An answer to a papisticall byll, cast in the streetes of Northampton, and brought before the iudges at the last syses. 1570

An answer to a papisticall byll, cast in the streetes of Northampton, and brought before the iudges at the last syses. 1570

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¶An anſwer to a Papiſticall Byll / caſt in the ſtreetes of Northampton, and brought before the Iudges at the laſt Syſes, 1570.

¶Three helps deuiſed by the Pope for his Mayden Prieſtes.

Experientia docet.

§

¶An anſwer to a Papiſticall Byll / caſt in the ſtreetes of Northampton, and brought before the Iudges at the laſt Syſes, 1570.

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The Papiſtes bill.

HOw now my maiſters maryed Prieſtes,

How like you of theſe newes?

You muſt forſake your wicked lyues,

Your wyues muſt to the ſtewes.

The Aunſwer.

How now my maſters popiſh Prieſtes,

How like you of theſe newes?

You muſt forſake your Sodomites liues,

For down is gone your ſtewes.

2. The papiſticall byll.

What neede our women now take care,

What life they now do leade?

Since euery preaching knaue muſt haue

A whoore in houſe to treade.

2. The Proteſtant.

What neede our men now to take care,

What way they go or treade,

For thoſe Prieſts which wer whormongers

Muſt now marry wife or maide.

3. The Papiſt.

There is not now a ſtrumpet whore,

In all the land to haue:

They are ſodainly ſnatched vp,

With ſome Geneua knaue.

3. The Proteſtant.

Sithe there is now no ſtrumpet whore,

In England for to haue:

Speake well then of the Goſpell good,

And do no more ſo raue.

4. The Papiſt.

Maiſter VViborne, alias tiborne ticke,

There dwelleth in this towne:

Which ſought by all the meanes he coulde,

The Eaſter to plucke downe.

4. The Proteſtant.

And where that godly Preacher ſought,

There dwelling in that towne:

Your knauerie and hipocriſie,

At Eaſter to plucke downe.

5. The papiſt.

But I of him dare well pronounce,

And time the truth ſhall trie:

That he ſhall truſt vnto his héeles,

Or els in Smithfield frie.

5. The proteſtant.

For this of him you dare pronounce,

And thouſandes of his ſide:

Not like to CHRIST, but to the Pope,

Who loues to ſee Chriſt fride.

6. The papiſt.

Not he, but thouſandes of his ſect,

Muſt to Geneua ſeeke:

The wreſtling of the Goſpell wrong,

Preuailes them not a leeke.

6. The Proteſtant.

If that in Rome and Geneua

The whoores were all well ſene:

The wreſtling of the Goſpell pure,

By that men might well deeme.

7. The Papiſt.

The Deuil when he would Chriſt attempt,

In Scripture ſeemed wyſe:

And for him they the Scriptures take,

To maintaine all their lyes.

7. The Proteſtant.

CHRIST, when the deuil did him tempt,

By Scripture did confute:

But Papiſtes paſſe on that no leſſe,

Then Fawkners on Hawkes mute.

8. The Papiſt.

Therefore be packing pratyng knaues,

Your rayling is to playne:

Commit your Baſtards to the bag,

And hye you hence agayne.

8. The Proteſtant.

Saint Frances preaching to the Birdes,

All countries hath well ſpyde:

So as if Fooles ſhould be hanged vp,

The Papiſtes ſure ſhould ryde.

9. The Papiſt.

And where I tolde you of your wyues,

Take you for them no care:

Shift for your ſelues, and trudge with ſpede

Leaſt halter be your ſhare.

9. The Proteſtant.

Idolatrie and adulterie,

For them you take no care,

But euery godly common wealth,

May wyſh ſuch tyborne fare.

10. The Papiſt. ‘ꝙ Non eſt Inuentus.’ FINIS.

10. The proteſtant. ‘Coronat opus,’ ‘Exitus acta probat.’ FINIS.

¶Three helps deuiſed by the Pope for his Mayden Prieſtes.

FIrſt that Prieſtes myght examine in confeſsions, wyues, & Maydes of theyr whoredom, & by that they knewe to make their bargaynes, and the people looking on, muſt thinke it confeſsion, and committing the like with them, they had power to geue them a knauiſh abſolucion.

2 The ſeconde helpe appeareth Gloſ. in Cauſ. 11. q 3. cap. Abſit: That if any of hys Clergy ſhould be foūd embraſing a woman, it muſt be expounded and preſuppoſed hee doth it to bleſſe her.

3 The third helpe, that in euerye Citye (lyke as it is now in Rome) one ſtewes at the leaſt to be permitted.

Experientia docet.

Doctor VVeſton in England, who was burnt, but not with coales, billets, faggots, ſtraw, nor reedes.

Alſo, the twoo Mayden Biſhops at the laſt counſell of Trent 1562. beyng taken bleſsing mens wyues, the one was thruſt through wyth a Bores ſpeare, the other hanged out of a wyndow, in the ſight of all the people.

Et cetera.

§

Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in litle Britain ſtreete wythout Alderſgate. 1570.

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An answer to a papisticall byll, cast in the streetes of Northampton, and brought before the iudges at the last syses. 1570

Knell, Thomas.

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1570

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By Iohn Awdely dwellyng in litle Britain streete wythout Aldersgate,. Imprynted at London :: 1570.. (By Thomas Knell.) (In verse. Reprints and replies to a Catholic broadside of which the first line is given as "How now my maisters maryed priestes,". The first line of the reply is "How now my masters popish priestes,".) (Followed by a section in prose.) (Reproductions of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.) (Appears at reel 385 and at reel 1277 (same copy filmed twice).)

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