a The confession which the Priest maketh , 1. Cor. 11. is in stead of the probations which S. Paule requireth of those that will come to the Supper . But because the Priest prepareth him selfe to renounce Iesus Christ in his Masse , he also oftentims purgeth his conscience in his preparation , by great blasphemies : as herafter shall be shewed in his place .

b For , if he hath not this purpose and intent , all is nothing that he doth . And so by this meanes as many as worship the host that is betweene his hands , commit flat idolatry . For according to their doctrine , without it , it is no God . Now the people can neuer be able to assure them selues what the Priests minde is . For , none knoweth his heart but God alone . Whereupon ensueth , that they which are at Masse , are alwayes vncertaine what to beleeue : and so consequently can haue no true faith . For ; faith & doubting can in no wise dwell together .

c That is to say , he must haue his part by hart , that he may be the better able to play it .

d To wit , he must haue very good skill howe to play the munky or Iacke-napes .

e The Romish religion and deuotion wholy consisteth in Apish and bobtailde toyes , as here may appeare . For he is accompted the most deuout Sir Iohn that can best play at hey passe and repasse , Iupiter , Saturnus hey .

f It is not amisse done of them in calling it● table : bycause they are thereat slaall fed , as witnesse vnto vs their double chynnes and fat lunchious of flesh on their bodies .

g This is a goodly king , for he can not defen● him selfe from mise , neither yet from wormes and spiders , as hereafter shal be declared .

h Thus here we see the sine deuises of the morris , shewes and contenances of the play which herein he must obserue for a testimonie of hi● deuotion and loue towardes God , of whom n● word hath once bene spoken .

i And this is the chiefe and principall parte● for , seeing the landleapar or rogge speaketh hers of fingers , handes , feete , armes , shoulders , head backe , and belly : we are therefore here throughly to consider what is meant by this kind of speach which consisteth altogether in dumbe shewes , a if it were a mummery .

k These , no doubt of it , must needes be wonderfull great heauenly misteries which are vsed it these iuggling pastimes , being meete disporte● worthy such puppies .

l This is for the driuing away of the flyes , bycause they should haue no parte of the Prieste ▪ breakfast : and bycause also , that his God of him selfe , is not able to driue them away , as it is sai● of the Idoles .

m It were no small danger , if in stead of fore right crosses , they should make Saint Androwe● crosses , especially if it should be in time of warre betweene the French and the Burgonions .

n There might also some danger fall out euen in a sippe of wine , which afterward might hinder the lifting vp of the chalice .

o As for the circles let him leaue them , to the Mathematiciens and Cowpers .

p There are in it also , French , Italian , Spannish , courtlike , Bald , clownish , and maidenlike duckinges and Bowinges , and many other sortes wherein some vaine must be had , for the iolly leading of this friscaball morris , which they may learne from women and maides .

a Herein , experience is more requisite then opinion & good intent , for in this place we speake of that which is to be set vpon the table .

b The arte and cunning how to taste wine .

c It were very dangerous if whippit Sir Iohn should sippe onely the least droppe , but that he should for that day , lose two blanckes and all his whole dayes worke , besides the losing of his breakfast afterward . For he should then be no more fasting : & so consequently not in the Estate to say Masse , without it were such a drie Masse , as they say & be deawe or moisten about womens beaddes that lie in .

d The Arte and skill how to braye wine , and taste it without drinking thereof , to wit , to taste it by the nose .

e If the priest of Payerne , whose wine was powdred with salt , to wit , his bottell , when he gaue it a soupe , had looked well to this cautell , he had not bene so deceaued as he was . But had souped of his bottell without powdring . For then , was it no more wine but blood : in the transubstantation whereof , the salte was not transubstantiated , as witnesseth vnto vs the priest , who thought him selfe to be poisoned , & with very feare , supposed that he should haue died presently at the Aultar .

i Here it were dangerous powring in of blood .

g Forasmuch as wine is better , and because also that the bottell and soupe of wine therein are likewise better : and in like sorte the blood , and so consequently the soule . For , if we shall giue credit to our auncient gossips pinte pottes , who loue well typling , and are well seene in the iudging of good wines : They say , that good wine maketh good blood , & good blood maketh a good soule : and a good soule is in the hie waye of saluation : Whervpon , they like liuely gossips conclude with a iolly Logicall Sorites or Sollogisme that he which wil be saued must drinke wel . And I verely beleue that those venerable men our maisters the Sorbonistes , who loue a cup of wine aswell as our gossips , ought not so greatly haue opposed them selues against the Lutherans , and annotations of Robert Stephanus his Bible as they haue done , if they had done well .

