The pope in his fury doth answer returne, to a letter ye which to Rome is late come

The pope in his fury doth answer returne, to a letter ye which to Rome is late come

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The pope in his fury doth answer returne, To a letter ye which to Rome is late come,

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The pope in his fury doth answer returne,

To a letter ye which to Rome is late come,

I Doe esteme your kyndnes much

For sendyng worde so sone,

Your diligence it hath ben such

It is ariued at Rome:

But when I had pervsd your byl

In that you set thereto your wyl

And eke your mynd applyed vntyl

The writyng of the same.

I did beleue it to be true

But surely I must say to you

It greued mee those lines to vew

Were wrtten in your name.

❧And sure it is no maruell loe

For daylye I doe heare,

The matter semeth to be so

As amply doth appeare:

For euery man doth tell for true

The same that late was sent of you

But out alas, your tidynges new

Doth much appall my spirite.

And makes me sweare and makes me teare

To pull and hale, and rend my heare

And brynges me dayly in dispaire

To thinke on this despite.

¶But sith there is no remedye

That mine obedient chylde,

Is hanged vp vpon a tree

And to to much reuylde:

What shoulde I doe but curse and ban

And hurte them toe the worst I can

For hanging vp so good a man

That bare mee such good wyll?

But yf I had him here at Rome

His body should be shryned soone

And masse at mornyng and at noone

With chantyng of each bell.

¶For euer shoulde be sayd and soung

The deuyls to controvle,

And prayers all aboute his tombe

With senceyng for his soule:

That neuer a deuyll so deepe in hell

Shoulde once presume with him to mell

Nor once approch his body tyll

To vexe him any way.

And I wolde kepe his body so

That it from hence should neuer go

And dyuers of my fryers mo

For him should dayly pray.

¶And gladly wolde I be reuengd

On England yf I might,

Because they haue toe much a abusd

My Bull with great despight:

And make thereat a laughing game

And set but little by my name

And much my holynes defame

And dayly me dispyse.

Their Queene hath chast the rebels all

That loued to bow their knees to Ball

And hanged their quarters on the wall

As meat for crowes and pyes.

¶But I wyll walke and dayly seke

My Purgatorie thorow,

And cause all the deuyls at my becke

To me their knees to bow:

And where as I may any fynde

That to their Prince haue ben vnkynde

Be sure, with mee they shall be shrynde

As they deserued haue.

And cheefly now Iohn Felton hee

Shall euer be beloued of mee

Because that he so louinglye

My Bull did seeme to saue.

¶But yf that I coulde haue at once

The paryng of his toe,

His head, his quarters, or his bones

That with the wynde doe bloe:

Then shoulde they be layd vp by mee

As reliques of great dignitie

For euery man that comes to see

Those Iewels of such grace.

The Nortons bones should so be shrynd

That now hanges wauering in the wynd

Yf that I coulde deuyse or fynd

To bryug them to this place.

¶And I wyll curse and ban them all

That speake against my powre,

And seekes to make my kyngdome fall

My curse shall them deuowre:

And yf that here I might you see

For wrytyng lately vnto mee

Be sure, ye should rewarded bee

As best I coulde bethynke.

And as for Wylliam Elderton

That lately sent me worde to Rome

Be sure that he should haue lyke dome

To bye him pen and ynke.

¶Take this as written from our grace

That vnto you we send,

Because we want both time and place

To recompence you frend:

As for the boyes that trump and scoff

And at my holynes doe laugh

I mynd to dresse them wel enough

Yf case I had them here.

And for my seruants that abyde

And long haue had their pacience tryde

From Romaine faith that wyl not slyde

I wysh them all good there.

S. P.

¶FINIS.

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¶Imprinted by Alexander Lacie for Henrie Kyrkham, dwelling at the signe of the blacke Boy, at the middle North dore of Paules church.

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The pope in his fury doth answer returne, to a letter ye which to Rome is late come

Peele, Steven.

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1571

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— The pope in his fury doth answer returne, to a letter ye which to Rome is late come, Peele, Steven..

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Imprinted by Alexander Lacie for Henrie Kyrkham, dwelling at the signe of the blacke Boy, at the middle north dore of Paules church,. [London?] :: [1571]. (Signed: S.P. [i.e. Steven Peele].) (Verse - "I doe esteme your kyndnes much".) (Publication date from STC.) (Print slightly faded.) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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