire the dayes of the Popes victorie a common calamitie to your Country which cannot be but by the ouerthrow of our soueraign doth priuate malice by the prouoking of Sathan so possesse you as you are contented to commit al to hazarde Wil you willinglye lose one eye and doubtfull in the ende to kéepe the sight of that to haue your Countrey made blinde Do you thyrste for hyr death whose life hath bene and is a safetie to vs al you will denye it and yet your practises approue it What hope is to be had of you when neither hir Maiesties goodnesse nor your owne daunger can driue you from youre deuises They are dayly discouered and no sooner pardoned but a new mischief is a managing Hir greate clemencie hitherto must sharpen hir sword of Iustice to correct you You brag there is no lawe to touche youre liues and that maketh you so bold and venterous as you are You consider not that the soule is more pretious than the body And what is not in prescription agaynste you by the Princes fauourable procéedings may be your destruction by the secrete iudgement of God But if it were offered you you would say with Menot Can we be more assured of saluation than Saint Paule was who was chosen by Christe and rapt vp into the thirde Heauen and that he sayde I desire to be deliuered and to be with Christ yet when there was a question of his death and that he shoulde dye he appealed to Caesar So I doubte not if death were offered you you would appeale to the Pope Or if any suche desperate humor should possesse you as God forbid I trust you would send his Holinesse the same commendation the Italian dyd to the Frenche King being ●laine in his warres who vtterly forgetting God commended both his bodye and soule to the King saying he had loste a good seruant of him But to frée you from any such frensie and the better to perceiue your true duetie In Christian Charitie looke into thys that foloweth where you shall sée your owne shame which may with spéedie repentaunce mollifie your Pharaos heart make you reclaime your selues from your dangerous obstinacie Consider the state of oure Quéenes moste royall Maiestie at the firste a mirror within your own memorie pace the pathes of hir Pilgrimage hitherto and accompany with discretion hir famous actes and yeares by degrées beginning at the time when hir Princely person was in most hazard of persecution and you shall finde howe shée hathe bin preserued kept continued called and restored more by a heauēly prouidence than by any mans foresight a or worldly diligence Who was hir Bulwarke when lyke a Lambe among Wolues she was wrongfully suspected falsly accused innocently committed and the houre of hir slaughter moste tyrannously appointed did they not séeke by all secreate sorte to haue bereaued hir blessed life from vs But shée moste nobly dwelling in teares as well for the pitifull persecution of others as for hir owne imminent perill appealed with harte and minde to him in whose heauenlye handes rested the redresse of all She wofullye wepte with Hester for hir people in whome she knewe she hadde some interest She bewayled with Ionas in the deapth of the waues and in the forrowe of hir soule mourned for oure distresse Was it the might of man or the prouidence of God that in the middest of all these miseries deliuered hir from deuouring Was it worldly pollicie or the foreknowledge of his heauenly Maiestie that wrought so mightily for hir Your selues can witnesse howe she was fréed from the Lions den like Daniel called like Dauid to kil Golias and placed in Salomons seate to restore the liuing child to his true mother After hir sacred Maiestie receiued Iudiths sword to take the head frō your Romish Holofernes if you discipher all hir doinges in true order as they are and make question of euerye point and parte of hir procéedings the worst minded among you though he would set aside al duty cannot deny but that hir gratious gouernement euen to this houre hath bin miraculous When she first entred the stage of hir triumph did shée not find euery corner of this realme infected some smoked some scorched and some smoothered with burning of poore Martyres were not all youre martyred men and holy Fathers with moste of the better sorte embrewed with the bl●ude of innocents did not sundry of honest life and good credite in sorrowe of heart abandon their Countrie was any subiect in safetie when some were priuily pyned some secretly strangled and no torment openly left vnexecuted the glorie of God defaced Christe in his chosen continually crucifyed hys word vtterly banished the Popes trash made the best ware among vs In lieu of all these calamities libertie for bondage faynnesse for feare solace for sorrow life for death and mercye for tyrannie entred with hir And where she found the holy Sanctuarie with sinne and pride p●●luted serued with blasphemie decked with Idolatrie adorned with all kinde of Hipocrisie she beganne hir at the Church and ioyning hyr manly indgemente to hir maydenlye mercie ayded by the highest so purely purged it from all degrées of superstition and that without persecution bloud fire or any other force as some of your selues then séemed greatly to reioyce at it Was not this a ioyefull chaunge to be broughte from the bondage of Sathan to the libertie of the Gospel from the feare of Hel to the faynnesse of Heauen from the sorrow of our minds to the solace of our soules from the death of the sworde

