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And yet for all this could not this Scorpionlike serpent ⟨image 38⟩of Romish riot be any thing appeased, for Pope Martin the 4. takes party again with the French:¹ practiseth with Philip the French king, to pursue Peter king of Aragon: commands him to invade his kingdom: him self soundeth the alarm, and giveth the onset. They rush each upon other as cruel Tigres, greedy of the pray: all hands be embrued with gore: amidst which hurly burly, skarse one whole year was over past before the pope Martin dieth.² After whose death Honorius 4. the next successor, practised with Rudolph king of Romans, to come speedily to Rome, and receiving at his hands the name, and majesty Imperial, to chase the French and Spaniards out of Champaign, Calabre, Apulia, and Sicily, and to unite the same to the Roman Empire. By means of which tumult of the Pop•, the whole nation of Italy, & state of Germany, had bin rent in pieces, with horrible slaughter of the people, if death had not snatch• away that pestiferous Pope betimes.³ What should I rehearse here the furies of Nicholas 4. who because he would not be altogether unlike his forerunners, was con tented to annex to the infamous contumely of the popes majesty, & to the everlasting reproach of his own name, this shameless act: To wit, To proclaim the great curse against the Earle of Tyrol, besides many o•he• his mischievous treacheries against him: upon none […] cause, but only, because the Earle would not yield over his true and lawful inheritance, to the Bishop of Trident, who made challenge thereto contrary to all equity, law, and Justice.

And yet for all this could not this Scorpionlike serpent ⟨image 38⟩of Romish riot bee any thing appeased, for Pope Martin the 4. takes partie again with the French: