An answer to a Papisticall Byll / cast in the
streetes of Northampton, and brought before the Judges
at the last Syses.1570.
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The Papistes bill.
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HOw now my maisters
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maryed Priestes,
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How like you of these
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newes?
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You must forsake your
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wicked lyves,
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Your wyves must to
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the stewes.
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The Aunswer.
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How now my masters
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popish Priestes,
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How like you of these
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newes?
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You must forsake your Sodomites lives,
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For down is gone your stewes.
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2. The papisticall byll.
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What neede our women now take care,
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What life they now do leade?
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Since every preaching knave must have
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A whoore in house to treade.
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2. The Protestant.
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What neede our men now to take care,
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What way they go or treade,
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For those Priests which wer whormongers
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Must now marry wife or maide.
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3. The Papist.
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There is not now a strumpet whore,
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In all the land to have:
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They are sodainly snatched up,
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With some Geneva knave.
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3. The Protestant.
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Sithe there is now no strumpet whore,
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In England for to have:
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Speake well then of the Gospell good,
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And do no more so rave.
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4. The Papist.
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Maister Wiborne, alias tiborne ticke,
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There dwelleth in this towne:
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Which sought by all the meanes he coulde,
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The Easter to plucke downe.
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4. The Protestant.
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And where that godly Preacher sought,
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There dwelling in that towne:
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Your knaverie and hipocrisie,
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At Easter to plucke downe.
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5. The papist.
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But I of him dare well pronounce,
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And time the truth shall trie:
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That he shall trust unto his heeles,
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Or els in Smithfield frie.
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5. The protestant.
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For this of him you dare pronounce,
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And thousandes of his side:
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Not like to CHRIST, but to the Pope,
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Who loves to see Christ fride.
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6. The papist.
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Not he, but thousandes of his sect,
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Must to Geneva seeke:
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The wrestling of the Gospell wrong,
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Prevailes them not a leeke.
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6. The Protestant.
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If that in Rome and Geneva
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The whoores were all well sene:
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The wrestling of the Gospell pure,
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By that men might well deeme.
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7. The Papist.
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The Devil when he would Christ attempt,
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In Scripture seemed wyse:
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And for him they the Scriptures take,
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To maintaine all their lyes.
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7. The Protestant.
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CHRIST, when the devil did him tempt,
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By Scripture did confute:
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But Papistes passe on that no lesse,
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Then Fawkners on Hawkes mute.
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8. The Papist.
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Therefore be packing pratyng knaves,
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Your rayling is to playne:
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Commit your Bastards to the bag,
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And hye you hence agayne.
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8. The Protestant
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Saint Frances preaching to the Birdes,
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All countries hath well spyde:
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So as if Fooles should be hanged up,
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The Papistes sure should ryde.
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9. The Papist.
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And where I tolde you of your wyves,
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Take you for them no care:
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Shift for your selves, and trudge with spede
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Least halter be your share.
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9. The Protestant.
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Idolatrie and adulterie,
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For them you take no care,
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But every godly common wealth,
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May wysh such tyborne fare.
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10. The Papist.
FINIS. quod Non est Inventus.
10. The protestant.
FINIS. Coronat opus,
Exitus acta probat.
Imprynted at
London by John Awdely
dwellyng in litle Britain
streete wythout Alders-
gate. 1570.
Three helps de
vised by the Pope for his
Mayden Priestes.
FIrst that Priestes myght
examine in confessions,
wyves, & Maydes of theyr
whoredom, & by that they
knewe to make their bar-
gaynes, and the people loo-
king on, must thinke it con-
fession, and commiting the
like with them, they had po
wer to geve them a knavish
absolucion.
2 The seconde helpe ap-
peareth Glos in Caus.ii.q 3.
cap. Absit: That if any of
hys Clergy should be found
embrasing a woman, it must
be expounded and presup-
posed hee doth it to blesse
her.
3 The third helpe, that in
everye Citye (lyke as it is
now in Rome) one stewes
at the least to be permitted.
Experientia
docet.
Doctor Weston in Eng-
land, who was burnt, but
not with coales, billets, fag-
gots, straw, nor reedes.
Also, the twoo Mayden
Bishops at the last counsell
of Trent 1562, beyng ta-
ken blessing mens wyves,
the one was thrust through
wyth a Bores speare, the o-
ther hanged out of a wyn-
dow, in the sight of all the
people.
Et cetera.
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