Historia
de
Donne
Famose
.
Or
the
Romane
Iubile
,
which
hapned
in
the
yeere
.
855.
THE
Iesuites
being
a
new
kinde
of
Sacrificers
,
and
of
mystery
mungers
:
first
in
our
age
at
Venice
,
of
a
certaine
Spaniard
a
souldier
(
inriched
with
rapine
and
spoyles
,
without
any
religious
restitution
made
of
his
wronges
done
)
they
tooke
their
off-spring
.
And
they
of
that
Pope
Paulus
the
fourth
were
well
approued
,
being
apparantly
worthy
of
such
an
Author
:
And
therefore
nothing
deseruing
the
sir-name
of
our
Sauiour
Iesus
,
because
they
being
male-content
with
the
common
commendable
name
of
the
Christians
,
doe
vsurpe
the
tytle
of
Iesuites
.
Too
much
are
they
fruitefull
and
multiplying
in
our
soyle
of
Germanie
:
But
God
wot
only
for
the
rooting
out
(
as
the
swine
vse
)
of
the
Cockle
from
the
Corne
,
the
very
Tares
and
Darnell
of
all
Heresies
.
And
so
to
reduce
wandring
sheepe
,
wauering
and
lost
into
the
soule
and
lap
of
theyr
Mother
Church
.
That
no
where
but
many
of
them
are
prepared
and
bent
,
that
as
soone
as
of
one
or
an
other
forerunner
any
denne
or
starting
hole
is
praeoccupied
,
by
and
by
all
the
residue
flocke
thyther
.
A
certaine
Prince
of
ours
did
therefore
nothing
fondly
after
this
manner
iesting
terme
Iesuits
,
or
rather
as
other
men
after
their
deserts
fitlie
terme
them
Esauites
:
resemble
them
vnto
those
lice
which
of
a
secret
part
of
the
body
they
vse
to
offend
,
were
called
for
their
offence
inginuals
or
Crab-lice
,
of
which
kinde
euen
of
one
,
there
remaining
presently
innumerable
propagation
&
multitudes
of
issue
are
stirring
:
a
fit
comparison
for
such
a
flocke
.
And
not
vnlike
he
did
compare
them
vnto
a
game
at
Cardes
in
the
which
the
gamsters
like
Loadam
play
,
and
bring
them
foorth
last
,
that
are
of
most
price
,
to
beate
downe
the
aduerse
party
:
or
like
the
Ase
of
Harts
at
Mawe
(
the
game
is
called
with
vs
Kumstich
)
.
So
the
Pope
with
his
fiue
fingers
,
the
Iesuites
now
at
last
when
all
is
gone
in
Germany
,
sending
foorth
his
craftes-masters
of
Embassage
,
vnto
the
Esauites
,
murderers
of
Martirs
,
wish
to
be
oppressed
,
nay
wish
to
be
extinguished
,
yea
with
al
that
part
that
belongeth
vnto
our
Politique
State
&
gouernment
,
of
which
these
Sinones
are
triers
and
betraiers
,
openly
bewraying
their
bad
cause
,
&
secretly
betraying
our
good
,
vnto
their
Italianates
&
other
strangers
vnto
vs
,
by
reason
of
our
rites
of
Ecclesiasticall
gouernment
&
amendment
,
&
our
abiectment
&
reiectment
of
al
their
pontifical
monarchy
&
yoke
,
for
their
attention
&
intention
,
to
recouer
v●
vnto
their
pristine
&
olde
state
of
gouernment
called
now
Tyranny
.
Most
like
are
those
Esauites
,
if
not
more
like
vnto
those
cowled
and
whooded
beggers
in
one
thing
,
for
that
pressing
themselues
into
the
Courtes
of
our
Princes
:
yea
&
into
the
nurcery
too
,
they
obserue
,
harken
And
moreouer
if
it
be
a
braunch
of
chastity
,
voluntarily
to
sweare
and
vow
a
single
life
against
God
and
nature
,
and
euery
man
not
to
haue
his
owne
wife
,
who
then
dare
deny
these
Esauites
truely
to
obserue
chastimony
?
O
but
so
many
societies
,
so
flourishing
a
multitude
of
youth
,
of
liuely
youth
,
securely
,
finely
,
want
only
liuing
:
which
one
,
may
meete
so
neate
,
so
faire
,
as
if
they
were
brides
,
so
vegitatiue
,
with
such
a
habit
of
strength
,
as
if
they
were
Champions
▪
such
shall
we
say
purely
to
leade
singlenesse
of
life
?
hardly
will
it
be
beleeued
of
any
who
know
the
stimulation
,
(
will
say
t
is
simulation
)
who
know
the
force
of
inhumane
nature
vnto
generation
,
to
bee
diuinely
inuested
in
them
,
as
all
things
else
,
will
they
thinke
,
will
they
vnderstand
it
?
For
note
what
flagitious
and
prodigious
,
and
wretched
lust
was
re●ealed
in
the
Colledges
of
Priestes
,
in
the
den●es
of
Munkes
,
vnder
a
pretext
of
continencie
vttered
:
shall
wee
not
now
thinke
they
wrestle
as
weakely
with
their
insuperable
nature
?
In
our
owne
Country
of
Germany
,
in
England
,
in
Denmark●
and
other
places
,
where
they
were
looked
into
,
espied
and
meritoriously
abolished
,
it
is
a
thing
so
●ryed
to
be
true
in
them
,
so
notified
that
there
neede
no
more
words
to
proue
it
.
Neyther
is
it
enough
for
these
new
Hypocrites
to
cloke
themselues
with
this
simuled
and
false
chastety
,
and
by
it
to
sell
themselues
away
in
vaine
ostentation
vnto
the
foolish
credulous
vulgar
people
.
But
not
content
with
this
,
they
defraude
the
Ministers
of
the
reformed
Churches
,
proudely
and
disdainefully
,
of
their
good
names
,
as
if
they
were
incontinent
and
effeminate
with
their
owne
wiues
,
terming
their
children
bastardes
,
because
they
fearing
God
doe
yeelde
to
nature
,
the
handy-worke
of
our
good
God
obeying
it
in
chaste
matrimony
,
liuing
married
,
(
a
remedy
for
that
onely
sinne
,
and
an
onely
remedy
for
that
sin
of
lust
)
and
doe
beget
issue
,
and
doe
well
bring
them
vp
,
and
take
care
for
their
familyes
,
and
for
the
most
part
do
with
great
difficulty
,
care
for
them
,
and
doe
tolerate
the
matter
with
godly
sorrow
,
while
they
without
all
oecononicall
and
housholde
griefe
of
minde
,
or
molestation
of
life
in
the
commodities
thereof
,
(
without
all
discommodity
)
liue
in
abundance
of
pleasures
,
delicacy
&
rioteousnes
:
Whence
it
is
that
necessarily
must
ensue
(
a
consequent
of
time
)
that
they
acte
these
things
warily
and
couertly
,
vntill
time
reuealing
all
thinges
,
doth
also
bring
to
open
light
and
open
shame
,
their
misdeedes
,
euen
as
already
with
vs
the
filthy
and
vnciuil
lustes
of
the
Monkes
,
are
at
such
a
height
gone
vp
,
that
they
appeare
to
all
men
:
wherevpon
late
fame
of
two
in
Polonia
being
Esauites
,
it
is
deliuered
to
vs
that
one
of
them
hath
brought
forth
a
childe
in
their
walkes
:
many
neuer
suspecting
it
,
yea
many
maleuolent
and
back-biting
our
religion
,
haue
thought
it
very
agreeable
,
and
recounting
the
condition
of
such
a
society
of
two
and
no
more
,
and
remembring
the
like
euentes
in
the
Monkes
,
especially
in
wandring
runagates
,
&
land-leapers
with
their
beggery
,
haue
graunted
it
might
be
true
:
Neyther
,
yet
is
this
rumour
supplanted
out
of
all
mens
mindes
there
from
suspition
:
albeit
by
the
Kinges
owne
edict
,
it
was
forbidden
,
any
such
wicked
euent
to
be
misdeemed
of
two
so
holy
Fathers
.
But
thought
they
say
is
free
.
As
perhaps
neyther
doth
this
seeme
a
fable
altogether
vaine
,
nor
can
many
bee
so
easily
disswaded
from
that
was
said
lately
to
be
seene
in
the
towne
of
N.
in
a
certaine
Canonicall
house
of
a
Canon
there
,
A
Iesuite
was
gining
her
child
suck●
.
These
men
do
imitatethe
Esauites
,
these
former
Munks
in
this
thing
also
,
that
with
no
lesse
happinesse
then
dilligence
,
they
allure
younglings
,
young
men
,
ingenious
,
swift
and
full
of
speeche
,
and
many
(
in
good
time
)
not
deformed
,
but
want
on
Gammedes
,
and
prophane
Iones
cup-bearer
(
procul
a
phano
)
they
know
what
secrets
I
meane
,
and
also
some
more
fortunate
,
by
whom
to
the
society
of
poore
Iesus
much
profit
may
rise
,
by
their
institution
and
nurtering
of
such
,
borne
as
it
were
desastrouse
,
they
intise
them
into
the
cod
of
their
net
,
by
the
which
a
perpetuall
Seminarie
is
supplyed
,
increasing
with
old
men
&
their
merits
,
and
the
merits
of
them
dead
succeeding
others
.
For
the
institution
of
their
Seminarie
and
discipline
they
are
to
be
praised
,
for
that
diligentlye
they
instruct
them
in
the
tongues
,
and
in
Artes
(
but
that
onely
in
the
seauen
liberall
Sciences
)
:
More
were
they
to
be
praised
,
if
they
did
it
to
instruction
,
and
sinceritie
,
and
pietie
,
to
the
defence
and
conseruation
of
the
kingdome
of
Christ
and
his
glory
,
not
vnto
Antichrists
Idols
and
tyrannie
,
to
be
strengthned
and
confirmed
on
their
side
for
profit
and
honors
sake
.
Such
A
Gel.
lib.
4.
c.
3.
are
these
and
all
other
their
deeds
,
full
of
guile
and
fraude
,
full
of
their
trecheries
,
onely
right
and
well
tending
,
that
with
the
shape
of
this
good
,
which
is
altogether
great
in
approoued
gouernment
and
right
discipline
,
they
may
by
little
and
little
accustome
the
worlde
(
harlot
like
inticed
)
vnto
them
,
and
once
againe
vnto
the
pontificall
Maiestie
,
and
to
his
worship
.
Meane
while
what
do
they
?
they
indue
the
tender
mindes
of
the
youth
of
the
pontificalitie
,
it
is
of
corrupt
religious
doctrine
,
and
corrupt
loue
,
with
hate
and
apostacie
,
of
vtter
forsaking
of
plaine
and
sincere
truthe
,
which
neuer
after
they
vnlearne
nor
leaue
:
for
what
then
thinke
you
of
such
men
not
feined
nor
coloured
can
be
performed
,
who
in
so
great
and
daylye
a
light
of
Christianitie
already
restored
vnto
vs
(
notwithstanding
)
employ
their
diligence
to
darkenesse
:
all
their
wits
,
yea
and
all
their
erudicion
,
indeuouring
to
defend
the
same
,
who
in
so
manifest
deprehending
,
yea
and
open
detecting
of
the
high
Priests
of
Rome
,
of
their
houshould
,
and
all
their
clients
,
of
their
sliding
backe
,
apostacie
,
and
fraudulent
religion
,
shrouded
vnder
foyson
of
truthe
,
a
tinfoile
of
deceit
,
practised
against
the
people
of
so
many
ages
,
notwithstanding
,
they
would
defend
themselues
to
be
men
,
and
men
for
all
this
,
good
and
holy
,
the
standard
bearers
of
pietie
,
and
most
worthy
too
,
vnto
whose
trayning
,
whose
prescript
order
,
men
that
are
men
indeed
,
must
obey
:
thus
they
perswade
the
vnskilfull
and
fatuate
commons
to
beleeue
.
This
verily
is
the
indeuour
of
the
sodalitie
,
the
felowship
of
Esau
,
and
of
others
his
fellow
seruants
,
more
then
diuelish
,
by
which
no
more
worthy
nor
efficient
waye
to
depraue
or
ouerthrowe
the
doctrine
of
the
church
,
could
be
premeditate
and
vsurped
,
because
they
not
onely
call
in
question
,
degrading
certaine
of
the
latter
writers
,
such
as
Stapulensis
,
Erasmus
,
Polydorus
,
Capino
,
Caspiniarus
,
and
others
,
these
sometimes
not
reuerently
reporting
(
like
men
of
better
note
)
against
their
pontificall
and
the
wildes
,
tyrannie
,
pride
,
disdaine
,
and
riot
of
their
Prriests
.
