¶An answer to a Papisticall Byll / cast in the streetes of Northampton, and brought before the Iudges at the last Syses, 1570.

The Papistes bill.
HOw now my maisters maryed Priestes,
How like you of these newes?
You must forsake your wicked lyues,
Your wyues must to the stewes.
The Aunswer.
How now my masters popish Priestes,
How like you of these newes?
You must forsake your Sodomites liues,
For down is gone your stewes.
2. The papisticall byll.
What neede our women now take care,
What life they now do leade?
Since euery preaching knaue must haue
A whoore in house to treade.
2. The Protestant.
What neede our men now to take care,
What way they go or treade,
For those Priests which wer whormongers
Must now marry wife or maide.
3. The Papist.
There is not now a strumpet whore,
In all the land to haue:
They are sodainly snatched vp,
With some Geneua knaue.
3. The Protestant.
Sithe there is now no strumpet whore,
In England for to haue:
Speake well then of the Gospell good,
And do no more so raue.
4. The Papist.
Maister VViborne, alias tiborne ticke,
There dwelleth in this towne:
Which sought by all the meanes he coulde,
The Easter to plucke downe.
4. The Protestant.
And where that godly Preacher sought,
There dwelling in that towne:
Your knauerie and hipocrisie,
At Easter to plucke downe.
5. The papist.
But I of him dare well pronounce,
And time the truth shall trie:
That he shall trust vnto his héeles,
Or els in Smithfield frie.
5. The protestant.
For this of him you dare pronounce,
And thousandes of his side:
Not like to CHRIST, but to the Pope,
Who loues to see Christ fride.
6. The papist.
Not he, but thousandes of his sect,
Must to Geneua seeke:
The wrestling of the Gospell wrong,
Preuailes them not a leeke.
6. The Protestant.
If that in Rome and Geneua
The whoores were all well sene:
The wrestling of the Gospell pure,
By that men might well deeme.
7. The Papist.
The Deuil when he would Christ attempt,
In Scripture seemed wyse:
And for him they the Scriptures take,
To maintaine all their lyes.
7. The Protestant.
CHRIST, when the deuil did him tempt,
By Scripture did confute:
But Papistes passe on that no lesse,
Then Fawkners on Hawkes mute.
8. The Papist.
Therefore be packing pratyng knaues,
Your rayling is to playne:
Commit your Bastards to the bag,
And hye you hence agayne.
8. The Protestant.
Saint Frances preaching to the Birdes,
All countries hath well spyde:
So as if Fooles should be hanged vp,
The Papistes sure should ryde.
9. The Papist.
And where I tolde you of your wyues,
Take you for them no care:
Shift for your selues, and trudge with spede
Least halter be your share.
9. The Protestant.
Idolatrie and adulterie,
For them you take no care,
But euery godly common wealth,
May wysh such tyborne fare.

10. The Papist. ‘ꝙ Non est Inuentus.’ FINIS.

10. The protestant. ‘Coronat opus,’ ‘Exitus acta probat.’ FINIS.

¶Three helps deuised by the Pope for his Mayden Priestes.

FIrst that Priestes myght examine in confessions, wyues, & Maydes of theyr whoredom, & by that they knewe to make their bar­gaynes, and the people loo­king on, must thinke it con­fession, and committing the like with them, they had power to geue them a knauish absolucion.

2 The seconde helpe ap­peareth Glos. in Caus. 11. q 3. cap. Absit: That if any of hys Clergy should be foūd embrasing a woman, it must be expounded and presup­posed hee doth it to blesse her.

3 The third helpe, that in euerye Citye (lyke as it is now in Rome) one stewes at the least to be permitted.

Experientia docet.

Doctor VVeston in Eng­land, who was burnt, but not with coales, billets, fag­gots, straw, nor reedes.

Also, the twoo Mayden Bishops at the last counsell of Trent 1562. beyng ta­ken blessing mens wyues, the one was thrust through wyth a Bores speare, the o­ther hanged out of a wyn­dow, in the sight of all the people.

Et cetera.

Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in litle Britain streete wythout Alders­gate. 1570.

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