Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles

For proof of this let us look no farther, then first unto the doting dreams which are found aswell in the legends of these holy fathers, as also in the writings of certain contemplative doctors: and after that, unto the abuses with which this kind of vermin hath filled the whole world, and poisoned especially all Christendom: in such sort that the Popes themselves have been forced and constrained to decree that there should be no more new orders of monks set up, as that decree made expressly to this purpose in that great Council of Lateran under Pope Innocent the third, An. 1215. may witness. And yet for all that, behold yet a new swarm of locusts, the order of the Capuchins, & of those shameless companions which attribute unto them selves the name of the company of Jesus, which are within these forty years crawled out of the bottomless pit, to happer and swarm throughout the world, which indeed deserveth nothing else but to be bruised and bitten with such caterpillars.

For proofe of this let vs look no farther, then first vnto the doting dreams which are found aswel in the legendes of these holie fathers, as also in the writings of certaine contemplatiue doctors: and after that, vnto the abuses with which this kinde of vermine hath filled the whole world, and poysoned especiallie al Christendome: in such sort that the Popes thēselues haue been forced and constrained to decree that there should be no more new orders of monks set vp, as that decree made expreslie to this purpose in that great Councel of Lateran vnder Pope Innocent the third, An. 1215. may witnes. And yet for al that, behold yet a new swarme of locusts, the order of the Capuchins, & of those shamelesse companions which attribute vnto thē selues the name of the companie of Iesus, which are within these forty yeares crauled out of the bottomles pit, to happer and swarme throughout the worlde, which indeede deserueth nothing else but to be broused and bitten with such caterpillers.

2 But let us go out of this sink, and return unto this spouse, who is now awaked by her Bridegroom, and invited and called unto the other part of Christian life, that is to say, the other kind of conversing with her Bridegroom, namely unto the practise of that which she hath learned and meditated. For what is this else, to rise and to take her way to come unto him, but