And
not
resting
there
but
in
all
vnrest
and
disquiet
,
they
would
musle
vp
the
mouthes
of
the
auncient
Fathers
,
being
the
better
sorte
of
the
interpreters
of
the
holy
Scriptures
.
And
because
they
are
wholie
against
their
pontificall
opinions
and
Monarchie
(
of
which
these
knaues
the
Esauites
publish
themselues
in
profession
,
to
be
the
very
Atlas
and
Axell-tree
to
vpholde
all
)
in
our
age
in
a
manner
their
Bookes
haue
beene
Printed
after
the
ouldest
examplar
in
written
hand
,
sought
foorth
,
perused
,
and
with
the
most
noble
diligence
and
incredible
labour
of
Erasmus
and
others
,
most
learned
men
,
renewed
from
their
defects
,
repurged
of
the
written
faultes
by
their
side
committed
,
and
thereupon
Imprinted
at
Basile
,
and
else
where
faithfully
and
truly
,
both
Augustine
,
Ierome
,
Cyprian
,
Hillarie
,
Irenaeus
,
Chrysostome
,
and
others
,
whose
names
they
haue
not
signed
in
the
booke
of
life
,
but
in
their
expurgato●ie
Index
,
their
censure
of
the
whole
world
,
most
perfidously
,
wickedly
,
heinoussie
,
and
all
vngodly
:
some
of
these
bookes
they
may
me
like
a
headl●sse
trunke
or
stocke
,
some
they
depraue
,
some
they
increase
,
some
they
decrease
,
euen
agreeable
for
their
owne
purpose
as
they
please
.
And
these
by
their
owne
types
and
formes
,
their
owne
Printers
by
the
mandate
of
their
Prince
of
the
Apostles
,
and
by
the
vnder
commaundement
of
other
Princes
,
footmen
to
the
Prince
of
Rome
,
Pages
to
the
pontificals
,
they
empresse
and
set
them
foorth
,
intending
guile
,
foule
fraude
,
and
sacriledge
,
to
all
the
Christians
,
both
present
and
in
future
time
hereafter
,
and
that
onely
to
recouer
and
vpholde
the
stature
of
the
Idoll
and
of
their
Lorde
God
the
Popes
authoritie
,
power
,
and
his
grace
.
Which
vsurpation
of
theirs
,
both
by
the
Apostles
owne
writings
(
which
I
feare
me
in
time
they
will
also
s●t
vpon
to
corrupt
too
)
and
by
the
Fathers
auncient
monuments
,
are
oppugned
,
are
slided
from
their
first
creation
,
in
as
much
that
they
may
see
themselues
ouerthrowne
both
horse
and
foote
.
O
worthilie
worthy
,
that
for
this
so
great
wretchednesse
,
wickednesse
,
and
sacriledge
,
Scala
Gemonia
were
the
sleds
for
the
damned
in
Rome
.
Cor.
Tacit
〈…〉
.
they
lay
in
Auentine
,
in
the
thirteenth
●e
▪
gion
of
the
Citie
.
of
vs
Christian
people
to
be
stoned
to
death
,
but
more
▪
in
a
more
feeling
fashion
,
is
the
maister
of
them
Anresignanus
worthy
to
be
dragged
a
long
Rome
on
the
Gemontan
sled
.
And
thus
by
reason
of
these
capitall
fals●ries
the
Esauites
both
Bishops
,
Abbots
,
yea
and
the
Princes
of
our
prouince●
,
pluck
downe
to
ruine
noble
and
riche
houses
▪
vnbuilde
them
,
to
feede
these
with
the
fattest
and
fa●rest
Prebends
:
and
thus
they
nourish
that
serpent
Coluber
in
their
owne
bosomes
.
Therefore
to
conclude
them
▪
behold
,
behold
,
I
beseeche
you
,
and
lend
an
eare
too
,
with
what
studie
and
industrie
Parasites
execute
their
office
,
affirming
by
demonstration
(
the
best
argument
that
is
)
on
euery
side
,
by
all
meanes
and
wayes
,
their
absolute
and
perfect
sanctimony
and
holinesse
,
the
inuiolable
maiestie
of
their
Lorde
:
insulting
and
singing
according
to
the
Prouerbe
Canentes
vernaculum
,
About
the
yeare
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
855.
Lotharius
being
Emperour
,
the
sonne
of
Lewes
called
Pius
▪
it
happened
to
the
holy
sacred
,
and
sacred
holy
Catholique
and
Apostolique
See
of
Rome
,
to
the
Columnes
pillers
&
standerd
bearers
,
to
the
hinges
&
Cardinals
(
if
so
be
there
were
any
hinges
to
their
doores
or
cardinals
at
that
time
)
that
their
holy
spirit
,
who
in
all
their
counsels
is
present
euer
,
absent
neuer
,
so
as
to
erre
,
to
be
deceiued
,
to
slide
in
any
matter
,
they
say
of
themselues
they
cannot
,
in
some
enormitie
their
spright
serued
them
,
deceiuing
themselues
,
whether
of
ignorance
or
of
purpose
,
or
busied
about
other
matters
of
more
import
,
he
suffered
them
in
their
creation
and
consecration
of
a
new
high
Priest
,
inwardly
,
outwardlye
and
most
ridiculously
to
erre
,
and
to
be
shamefully
deceiued
,
in
choosing
without
any
discretion
of
sex
a
female
Pope
insteed
of
a
male
.
For
Leo
the
fourth
being
deceased
,
an
Aedile
and
quaestor
very
industrious
,
(
the
Consultation
for
a
successor
being
propounded
)
there
was
conuersing
at
Rome
,
one
as
it
appeared
,
not
one
but
two
,
a
certaine
yong
man
a
Germaine
borne
at
Mens
,
named
Iohn
English
in
Scholes
,
in
some
places
and
withall
in
Greece
brought
vp
in
erudicion
.
He
or
she
,
in
wit
,
doctrine
,
eloquence
,
manners
,
habite
,
and
comlinesse
of
body
,
to
be
admired
at
:
at
a
worde
,
such
an
one
,
that
the
Primates
and
chiefe
men
there
in
Rome
were
beneuolent
auditors
,
and
did
heare
her
in
certaine
Scholes
where
she
red
,
there
:
and
by
their
endeuours
and
sentence
,
she
was
preferred
to
the
sacred
Senate
,
designed
and
made
a
woman
high
Priest
,
in
the
steed
of
a
man
:
so
many
prudent
perspicuous
sages
,
so
many
eyes
and
noses
being
by
,
yea
without
any
admonishing
of
their
holy
spirit
,
so
as
they
know
not
the
womans
sex
from
the
mans
,
no
not
by
a
beard
,
which
though
it
had
beene
rased
after
their
owne
fashion
,
yet
me
thinkes
the
stubbes
should
appeare
,
no
not
by
voyce
and
other
notes
and
tokens
hidden
and
vnknowne
.
At
last
the
fallacie
was
bewrayed
in
this
plaine
euent
.
In
that
her
delicacie
of
licence
to
do
what
she
list
,
lasciuious
nature
admitted
into
her
embracing
,
eyther
a
Cardinall
or
some
meaner
man
more
familiarly
,
by
whom
she
was
begotten
with
childe
.
When
her
time
was
almost
expired
,
&
her
next
neighbour
the
birth
day
was
at
her
hand
,
so
imprudently
as
a
Heighfer
not
expert
in
her
first
calfe
,
on
the
day
of
their
litamie
and
Procession
(
as
they
call
it
)
she
walked
foorth
,
&
falling
down
in
the
very
publique
walke
amongst
the
whole
rou●
,
(
beli●e
expressing
her
estate
,
they
left
her
for●orne
)
there
with
dolor
and
paine
,
she
brought
foorth
her
first
begotten
,
and
so
in
the
child-birthe
they
both
perished
.
This
story
the
Esauites
contend
against
,
&
would
haue
it
to
be
a
fablement
,
and
so
many
of
integrity
,
graue
writers
in
whose
consenets
and
momoments
,
it
is
expressly
red
,
they
reprooue
so
vnreuerently
,
so
arrogantly
,
both
of
vanitie
and
falshood
,
and
that
not
for
t●nthes
sake
and
affirmation
thereof
,
so
much
as
for
that
,
wheresoeuer
any
thing
maketh
against
them
,
they
doe
adultera●e
or
suppresse
it
,
(
as
I
shewed
before
)
.
But
this
is
because
they
would
wash
away
the
blot
,
and
guilde
their
worthlesse
copper
(
Pope
)
from
this
crime
,
in
this
our
latter
age
reiect
,
and
throwen
into
despect
,
and
ignominie
for
their
Romane
Hierarchie
,
the
foundation
wherof
in
perpetuitie
,
euen
from
this
time
vnto
the
succession
of
Don
Petre
:
(
for
Peter
himselfe
was
neuer
at
Roome
)
they
would
scite
and
deriue
it
:
which
rope
of
sande
made
like
a
chayne
broken
,
by
reason
of
this
woe
to
man
,
dolefully
they
brooke
it
,
being
desirous
to
haue
it
to
remaine
in
integritie
,
linked
with
their
petty
degree
.
In
former
times
,
bookes
of
such
Histories
were
red
of
Historio-Graphers
,
as
many
certaine
as
haue
beene
seene
of
me
,
their
testimonies
,
the
matter
in
fact
(
not
a
fiction
)
and
affirmed
,
and
confirmed
by
them
,
which
being
red
,
let
any
stoute
and
iust
arbitrator
censure
,
whether
more
faith
and
credite
,
is
not
to
bee
ascribed
vnto
the
tradition
(
old
and
concenting
together
)
of
so
manie
excellent
men
in
pietie
and
integritie
,
or
rather
vnto
the
deniall
,
new
and
neuer
heard
of
before
,
of
a
fewe
fresh
Hipocrites
and
Gnathos
,
denying
what
they
lust
,
and
affirming
what
they
lust
,
in
fauour
of
their
owne
Maister
.
Of
al
that
truly
are
read
of
the
men
of
our
time
(
as
Radal
.
Flauiens
,
by
the
course
of
nature
,
might
bee
at
it
,
&
so
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
theyre
fer
his
age
vnto
930.
the
fact
was
done
75.
yeares
before
hee
dyed
,
if
this
reference
bee
true
in
855.
I
suppose
)
the
most
ancient
writer
of
this
Feminine
Lord
,
is
olde
Raphe
Flaniencis
,
a
benedictine
Monke
,
alleadged
in
the
centuries
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
Historie
,
and
whom
Trithemius
termeth
a
briefe
Cronicle
,
which
the
Authors
of
the
Centuries
name
Polycronicon
,
they
say
that
he
writ
it
,
referring
his
age
vnto
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
930.
my selfe
haue
not
yet
obtained
the
reading
of
it
:
but
they
scite
the
fifth
booke
of
Radulphe
,
Chapter
the
32.
To
produce
the
first
that
I
haue
red
,
I
haue
Marianus
after
his
natiue
country
sirnamed
Scotus
,
whose
honestie
and
veritie
by
this
may
be
esteemed
,
that
the
fellowship
of
the
Benedictines
,
both
Cullin
,
Fulda
.
&
Mons
receiued
him
,
and
striuing
with
entertainement
,
at
his
first
comming
into
Germany
,
where
he
dyed
Anno
Domini
,
1086.
He
in
the
third
booke
in
the
sixt
age
of
his
Cronicle
:
in
fewe
words
sheweth
the
matter
to
be
so
igno●inious
,
and
especially
in
that
time
,
not
to
be
ripped
vp
▪
nor
heaped
vpon
:
yet
of
all
faithfull
Historiographers
not
to
be
pre●ermitted
neyther
,
in
briefe
,
he
saith
thus
.
In
the
yeare
of
Lotharius
the
14.
the
woman
Ione
succeeded
L●●
,
for
two
yeeres
,
fiue
monthes
and
foure
daies
.
This
testimony
of
Martine
,
the
Esauites
doe
eleuate
and
make
light
of
,
because
in
their
manuscript
bookes
it
is
not
extant
.
But
with
what
face
can
these
falsaries
require
,
that
in
this
matter
or
manner
,
can
trust
be
giuen
to
them
?
who
themselues
in
describing
,
omit
what
they
lust
,
and
thinges
that
other
men
write
,
some
they
eate
out
,
and
some
they
blot
out
.
