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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 means the pope invaded the Empire.¶By what meanes the pope inuaded the Empire.
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He kept also .iiij. concubines, and lay with two of his own daughters thereto. And though he wist how that it was not unknown, yet his lusts being greater than great Charles, he would not wit nor yet refrain.
He kept also .iiij. concubines, and laye with two of his owne doughters therto. And though he wist howe that it was not vnknowne, yet his lustes being greater thē great Charles, he wold not wete nor yet refrayne.
And beyond all that, the saying […] y• in his old age a whore had so bewitched him with a ring & a pearl in it, and I wot not what imagery graven therein that he went assault after her as a Dog after a bitch / and the do•ehed was beside himself and hole out of his Mind: insomuch that when the whore was dead, he could not depart from the Dead Corps, but caused it to be Embalmed and to be Carried with him whether so ever he Went / so that all the world wondered at him / till at the last his lords encumbered with carrying her from place to place, and ashamed that so old a Man, so great an Emperor and such a most christen king, on whom, & whose deeds every Mans eyes were set, should dote on a dead whore, toke counsel what should be the cause. And it was concluded that it must needs be by enchantment. Then they went unto the coffin, & opened it and sought, and found this ring on her finger: which one of the lords toke of and put it on his own finger. When the ring was of he, commanded to bury her, regarding her no longer. Nevertheless he caste a fantasy unto this Lord and began to dote as fast on him, so that he ⟨image 22⟩might never be out of sight: But where our Charles was / there must that lord also be, and what charles did, that must he be privy unto: until that th•s lord perceiving that it came because of this enchanted ring / for very pain and tedyousnesse• to•• and cast it into a well at acn in douchland And after y the ring was in the well the Emperor could never depart from the town / but in the said place where the ring was, cast though it were a foul ma resse, yet he built a goodly monastery in the worship of our lady, and thither brought relics, from whence he could get them and pardons to sanctify the place and to make it more haunted. And there he lieth and is […] saint / as right is. For he did for christs vicar as much as the great Turk for mahomete: but to save his Holiness that he might be canonised for a saint, they feign in his life that his abiding / there so continually was for the hot bathes sakes with be there.