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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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Pope Boniface the eight upon a certain great and solemn feast,1 apparelled in his Pontificalibus was carried about the city of Rome on mens shoulders, & gave the people large blessings with wagging his fingers over them on every side. The next day after he put on an imperial robe, decking himself like an Emperor, and commanded a naked sword to be borne before him and he himself sitting upon his moil gloriously, cried out with a loud voice saying.2 Ecce duo gladij hic. Behold, here are two swords: calling himself Lord of the whole world concerning both temporal and spiritual matters. This is that monster, of whom it is written: Intravit ut Vulpes, vixit ut Leo, moritur ut Canis. That is to say, he entered in as a fore, he lived as a lion, he dyed as a dog. In the year of our Lord. 1290. Albertus. 3Crantzius, Fascic. Temp. Pantal.
Pope Boniface the eyght vpon a certayn great and solemne feast,1 apparelled in hys Pontificalibus was caried about the citie of Rome on mens shoulders, & gaue the people large blessings with wagging his fyngers ouer them on euery syde. The nexte daye after he put on an imperial robe, decking himself like an Emperour, and cōmaunded a naked sweard to be borne before him and he himself sitting vpon his moyle gloriously, cryed out with a loud voice saying.2 Ecce duo gladij hic. Behold, here are two sweardes: calling himself Lord of the whole worlde concerning both temporal and spiritual matters. This is that monsture, of whom it is writtē: Intrauit vt Vulpes, vixit vt Leo, moritur vt Canis. That is to saye, he entred in as a fore, he liued as a lyō, he dyed as a dogge. In the yeare of our Lord. 1290. Albertus. 3Crantzius, Fascic. Temp. Pantal.
- 1The Lucifer like pride of Pope Boniface.