A67926:2125
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These be they that have made an 100000. idle Whores in your realm,1 which would have gotten their living honestly, in the sweat of their faces, had not their superfluous riches illected them to unclean lust and idleness. These be they that corrupt the whole generation of mankind in your Realm, that catch the pocks of one woman, and bear them to another, that be burnt with one woman, & bear it to another, that catch the leprosy of one woman, & bear it to another. Yea some one of them shall boast among his fellows, that he hath meddled with an C. women, These be they, that when they have once drawn mens wives to such incontinency, spend away their husbands goods, make the women to run away from their husbands, yea, run away themselves both with wife and goods, bringing both man, wife and children, to idleness, theft and beggary. Yea, who is able to number the great and broad bottomless Ocean Sea, full of evils, that this mischievous and sinful generation may lawfully bring upon us unpunished.
These be they that haue made an 100000. idle Whores in your realme,1 which would haue gotten their liuing honestly, in the sweat of their faces, had not their superfluous riches illected them to vncleane lust and idlenes. These be they that corrupt the whole generatiō of mankind in your Realme, that catche the pockes of one woman, and beare them to another, that be burnt with one woman, & beare it to another, that catch the lepry of one woman, & beare it to another. Yea some one of them shall boast among his felowes, that he hath medled with an C. women, These be they, yt when they haue once drawne mens wiues to such incontinency, spēd away theyr husbands goodes, make the women to runne away from theyr husbandes, yea, run away themselues both with wife and goods, bringing both man, wife and children, to idlenes, theft and beggery. Yea, who is able to nūber the great and broad bottomles Occeane Sea, full of euils, that this mischieuous and sinfull generation may lawfully bring vpon vs vnpunished.
- 1100000, idle whores made in England by the Popes Clergy.100000, idle whores made in England by the Popes Clergye.