The
Coppy
which
the
Printer
of
Basile
did
imitate
came
foorth
of
the
Librarie
of
the
Colledge
of
Saint
Bartholmewes
in
the
Citty
of
Frankeford
,
by
the
commandement
of
the
Bishop
of
Mens
,
in
which
exemplare
,
these
words
(
which
they
deny
to
be
in
their
coppy
)
were
found
contexed
.
With
like
fidelity
,
they
denie
this
story
also
to
be
found
Sigisb
.
Gembl
.
1.
Milo
Smith
a
famous
Doctor
,
shewed
me
the
booke
printed
at
Paris
.
Nor
am
I
ignorant
that
Bellarmine
answereth
in
ipsius
Si
gisberti
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
non
inne●itur
:
but
without
witnes
that
it
is
Sigisb
.
owne
hande
,
written
now
aboue
500.
yeres
saue
onely
on
Iohn
Molane
lately
liuing
Doctor
of
Louane
who
it
may
be
pluckt
out
the
leafe
:
now
is
ready
to
sweare
with
Beilar
.
that
it
is
not
in
the
first
coppy
,
and
that
they
knewe
Sigisb
.
owne
hand
500.
yeeres
since
written
:
it
were
a
miracle
if
they
suf●er
any
coppy
,
now
to
remaine
in
their
Territoryes
much
lesse
in
their
Libe●ties
,
therefore
I
beleeue
Bellar.
and
Mollane
both
in
this
.
in
a
certaine
olde
booke
of
Cronicles
of
Sigisbert
▪
a
Monke
,
which
in
all
other
his
bookes
are
expressed
,
and
are
to
bee
read
in
this
manner
.
Fame
reporteth
that
this
Iohn
was
a
woman
,
and
knowen
familiar
to
some
one
onely
,
who
it
seemed
imbraced
her
,
being
great
with
childe
,
she
was
deliuered
being
Pope
.
Wherefore
some
doe
not
number
her
amongst
the
High
priestes
:
Therefore
he
maketh
no
number
of
that
name
.
Sigisbert
liued
in
the
time
of
Henry
the
fourth
,
about
the
yeere
of
our
Lord
God
,
1110.
I
finde
next
vnto
Sigisbert
Martine
sirnamed
of
Polone
a
Monke
,
of
the
order
of
Preachers
,
penitentiarie
vnto
Pope
Nicholas
the
third
:
after
Archbishop
of
Consentin●
,
at
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1320
,
whose
Narration
of
Iohn
the
Pope
,
is
this
,
Iohn
English
,
borne
at
Mens
,
sate
in
the
Seate
two
yeares
and
fiue
months
he
dyed
at
Rome
,
and
all
the
offices
were
void
them
for
one
month
.
This
Iohn
as
it
is
affirmed
was
a
woman
.
And
when
in
her
childhood
of
a
certaine
louer
of
hirs
,
shee
was
brought
to
Athens
in
mans
apparrell
,
she
did
so
profit
in
diuers
Sciences
,
that
no
one
was
found
to
bee
comparable
vnto
her
,
in
so
much
that
afterwardes
shee
reading
at
Roome
openly
,
obtayned
great
Masters
to
be
her
schollers
.
And
then
in
the
Citty
she
being
of
great
fame
by
her
conuersation
and
science
,
by
counsell
of
them
all
,
she
was
chosen
to
be
Pope
:
But
in
the
Papall
seate
by
her
familiar
friend
,
shee
became
pregnant
with
childe
,
yet
vnskilfull
of
the
time
that
women
recon
for
their
birth-right
:
when
shee
was
tending
her
iourney
from
Saint
Peters
vnto
Lateran●
(
the
Popes
Pallace
)
being
inuironed
betwixt
the
Colossis
and
Saint
Clements
Church
,
she
fell
in
labour
,
and
was
deliuered
,
and
afterward
when
she
was
dead
,
she
was
buried
there
,
as
it
is
said
in
the
Colossis
.
Now
because
that
my
Lord
the
Pope
,
dooth
alwaies
shunne
that
place
,
that
way
:
it
is
beleeued
on
all
sides
that
he
doth
it
for
detestation
,
and
hate
of
that
fact
.
Neyther
is
it
put
into
the
Catelogue
of
the
holy
high
Priestes
,
as
well
for
the
sex
of
her
womanhood
,
as
for
the
deformity
of
so
fowle
a
deede
.
These
same
wordes
wholy
in
a
manner
are
to
be
red
in
the
booke
of
Richard
the
Monke
of
Cluniacens
,
the
tytle
whereof
is
,
The
number
of
the
,
Romane
high-priestes
,
which
is
kept
in
the
Librarie
.
Which
words
a
man
very
honest
certainely
tolde
vnto
vs
,
that
he
saw
them
at
that
place
written
(
being
there
)
about
sixteene
yeere
agoe
.
Richard
was
before
Martine
,
and
was
his
antecessor
a
hundred
and
fifty
yeares
,
vpon
Trithemius
report
.
This
same
expresse
and
so
cleare
a
narration
of
Martine
,
the
Popes
owne
penitenciary
,
which
office
is
not
a
little
credite
among
these
vaine
Paper-puffed
men
,
in
which
he
behaued
himselfe
so
,
that
for
his
reward
,
he
was
indued
with
an
Archbishopricke
,
by
the
which
no
body
could
be
more
certaine
of
the
Actes
and
Histories
of
the
high
Priestes
then
he
might
.
And
yet
these
Esauites
(
chiefly
Bellarmine
)
do
enuic
still-that
before
Martine
Polone
,
not
●ne
betraied
,
this
to
the
memory
.
But
haue
you
not
marked
how
both
Sigebert
,
Mariane
,
Radulphe
,
and
Richard
were
all
before
him
:
yea
and
many
more
out
of
whome
he
but
gathered
these
and
other
things
too
,
as
hee
himselfe
in
the
Proaeme
,
beginning
his
Chronicle
doth
well
signifie
?
And
besides
that
Mariane
in
the
verie
entry
of
his
worke
doth
rehearse
,
out
of
whose
monuments
hee
heaped
vp
this
story
,
who
were
eyther
all
of
them
interred
then
,
or
else
done
to
dust
some
where
,
or
being
dead
,
they
were
dismembred
and
lay
hid
,
not
any
aliue
.
But
if
it
were
true
that
Martine
was
the
first
that
euer
commaunded
this
to
writing
,
shall
we
therefore
thinke
it
to
be
a
fable
?
Many
thinges
certes
in
stories
both
diuine
and
prophane
we
read
of
,
the
which
their
owne
Authors
hauing
heard
it
of
olde
men
,
their
elders
and
betters
,
did
first
before
any
others
comprehend
it
in
writing
.
And
should
we
therefore
doubt
in
ambiguitie
of
the
truth
of
all
these
writers
and
matters
?
Anastasins
the
keeper
of
the
Librarie
(
they
alleadge
with
others
)
in
that
same
time
suruiuers
being
Chroniclers
,
doe
make
no
mention
of
Ione
the
woman
High-priest
.
As
though
all
men
wished
it
,
and
as
if
no
man
,
in
his
secret
opinion
and
iudgment
,
could
thinke
it
a
thing
so
vnworthy
of
the
Pontificall
seate
(
euen
at
which
themselues
blushed
)
but
would
not
be
content
to
passe
it
to
the
sinke
of
obliuion
in
silence
,
to
all
posterity
,
slumber
,
and
funerall
,
of
such
a
fact
.
As
touching
certaine
Greeke
writers
Zonaras
and
others
,
that
they
did
decline
(
as
the
Esauites
suppose
)
from
their
institute
purpose
,
and
that
it
was
proposed
by
them
only
to
handle
the
matters
of
theyr
owne
Emperours
and
Churches
,
and
not
of
the
Romane
High-priestes
,
and
for
their
hatred
this
cause
of
shame
they
opened
.
O
but
doth
not
Leonicus
Chal●●condilas
an
Athenian
in
the
sixt
booke
of
his
Demonstration
of
Histories
,
rehearse
the
manner
and
rites
of
the
electing
and
proouing
of
a
new
High-priest
?
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
&c.
A
man
is
our
Master
.
And
now
I
will
not
alledge
that
their
argument
of
authoritie
,
brought
in
negatiuelie
,
Frisingensis
&
Vribergensis
,
who
then
liued
,
did
neuer
remember
vs
of
that
inhumane
▪
and
more
then
Scythian
insulte
and
reuenge
of
Alexander
the
third
,
in
which
he
spurned
Frecoricke
the
first
Emperour
of
that
name
,
prostrate
before
his
feete
,
exclaiming
in
the
troope
to
a
circumstance
of
his
flatterers
,
the
Psalme
:
Thou
shalt
make
thy
perambulation
vpon
aspes
&
Basiliscus
,
&c.
Ergo
,
they
that
did
write
of
this
doe
make
a
lye
:
a
s●und
argument
.
An other
obiection
of
Bellarmine
is
,
that
the
writers
of
this
storie
differ
amongst
themselues
whether
she
were
borne
in
England
or
at
Mens
.
Alas
alas
Martine
dooth
not
so
write
as
they
cauill
,
that
England
was
her
natiue
Vocatus
de
Anglia
As
many
men
are
called
Iohn
French
,
Iohn
Holland
,
Iohn
Ireland
.
that
neuer
were
in
any
of
these
Nations
,
much
lesse
borne
there
.
countrie
,
but
that
shee
was
syrnamed
of
England
,
being
borne
at
Mens
,
Iohannes
Anglicus
,
nati●●e
Moguntmus
,
and
not
as
Bellarm●ne
placeth
the
Comma
,
and
calleth
▪
Martine
a
simple
man
,
Iohannes
Anglicus
natione
,
Moguntmus
:
and
saith
Martine
knew
not
whether
Mens
were
in
England
or
in
Germanie
,
a
friuolous
excuse
.
But
this
thing
,
Iacobus
Curi●
Hosemius
sometimes
Phisition
●nto
Alv●●●
Bishop
of
Mens
and
Cardinall
,
in
his
Chronicle
he
confirmeth
●●
saying
.
After
that
the
Saxons
were
ouercome
by
Charles
the
great
,
and
reduced
to
Christianitie
,
there
came
out
of
England
vnto
Germanie
,
men
learned
,
for
propagation
of
religions
sake
,
and
amongst
them
the
Father
with
the
mother
,
great
with
childe
of
this
woman
:
being
banished
,
brought
foorth
this
daughter
of
hers
at
Mens
,
and
named
her
Gilberta
.
And
thence
it
commeth
that
she
was
syrnamed
of
England
.
And
I
pray
you
what
maruaile
were
it
,
if
a
matter
●o
prodigious
and
hideous
should
be
tolde
of
some
one
waie
,
and
of
some
an
other
waie
,
of
which
the
true
men
would
set
forward
trueth
,
and
lyers
would
eyther
conceale
the
trueth
,
or
depraue
it
?
They
obiect
that
at
Athens
then
was
no
studie
of
learning
and
Philosophie
,
they
prooue
it
out
of
an
Epistle
of
Synesius
,
who
went
the
ther
in
the
time
of
Theodosius
the
yonger
,
when
there
he
found
no
Schooles
.
But
Synesius
doth
not
write
that
he
found
altogether
none
,
not
a
flock
,
nor
a
heare
,
but
not
a
handibredth
,
not
eyght
ounces
or
inches
of
learning
,
&
that
he
found
not
such
store
there
as
he
thought
he
should
haue
found
.
There
were
also
then
Colledges
of
Docters
and
Schollers
,
yea
in
other
neighbor
cities
of
Greece
,
at
Thessalonica
and
Constantinople
,
where
the
studious
,
whom
the
fame
and
former
opinion
of
great
Athens
conceiued
,
had
deceiued
,
might
very
well
bestow
themselues
.
Obiection
:
The
high
Priests
at
that
time
did
not
dwell
in
Vaticane
but
in
Latherane
!
what
doth
this
hinder
it
,
but
that
Martine
should
declare
a
trueth
?
He
dooth
not
say
,
that
the
High
priest
went
foo●●h
in
Procession
from
his
palace
Vaticane
vnto
Latherane
,
but
from
S
Peters
,
whose
house
then
was
there
,
without
all
controuersie
,
or
I
am
fowly
deceiued
.
From
that
house
returning
in
his
pompe
,
groned
as
mountains
do
,
&
brought
forth
a
Mowse
.
