736 Againí Bellàrmine. (;r,is, or no : There were certain of the Monks, as Fencer reporteth in the (aid Book of his Chronicles, who, when they were not able to make their partie good with teftimonies of Scripture, ran to their fchoat anker of juggling feats ; for hiding themfelves within the Imageof the blefld Virgin,which..was made cunningly for this.purpore,made her to counterfeitmarvellous gflutes, fo that they perfwaded the . people that (he wept, lamented, powred out tears, gave anfwers to them that asked queftions ofher ; which fraud oftheirs being found . out and laid open, the authors of this Legerdemain were burned ac- cording to their deferr,the day before the Calends ofluly,in the yeer. (15o9.) Where wee muff obferve that the filly people were utterly . ignorant of this couzenage of the Priefth, before the time that this, contention arofe between irreligious orders, that is, thole Mint -. mafters of fuch crafty delulons as there, who being well enough privie to themfelves, with what cunning fetches they were wont togull theblind and wicked world, did eafiiy finde out and detect the contrivers offo notorious & deteftable a piece ofknavery as this was: but to come neer to your own.family (O Bellarmine. i) whence von feréh your {lately pedigree ; you know that one Father Irífhrni-. an aIefuithath blazed his own arms, and hath made his profeßîon fàmons for villany in Ro,ae, with acting fuch a Mountebanks part as this ; who feigned himfelfto be infected with the leprofie at firf},thae he might deceive menwith counterfeiting a miracle in recovering of himfelf from fodefperate a diféafe. And after that, when this fool Trap proved to:his mind, and had catched many' a Pimple. Wood; cocke ; he fet upon another, and made men believe, that his Iefui ticall habite which he wore ordinarily, had been (hot through with a bullet that was fbott outof a Gun, but yet that, as loon as everit came to his &íh* recoiled backagain,through the admirable power. of God',and did him not the leaft harm that could:be: -No doubt on its. the Iefüits bodies are as ftror:g as' 'brazen walls, as "it- appeareth by. their brazen faces. This deviceofhis went currentlyat thefirf}, and was taken for a currant miracle among the people, but afterwards the knavery ofit was found out;and it grew fo odious and infamous,. that it to a by wórd in Rome, and fo it conrinueth till this day, that when any cheating and couzening villain is reproached com- monly and openly for playing flch fhameleffe t.rickes as thin was : hee is called another, or afecond yufinian. But this is no fyrange matter with Iefuits : as who are'openly reported (and that, by the con.feff on of many of the uncleane Birds of your (mne. Feather)
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