Regarding not what happe vnto the ample people falles:
For if that any woulde neglect, the woonted funeralles,
Their anging and their roaring vaine, and onely here commit
Himlelfe to God, his heyre should be constrainde to furnish it,
And punisht lore if any thing herein shall wanting bée,
Of all the topes that doth belong, to luch lolemnitée.
Thinkft thou they carefull are that loules, the heauens doe attaine,
And Purgatorie lcape, or rather for their filthie gaine ?
Some where for children is the like, whom yet they doe confelle,
For to be iuft, and innocent, and dye in blessednelle:
Their parentes for their funeralles, confrayned are to pay,
Least of the Popish tyranny, should any part decay.
No fapth nor perfit godlinelle doth any where appeare,
But fraude, and craftie coulourings, and luch deceitfull geare.
Beholde againe their prayers and the bookes they occupie,
Wherewith to God, and to the Caintes, they pray continually :
And to the Angells vle the like : which supersticious kinde,
They doe not reade with any sprite, or zealousnelle of minde :
No caule prouoketh them to praye, this onely them affinde,
To babble much, for otherwile woulde want no wordes nor minde,
Ne shoulde they néede lo many prayers, appoynted them to lay,
Nor thus to tire their wéeried tongue, with mumbling all the day.
Likewile before the heapes of bones, prepared for the lame
They flande, and to the lpirits and Loules in graue,they prayers frame:
And for their good estate they pray, that measure none they know,
Df foolishnelle, nor wicked diedes doe euer cealle to flow :
To Church they come with beades of bone, or of come other thing,
Whole middles pierced through are tide, and ioyned with a fring:
Thus faßtned, fiftie Rosaries, they kill account the lame,
And thrile lo many Pfalters they accuftombe are to name.
With thele vnto our Ladie, and to God, and to his laintes,
They number all their babling wordes, and all their tedious plaintes.
So that they number onely séeke, not caring for the minde:
That woman holyeßt is by much, and of deuoutest kinde,
Whole beades vnto hir foote doe reach, and eake whole maydens lo
Dreft bp with hír in like attire, vnto the Church doe go.

Beldes

The rites are beld only for Shavelings gain.

Even for innocent children parents are fored to pay.

Prayers.

Are not prayd with zeal, only babbled

and mumbled

Papifts have Rofaries of bone-beads on

a ftring,

and count their babblings by

em.

The bolieft woman is fhe who has beads to her foot.

Charmes.

When a woman's

brought to bed, they purify the place from Spirits.

Charms bang

about every Papift's neck.

Croffes drawn with blood, &c.

keep men from burt by bows.

They fout up Spirits in cryftal

as charms.

Holydayes.

Folk dress fine,

and walk in the streets or the fields.

Others drink as long as they can ftand.

Belides for Charmes and Sorceries, in all things they excell,
Both Dardan and the Witches foule, that by Mæotis dwell.
The reason is, that yet to trust in God they haue no skill,
Por will commit themlelues vnto th’almightie fathers will.
If any woman brought abed, amongst them haps to lie,
Then euery place enchaunter lyke, they clence and purifie:
for feare of lprighres leaft harme the take, or caried cleane away,
Be ftolne from thence, as though the than in greate& daunger lay,
When as hir trauailes ouerpaft, and ended well hir paine,
With rest and aéepe the leekes to get, hir Arength decayde againe.
The like in trauailes harde they ble, and mariages alwell,
And eke in all things that they buy, and every thing they lell.
About thele Catholikes necks and hands, are alway hanging charmes,
That lerue against all mileries, and all vnhappie harmes:
Amongst the which, the threatning writ of Michael maketh one,
And allo the beginning of the Golpell of Saint Iohn:

But thele alone they doe not truck, but with this lame they haue,
Theyr barbrous wordes, ¿crollesdrawne with bloud,orpainted braue.
They (wordes enchaunt, and horles&rong, and fleth of men they make
So harde and tough, thattheyne care, what blowes or cuttes they take
And bang Necromancie thus, them lelues they lafely kéepe,
From bowes,or guns; from the woolues their cattell,lambesthéepe:
No iourney also they doe take, but charmes they with them beare;
Beades in glittering glaßles fayre, or elle in christall cleare
They (prightes enclofe, and as to Prophets true, lo to the Came
They go, if any thing be atolne, or any taken lame,

And when theyr Kine doe giue no milke, or hurt, or bitten Core,
Dr any other harme that to thele wretches happens more.