It
doth
seeme
to
these
wandering
Esauites
,
that
Martine
was
a
most
simple
man
,
●●
one
that
writ
many
other
fables
:
it
dooth
seeme
to
vs
the
contrarie
,
that
he
was
a
man
of
a
noble
stomacke
,
and
true
harted
,
not
any
fable●
,
for
else
his
Chronicles
would
not
haue
been
written
out
into
so
many
examplars
and
manuscripts
,
before
any
Printers
were
euer
borne
,
in
so
much
that
in
all
the
best
instructed
Libraries
it
might
haue
beene
found
.
And
then
our
videtur
is
so
much
the
more
auaileable
then
their
videtur
,
for
because
whatsoeuer
maketh
against
them
,
that
,
they
contempteously
and
scoffingly
with
a
nose
of
Simon
,
and
crooke
backed
,
are
wont
to
mocke
at
,
when
with
reasons
they
cannot
confute
it
.
There
is
another
Martine
of
the
family
of
the
Minorits
,
in
his
Chronicle
to
which
hee
giueth
tytle
.
The
floures
of
time
,
pertaining
euen
till
Charles
the
fourths
time
,
that
reporteth
the
same
of
Ione
,
adding
this
also
,
that
she
adiuring
a
certaine
man
possessed
with
a
Deuill
,
demaunded
when
the
deuill
would
depart
,
vnto
whom
the
euill
spirit
ver●ifying
,
answered
.
Papa
pater
patrum
,
papiss●
pandito
partum
,
Et
tibi
tunc
edam
,
de
corpore
quando
receda●●
.
Good
Pope
our
Fathers
Father
,
send
foorth
our
mothers
mother
,
And
then
from
thee
I
le
start
,
when
I
from
her
depart
.
I
haue
seene
this
Chronicle
in
written
hand
in
Latine
,
and
in
the
Germaine
tongue
,
with
types
Imprinted
at
Ulmes
in
the
yeere
1486.
This
notable
woman
(
perhaps
)
esteemed
that
it
would
come
to
passe
,
that
the
very
deuils
and
all
,
would
be
obsequious
and
obedient
,
to
giue
place
to
her
,
indeed
as
to
a
familiar
,
and
well
deseruing
fauorite
and
minion
of
theirs
.
For
as
it
is
said
,
she
writ
a
Booke
of
Necromancie
,
of
the
power
and
strength
of
deuils
.
Francis
Petrarch
a
man
on
euery
side
chiefe
,
I
suppose
they
will
not
deny
him
to
be
of
so
sound
iudgement
,
that
betweene
a
fable
and
a
history
,
he
knew
well
enough
how
to
discerne
,
and
to
be
of
such
grauity
and
vprightnes
,
that
what
he
had
suspected
to
be
false
,
he
would
not
haue
sent
it
for
a
truth
in
open
tables
,
to
all
after
times
and
prosperities
.
Out
of
his
Chronicle
written
in
Italian
,
and
Printed
at
Florence
in
the
yeere
1478.
this
I
translated
into
Latine
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
God
855.
Iohn
English
,
helde
the
High
Priesthood
two
yeares
,
fiue
months
and
foure
daies
.
The
Church
was
vacant
for
one
month
.
He
is
not
placed
in
the
Catelogue
of
the
Popes
,
because
he
was
a
woman
:
who
in
her
nonage
,
of
a
certaine
louer
of
hers
,
was
brought
to
Athens
,
in
the
habite
of
a
man
,
there
in
diuers
studies
and
sciences
,
she
escaped
their
knowledge
and
did
prooue
excellent
.
After
when
she
came
to
Roome
,
shee
ascended
such
a
height
of
fame
,
that
she
was
had
in
admiration
with
all
men
,
whence
it
happened
by
concord
&
suffrage
of
the
best
,
the
supreame
honour
of
a
Pope
was
attributed
vnto
her
.
Which
thing
afterwardes
betrayed
it selfe
to
the
world
.
In
her
time
in
the
Citty
of
Brixie
,
three
dayes
and
three
nights
it
rayned
meruailously
blood
:
and
in
Fraunce
appeared
monstrous
Locusts
,
hauing
sixe
winges
and
sixe
feete
,
and
teeth
very
hard
,
flying
through
the
ayre
admirably
,
which
after
were
all
drowned
and
suffocate
in
the
Sea
of
Britaine
.
From
whence
the
carcases
of
them
were
beaten
to
the
shoare
,
and
did
so
corrupt
the
ayre
,
that
a
great
part
of
the
inhabitants
there
dyed
.
This
Petrarch
dyed
in
the
yeare
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
1374.
Iohn
Bocace
inwardest
friend
to
Petrarch
,
both
for
his
wit
and
for
his
similitude
of
study
,
and
manners
,
an
other
he
,
doth
rehearse
this
Ione
,
and
describe
her
,
first
called
Gilberta
,
as
he
saith
in
his
booke
of
noble
women
,
Chap.
the
99.
which
in
these
words
he
concludeth
.
To
detestation
of
whose
filthy
whood
,
and
contynuance
of
memory
of
her
name
,
euen
vnto
this
day
,
the
chiefe
Priestes
of
the
Rogation
,
with
the
rest
of
the
Clergie
,
and
people
going
to
doe
Sacrifice
,
they
abhorre
that
place
of
her
child
,
borne
in
the
middest
of
her
iourney
,
and
omitting
it
,
they
decline
thorough
by
waies
,
and
streetes
,
and
so
that
detestable
place
spurned
at
,
reentring
home
,
they
end
theyr
iourney
which
they
began
.
There
is
also
placed
in
a
booke
,
to
be
seene
,
the
picture
and
spectacle
of
the
Child-birth
of
the
Pontificall
,
with
circumstances
of
Cardinals
and
Bishoppes
,
standing
by
,
like
Midwi●es
or
Nurses
.
That
same
booke
of
Bocaces
making
,
is
turned
into
the
Germaine
tongue
,
of
a
Phisition
in
the
Citty
of
Vl●●es
,
and
Dedicated
to
the
Dutchesse
of
Austria
,
in
the
yeare
1473.
Imprinted
in
the
same
Cittie
,
with
olde
Caracters
&
rude
,
and
with
all
the
picture
of
her
bringing
foorth
her
childe
.
To
this
doe
agree
certaine
rimes
consonant
in
Italian
,
out
of
an
olde
hande
written
booke
taken
,
whose
tytle
is
,
Historia
de
Do●ne
Famose
,
and
of
famous
Women
.
Historia
de
Donne
Famose
.
Gion●●ni
setti●o
,
infra
queste
astute
,
La
se●●a
gloria
del
Pontificato
,
Administro
con
cure
alt●
.
&c.
Eper
in
temperantia
lei
dif●s●
,
No●
f●c●
asua
lasi●ia
,
&c.
Un
gi●rno
ac●●dde
,
e
fu
vicina
alparto
,
Una
solemnita
,
est
●matae
digna
;
Onde
con●i●●
,
chel
suo
termin
coart●
S●e
discoperto
,
in
procession
ven●re
:
D●●e
a
quel
tempo
il
figlio
in
●●rr●
hasparto
.
E
con
dolor
f●
vista
partorire
,
In
presentia
del
p●p●l
con
tormento
:
E
l
▪
vne
l'altro
,
lor
vita
fi●ire
.
Interpretation
word
for
word
.
The
seauenth
,
Iohn
,
amongst
these
w●ly
snares
,
The
summe
and
glory
of
the
richest
Seate
,
A
Ione
for
Iohn
,
did
minister
with
cares
,
And
wanting
temper
did
her selfe
defeate
,
Withouten
cesse
by
her
lasciuiousnes
.
It
fell
vpon
the
feast
neere
lying
downe
,
Solempnity
,
high
,
holy
,
and
of
fame
,
As
ought
her
terme
restraine
,
her
triple
crowne
Detect
.
To
Letany
all
as
they
came
,
Layd
instantly
her
birth
,
vpon
the
earth
.
With
dolors
doome
how
soone
she
was
vnbent
?
With
peoples
eyes
how
sore
she
was
torment
?
So
he
and
she
did
dye
forlorne
in
lent
.
Anthony
Archbishop
of
Florence
,
in
the
second
part
of
his
history
,
to
the
narration
of
Ione
,
out
of
Martine
the
peni●entiary
repeated
,
he
weueth
this
same
Webbe
,
saith
there
is
a
certaine
signe
of
a
marble
Sculpture
,
in
the
way
where
this
happened
,
placed
there
for
a
memoriall
of
the
matter
.
And
to
the
matter
,
hee
proclaimeth
as
a
Paule
,
O
altitud●●●pientia
&
s●ientia
Des
,
&c.
As
if
our
good
God
had
procured
and
perfected
this
punishment
,
not
as
if
that
wicked
fiend
the
Deuill
,
foule
and
abhominable
,
had
been
the
sole
author
of
it
:
yet
the
end
hee
saith
if
it
were
true
(
as
graunting
)
yet
to
none
is
there
any
preiudice
by
this
of
Saluation
,
because
neither
the
Church
then
,
was
without
a
head
▪
which
is
Christ
,
&c.
yet
he
speaketh
doubtfully
,
(
in
a
plaine
case
)
least
a
blot
so
filthy
to
the
Church
(
otherwise
pure
)
should
not
appeare
to
be
abhorred
.
The
standing
Image
of
which
he
maketh
mention
,
the
Esauites
doe
suppose
that
it
hath
not
the
shape
of
the
woman
and
her
infant
,
but
of
some
Priest
with
his
boy
going
afore
him
to
Sacrifice
,
least
otherwise
they
should
●a●
nothing
to
contradict
it
.
The
way
that
declyneth
from
the
right
way
(
as
in
all
other
matters
)
so
in
this
,
they
doe
take
it
to
be
the
most
commodious
way
for
them
to
goe
in
presession
,
whereas
we
doe
heare
by
others
,
that
haue
with
contemplation
curiously
behelde
both
,
say
this
way
is
more
commodious
and
shorter
then
the
other
.
But
some
thinke
this
monument
of
such
dishonor
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
the
Roome
,
that
doe
so
play
on
stages
,
and
stirre
it
vp
in
this
our
time
.
As
with
all
the
visage
of
this
popit
or
little
Pope
,
momit
or
little
mome
,
in
the
Citty
of
Seene
in
the
primary
,
Church
there
made
with
a
womans
face
,
with
this
inscription
,
Femina
de
Anglia
.
(
But
all
English
men
defie
her
)
and
together
with
many
other
Popes
,
which
are
now
a
fewe
yeeres
past
,
eyther
cald
in
,
or
remooued
away
as
we
heare
.
William
Iames
Monke
of
Ecmondence
neere
to
Alcmaria
,
in
a
parchment
booke
now
two
hundred
yeares
past
,
as
far
as
I
can
coniecture
written
,
doth
containe
the
liues
of
the
Popes
in
meeter
,
such
as
were
vsed
in
that
time
to
be
composed
,
too
too
curiously
euen
vnto
obscurity
,
therin
being
obserued
the
number
of
Sillables
,
and
the
rithme
,
which
such
as
they
are
,
as
touching
this
Ione
accept
I
pray
you
.
Priusquam
reconditur
Sergius
,
vocatur
Ad
summa
qui
dicitur
Iohannes
,
huic
addatur
,
Anglicus
.
Moguntia
iste
procreatur
,
&c.
The
Lyons
gone
,
the
Seriant
is
vntoomb'd
,
one
calde
,
To
climbe
,
whom
trauel
had
with
child
benumb'd
,
Ione
stald
,
Would
flying
fame
,
of
her
had
neuer
humb'd
,
she
said
.
Whom
England
nam'd
,
but
Mens
did
bring
her
foorth
,
Whom
sentence
yeelds
,
was
more
then
womans
worth
;
By
Sex
as
sequence
plaine
demonstrate
doth
.
Abbreauiate
voice
!
though
Annals
do
exceed
,
Of
her
,
of
whom
lesse
said
the
better
meede
:
She
was
the
Queene
Amason
by
our
creede
.
But
Mens
her
natiue
bowre
relinquished
,
Athens
Phrines
geare
:
Her
sex
exalted
she
was
nere
the
neare
.
T
is
said
her
seruant
holpe
her
to
a
sonne
,
This
Poet
heere
saying
,
de
qua
breui●s
dicta
minus
ledunt
dooth
insinuate
that
he
himselfe
is
ashamed
of
this
declaration
,
and
feares
least
some
should
bee
offended
with
it
,
he
adioyneth
Ione
to
Sergius
,
after
Leo
the
fourth
was
past
.
