43a ,if revelationofthe ApocaIypfe. C A P.i3. cart out ofall his weftern Empire.Chil crick the K.ofFrarìce,was far weaker in power,théthat he was able to grapple with PopeZachary. Wherfore being compelled by his authority , hee gave over his Kingdom to Pipine. The Lombards who handled the Beaf roughly while he was fore of his wound, at length after that hebegan to bec reftored tohealth again,were through thehelp ofTipinc,& Charles thegreat made a prey to his cruel! jaws, and Charles loft not his la- bou r,being made Emperour by the Tope for lending him his help.Thy power (OBean) was very grear,who coulda give and take away at thypleafure,that which was the greaten matter among men.The na- ry of Henry thefourth is lamentable, who came in the midft ofa fore winter,upon his bare feet,to the gates of the Caftleof Cantfasm,and ftood there farting from morning to night for three days together, waiting for the judiciall fentenceof the Pop-e of Rome, and craving-_ pardonof him. Who yet notwichaanding could do nogood at all with the Pope-, either by his own,or the tears of others for him, or dfe by the interceilan of any Saint faye only of a certain harlot, . whom this holy was then takinghis filthy pleafure with. The Emperour was in an errour, who thought that the Pope could be-pa citedwith prayer and falling: This God required anotherkind of sacrifice then thefe. Bat that is moa horribhyhat the Popcompelled the Son ofthirHenry to be fo wicked, as to wage war againa his Fa- ther,-ofpoyl him of all his dignity, and to compel! him at length to end his days inmolt grievous miferies. Fredericl.Barbaroffa, a man of an heroical) difpofition, didbring much glory to thetriumph of the Beaft,whenhe was trampled upon with his feet,while thePop in theman time sung that triumphal! fong,thol fbalt Peakupon the 11, p,. and the Bal; liske, and theushalt tread/4p=n the Lyon, andthe Drazon.: What fhould fmakemention 'of FredriclZthefeconel and Lud2vicsu' -. of 'Bavaria, who contemning the Popes at firft , did at laft feel the- forceof their unreftaSle power, and were glad to use all the means they could to come into tai °ir favour again ? Our kingdomof Eau_. hind yeelded a wofull example hereof in King Iohn,,out of all which itmay be, gathered how unegnall a match arly Prince upon earth was to fight with the Burs,& therforeRodulpfius-theEmperour of Habf- brsrgs anfwered wifely to the Princes, who did earneftly entreat him tocome and vifit Italy ,that he Ural terrified' With the foot(hp./ of other PrincesWhich:looked alt forward,andnone of.them backward; thereby clearly intimating his mind, that hewas wholly. againft and afraid`of any filch voyage and encounterwhat was ail this,but as it ishere ex- prefly
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