A14151:156
The practise of prelates. CompiledThe practyse of prelates. Compyled
The practise of prelates. Compiled by the faithful and godly learned man, William TyndaleThe practyse of prelates. Compyled by the faythfull and godly learned man, Wyllyam Tyndale
London: printed by Anthony Scoloker and William Seres. Dwelling without Temple bar, 1548London: printed by Anthony Scoloker and Willyam Seres. Dwellynge wythout Temple barre, 1548
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¶By what craft the pope keepeth the Emperor down.¶By what craft the pope kepeth the Emperour doune.
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Then come in the Ambassadors of frame ce, and money a few prelates and certain other the kings playfellows / y• be sworn with them to betray both the king and the realm too: And then is peace concluded. But outwardly there is nothing save a truce taken for half a year / till our soldiers be at home again / for fear least they would not be content▪ Then cometh the whole host home beggared both great and small And the poor that can not suddenly get work, fall to stealing and be hanged at home. This could More tell in his Utopia before he was the cardinal's sworn secretary, and fallen at his feet to betray the truth / for to get promotion.
Thē come in the Ambassadours of fraū ce, and money a fewe prelates and certayne other the kynges playfellowes / y• be sworn with them to betraye both the kinge and ye royalme too: And then is peace concluded. But outwardelye there is nothinge saue a truce taken for halfe a yeare / tyll our souldiers be at home again / for feare least they wold not be contēt▪ Then cōmeth the whole host home beggerd both great and smal And the poore that can not sodenlye gette work, fall to stealyng and be hanged at home. Thys could More tell in hys Utopia before he was the cardenalles sworn secretarye, and fallen at hys fete to betraye the truth / for to gett promocyon.
1Take an ensample: the bishops sent king Henry the fifth out to conquer France. The cause was (saith the chronicles) that the king went about to take their temporalities from them. And therefore to bring the king into an other imagination, they moneyed him, and sent him into france.
1Take an ensāple: the bysshops sent king Henrye the fyft out to conquere Fraunce. The cause was (sayth the chronicles) that the kynge went about to take theyr temporallyes from them. And therfore to bringe the kynge into an other imaginacyon, they monyed hym, and sent him into fraunce.