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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11248	Merry iests, concerning popes, monkes, and friers Whereby is discouered their abuses and errors &c. Written first in Italian by N.S. and thence translated into French by G.I. and now out of French into English, by R.W. Bac. of Arts of H.H. in Oxon.	N. S., fl. 1617.; Willet, Roland, b. 1588 or 9.	1617 (1617)	STC 21510; ESTC S110774	55,403	144

of Iesus Christ reserued by his mother when hée was a little one and that hée had now brought it from Bethleem Hée had no sooner finished these things but all the Citty was full of the newes so that he was presently called before the Seigneury demanded whether it were true that hée had brought with him Moyses hornes and the breath of Christ and hée answered that it was true then they asked him if he were not ashamed to make men worship a paire of hornes If you said the Priest are not ashamed to make men worship and fall downe before the taile of the Asse on which Christ rode on Palme Sunday Dught I to thinke it a shame to make men worship these glorious hornes of Moyses dost thou beléeue said one of the Seigneurie that these are the very hornes of Moyses and that in this viol there is the very breath of Iesus Christ Then he answered and said I doe as verily beléeue that in this viol is the breath of Iesus Christ and that these are the hornes of Moyses as I beléeue that to be the milka of the Uirgin Mary which is in your viols which you say is hers making men reuerence and worship it as an holy Relique When hee had thus said they let him goe The 7. Apologue in which is shewed the folly of many who laugh when they should weepe and weepe when they should laugh POpe Iulius the third on the day of his coronation made a great feast especially for the Ladies of S. Peters Palace amongst which there was one who said wee women are the veriest fooles in the world and being asked why she answered because when Iesus Christ went to be crucified hee went to his soueraigne tryumph ouer sinne death and hell to the great glory of his heauenly father and to our saluation and perfect happinesse and then we wept and made great lamentation but now on the contrary at this mans coronation whence will procéede the great dishonour of God and the certaine ruine and destruction of many Christian soules we passe the time in feasts and merriment The 8 Apologue in which is shewed plainly that there is no Purgatory THere was in Rome an excellent and learned preacher of whom Pope Paul the third as of one in whom hee put great confidence demaunded on a time secretly whether he did belieue that the Pope had as men said so great power and authority ouer Purgatory that hee could thence set at liberty all the soules therein and cause that none should euer come thither againe but the preacher durst not bouldly speake his minde herein and would by no meanes say any thinge against his owne conscience and therefore remained in doubt Wherefore the Pope perceiuing it gaue him incouragement saying that he would haue him speake his mind freely without feare or rather respect Then seeing that the Pope desired to knowe the truth hee answered that he had no power at all ouer Purgatory Againe perceiuing that the Pope did greatly wonder at his words he said thus vnto him Holy Father had your Predecessors as great power and authority as you or had they lesse the Pope made answer that it was equall to his then replied the Preacher if they had as great power as you and by the same were able at any time to empty Purgatory as you suppose your selfe able to doe it is fit we belieue that among so many Popes some one was found so ful of charity to free al soules thence for euer The Pope answered that he could not tell that But said the Preacher I know this well that Iesus Christ the Soueraigne Priest hath of himselfe infinite charity and power and seeing that with his owne proper blood he hath truely and for euer purged the soules of his elect what need haue they of any other purgation wherefore I know not what that power is whereof you brag and boast so much The 9. Apologue by which is shewed the great ambition of the Popes Prelates the meanes they haue to come vnto dignity POpe Paul the third being asked of his kinsmen by what meanes hee did ascend to the Papall dignity answered and saide wee came vnto it by shewing that by the course of nature our time in this life could be but short and that we with patience had long expected it by exquisit practises by liberall promises by bragging what great friendes wee had to terrifie the Cardinalls if they did not elect vs to be Pope and finally by subtill sleights and a large conscience The 10. Apologue by which is in part discouered the auarice and superstition of the Priests and Monkes A Rich Seigneur of Paris being very sicke the thiefe of all the Religious in the citie went at seuerall times to visite him more indéede respecting the guiftes and rewards they hoped for at his hands then his soules safety And the Cordeliers exhorted him to call vpon and put his trust in S. Francis the Iacobins in S. Dominicke and the other in those Saints of whose order they were Mōks The Priest likewise exhorted him that hee would commend himselfe into the hands of S. Peter or of the Saint to whom their Church was didicated The Noble man perceiuing this diuersity caused them all to be sent for and to be assembled into his Chamber and then said thus vnto them When I first fell sicke I caused all the Phisitians in the City to come vnto mée and they could not agrée among themselues to giue me a medicine because that euery one of them to séeme more learned then the rest reproued all that the other would haue giuen mée counselled mee to take that which he would administer vnto mee Therefore calling them togither I said vnto them euery one of you would haue me take the Phisicke which he hath ordained for mée now if I should take all they would bring my body into worse estate then it is already if not kill mée and if I should resolue to take but one I know not which to choose wherefore you shall goe into this next chamber from whence you shall not come vntill you doe agrée to giue me a medicine approued of you all to be the best then the Phisitians knowing that long fasting would bring danger to their owne bodies did quickely consent and brought me physicke assuring mee that it was farre better and more agreable to my maladie then any they would before haue giuen mée Now in like manner you being come to medicine my soule are different among your selues for euery one of you doth exhort me to call vpon such a Saint and I by reason of my great sicknes and debelity of body am not able to make prayers perticulerly to so many Therefore goe you into the Phisitians Chamber and assure your selues that yée shall not come forth thence vntill you tell mee all with one accord to whom especially and onely I ought to commend my selfe for my soules safety Then the Priests and Monkes