Now last behold how they do kéepe, their labboth daies throghout,
Firat in the morning finely drefk, they iet the fréeres about:
With garments fondly iagde and cut, and prowde and lofty pace,
And rappres long about them girt, their great and chiefel grace.
Some others walke into the fieldes, or elle at euery gate,
They talke and laugh, and thus begin the day to celebrate.
another Cort togither come, and drinking hande to hande,
They quaffe lo long, till none of them be able for to ftande:

Pea

Pea oftentimes they in their leates, with drinke are Arangled quight,
And yielding bp their dronken ghofles, doe bid their mates godnight.
But few of them doe care for Malle, though euery one doe laye,
And thinke it holielt is, nor to the Church they go to praye :
But eyther breakefastes long they make, at home when they arile,
Dr drinke vntill the euening farre, begin to shine in lkies.
Drelle before the Church doore prate, or in the marketsted.
Now when their dinner once is done, and that they well haue fed,
To play they go, to calling of the fone, to runne, or shoote,
To tolle the light and windie ball, aloft with hande or foote:
Some others trie their Ckill in gonnes, Come wreûtle all the day,
And Come to schooles of fence do go, to gaze vpon the play:
An other fort there is that doe not loue abroade to roame,
But for to palle their time at cardes, or tables &ill at hoame:
Some ble to at before their doores, and backbite euery man,
Dr newes deuile, or some debate, and Arife whereas they can.
The God of wine doth neuer want, in all their Cportes and play,
Who when he once hath toucht the braine, & drawne the minde away,
Df euery worde arileth blowes, their manhoode to allay,
So that no funday shalt thou sée, without lome dronken fray.
And thus of custome endeth fill, this folemne feftiuall,
With dronkennelle, a plague vnto the braine and members all.
To Enlong are they called &traight, by towling of the bell,
But from their place they lift nor stirre, being occupied so well:
They forwarde with their game doe go, and Church and leruice all,
Commit vnto the schoolemaifters, or Wicar generall.
Some others to their Ladies Cues, being amorous all the while,
Dr frame deceptes or lubtilties, yong maydens to beguile,
The wanton youth to daunũng goes, and wickedly doe draw,
The maydes in ring, and wantonnelle hath neyther bondes nor law.
And least the youth their pleasure full of whoredome should not take,
In euery Citie common fewes, they maintaine and they make:
And Bawdes they luffer openly, and cherish them withall,
Df whome no fender price doe here receyue nor profit (mall:
Thele Catholickes and holy men, and Church of Chrißk on hie,
The lame that all the worlde reforme, and heritiks defroy.

Few go to church.

After dinner they play at foot-ball, and wrestle,

or fence.

Others play cards, or backbite.

All drink.

No Sunday is without a drunken fray.

Evenfong.

Some court girls,

dance, and go

further.
Stewes.
The Papist
Priefts keep
Brothels and
Bawds, in
every city.