In
the
Chronicle
of
Albert
Abbot
of
Stade●s
,
which
endeth
in
the
yeere
of
our
L.
1255.
lately
Printed
at
Helmestade
,
he
is
named
Iohn
the
seauenth
,
and
a
little
after
Iohn
the
nynth
,
there
being
left
out
and
omitted
Ione
the
eyght
.
Otto
Bishoppe
of
Frisingens
,
of
equall
age
Tussis
.
Which
diuersity
and
perturbation
in
Anno
ante
Christi
aduentum
362
Author
Pompo
●●●s
,
Lib
,
3.
Chronicles
,
rise
vp
of
this
,
because
certaine
of
the
Antyquaries
did
altogether
exclude
this
woman
▪
others
did
conclude
and
agree
of
her
,
but
placed
her
in
a
spare
place
distant
out
of
order
,
as
the
Author
of
Fasciculus
Temporum
,
the
fardel
of
flowers
hath
,
and
as
heere
this
Poet
of
theirs
,
doth
intimate
it
was
done
.
But
it
is
no
more
absurde
,
that
such
a
Pontificall
should
confound
the
order
of
history
,
then
that
Pontifex
puer
pera
,
the
woman
Pope
,
with
his
Feminine
name
and
nature
shoulde
disturbe
all
the
Rules
in
Grammer
.
In
the
antique
Chronicles
(
Augustiano
)
written
in
Latine
hand
I
red
this
.
Furthermore
not
farre
from
that
tempestious
tyme
of
the
yeare
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
855
▪
there
was
at
Roome
a
Pope
Iohn
the
eyght
,
named
(
qui
mulier
)
a
hee
woman
,
yea
that
filthy
harlot
Gilberta
of
Mens
,
ledde
about
in
mans
apparell
:
of
a
certaine
Monke
of
the
Monasterye
of
Fulda
,
both
thorough
Greece
and
Italie
,
a
beast
moste
littered
,
I
would
say
lettered
,
and
moste
learned
,
moste
changeable
and
crafty
,
Camelion
like
;
escaped
out
,
and
indued
with
a
Pope-doome
,
inscaped
in
the
Citty
likewise
.
Raphaell
Ualaterane
in
his
Commentaries
,
Dedicated
to
the
verie
Pope
Iulius
the
second
,
was
not
afeard
to
write
thus
of
Iohn
:
Iohn
Englishe
whome
they
call
a
woman
,
in
her
desembling
habite
,
otherwise
most
famous
for
learning
,
they
say
was
ouertaken
in
the
way
,
where
shee
brought
foorth
a
Childe
.
Now
let
vs
produce
Platina
:
who
albeit
hee
had
tryed
the
cruelty
,
and
seueritie
of
the
Pope
Paule
the
second
towardes
him
:
yet
hee
feared
not
to
write
of
Ione
vnto
Sextus
the
fourth
,
which
story
now
as
vaine
these
pield
fellowes
doe
reprooue
,
so
farre
were
they
from
indyting
or
penning
it
,
they
durst
not
write
a
word
of
it
:
the
which
hee
confesseth
is
taken
out
of
Martine
,
and
because
they
are
induced
before
time
,
and
recited
as
his
,
I
will
not
repeate
them
nowe
,
to
which
hee
subioyneth
these
.
There
are
which
obiect
these
two
things
.
That
the
Pope
when
he
should
goe
vnto
the
Princely
Court
of
Laterane
,
Hesiod
▪
intendeth
where
the
Iudges
are
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Doniuor●s
Iudices
Bud●●s
.
for
detestation
of
so
foule
a
fact
,
doth
decline
from
that
way
,
of
a
set
or
consulted
purpose
:
and
for
because
he
would
shunne
the
sight
of
such
an
errour
:
whiles
first
he
is
placed
in
the
seate
of
Peter
,
which
is
bored
thorough
with
a
round
hole
,
that
the
secret
parts
may
be
handled
of
the
last
of
all
the
Deacons
there
.
Touching
the
first
of
these
obiections
,
I
wil
winke
at
it
:
for
the
second
thus
I
thinke
.
That
Seate
to
be
prepared
to
this
ende
,
that
he
that
is
constitute
,
and
ordained
in
such
a
Magistrates
place
(
for
Magistracy
wil
soone
shew
what
a
man
is
)
may
know
himselfe
not
to
be
a
God
,
but
to
bee
subiect
to
the
necessities
of
nature
:
as
for
example
,
digestion
and
such
like
,
whence
the
seate
is
called
meritoriously
A
close
stock
,
this
that
I
haue
said
is
commonly
carried
about
,
but
by
vncertaine
and
obscure
Authors
,
which
I
therefore
instituted
,
to
set
downe
briefly
,
and
barely
,
least
obstinately
and
frowardly
,
I
should
seeme
to
omit
,
that
which
almost
all
men
affirme
.
Let
vs
erre
therfore
with
the
multitude
,
in
this
matter
:
albeit
it
may
appeare
that
this
that
I
haue
said
,
is
out
of
those
things
,
which
may
be
,
by
possibility
beleeued
to
be
true
.
Hitherto
Platina
,
whose
latter
words
,
whiles
he
saith
fieri
potuisse
,
do
manifest
why
he
said
Erremus
cum
vulgo
,
least
God
wot
,
hee
should
offend
his
Lords
in
affirming
the
story
directly
.
But
the
cause
of
the
Popes
declining
the
way
,
he
confesseth
to
bee
the
young
childe
of
the
woman
High-priest
.
But
for
the
vse
of
the
Stercorary
stoole
which
he
saith
is
not
conuenient
,
for
such
holines
and
diuine
Pontificiality
ô
which
the
simple
&
foolish
superstitious
rout
is
of
opinion
that
hee
stooleth
nothing
but
Ambrosia
which
hee
eateth
againe
,
to
be
conuerted
wholy
into
the
substance
of
his
deified
body
,
which
vulgar
so
religious
opinion
of
Gods
Viccar
made
of
earth
:
O
it
is
by
no
meanes
to
be
dimished
(
no
,
no
beware
of
that
)
.
Againe
,
if
any
necessities
of
humane
nature
remaining
in
him
,
were
to
be
represented
He
that
doth
eate
,
he
must
stooles
so
againe
,
He
that
doth
stoole
,
he
must
eate
.
Pl●ni●
remembring
(
like
the
best
remembrancer
)
of
a
story
naturall
to
the
Grashoppers
,
maketh
them
to
haue
no
wicket
,
neyther
for
a
Cricket
to
voide
excrements
by
,
he
addeth
with
all
,
neyther
mouth
to
eate
foode
by
.
And
when
brother
Robert
the
French
Dominicane
,
in
his
booke
of
Visions
,
written
300.
yeares
since
,
doth
report
of
this
Throne
to
be
seated
in
the
Po●ch
of
the
Pallace
of
Lapis
Numidicus
of
the
Romaines
,
indeed
a
stone
out
of
Numidium
,
so
named
of
the
colour
because
it
dooth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
glitter
like
Rubish
or
Iron
or
the
priuie
stoole
might
be
porphyretica
and
perforata
both
euen
as
they
report
.
Laterane
,
by
which
the
Pope
is
tryed
,
whether
he
is
a
man
and
which
he
in
an
extasis
or
dreame
,
did
beholde
to
be
made
of
Porphyrie
stone
,
such
as
others
haue
also
exhibited
vnto
vs
,
haue
seene
it
what
it
was
:
it
is
nothing
likely
that
the
Author
of
this
common
place
of
Aiax
being
Benedict
the
third
,
by
whom
he
saith
,
it
was
placed
there
,
should
riot
so
insolently
and
impudently
withal
,
that
he
would
prepare
an
instrument
so
precious
,
(
out
of
Numidia
)
and
so
splendent
with
all
,
to
signifie
so
filthy
a
matter
,
to
wit
,
the
deiectment
of
the
belly
.
Therfore
the
Esouites
haue
commented
(
for
what
may
not
commentaries
do
?
)
vpon
a
more
honest
allegory
of
this
Throne
,
and
lesse
vncleane
:
that
is
,
they
terme
it
an
Aiax
or
S●ercorarie
,
because
it
doth
admonish
the
new
Pope
sitting
vpon
it
,
that
he
is
made
of
humane
dung
out
of
low
estate
(
being
but
poore
Cardinals
and
Princes
fellowes
)
out
of
humilitie
vnto
sublimity
,
out
of
minoritie
to
superioritie
(
as
they
speak
)
to
be
raised
.
And
there
vpon
of
the
Cleargie
compassed
about
to
him
,
to
Bellarmine
.
him
,
all
tongues
and
Organes
resound
out
of
the
Psalme
:
He
raiseth
the
poore
out
of
the
dust
,
and
out
of
the
dung
he
doth
erect
the
begger
that
he
may
place
him
with
the
Princes
(
naye
then
aboue
the
Princes
)
of
his
people
:
We
could
admit
the
Commentarie
&
fiction
,
but
that
Stercus
,
Aiax
,
of
whom
forkes
and
scowpes
and
tumbrel●
,
named
dunke-finders
,
dung-fillers
and
dung-carters
or
carriers
,
are
fitly
deriued
and
called
S●ercorarie
&
S●erquilinie
,
if
of
the
earth
it
were
called
earthly
,
there
were
more
tolleration
,
and
a
cleanlie
similitude
in
the
interpreter
.
Wherefore
we
do
assent
vnto
their
sent
,
as
the
truer
relators
,
who
do
affirme
that
it
is
a
relatiue
vsed
,
not
vsurped
,
but
made
to
trie
the
genitall
partes
.
Yea
and
we
are
drawne
vnto
it
(
as
we
esteeme
)
by
this
argument
,
because
oftentimes
we
haue
heard
in
the
Popedome
,
that
the
sacrificing
sorte
haue
iested
,
and
termed
those
manly
parts
(
by
the
figure
Antonomasia
)
pontificals
(
for
they
make
a
high
priest
)
truelie
of
none
other
cause
,
but
that
by
these
rightes
well
knowne
to
them
,
in
Habet
:
it
were
out
of
vse
in
times
past
this
experiment
to
haue
beene
,
by
which
they
now
approoue
themselues
,
the
roote
of
euill
not
to
want
,
when
as
before
their
Priesthood
they
begat
bastards
,
which
done
,
those
they
had
about
them
,
some
Cardinals
▪
some
Bishops
,
and
called
them
the
Sonnes
of
brothers
and
of
sisters
.
This
approbation
of
veritie
Iohannes
Pannonius
Bishop
of
fiue
Churches
,
dooth
finely
note
in
these
verses
.
Vnlocke
the
heauen
gates
?
no
woman
can
assume
,
That
hath
not
made
her
triall
in
the
ayre
Where
emptie
nothing
is
:
none
dare
that
seat
presume
,
Except
some
new
Hermophroditus
heyre
.
Anthony
Sabelicus
dooth
affirme
almost
as
much
as
Platina
saith
of
loue
in
his
ninth
Enead
,
placing
her
as
Frisingensis
did
number
,
the
seuenth
of
her
name
.
Iacobus
Philippus
Bergonie
,
of
the
familie
of
the
Hermites
,
in
his
supplie
of
supplies
of
Chronicles
,
hath
as
touching
Ione
,
some
things
not
differing
from
these
that
Martine
,
Platina
,
and
the
rest
do
write
:
he
saith
,
she
trauailed
with
child
publiquely
,
without
a
Midwife
,
and
in
the
same
place
she
dyed
miserably
with
her
child
,
and
buryed
there
without
any
honor
at
all
,
in
whose
place
,
saith
he
,
Benedict
the
third
was
chosen
.
This
Booke
is
imprinted
in
Latine
at
Venice
Anno
1503.
and
there
also
in
Italian
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
God
1540.
The
like
things
are
red
in
Mathew
Palmers
continuation
of
Eusebius
and
Prosperus
,
which
beginneth
at
the
yeare
449.
and
endeth
in
the
yeare
1471.
The
exemplarie
was
Printed
at
Basill
1549.
neyther
doe
they
differ
from
this
,
which
of
this
Pope
the
Duke
of
Genua
calde
Baptista
Fulgosus
,
of
the
same
age
that
Palmer
was
of
,
noted
in
his
Booke
of
Memorable
sayings
and
deeds
,
set
foorth
at
Basil
in
the
yeare
1541.
