The practise of prelates. CompiledThe practyse of prelates. Compyled

As soon as the monks were fallen, then sprang these begging friars out of Hell / the last kind of cater pillars,¹ in a more vile apparel and a more strait religion that (if ought of relief were left among the lay men for the poor people) these horseleeches might suck that also. Which drone bees as soon as they had learned their craft & had built them goodly & costly nests / and their limiters had divided all countries among them, to beg in / and had prepared livings of a certainty / though with begging / then they also toke dispensations of the pope for to live as largely & as lewdly as the monks.

As sone as the monkes were fallen, thē sprang these beggynge fryres out of Hell / the last kind of kater pillars,¹ in a more vile apparell and a more strate relygion that (if ought of relefe were lefte amonge the laye men for the poore people) these horseleches might sucke that also. Which dranebees as sone as they had learned their crafte & had bylt them goodly & costly n•stes / and their lymiters had diuided all contrees amonge them, to begge in / and had prepared lyuynges of a certayntie / though wc beggynge / then they also toke dispēsacyons of the pope for to lyue as largely & as lewdelye as the monkes.

1. 1Begging fryers.Beggyng• fryers.

And yet unto the lay men whom they have thus falsely robbed & from which they have divided them selves and made them a several kingdom among them selves,¹ they leave the payenge of tolle / custome and tribute (for unto all the Charges of the Realms they will not pay a mite (and the finding of all the poor: the finding of scholars for the most part: The finding of these foresaid horseleeches and caterpillars / the begging fryers the repairing of high ways and bridges the building and recreations of their