To

To these doe come all thole whom here their filthie luft provokes,
Both countrie men, and forriners, and poore and welrhie folkes.
Whatloeuer they be that haue not yet, the yoake of mariage tride,
No kinde of shame doth driue them hence, nor any care befide,
For lawfull here they doe it lée, and not to be dispilde,
But with the Popish Cort to be, an exercile deuilde.
Sometime it allo haps, that maried men doe here resort,
But not without their punishment, if once the youthfull fort
Percepue that they doe thither come, for this they dearely pay,
And oftentimes are bled ill, and beare the blowes away:
But at this lame the rulers laugh, and nothing doe it waye,
For Papiltes, whordome doe alow, and count it but a playe.
For of the polthorne Priestes they learne, and them they follow still,
That lawes are not of any force to remedie this ill:
The lawe Scatinian is extinct, and Iulian laught at now,
The Papiltes, euery kinde of vice, and wickednesse alow:
and not alonely in themlelues, they doe the lame permit,
But allo vnto all that lift, with Golde to purchale it.
But here I faine woulde vnderstande, what fraunge Apostle hée,
That gaue vnto the Chriftian lort, this wanton libertée ?
That where they fréely might enioye, and haue them openlye,
and they themselues to take the hier of beaßtly letcherye ?
And notwithstanding this to be true Catholickes in fine,
The perfit leruants here of God, and Church of Chri& deuine?
Df their religion, life, and déedes, learne thou their fayth at full,
That they with emptie shadow rhée not into errour pull.
This was the guile of Corynth great, and Cyprus eke of olde,
While darcknesseraind,and Sathan foule,his Ccepture there did holde:
But with a worthie cloake they couer now this whoredome vile,
Lealt that the youth should happe both maydes and matrons to defile.
Who would not mule to see the witte of thele Came catholickes,
Their sharpe inuentions, and deuile, in all their proper trickes ?
This thing coulde Moyfes not perceyue, that all things elle did lée,
Who wilde that whoremongers shoulde none among the people bée :
And banishte all the harlottes quight, as God did him aduile,
Por Paule it law being lifted vp, aboue the farrie (kies :

Who

Who did forbid that any man, his members framde of right,
To be the dwelling place of Chrißk, and of the holy spright :
Should vnto Harlots giue, and make the lame thereby to be,
The body of a hore, this flaine and blot commaunded he
To be excluded farre from laintes, and such as christned be.
But they haue nothing for to dot, with Moyfes nor with Paule,
Nor any honest things they will obey, nor lawes at all.
Themelues they pardon and forgiue,dilpenang wondrouslye,
As men that onely here pollelt the keyes of heauen hye.

I many things doe ouer palle, nor haue they euery where,
Their customes like, for euery realme hath his deuiled gere :
Pea both in Cities great, and in the villages thereby,
There are that doe luch dolrich dreames, defende maliciously,
That quight contrary are to Christ, and to religion right,
Which neyther canữ thou easily knowe, nor well in verle reäght.
Now when these Popish loth Come limmes,by no meanes we canlée
In life nor in their trauaile here, the limmes of Christ to bée,
Nor can in ange wile imbrace, the fonde religion vaine,
And thamefull orders to the worlde, of God contrarie plaine,
Nor docrine of lo wicked fayth, to Chriftian people giue,
But rather as the Apofles teach, doe Amply léeke to liue,
Reiecting toyes and mans deuice, as which we lurely know,
To be detected of that Prince, that lightnings downe doth throw :
We here are called Heritykes, and worthie thought to bée,
Of halter, (worde, conluming fire, and ech extremitée.
We punisht are, our houses fealde, or from our countrie farre
We banisht be, or elle oppreft at home with ciuill warre :
Whereas the dreadfull Souldiour doth conlume, and cleane deuours,
The goodes that here hath gotten bene, by toyle and paine of ours.
Thele things thele Catholikes attempt, when in lo many yeares,
By Ccriptures lure they cannot plant, this foolish fayth of theirs :
Nor ours with lcriptures ouerthrow, that now they léeke to make
The Prince of hell and Chrift to ioyne in one, and partes to take.
For (all ashamde) they plaine perceyue, that long they cannot Kande,
With this religion and this life, if once doe come in hande,
The worde of God, the heauenly light, and that abrode doe shine,
The twelve Apostles doctrine, and that blessed court deuine.

Nor

Heb. 13. Gal. 5. Ephe. 5.

1. Thes. 4.

Papifts don't care for Mofes or Paul: they pardon themfelves.

But if we say thefe Papifts

are not mem

bers of Christ,

we're calld Heretics, and punisht or banifht,

and lofe our goods.

Tho' they fee they can't ftand against God's word

and light,