Trithemius
in
his
Chronicles
of
the
Monasterie
of
Hirsaugia
,
in
the
life
of
Luitprando
the
first
Abbot
,
after
other
things
,
he
speaketh
of
Ione
the
high
Priest
.
They
say
that
she
being
of
a
certain
familiar
of
hers
▪
mpressed
,
brought
foorth
child
in
the
open
street
.
And
for
that
many
would
not
place
her
amongst
the
Popes
,
as
it
were
abhorting
the
vnworthy
fact
.
Iohn
Stella
Priest
of
Venice
,
in
his
booke
,
the
title
wherof
is
,
The
liues
of
two
hundred
and
thirtie
of
the
highest
Priestes
,
from
blessed
Peter
the
Apostle
,
euen
vnto
Iulius
the
fift
of
that
name
,
and
the
Preface
is
to
Dominic
,
Grimane
,
Cardinall
there
,
and
the
same
matters
deliuered
which
Philip
of
Bergonie
handled
,
touching
Ione
the
Pope
.
I
haue
beheld
a
Historie
booke
ample
and
faire
,
and
precious
too
,
set
foorth
at
Norimberge
in
the
yeare
1493.
with
Picture
of
Emperours
and
Popes
,
in
which
at
the
Narration
of
Ione
the
Woman
Pope
,
was
expressed
the
shape
of
the
woman
pontifically
crowned
,
but
for
her
Rochet
pontificall
,
she
had
a
garment
woman-like
vpon
her
shoulders
,
and
for
her
triple
Crosier
and
thrise
crossed
scepter
,
she
had
an
Infant
in
her
armes
.
Naucleare
Prepositer
and
Chauncelor
of
Fabinge
in
his
great
Historicall
worke
dooth
report
no
otherwise
of
Ione
the
eyght
,
then
is
of
these
afore
,
then
that
which
Martine
and
which
Platina
do
intimate
.
Valerius
Anscimus
in
his
Chronicle
dedicated
to
them
of
Bernia
.
Ione
the
woman
of
Mens
climing
the
pontificall
seate
,
by
her
excellencie
of
manners
and
learning
,
left
it
by
the
infamie
of
her
childbirth
,
and
dyed
.
Albertus
Cranzius
by
his
iudgement
betwixt
true
&
false
,
being
a
graue
Historiographer
,
and
Deane
of
Hanburgh
,
betwixt
consenting
&
dissenting
a
Iudge
,
of
all
readers
his
monuments
worthilie
,
are
much
attributed
vnto
.
He
in
a
Catalogue
of
the
Priests
,
strictlie
dooth
note
Ione
in
these
words
:
Iohn
English
of
Mens
was
a
woman
belying
her
owne
sex
,
with
an
acute
wit
,
with
a
prompt
tongue
,
learnedly
she
could
speake
,
in
so
much
that
she
conuerted
all
mens
mindes
towards
her
,
to
the
intent
that
she
should
obtaine
the
pontificall
seate
onely
,
one
seruant
had
secret
intelligence
of
her
sexe
,
by
himself
made
pregnant
,
compressed
,
it
is
said
she
brought
forth
at
the
Colossis
,
in
the
2.
yeare
not
expired
of
her
raigne
,
in
childe-birth
she
dyed
.
Carthusiane
the
Author
of
the
Fardell
of
times
(
as
the
wiser
sorte
doe
iudge
)
not
to
bee
contempned
,
placed
Ione
without
the
number
of
the
Popes
,
with
this
description
.
That
Iohn
English
by
Syr-name
,
but
by
birthe
of
Mens
▪
is
sayde
to
bee
about
those
times
,
and
she
was
a
woman
cloathed
in
habite
of
a
man
.
She
did
so
proceed
in
diuine
scripture●
,
and
profit
withall
,
that
none
was
found
like
vnto
her
,
she
was
chosen
to
be
Pope
.
But
after
being
made
pregnant
with
childe
,
when
publiquely
she
should
proceed
in
procession
,
she
was
deliuered
and
dyed
.
And
this
seemeth
to
be
the
sixt
Pope
that
had
the
name
of
sanctitie
without
any
desert
to
this
daye
.
And
like
others
of
them
(
obserue
the
veritie
of
this
man
)
she
was
plagued
&
not
placed
in
the
Catalogue
of
Popes
.
Some
trifle
in
this
cause
,
that
no
Almaine
should
be
chosen
Pope
,
which
appeareth
to
be
false
for
Carthusiane
the
Monke
dare
say
,
yea
that
before
Ione
and
before
our
age
800.
yeares
,
there
were
wicked
Popes
,
and
well
worthye
the
infamie
of
Ione
.
The
same
thing
in
this
Esauiticall
age
a
man
,
may
say
of
Popes
much
more
wicked
then
these
were
both
Horrible
,
blaspheming
,
and
heresie
,
worthye
of
fire
and
fagot
.
Baptista
Mantuanus
in
his
third
booke
of
Alphonsus
and
Hinc
pendebat
adhuc
sexum
mentita
virilem
,
Famina
,
cui
triplici
phrygiam
diademate
mitram
,
Ext●llebat
apex
&
pontificalis
adulter
.
And
seineth
her
in
the
entrance
of
Tartarus
in
the
first
place
of
hell
,
as
is
fit
for
a
Pope
(
before
all
other
)
which
are
there
varioushe
vexed
,
to
hang
with
her
adulterer
and
concubine
,
it
is
a
maruell
verilie
that
these
falsaries
do
not
relate
and
bring
into
their
damnation
booke
cald
Thexpurgatorie
index
.
Mantuans
workes
also
which
are
so
many
stomaching
the
defiled
Popedome
of
zeale
and
godlie
indignation
.
Her
Ca●●e●●●es
may
see
her
performe
her
purgatorie
without
all
deliueri●
as
well
she
deserues
to
do
.
Neither
may
I
omit
here
a
riche
testimonie
of
Coelius
Rodeginus
,
a
man
of
infinite
reading
,
whome
it
appeareth
nothing
laye
hid
from
,
that
was
conteyned
in
bookes
,
of
whose
integritie
and
grauitie
in
iudging
,
so
much
the
lesse
men
may
doubt
,
because
euery
where
in
his
worke
he
beareth
a
godlye
minde
,
speaking
reuerently
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
which
vertue
to
him
and
but
a
fewe
more
Italians
,
especially
in
this
age
is
common
.
He
in
his
foorth
volume
of
Antiquarie
lections
,
numbering
learned
women
nameth
Ione
,
what
saith
he
?
doe
not
we
know
that
in
Chronicles
it
is
resolued
:
that
Ione
English
onely
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
alone
,
in
the
forme
of
a
man
,
durst
inuade
the
seat
Pontificall
of
Rome
,
in
the
shape
of
a
man
,
Yea
verilie
,
and
admit
one
of
her
familiars
,
who
onely
inwardest
,
hit
nayle
on
the
head
,
knew
the
matter
and
the
manner
,
was
admitted
vnto
the
bed
and
chamber
,
therfore
vnto
the
bed
chamber
,
and
then
shee
with
childe
in
the
summe
of
dignitie
and
disdainfulnes
,
trauailed
with
child
?
This
was
done
in
the
yeare
of
health
,
eight
hundred
,
fiftie
three
.
There
is
more
fidelitie
to
be
attributed
to
this
man
,
yea
and
an
Italian
too
,
his
testimonie
,
his
affirmation
more
this
matter
,
then
to
all
the
inficiation
,
all
the
deniall
of
the
Esauites
,
which
Parasites
and
hierlings
will
doe
any
thing
to
demerite
the
altar
,
and
say
any
thing
for
their
Lorde
and
maister
.
The
Chronicle
of
Iohn
Lucidus
begun
from
the
beginning
of
the
worlde
,
vnto
the
yeare
of
our
Lorde
1536.
produced
.
And
from
thence
he
being
dead
,
it
was
increased
by
a
certaine
Monke
vnto
the
yeare
1575.
And
dedicated
vnto
a
certaine
generall
(
as
they
call
it
:
)
an
Abbot
,
dooth
present
verilye
Iohn
English
in
the
forme
of
the
Popes
,
but
not
in
the
number
of
them
:
saying
,
Iohn
English
a
woman
,
raigned
two
yeares
,
fiue
moneths
,
and
foure
dayes
,
shee
is
not
put
in
the
Cathalogue
of
the
Popes
,
and
therefore
the
seate
was
then
voide
,
vntill
the
yeare
of
our
Lorde
855.
This
Booke
is
Imprinted
at
Venice
in
the
yeare
1575.
Iohn
Henald
a
Frenchman
,
of
the
state
of
the
Church
from
the
time
of
the
Apostles
vnder
Nero
,
vnto
Charles
the
fift
Emperour
(
saith
so
of
this
Pope
,
as
the
rest
of
the
Histories
,
and
addeth
,
that
this
is
a
true
figure
of
that
great
spirituall
fornication
of
the
Romaine
Popes
.
And
after
this
the
harlot
daily
more
and
more
,
did
manifest
her selfe
,
and
greater
was
the
iniquitie
of
this
commaunding
seate
laide
open
.
In
a
Germaine
Chronicle
in
written
hand
,
out
of
many
Authors
gathered
by
Iames
of
the
Kings
court
(
Uon
Konigs
Holen
)
a
Priest
of
Argentine
,
which
beginneth
God
Almightie
and
euerlásting
,
&c.
ending
in
the
yeare
1456.
in
Eugenius
the
fourth
it
is
read
,
folio
110.
Ioannes
von
Mens
was
Pabst
.
&c.
Iohn
of
Mens
was
a
Pope
two
yeares
and
fiue
moneths
,
she
was
a
woman
Pope
,
&c.
The
Chronicle
of
Martin
in
Germany
restored
,
reteineth
the
very
same
altogether
,
which
is
in
the
Latine
.
The
exemplarie
hand
writing
that
I
haue
seene
,
is
absolute
in
the
yeare
1429.
distinguished
,
and
lined
with
titles
euerie
where
.
An other
Germaine
with
greater
letters
set
foorth
at
Augusta
in
the
yeare
1487.
saies
.
Iohn
von
Mens
a●
Rhein
,
&c.
der
wasein
Weib
,
&c.
Iohn
of
Mens
vpon
Reigne
,
was
a
woman
:
and
it
hath
the
verses
,
papa
pater
patrum
,
&c.
repeated
before
.
It
is
ended
in
Sixtus
the
fourth
.
An
other
written
at
Constance
with
the
proper
language
of
the
Heluetians
,
pertaining
vnto
the
yeare
1400.
saith
,
Ein
Weib
hiesse
Ioannes
von
Mens
was
Bapst
,
&c.
A
woman
called
Iohn
of
Mens
was
Pope
,
who
dyed
with
child-birthe
,
which
a
Cardinall
got
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
855.
Iahre
.
And
in
another
with
somewhat
greater
Characters
.
Printed
at
Ulmes
in
the
yeare
1486
,
there
you
may
read
Der
Keyser
Arnolphus
(
it
seemeth
it
should
be
red
Lotharius
)
when
Casar
or
Emperour
Arnolphus
there
was
in
that
time
a
Pope
that
was
a
woman
,
&
in
the
open
streets
of
Rome
there
shee
laide
her
yong
one
.
This
was
such
a
shame
to
the
Popes
,
that
they
shunne
to
come
any
more
that
waye
.
This
Chronicle
dooth
ende
in
the
ouerrunning
of
Mens
in
the
yeare
1462.
There
are
many
Annales
of
this
same
stuffing
,
which
I
omit
to
prefer
vnto
you
.
I
would
alledge
more
fresh
writers
,
some
as
Melanctbon
,
which
is
the
author
of
Charions
Chronicle
,
Robert
Barnus
,
Peter
Virete
,
Iohn
Functius
,
Casper
Hedion
,
of
whom
is
cited
Mall●●lus
Tigurinus
,
of
equall
age
with
the
counsell
of
Basil
,
Peter
Paulus
Vergerius
,
sometimes
Bishop
of
Iustinople
(
who
in
a
peculiar
libell
to
himselfe
,
painted
foorth
and
described
this
childe
birth
)
with
Iohn
Bal●
,
and
a
whole
Iurie
of
others
,
but
that
they
are
censured
for
Heretiques
of
the
Esauites
and
of
aduerse
partie
to
the
pontificall
dignitie
,
and
therefore
their
testimonie
in
this
busines
is
both
suspect
and
reiect
.
