77O .eC' ervelationofthe Apocalypfe. CAP . 18. ofwhich he himfelf had been (tripped formerly. So well are there Merchants paid for their labour, that one who erewhiles was glad to take upbegging for his beft trade, became equall in worth to the Peers of the earth prefently, upon the profefling of this Art of Merchandizing. But after that Rome (hall be tumbled down one (tone upon another,there is no man that fluff give one the leaft doo- kin for playing the Merchanr;This is the plague that (hall befall there Merchants, when they (hall have loft all their hope ofgain. Shall ($and aloof of Namely, the Cardinals, the Bifhops, and others of that rank, who (hall keep at that time inother places of europe, then at Rome. There fellowes,though they be themfdves out of Gun -(hot, (hall yet bewaile 7 mes ruine with a lamentable voice, ¡landing aloofoff, and looking on, but they (hall neither have horns nor hearts ftrong enough to drive away imminent dangers; Verfe 16. foying, alas, alas. The fame concile keeping in ofwords that might open the minde of the Holy Gho(/ is here ufed, which was feen before in the mourning of the Kings, ver,'e io. whereby the truth and terribleneffeof this grief are expreffed. The Matter of the griefe is fomewhat different from that ; For they bewailed the extingwilhing of that fo great powerof Rome, which was 'fitting for their perlons to do : ThefeMerchants complainof the confuming and wafting pfthat fo great wealth of hers, which is that which Merchants do chiefly thir after ; but vet Peeing this fine linnen Purple, Scarlet, inif the reif of this godly ttuffe do figni_ fie Romes arrogancie,which was underpropped chieflyby the wealth of Spaniards, as we have feen,verf.12. Merchants lament and are al- togetheraftonifhedat it, that all this abundance could profit her no- thing touphold it {till, as if it were laid; How cometh it to paffe, that flit should perifh,that was fenced with fuch ftrong aid and mu- nition of the Spaniards? which feemed to have been fo unconque- rable, that a man might well think, that if the whole Chriftian World fhould have confp,ired again( it; they fhould not have been able to have done it any hurt, no, not to the worth of a ftraw. Verle 17. And every Ship-m5fer : The third mourning part is of the bafeft company of Marrines andOren, en. that is, of the in- ferior r ranke ofOfficers that belong to the Court of lore, as of Deans, ebbsts, Priors, Generall and Provixcial'l Tefuits, and the like to there cancre4 Caterpillers. All .thcfe live upon the Sea, . by promoting and furthering the authority of the whores decrees and
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