h Saue that in the Adoration of the hoste and chalice , which he must worship , with an , If , for feare of committing idolatry : because that idolaters cannot be certaine and sure of the minde and faith of the priest which sayeth Masse . Wherefore , according to their diuinite , the hoste which the priest sheweth must be worshipped , with this condition , saying in his heart , If thou be there ô God , I worship thee : but if thou be not there , I worship thee not , that is to say , I will withdraw my pinne from the stake and play no more .

a Herein must good Mast person bestowe the substance of all his fiue wittes . For here , I tell you goeth the hare away .

b This venerable Pilate hath not for this point , set downe in his Latine Masse booke that which he thought to haue done , for the instruction of his Masse Priest . For he meaneth as it is here translated : But , that which he setteth downe in the Latine , is as much as if he had said , he must reade the Canon after a more doleful maner , pronouncing his wordes as a melancholike & testie man , that is hard to be pleased .

c To gather him selfe vp roundly together , ought to be vnderstood of the thoughtes of his mind , which he is to gather and bind vp together as it were in a fagot : to the end they might be fast bound vp together : so that their mindes should euer runne vpon their bellies and vpon the maids , vpon whom my Sir whips haue oftentimes more mind , then vpon their consecration : which is a very dangerous matter , especially in this place , by reason the people should become flat idolaters in worshipping the host , if so be the Priest should not rightly consecrate : which he is neuer able to do if his mind be not fully and wholy thereon .

d He is to chaunge these wordes , and pronounce wordes cleane contrary to the wordes of Iesus Christ , to wit : Take not nor eate not any of you of this : seeing that none dare once take or eate any of this , saue the Priest alone .

e This is meant if he be not broken winded , or if so be he hath not bene so foundred , & so ouertaken with the Pope , as that he is not able to take his breath .

f In our language , this word My , is not the last word , but the Body is the last . For we do not say Body mine , but , my bodie : neither do we say , This is body mine . And therefore seing the whole vertue of the consecration and transubstantiation hangeth vpon the last word , he must not say , For this is my body : But ought to say , shal be . For otherwise the bread shold be body , before it were , because it is not vntill the last word . For , all the words cannot be spoken at one choppe . And besides our venerable Maisters should be greatly troubled about the difficulties that are in this matter .

g They feared that the Priest should eate him selfe and his owne body , as they say that Christ did eate him selfe and his owne body , fleshe and bones , and that he dranke his owne natural blood in the Supper which he made vnto his Apostles . For , if these wordes be said in the person of the Priest , then the bread shall be conuerted into the Priestes body , and not into Iesus his body .

h There is much to do in wordes , about the intent of the Priest , because as they teach , all the power of consecration & transubstantiation consisteth therein : so that neither the pronunciation of the words are auailable in this matter , neither yet the faith and intent of as many as are present at Masse , if the intent of the Priest be not before them all in it . And yet there is another point to be considered of , which is this : That if his minde should be so troubled as that in consecrating the one , he intended to consecrate the other , and had any such intent , then all his paine were lost : to wit , if he meant to consecrate the wine , when he was about the consecrating of the bread , or purposed to consecrate the bread , when he was a consecrating of the wine .

a There is not onely a difference betweene the singing cakes , whereon the Priest meaneth to make his Gods , besides his choise , which shall be the first : But also which of them shall be the greatest or the least , and most honorable amongst the rest . For , that which the priest choseth for to serue his owne turne , is of the largest sorte , and more honorable then any of the other , and gallantlier fr●●●eth , skippeth , and curtesieth then the rest which lie blo●●●shly still vpon the Aultar . And this is vnde●stood to be done vpon such dayes as the sup●er ●s administred to all the parish or at least to the most of them . For it is not sufficient that the priestes , all the rest of the yeare administer the supper vnto them selues alone , cleane contrary to the ordinance of Iesus Christ : But they will besides also , because they can abide no equalitie , that the priest which shall administer the supper publikly that day , shall haue his God by him selfe , and such a one as shal be both larger and honorablier then any other , and both eate him , & drinke his wine all alone by him selfe long before any of the rest : making first of all , euery man , most solemnely and magnifically worship his God , which soone after he eateth . And therefore it is here said , that he is to haue a farre greater consideration and minde vpon him , then vpon any of the other , which lie there dishonorably , and do not so much as once pitch or turne as the other doth , who danseth alone with his venerable Maister whip . And therefore he playeth with these poore Gods , as the poore yong sluttes which go to the dansing games are dealt withall , whom none take into the danse , making no reckning of them , but stand by , gasing vpon the faire virgines which do danse . For , euery man knoweth how whipped Sir Hugh sporteth with his God , and how many friskes , gamboldes , and capriaes , and what reuerences , reprinses , and braules , he vseth : and how he lifteth , & tosseth him aboue his head , & some time on this side and on that , & vnder his armes . To be short , I can not be able to vtter vnto you the nombers of sleightes of legier demaine , which he so gallantly maketh him play .