Yet
one
of
these
new
writers
they
cannot
reiect
,
Pistorius
Nid●nus
late
an
Euangelist
,
now
a
pontifist
,
whom
verilie
I
doe
not
thinke
,
though
in
religion
he
is
a
Buskin
,
or
rather
a
shipmans
hose
,
with
like
inconstancie
he
will
denie
a
Historie
,
and
that
written
by
him
long
agoe
,
and
set
foorth
:
and
me
thinkes
the
Esauites
should
assent
vnto
him
,
being
one
of
their
owne
flocke
.
Amongst
the
writers
of
the
Actes
and
Iestes
,
one
hath
escaped
mee
,
The
Compiler
of
the
Anonymies
,
that
is
,
without
names
,
in
whome
this
is
read
.
There
was
likewise
an
other
false
Pope
,
whose
name
and
yeares
are
not
knowne
,
for
shee
was
a
woman
,
as
the
Romaines
doe
confesse
,
and
of
elegant
fame
and
of
great
science
,
and
in
hypocrisie
of
wonderfull
life
:
she
vnder
pretext
of
a
mans
habit
,
lurked
,
vntill
she
was
chosen
to
be
Pope
,
and
in
her
Popehood
conceiued
with
childe
,
and
when
she
was
great
,
the
diuell
in
Consistorie
court
,
publiquely
before
them
all
bewrayed
the
deede
,
exclaming
Papa
pater
patrum
▪
papissa
pandite
partum
.
To
these
aboue
mencioned
,
and
the
like
,
or
to
the
very
same
,
their
owne
Isengrine
dooth
mention
of
this
Pope
,
in
his
Chronicle
of
two
Languages
,
euen
in
the
kingdome
of
the
Esauites
,
set
foorth
with
Grace
and
priuiledge
of
the
Caesars
Maiestie
,
in
the
yeare
of
the
Lorde
1564
whom
their
familiar
friend
,
with
what
cauilations
,
or
with
what
foyson
or
colour
they
could
refute
,
saluing
his
estimation
and
honour
,
that
he
might
not
be
offended
(
if
he
were
liuing
)
they
should
perceiue
it
well
enough
.
Now
therefore
the
verdit
followeth
:
Let
indifferent
readers
and
arbitrators
giue
sentence
.
Whether
of
so
manie
Histories
,
by
so
many
worldes
continued
and
consented
,
we
must
beleeue
the
affirmatiue
of
them
,
or
the
infection
and
negatiue
of
a
few
Freshmen
,
hyred
as
it
appeareth
therevnto
,
and
whose
profession
it
is
by
all
wayes
and
meanes
,
with
all
force
and
pollicie
,
where
the
pontificall
dignitie
lyeth
ouerthrowne
,
to
raise
it
vp
,
where
it
is
readie
to
flide
(
that
is
euery
where
)
to
vnderprop
it
,
and
for
the
most
parte
(
Gentle
Gentlemen
)
those
whome
I
haue
induced
were
Historians
,
Priests
,
Monkes
,
or
otherwise
sworne
to
the
Pope
,
or
bound
to
him
.
Yet
notwithstanding
,
looke
what
was
comelie
for
a
storie
,
they
remembred
,
which
of
their
Auncestors
rather
they
heard
,
or
of
theyr
superiours
in
Bookes
worthy
of
note
and
remembrance
,
and
fit
for
all
posteritie
,
they
thought
well
of
,
that
they
brought
into
their
bookes
and
volumes
of
greatest
account
and
authoritie
without
all
respect
of
persons
,
nothing
then
fearing
the
offence
of
the
potentate
,
who
(
it
may
be
thought
)
was
nothing
offended
with
this
verity
.
No
man
euer
before
this
time
did
deny
this
history
,
no
man
tooke
it
greeuously
,
no
man
contradicted
it
,
no
man
call
it
in
question
,
it
being
Dedicated
to
the
very
Popes
themselues
to
the
Cardinals
,
to
the
Abbots
,
by
the
Authors
of
this
story
.
And
these
for
the
most
part
were
Italians
,
neighbours
to
the
great
Pope
,
and
therefore
more
worthy
of
our
beleefe
in
this
,
for
that
they
might
sooner
and
easier
get
notice
of
these
matters
,
then
other
strangers
,
both
by
the
relation
and
report
of
theyr
seniors
,
as
also
by
the
Lybraries
neare
at
hand
.
We
haue
shewed
you
before
,
that
Martine
was
not
the
first
Preacher
that
bewrayed
so
bad
a
cause
,
and
betraied
so
good
a
one
,
as
this
(
God
wot
)
is
.
But
if
he
were
,
shold
therfore
it
be
thought
fained
or
vncertaine
?
By
such
an
Enthy●●●a
,
or
by
the
like
Silogisme
,
this
might
bee
concluded
.
Herodotus
doth
first
commemora●e
the
warre
betwixt
Cirus
and
Cr●sus
,
Ergo
it
is
a
fiction
.
Sweto●i●s
first
doth
vtter
the
portent
and
hideou●
(
not
hidden
)
wickednes
of
Nero
,
Ergo
they
are
not
to
be
beleeued
.
Before
Moses
time
,
the
horrible
Sodomits
sinned
,
shamed
,
and
punished
,
was
not
extant
nor
described
;
who
after
foure
hundred
yeares
,
at
last
was
commaunded
to
writing
,
is
it
therefore
a
doubtfull
matter
?
Certes
by
this
meanes
,
detraction
and
back-calling
,
of
most
matters
done
before
our
memory
,
which
out
of
writers
and
monuments
of
olde
we
learne
,
may
shamefully
be
vsed
,
then
nothing
certain●
,
but
what
our
owne
memory
holdeth
,
shall
euer
come
to
light
.
O
you
Esauites
doe
you
arrogate
vnto
your selues
such
sagacity
,
such
intelligence
,
so
confident
,
so
impudent
are
Ianus
,
the
eyes
of
the
Cornix
,
whom
no
Ciconia
,
no
Crane
dare
peepe
at
,
as
the
prouerbe
saith
▪
What
thinke
you
▪
Petrarch
,
Bocace
,
and
such
like
,
were
so
dull
of
eye
sight
,
theyr
noses
bitten
off
,
that
betwixt
a
similitude
and
a
truth
,
and
a
fablement
,
they
wanted
skil
to
discerne
,
so
light
and
vaine
▪
that
they
would
set
open
to
all
after
times
,
things
that
should
seeme
to
carry
forme
and
shape
of
lyes
.
Will
you
alone
,
nay
dare
you
argue
of
falshood
and
reprooue
of
lying
,
so
many
Bishops
,
Princes
,
so
many
Acadiemes
,
so
many
Citties
,
and
their
Libraries
,
in
al
which
,
this
story
is
red
?
You
obiect
that
for
the
most
part
they
,
those
Authors
,
doe
speake
doubtfully
▪
referring
ouer
the
matter
to
a
dubitation
,
Aiunt
,
Fe●tur
,
Scribitur
,
Aseritur
.
Are
not
men
wont
to
say
so
,
especially
of
things
very
strange
,
vnexpected
,
vnhoped
for
,
prodigious
,
and
detestable
?
Which
they
did
for
this
cause
,
(
no
doubt
)
that
they
might
shewe
themselues
wishing
,
and
willing
well
,
that
no
such
error
,
such
contumelye
,
should
be
fall
the
Capital
of
Rome
,
the
head
Church
vpon
the
earth
,
&
to
the
sanctified
holy
,
and
holy
sanctified
counsell
thereof
.
Onuphrius
they
oppose
against
it
,
as
if
the
Authority
of
such
a
Monke
,
and
fellow
seruant
vnto
you
,
of
that
Priesthood
,
especially
in
that
tempest
(
betwixt
vs
)
in
which
your
owne
&
your
companions
,
fraud
of
olde
,
your
wickednes
,
your
heinousnes
,
is
detected
,
is
chanted
alowde
,
were
of
force
to
refel
,
and
oppresse
,
so
inueterate
integrity
of
religious
men
,
so
consonant
tradition
of
others
.
You
oppose
likewise
Auentine
,
who
coniectureth
that
the
matter
was
otherwise
.
This
man
was
graue
&
historical
and
nothing
vaine
,
yet
of
him
more
suspicion
may
be
made
,
thathe
in
fauor
of
Mathew
Langius
Archbishop
of
Saltzburgh
,
Cardinal
&
legate
of
the
Apostolick
seate
his
great
Maecenas
diuerted
the
intent
of
this
story
to
an
end
contrary
then
ought
,
especially
in
that
time
,
when
as
then
the
Pontifical
kingdom
began
to
fauor
like
carion
,
contemptible
&
spewed
out
of
Germany
,
for
which
cause
,
&
for
defence
of
it
,
&
to
deck
&
trim
vp
againe
the
buried
corps
of
Popery
,
Cardinall
Langius
was
sent
as
Legate
.
But
what
should
I
now
so
long
stand
,
what
matter
of
worth
,
is
it
in
this
prolixity
of
words
,
shewing
&
conuincing
,
that
Iohn
the
8
Pope
was
a
woman
,
&
a
broody
woman
too
?
Verily
this
efficient
cause
.
That
I
may
giue
document
of
study
,
&
teach
the
cominalty
of
the
windines
&
wafer
learning
of
the
Esauites
,
hyred
,
instructed
&
Emprested
forth
to
conserue
,
with
instauration
the
Pontifical
authority
&
tyrany
chiefly
,
now
swaying
(
or
swagering
as
they
nick-name
it
)
in
Germany
,
heare
vnto
which
one
&
onely
end
al
their
poisoned
rumors
(
and
all
Sophistication
)
all
their
minstrill-like
diligence
,
histrion-like
labours
in
Churches
and
schooles
doth
respect
,
belong
and
tend
:
seeing
so
confessed
and
manifested
verity
,
with
so
many
testimonies
confirmed
,
they
labor
to
pluck
vp
by
the
rootes
,
to
euert
and
peruert
,
where
they
esteeme
any
faith
remaineth
for
them
,
or
any
credite
in
the
matters
of
religion
,
in
which
busines
of
Christian
health
,
they
chalenge
the
Magistracy
to
belong
chiefly
to
them
.
Verily
they
haue
rased
out
of
all
books
which
so
many
euery
where
in
Libraries
were
found
,
&
haue
blotted
out
of
the
minds
&
memory
of
man
,
this
Pontificall
vncomelies
and
shame
,
this
opprobrious
euent
,
videlicet
.
That
the
societyes
and
sages
of
the
Catholique
Church
of
Rome
deceiued
once
(
&
neuer
but
once
)
of
their
spirit
so
holy
,
chose
a
high
Priest
of
the
feminine
gender
insteed
of
the
Masculine
.
O
but
how
wil
they
excuse
&
abolish
other
errors
of
their
holy
of
holiesito
wit
,
vnhallowed
errors
,
yea
&
in
voluntary
cases
,
wherein
they
elected
improbous
,
vnchast
,
incestious
,
impure
,
credulous
&
incredulous
Popes
,
replenished
&
fulfilled
withal
the
genders
of
wickednes
,
all
the
species
of
holines
,
insteed
of
chaste
,
and
milde
,
and
holy
,
and
good
Popes
?
Sergi●s
for
one
he
did
so
rauinously
inrage
,
(
with
Salomons
shrewd
passion
,
anger
)
the
bird
that
often
lighteth
on
,
but
should
be
kept
from
building
in
the
tree
,
that
he
hated
his
Decessor
Formosus
,
whose
competitor
&
Emulus
he
had
once
bin
for
the
Papall
attire
and
dignity
,
being
in
his
grace
,
(
the
mansion
house
of
the
dead
)
which
the
Ciuill
law
doth
neuer
alowe
so
to
open
,
he
drew
him
foorth
of
his
Sepulcher
,
in
which
he
had
slept
eyght
yeares
,
beheaded
him
,
dismembred
him
,
and
so
cast
the
headles
trunke
into
the
riuer
of
Tibris
.
Iohn
the
13.
was
slaine
taken
in
adultery
without
the
Citty
,
by
the
husband
of
the
adultresse
out
of
hand
,
in
the
tenth
yeere
of
his
raigne
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
964.
Siluester
the
second
,
mighty
and
execrable
,
had
a
familiar
Diuel
in
a
Brasen
mans
head
from
whom
hee
had
answeres
,
and
at
length
when
he
was
missifying
,
saying
Masse
in
the
Vestry
,
a
place
calde
Ierusalem
,
with
a
present
Feauer
,
he
dyed
.