Diuell I will caste thee into the durt What horrible blasphemie was this of a Priest and in despight of that which they all séemed with diuine reuerence so much to honour These examples in my opinion are more than sufficient to proue that the same whiche our Papistes call thei● holy mother Church did not hid their wickednesse to our predecessors but so manifested it by their dayly doings that those which were not willingly deaffe or blind must néedes both heare and sée them shewing withall how they did specially prophane that which they held for a true sound holy religion Notwithstāding where one found fault at their false doctrine a thousand were offended at their wicked lyuing for the whole world complained of their ordinarie crymes being nothing to y e they otherwise most hatefully cōmitted against the Maiestie of God in their daylye blaspheming him in the horrible abuse of his holy word For the disordinate and cursed lyues that they continued and kept in the Court of Rome was such so hateful abhominable that Petrach spake of it both in his Italian Latine Epistles affirming that Christ was banished from thence Antichrist receiued made campe maister among them and that vnder the banner of Christ they made wars with Christ for the Pharaseis saith he did neuer so muche villanie to him as those dayly doe shewing by their words and workes that they holde the assured hope of eternall lyfe for a fable for he that was the man of most mischiefe among them had for honour and prayse the highest chiefest place And touching their couetous catching and gathering of gold it was so vnsaciat as they set to sale their own soules and made vendible Marchandize of the Church of all the Saintes of heauen and of Christ himselfe According to the saying of Pope Leo the. 10. whose confessor in y e time of death persuading him to feare nothing considering that he had y e keyes of Paradise the managing of all the meri●es of Christ of the Saintes at his pleasure he answered you knowe y t he which once selleth any thing is no more maister of it and I y t haue sold Paradise al the rest how shal I acceūt to haue any part or portion in them Approuing y e sūme substance of these verses following which sheweth their monstrous impudencie ioyned w t most abhominable impietie and were grauen with Gothicall letters in a table of stone which not long since did hang in y e Churche of S. Steuens in Burgis at a piller harde by the Aultar where the Cardinall was wont to say his solemne Masse Hic des deuotè coelestibus associote Mentes aegrotae per munera sunt ibi lotae Ergo venitote gentes à sorde remotae Qui datis estote certi de diuite dote Te precor accelera sparg as hic dum potes aera Et sic reuera secure coelica spera O si●u scires quantum dataprosit ibires Tu iuxta vires donares quod dare quires Te miser à poena dum tempus habes aliena Huc dare te pena veniae sit aperta crumena Consors coelestis fabricae quiporrigit estis Ex hoc sum testis hic vos mundare potestis Fratres haurite de trunco pocula vitae Hic aliquid sinite veri velut Israelitae Crede mihi crede coeli dominaberis aede Nam pro mercede Christo dices mihi cede Hic datur exponi Paradisus venditioni Currant ergo boni rapientis culmina throni Vis retinere forum mihi tradas pauca bonorum Pro summa quorum reserabitur aula polorum Hic si largè des in coelo sit tua sedes Qui seret hic parcè parcè comprendit in arce Cur tardas tantum nummi mihi des aliquantum Pro solo nummo gaudebis in aethere summo Denos sume quater vnum semel haec sacra mater Annos condonat sanctus pater ista coronat Tot quadragenas dat abluit hic tibi penas Mille missis decies socius si des ibi fies These verses for y t they be in Latine rime I cānot frame any good grace to them in English but y e effect substance consisteth in y t who so euer did offer or giue to their woodden image should goe into Paradise and y e more they gaue y e better place should be prepared for thē and those y e gaue nothing should be assured neuer to come there For Hic datur exponi Paradisus vendi●ioni is as much to saye as here is Heauē or Paradise to be sold But to the end the vnlearned Reader shall not loose the knowledge of so good a market the summe of all consisting in these two verses Crede mihi crede coeli dominaberis aede Nam pro mercede Christo dices mihi cede I haue translated them as neare as I can to the true sense word for word Beleeue me beleeue me thou shalt for mony gouern heauē And in recompence of that thou giuest thou shalt cōmand Christ to giue thee place Sée here the faire less●n these scholemaisters of perdition would learne vs according to the sayings of Plutarch that if Iudas came to Rome with his 30. Pence the price of our Sauiours bloud he should be receiued and Christ reiected affirming further that truth could haue no credite or countenance there where the aire the earth the temples yea their Palaces houses and buildings was full of treason urther falshood blaspheming and lying Nowe oure Romishe Catholikes whose conuersion to Christ in heart I craue that so muche desire by wilful ignorance to suppresse God and his glorye and to aduaunce the Pope and his Prelacie and woulde haue these Tragicall partes beautified with gluttonie adorned with lecherie de●ked with all sinne and iniquitie to triumphe vppon our English Stage before the play begin consider y e infamous falshood the traiterous trumperie that those of y e Churche of Rome doe holde you in and gather into your memorie y e summe effect of these examples which I haue rudely and disorderly dispersed in this booke to y e better vnderstanding of the simplest sort of you and looke into the infinite number that sundrye others most learned Authors to your behoofe haue collected and published wher you shal sée if God haue not vtterly sealed vp the eyes of your iudgement the manifest abuses of that Romish beast how he séeketh your deathes in the errour of your liues and would haue you deuour your selues in the wicked workes of your handes For is it not a maruellous folly a quintessence of blasphemie to honour fleshe and bloud a man a sinful creature one that standes with vs all vnder the sentence and curse of God if it were not for the mercifull redemption of our Sauiour Iesus Christ with that diuine reuerence that his heauenly Maiestie hath reserued onely for himselfe And to beléeue that so base a person somtime procéeding from