66 Á ve flo; d tt e y °e 'CAT.i1,W evidently in that bookof his wbich'lí wrte' agaiiit1Luther, whom he callerh Beall alároff in every fentençe, though he himfelfe be a blockifhaffe without a dram ofwit. And that not fo much to bring his heretic (as he calls it) into hatred, as to raffle upon that whole Country manifeffly, withPitch a beaflly gird. Rome fp.eaketh a little more modeflly thereofat this day, as not daring to für up the fierce- neffe of that people with fovile a reproach,and yet in fecret and in her own minde fhe judged' little better of them, then the did judge and fpeake ofold time : and not of this people onely, but of all the other pcòpte `ofEureprç'ra11 which íhe Both in a manner count of, as if they were meere bruit Beafls, befidesand in refpeei of her fell alone. But count ofour Countries as thou wilt (0 Rome) God bath chofen this foolifhneffe of our Countries to confound thy vaine and fottifh wïfdome withal!, that it might make thy Prideand vaineglo- ry to be laughed to fcorn at Pall of all men, which lhall be a jufl pu- nilhment and plague unto thee for thy wickedneffe. Andfheepe: This is the Cognizance of our Country of EnoIvrd, which hath abundance of thefe fheepe, as that have Golden fleeces, which bring us in good flore offilver and gold, beca.¡fe 'they re -of excellent life through the foftneffe and tenderneffe thereof, -itì 're= fpef of thewooll of other Countries: Rome bathbèene lohg at thè point to hang her felt for vehement grief., which five. hath beenput to many aday, becaufe thefe wares of ours come rot rroling in fo merrily out of our Country, as they were wont,. to their Marts and Faires at Rome, and therefore (he beflirs her as`tfthe were mad;that the might have the fheepefaire furnifhedagaine, and flourithing'as once the had. For this purpofe the doth in her devilli(h pollicie, make much of our Englito fugitive youvagflers, and bath preferred our Alsnetoa Cardinalls Dignity. And th.efe (he bath in a readi- neffe to be Sheep - mailers, and befides theft troupes of iefuites a- gainft the day, that file can bring bur Country againe to be Peters 'Patrimony, when our Sheepe muff bring in good flore of fining Pence for S. Teter at his Leete daves.But bleffedbeCod for it,as like fheepe as they count us, we have rh: wit to know and that for cer- taine, that Rome is a den of ravenous Wolves, and of other rnoff cruel! beaifs: Let her fing as fweetly as file will or can,as if the were our only chief Sheepheard, we know her to have the voice of a fl ranger and ofa theefe too, neither will we be inveigled any more with her inchanting melodie; I hope that our Countrymen will never go more to vifit Rome,unleffe perhaps it be to accompany this
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