Hildebrand
,
that
Firebrand
(
which
is
Gregory
the
seauenth
)
whose
Pontificall
vertues
,
Cardinall
Benno
,
who
was
his
inspector
,
and
arbitrator
of
his
iestes
,
and
Ane●tine
likewise
doe
Preach
of
,
how
great
he
was
in
magicke
,
how
many
Popes
before
him
he
did
to
death
,
what
bloody
and
capitall
hatreds
hee
exercised
against
Henrie
the
fourth
,
whose
life
both
for
this
life
(
and
otherwise
besides
)
he
laide
traines
enough
for
.
The
Emperor
was
commorant
at
Rome
a
while
,
with
his
Empresse
,
where
in
the
Church
he
vsed
to
be
at
their
holy
exercise
,
and
there
to
pray
,
and
vppon
a
beame
ouer
him
,
this
holy
Father
commanded
great
stones
to
be
placed
,
and
so
to
be
cast
downe
sodainly
vpon
him
at
prayer
.
Whiles
the
minister
of
this
wickednes
was
on
the
beame
ouerladen
with
stones
,
and
the
burden
great
,
the
beame
brake
,
and
so
he
fell
downe
with
it
,
and
was
crushed
to
peeces
.
This
immane
disturber
of
the
Germaine
Empire
.
Hildebrand
,
who
came
in
like
a
Lyon
raigned
like
a
Fox
,
and
dyed
lyke
a
dog
,
as
all
the
true
historiographers
do
resolue
of
him
.
Alexander
the
sixt
,
a
Spaniard
,
his
elogies
are
celebrated
of
Guichardine
(
Leiuetenant
to
the
Pope
)
and
amongst
other
things
,
with
what
loue
he
embraced
his
owne
daughter
,
and
his
two
sonnes
,
euen
that
he
was
vsed
to
incest
the
daughter
himselfe
,
drawne
from
her
husband
,
to
whom
he
had
married
her
before
,
and
had
his
two
sonnes
his
riuals
,
both
wittingly
and
willingly
(
horrible
to
be
spoken
)
.
And
how
that
one
brother
slew
the
other
in
the
night
(
worse
than
the
Catelnies
did
,
for
their
murder
was
not
incestious
)
&
that
because
both
in
their
lusts
,
as
with
all
in
other
manners
,
the
one
had
prelacy
and
superiority
aboue
the
other
,
being
thus
slaine
,
the
Father
fished
for
him
that
was
cast
into
Tibris
,
this
only
way
of
fishing
shewing
himselfe
and
none
other
deuise
,
like
vnto
a
fisher
for
men
.
He
dyed
by
a
draft
of
poysoned
wine
,
which
was
prouided
for
certaine
Cardinals
to
take
them
away
from
amongst
men
,
in
a
Garden
Banket
in
a
Bower
,
the
poyson
was
giuen
to
him
by
one
that
waited
,
the
flagons
being
changed
by
error
of
the
seruant
that
attended
.
Paule
the
third
whose
name
before
the
Priesthood
was
Alexander
Fernesius
,
how
horrible
and
libidinous
,
whoredomes
,
incestes
,
murder
of
parents
,
witchcraftes
,
proditious
and
betraying
of
men
,
are
well
remembred
of
him
?
These
and
others
like
to
these
,
with
many
,
euery
where
in
the
acts
of
your
Popes
are
read
,
and
shall
for
euer
be
read
,
how
many
expurgatory
index
soeuer
you
make
,
wherein
you
would
perswade
that
they
are
false
,
euen
now
at
last
to
approoue
the
explete
&
sanctified
innocensie
on
euery
side
,
and
the
sanctity
of
Hierarchie
.
Conuince
you
therefore
of
like
falsity
,
the
Authors
of
the
History
of
Ione
the
Pontificall
.
Laurentius
Valla
no
stranger
,
but
borne
in
the
Citty
of
Rome
a
Canon
,
his
reprehension
of
Popes
of
his
time
as
liberall
,
so
true
and
very
true
,
that
if
you
deny
it
,
yet
we
and
many
other
,
neyther
haue
doubted
nor
euer
will
doubt
.
I
say
,
(
quoth
he
)
and
I
exclaime
(
neither
will
I
feare
men
being
accustomed
with
God
)
not
one
in
my
time
,
in
the
Pope-doome
,
was
eyther
faithfull
dispensator
of
the
misteries
,
or
wise
,
who
are
so
farre
from
giuing
bread
,
that
they
giue
a
baite
vnto
the
familie
of
God
.
The
Pope
himselfe
,
now
wars
is
pacified
,
doth
bring
in
warre
vpon
his
owne
people
,
and
soweth
discord
betwixt
the
Citties
and
the
Princes
.
The
Pope
both
thirsteth
after
other
mens
goods
,
and
suppeth
vp
his
owne
treasures
.
The
Pope
maketh
profit
,
not
onely
of
the
common
wealth
,
but
also
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
wealth
,
and
selleth
the
holy
Ghost
.
And
when
he
is
warned
of
this
,
he
denieth
it
not
,
but
openly
confesseth
it
,
and
glorieth
in
it
,
that
it
is
so
lawfull
for
him
,
vpon
any
reason
to
make
sale
of
the
patrimony
of
the
Church
,
endued
and
giuen
him
by
Constantine
,
to
wrest
it
from
any
the
occupiants
of
it
.
As
if
it
would
come
to
passe
that
it
so
being
vsed
,
the
Christian
religion
,
would
thereby
become
more
blessed
by
it
,
and
not
rather
as
it
is
more
cursed
with
all
wickednes
,
luxuriousnes
&
libidiousnes
oppressed
,
if
possibly
it
may
be
more
oppressed
,
and
if
any
farther
place
of
misery
be
remaining
.
Thus
Ualla
feared
not
out
of
a
Godly
stomacke
,
all
perill
neglected
to
exprobate
the
papacy
,
to
hit
them
in
the
teeth
in
his
time
,
now
1140.
yeares
ago
,
so
vncorrected
euer
since
▪
that
dayly
it
is
made
worse
and
worse
,
and
worse
is
like
to
be
.
Reprooue
if
you
can
,
that
which
Io●●niane
Pontane
a
man
of
your
religion
,
but
otherwise
verily
,
more
simple
,
&
more
sincere
in
his
writings
of
Popes
and
Cardinals
then
you
are
,
hee
writ
a
Dialogue
of
Charon
&
Mercurie
,
if
perhaps
you
haue
not
the
book
at
hand
,
thus
it
followeth
.
Charon
.
I
pray
you
do
not
the
Popes
&
Priestes
themselues
meete
with
this
wickednes
?
albeit
of
all
number
and
sorts
,
and
orders
of
creatures
,
where
daily
I
am
carried
about
,
I
see
no
men
of
worse
note
,
and
marked
with
such
filthy
markes
.
Mercurie
.
Indeede
no
men
are
lesse
carefull
for
true
religion
,
because
they
are
as
such
who
are
carefull
and
whose
endeuor
it
is
,
to
amplyfie
their
priuate
wealth
to
heape
vp
monie
,
and
in
feeding
their
carcases
,
to
be
well
occupied
,
and
yet
whereas
too
too
wretchedly
they
are
couetous
,
yet
no
men
eate
more
daintilye
,
nor
clothe
themselues
more
wantonlie
then
they
do
.
Of
late
a
priest
a
Cardinall
sent
his
Cator
to
buie
a
Woolfe
fish
,
or
a
Pike
,
and
because
he
spared
the
money
it
being
deare
,
for
the
price
was
three
score
crownes
.
O
with
what
reproche
did
he
reuile
him
,
and
had
almost
forbidden
him
his
house
as
a
seruant
nothing
carefull
of
his
maisters
life
.
And
Charon
,
that
you
should
not
mistake
me
,
they
terme
that
life
now
,
which
heretofore
was
called
death
,
the
appetite
.
An other
priest
also
of
the
same
Colledge
dying
,
bequeathed
vnto
a
Exoleto
.
They
are
men
that
haue
bin
wanton
boyes
and
are
growne
out
of
vse
,
by
reason
of
age
,
of
which
kind
not
a
few
these
●
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
for
so
the
Syrians
terme
their
princes
,
as
the
Sunne
rising
they
make
their
God
,
and
the
Papists
doe
call
their
Pope
a
God
,
D.
deum
nostrum
papum
)
these
are
ment
by
Pontanus
heare
.
But
ô
were
they
now
serued
,
which
flow
so
out
of
kinde
euery
where
,
as
Alexander
Seuerus
plagued
them
whom
his
predicessor
Hielogabalus
kept
,
hee
sent
them
all
to
shipwracke
to
the
Ilands
.
Read
Cicero
pro
Milone
,
and
Herodian
lib.
5.
Clodius
vt
secum
,
semper
scorta
,
semper
exoletos
,
semper
lupas
ducebat
,
filthye
wanton
Boyes
,
and
greedie
Shee
wolues
,
that
is
,
Common
whores
.
*
Minion
of
his
,
thirtie
thousand
crownes
.
Char.
O
would
I
wanted
eare●
,
rather
then
to
heare
these
things
!
shall
any
mortall
men
suffer
such
wickednesse
to
passe
,
and
cannot
punish
it
?
in
superstition
are
they
holden
,
&c.
Confute
if
you
can
the
dialogue
of
Erasmus
&
H●t●en
,
so
noble
,
so
notable
,
in
writing
,
depainting
out
the
manners
of
your
Iulius
the
second
,
and
such
actes
:
that
when
he
was
dead
,
the
gates
of
Heauen
,
which
with
his
owne
keyes
he
was
wonte
to
set
open
vnto
other
men
at
a
price
for
money
,
he
could
not
vnlocke
for
himselfe
,
and
Peter
would
not
open
them
to
him
when
hee
knocked
,
that
he
might
go
to
hell
beneath
with
his
company
,
and
his
whole
court
of
guarde
being
excluded
.
Refell
if
you
can
these
(
or
expurge
)
with
true
arguments
and
reasons
)
the
actes
of
these
high
Priests
repugnant
vnto
the
actes
(
God
it
knowes
)
of
the
Apostles
,
as
one
end
of
the
diameter
is
vnto
the
other
,
the
Axeltree
of
the
world
the
East
vnto
the
Weast
,
which
are
of
Iohn
Bale
of
England
set
foorth
,
all
which
a
Christian
man
,
yea
an
Ethnick
onely
wel
mannerd
,
would
feare
to
here
them
read
.
Such
a
sinke
of
wickednes
,
and
for
the
most
part
of
Popes
,
thence
from
Iohns
trauaile
with
childe
,
vnto
this
our
age
is
to
bee
felt
.
If
such
like
you
indeuour
to
purge
,
what
else
do
you
seeke
,
but
to
wash
a
Negro
to
be
white
?
Seace
you
therefore
from
hence
foorth
to
cast
a
miste
before
mens
eyes
,
and
to
sell
smoake
for
fire
in
such
a
world
fit
for
Argus
many
eyes
,
as
this
.
Leaue
off
,
leaue
off
,
to
stuffe
with
strawe
,
and
deck
vp
your
throne
of
Antichrist
any
more
in
vaine
,
vnlesse
your selues
meane
to
inioye
such
flatterie
:
by
such
deuises
and
aduises
,
you
would
perceiue
,
receiue
,
and
take
more
easilie
from
your
Patrons
,
the
commodities
of
this
present
life
,
feelinglie
,
being
honored
with
the
opinion
of
sanctimonie
of
your
disciples
,
boyes
and
yong
men
,
and
of
the
fatuate
common
people
,
indeed
many
of
them
being
Midas
riche
,
whom
your
adulatorie
ould
songes
do
please
.
All
which
,
if
you
deeme
them
more
acceptable
then
Christian
veritie
,
sinceritie
,
and
blessednes
:
holde
on
,
hold
on
,
to
lie
,
laugh
,
flatter
,
and
face
,
to
simulate
and
dissemble
,
to
playe
the
Historions
,
to
abuse
religion
vnto
cursed
fraude
,
vntill
ye
trie
at
last
that
God
will
not
be
deluded
,
if
happely
you
will
differ
in
this
one
and
in
all
,
from
your
Coryphaus
,
and
from
his
purple
mantle
crew
,
to
thinke
there
is
a
God
,
who
bringeth
all
humaine
soules
vnto
the
vniuersall
iudgement
after
this
mortall
life
.
To
him
be
all
honor
and
glorie
both
now
and
euer
,
Amen
.
Trino
&
vni
sit
omnis
laus
honor
&
gloria
.
Amen
.
T.
B.