world should know that wee had so resigned our offices to nouices it is far better if you would not haue the nouices corrupted that they gouerne themselues and we our selues the other replied that so of one Monastery they should make two and beside the nouices should haue none to teach instruct them in the Ceremonies of Religion In the end the Abbesse séeing they could not agrée among themselues said for my part I thinke it most expedient for vs that wee burne the Monastery and that all of vs returne some to our friendes where wee may liue peaceably and honestly this motion pleased them them all and within a while after they set it on fire and departed The 87. Apologue shewing the pride couetousnes and foolish superstition of them that say they can deliuer Soules out of Purgatory IN a Citty of Sicilie the Cordeliers in their Sermons to the people said that S. Francis did euery yeare on his feast day descend into Purgatory and deliuer the soules of all that had giuen almes to his Fryers wherevppon many men to be in the number of their Benefastors gaue them almes continually that after death they might be deliuered out of Purgatory by S. Francis when the Fryers of Saint Dominicke or Iacobines who are also called the Fryers of the Virgin Mary perceiued that by this meanes the peoples almes was diminished in their endroit they got vp into the Pulpits and said that the Uirgin Mary hauing more charity and authority then Saint Francis did not suffer them which had béene benificiall to her Friers to lye a yeare in Purgatory as hée did but onely seauen daies at the most for said they euery Satterdaie which is dedicated to her she descends into Purgatorie deliuereth all which haue béene benifactors to her Friers After this many beléeued in them so that they also had great store of almes When the Friers of S. Augustine called also the Friers of the Crucifixe because their Church is dedicated to it perceiued this they began to preach Iesus Christ and say that hée being charity it selfe and far more powerfull then either S. Francis or the Uirgin Mary did not suffer them which belieued in him alone to enter into Purgatory at all but sent them immediatly into Paradise And after that many did addresse themselues to Iesus Christ wherefore the Inquisitors or rather Inquinators of the faith approouing the oppinion of the Cordeliers and also that of the Iacobines but on the contrary reprouing condemning of this y e Friers of S. Augustine as false hereticall cited them to appeare before them said they would haue them burnt because they were so bould to magnifie and exault Iesus Christ aboue the Saints For said they if this were true which yée say it would follow that not onely the Saints but also the Pope himselfe should haue no authority in Purgatory The 88. Apologue by which is shewed what are the fruites of the Confessionals and Confessors A Certaine man hauing many sons and daughters did nourish and bring them vp carefully not suffering them to frequent the company of any out of his owne house for feare least they should be lead aside into any kinde of vice and hée himselfe supplied the place of a master for hée both instructed them in good learning and was vnto them an example of vertue and piety But it happened for all this that in time they became all very wicked committing among themselues much dishonesty When their father perceiued it hée much wondred and grieued at it and calling them vnto him hee sharply reprehended them and demounded of them where and of whom they had learned so great wickednes and they answered that they learned it out of the booke which hée gaue them to studdie in and of the maister which expounded it vnto them then their father said I am sure that I suffered you to read none but honest bookes and that you haue had noe other matter then my selfe and I neuer taught you this dishonesty Then they said doe you not remember that when wée were to make our confessions you gaue vs a booke called the Confessionall commanding vs to studie our sins therein Out of that booke wée learned all the euill wee know and because wée did not vnderstand the one halfe of the wickednes contained therein our Maister that that is to say the Confessor did expound it vnto vs when their father heard this hée presently cast the booke into the fire charging and commaunding them that when they were to make their confessions they should study none but the bookes of their owne consciences and that they should neuer after confesse their sinnes to any but God alone The 89. Apologue whereby is condemned the pride and ignorance of the Monkes A Carmelite on a time spake much in the praise of his owne religion and preferred it before all other principally by reason of the antiquity thereof saying that the originall of it was from Elias in mount Carmell whence they were called Carmes or Carmelites and also that in the time of Christ there were no other Monks or Friers beside them And one which heard him said then S. Paul where hee saith Periculum in falcis fratribus speaketh of you seeing that there were no other Friers at that time and consequently your religion is Iewish and not Christian because it began before Christ. The Carmelite not knowing what to reply departed from him ashamed The 90. Apologue whereby is discouered and condemned the ridiculous couetousnes and superstition of the Cordeliers IN Florence the Cordeliers with many fayre words exhorted a Cittizens to hyre them to say the Masses of S. Gregory for a sonne of his which was lately dead saying that by them he should bee deliuered out of Purgatory and hee making as though hée were perswaded by their words said vnto them goe and say your Masses and if my sonne be deliuered by them as your promise is I will giue you a crowne so the Cordeliers went to the Temple and quickly mumbled vp their Masses and then returned to him for the crowne but hée said first shewe mée some token that yée haue deliuered my sonne out of Purgatorie and then I will giue it you for so farre am I from knowing that hée is fréed from Purgatorie by your Masses that I cannot tell whether hée went thither or no when hée died when the Cordeliers saw hée would not satisfie their expectation they went vnto the Duke humbly intreating him that hée would doe them iustice and hée presently sent for the Cittizen to come before him and asked him why hée would not pay the Friers the crowne which hee promised them Then hée said I did not promise them absolutely but in case that by their Masses they did deliuer the soule of my sonne out of Purgatory now seeing they can shew mée no good proofe that hée is deliuered I see no reason why I should giue them the crowne when the Duke heard this hée turned