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

And what pains think we doth that good holy father take to be carried upon mens shoulders, to lift up his foot so oft to have his pantofle kissed, to tell over so many millions of Crowns which come flowing in unto him on all sides, besides the fatherly and continual care he taketh to have the booty and spoil of so many souls, and bodies, so lamentably bewitched to their own sight and knowledge? Goodly marks doubtless of the true Catholic Church, and perpetual enemy of the world, Jam. 44. to see Meffiers the reverendissimies have their long tails carried up by their train-bearers, afterward trained up and down in their Coaches with their courtesans, to make the very Sun to blush at their impudent shamelessness: & yet these are the Nursery of that Ecumenical See. What shall I say of them who are gaping after these Cardinals hats? what of these goodly gardiatane bishops, of these bishops titulary, & portative, of Abbots, Priors, and the like, ⟨p. 378⟩with whom we may justly suppose that the devil himself maketh himself sport, though all of them serve him in good earnest, except it be such as openly both by their words, and all their horrible dissolutions show that they believe neither in God nor in the devil. For behold to what point the world is come. And as for these great religious men who merit both for themselves & others, alack how ill they be lodged in their royal and more then royal palaces: alack poor men how they are famished, when the world fighteth who shall bestow most upon them, and their own mouth is never stopped not to demand, or their hands so troubled with the gout, not to take and receive whatsoever comes. O the small warmth they have in their Jacobin chambers! ô how ill they are clothed in their frocks and other their habits, which have no fault in them nether winter nor summer! ô the hard penance discipline they bear at their girdle! ô the poor fraternity of Jesus, who have gotten within the compass of thirty years more by their charitable gratuity, then all the rest of the monks in five hundred years before them!

And what paines thinke we doth that good holy father take to be carried vpon mēs shoulders, to lift vp his foot so oft to haue his pantofle kissed, to tell ouer so many millions of Crownes which come flowing in vnto him on all sides, besides the fatherly and continuall care he taketh to haue the booty and spoile of so many soules, and bodies, so lamentably bewitched to their own sight and knowledge? Goodly marks doubtles of the true Catholique Church, and perpetuall enemie of the world, Iam. 44. to see Meffiers the reuerendissimies haue their long tailes carried vp by their traine-bearers, afterward trained vp and downe in their Coches with their courtisans, to make the very Sunne to blush at their impudent shamelesnes: & yet these are the Nurcery of that Oecumenicall See. What shal I say of thē who are gaping after these Cardinals hats? what of these goodly gardiatane bishops, of these bishops titularie, & portatiue, of Abbots, Priors, and the like,