The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

3. BUT why should we mention their Concubines and Pimping? for these are common and public Crimes at Rome, and not unprofitable neither; for the Misses there do not sit without the Gates with their Faces veiled and covered as in ancient times,¹ but they dwell in Palaces and stately Houses,² and pass to and fro in the most public Streets without Masks, as if their Trade were not only Lawful but Honourable; but why should I use many words, their Lusts are sufficiently known to the whole Earth. St. Bernard writes thus truly and freely of the Popes Family, and of the Pope himself.³. Your Court receives good Men sometimes, but it makes none good. Evil Men thrive there, good Men are ruined. And whoever he was who wrote the Tripartite Work, which is commonly joined to the Lateran Council, he saith thus: There is now so prevailing a Luxury, not only in the inferior Clergy and Priests, but also in the Prelates and Bishops, that it strikes Horror into the Hearers of it.

3. BUT why should we mention their Concubines and Pimping? for these are common and publick Crimes at Rome, and not unprofitable neither; for the Misses there do not sit without the Gates with their Faces vailed and covered as in ancient times,¹ but they dwell in Pallaces and stately Houses,² and pass to and fro in the most publick Streets without Masks, as if their Trade were not only Lawful but Honorable; but why should I use many words, their Lusts are sufficiently known to the whole Earth. St. Bernard writes thus truly and freely of the Popes Family, and of the Pope himself.³. Your Court receives good Men sometimes, but it makes none good. Evil Men thrive there, good Men are ruined. And whoever he was who wrote the Tripartite Work, which is commonly joyned to the Lateran Council, he saith thus: There is now so prrvailing a Luxury, not only in the inferior Clergy and Priests, but also in the Prelates and Bishops, that it strikes Horror into the Hearers of it.