b Now Sir , when he maketh so many Gods at once , he hath no reason , properly to say , This is my body : but should rather say , These are my bodyes . But he may very well say it by the blood , bycause that in his consecration , he turneth none of the wine into blood , saue onely that which is in his chalice which he iuggleth into it : which blood he maketh onely for the body of his owne God , and for none of the rest . And therefore it must nedes be , that either the rest haue no blood , or els that he maketh their blood all at once with the bodies : As in very deede it ought to be , if this bread were turned , and as they say , really , essentially , substantially , sensibly , and corporally transubstantiated into the naturall body of Iesus Christ : or else it cannot be chosen but that the rest of the bodyes which are made for the common people , haue no blood at all in them . And although the priestes God , hath blood , yet bycause it is separated from the body , therefore it cannot be but a dead body , because a liuing body is not without blood . Wherefore the body of the God which they eate is a dead body . Againe , if they say that there is blood in the bodyes which the common people eate , them deale they more cruelly , making them eate them while they are yet aliue .

c This is a very necessary aduertisement , because Sir Iohn Shorne hath not the enterlude booke caried after him in this stage play , to be prompted behind in the eare , if he should at anie time haply forget his part , as they commonly do in other stage playes .

a By this , is learned the Art howe to take and handle the chalice .

b Nowe because there must be alwayes gods in the pixe , ready to carie to those that are sicke , when neede shall be , and also to honour & keepe the Church , therefore they must often times be renued , and newe put in , in their steade , for otherwise they would be mouldy and filthy . And so by that meane they should not remaine white gods , but mouldye and greene gods : as manie times it commeth to passe through the negligence , securenesse , and default of their Gard , as hereafter shall be shewed . Nowe , when these gods are renued , the Priest which renueth them , must of necessitie eate the old ones , and put in for them span newe ones . But whensoeuer there is a generall receauing of their maker ( as they say ) if it so fall out , as that there be not as many receauers to eate as there are Gods to be eaten , either the Priest must eate all that are left , or else he must giue to eche man , more then one peece , either else put them into the pixe to be afterward distributed , as we haue before said . And for the greater solemnizing of the banquet , when as Mast Person is to gobble them vp , it must commonly be done when he is at Masse . But because the same host which the Priest hath renued , is the more honorable and surer , he for his honours sake goeth foremost , and is first swallowed vp . For M. Iohn Shorne is not so certaine of the other olde Gods , as he is of his owne newe one : as well by reason that some other blacke-Smithes might haue made them , as also , for that it is possible , they might haue beene changed : And therefore it is here said , that he is sure of his owne : that is to say , that he hath breathed vpon it , with a good intent , to make a ioly , braue , round and white God of it , like to a iolie large slise of a Turnipe : But he is not so certaine of any of the rest , nor yet of the intent of my maisters the black-Smithes that forged them . Wherefore it is said , That he beleeueth all that the mother holy Church of Rome vseth , but he is not assured of it . And therefore he walketh in the faith of Priesthood , which is well to be considered of . For , either faith is ioyned with knowledge or without knowledge . And if knowledge be ioyned with faith , what maner of faith can that be , which knoweth not that , that it beleeueth ? But if it be faith without knowledge , then is not the other faith , which is ioyned with knowledge . And so both on the one side & on the other , there is faith , without faith . I doubt not but that our maisters could distinguish here very well : But let them make what distinction they lust , they know neither Christian faith , nor yet Christian knowledge . For , they haue no foundation from the word of the Lord of all that they here bring in .