Actus Primus.  
Our heavenly blessing, be with you everichone  Omnes simul. 
All praise and glory, to your majesty alone.  Christi lex. 
Here still to tarry, I think it be your mind.  Nature Lex. 
My office ye know, is to instruct Mankind.  Moseh lex. 
Than God be with you, we leave you here behind.  
¶ Finit Actus Primus.   

¶ Incipit Actus secundus.  Exeunt. Nature lex. 

THe law in effect, is a teacher general  
What is to be done, and what to be laid aside  
But as touching me▪ the first law natural  
A knowledge I am, whom God in Man doth hide  
In his whole working, to be to him a guide  
To honour his God, and seek his neighbours health  
A great occasion, of peace, and public wealth.   

A sore charge I have, Mankind to oversee  
And to instruct him, his lord God to obey  
That lord of heaven grant, I may so do my duty  
That he be pleased and Man brought to a stay  
His brittle nature, his slyppernes to way  
Moche doth provoke me, but if God set to his hand  
He shall do full well, for none may him withstand.   Infidelitas. 
¶ He cometh in singing.  
Brom, brom, brom, brom, brom. Buy brom buy Buy. bromes for shoes and powchrynges, boats and busayus for new bromes. Brom, brom, brom.  

Marry God give ye good even  
And the holy man saint Steven  
Send ye a good new year  
I would have brought ye the pax  
Or else an image of wax  
If I had known ye here.   

I will myself so handle  
That ye shall have a candle  
When I come hither again  
At this your sudden mooyon  
I was in such devotion  
I had near broke a vain.   Nature lex. 
That might have done ye smart.  Infidelitas. 

No, no it was but a fart  
For pastime of my heart  
I would ye had it forsooth  
In syroppe or in sowse  
But for noyance of the house  
For easement of your tooth,  
Now have I my dream in deed  
God send me weal to speed,  
And sweet saint Antony  
I thought I should meet a knave  
And now that fortune I have  
Among this company.   Nature lex 
Why dost thou call me knave?  Infidelitas. 

I said I would be your slave  
If your grace would me have  
And do your work anon.  
I would so rub your boats  
The roof should from the roots  
When ye should do them on.   Nature lex. 

Thou art disposed to mock  
Sun mayst thou have a knock  
If thou with me so game.   Infidelitas. 

Your mouth shall kiss my dock  
Your tongue shall it unlock,  
But I say what is your name?   Nature lex. 
I am the law of Nature  Infidelitas. 

I thought so by your stature  
And by your ancient gature  
Ye were of such a nature  
When I first heard ye speak.  
Ye commoned with God lately  
And now ye are his bailie  
Mankind to rule discreetly  
Welcome sir huddyp●ke.   Nature lex. 

If thou use such villainty.  
I shall displease the truly.   Infidelitas. 

By the mass, I the defy  
With thy whole Cukoldrye  
And all that with the hold.   Nature lex. 

Why dost thou me blaspheme  
And so ungodly dame?   Infidelitas. 

For by this blessed book  
I wend ye had been a Cook  
And that made me so bold,  
For a Cook ones, having age  
With a face demure and sage  
And ancient to behold.  
As you have here in place  
With a beard upon your face  
What is he but a Cook old?   Nature lex. 

Ye are disposed to dally.  
To leap and oversallye  
The compass of your wit  
I counsel ye yet in season  
Somewhat to follow reason  
And gnaw upon the bit.   Infidelitas. 

Then after our great madness  
Let us fall to some sadness  
And tell me what ye intend.   Nature lex. 

God sent me unto Man  
To do the best I can  
To cause him to amend.  
Such creatures as want reason  
My rules obey each season  
And that in everyborder  
The son and moan doth move  
With the other bodies above  
And never break their order.   

The trees and herbs doth grow  
The sea doth ebb and flow  
And varieth not a nail  
The floods and wholesome springs  
With other natural things  
Their course do never fail.   

The beasts and birds engender  
So do the fishes tender  
According to their kind  
Alonely man doth fall  
From good laws natural  
By a froward wicked mind.   Infidelitas. 

Now will I prove ye a liar  
Next cosynto a friar  
And on the gall ye rub  
Ye say they follow your law  
And vary not a straw,  
Which is a tale of a tub.   

The sun once in the clyppes  
Away the clearness slips  
And darkened is the day  
Of the planets influence  
Ariseth the pestilence.  
To many one's decay.   

Doth not the sea sorage  
That none can it assuage,  
And swallow in town and street  
The air which giveth breath  
Someyme infecteth to death  
By his most pestilent heat.   

The beasts of undemure  
Which were left to man's cure  
Will him sometime devour  
Thus are you rulers forgot  
As things of slender note  
In Creatures day and hour.   Nature lex. 

It is the will of God  
To use them as a rod  
Of his just punishment  
When Man doth not regard  
The lord nor his reward  
Nor to his laws consent.   

They never are so ronnysh  
But when God doth Man punish  
For his unhappiness  
From God they never fall.  
Nor from laws natural  
Doing his business.   Infidelitas. 

And you are the same law  
That kept them under awe  
By your most politic wit?   Nature lex. 

God hath appointed me  
Mankind to oversee  
And in his heart to sit  
To teach him for to know  
In the Creatures high and low  
His glorious majesty  
And on his name to call,  
Or power celestial,  
In his necessity.   

To think him everlasting  
And wonderful in working  
And that he createth all  
Both govern and conserve  
From them he never swerver  
That to such faith will fall.   Infidelitas 

In deed here is good sport.  
But why do you resort  
Unto this present place?   Nature lex. 

Man always to exhort  
To seek all health and comfort,  
Of the only God of grace.  
First in the hearts rejoice  
And than with open voice  
To worship him alone  
Knowledging his deity  
His power and eternytie  
When he shall make his moan.   Infidelitas. 

I shall keep ye as well from that  
As my grandam kept her cat  
From licking of her cream.   Nature lex. 

What wilt thou keep me fro?  
Tell me ere thou farther go  
Me think thou art in a dream.   Infidelitas. 

From causing of Mankind  
To give to God his mind  
Or his obedience.   Nature lex. 
What is thy name? tell me.  Infidelitas. 

Marry infidelity  
Which never will agree  
To your benevolence.   Nature lex. 
Thou canst not keep me from man.  Infidelitas. 

Yet I will do the best I can  
To trouble ye now and than  
That ye shall not prevail  
I will cause idolatry  
And most vile sodomy  
To work so ungracyouslye  
Ye shall of your purpose fail.   Nature lex. 

I defy the wicked find  
With thy whole venomous kind  
God putteth now in my mind  
To i'll thy company.   Infidelitas. 

Ye are so blessed a Saint  
And yourself so well can paint  
That I must me aquaynt  
With you no remedy.   Nature lex. 

Avoid thou cruel enemy  
I will none of the truly  
But shurne thy company  
As I would the devil of hell.   Exit. Infidelitas. 

And are ye gone indeed?  
Small wyttam be your speed.  
Except ye take good heed  
I will be next of your counsel.   

Now will I work such mastery  
By crafts and subtle policy  
The law of nature to poison  
With pestilent idolatry  
And with most stinking sodomy  
That he shall have no foison   

Where are these vyllen knaves?  
The devils own kytchyu slaves  
That them I can not see  
I conjure you both here  
And charge ye to appear  
Like two knaves as yebe.   Monachu● Sodomismus. 

Ambo is a name full clean  
Know ye not what I mean?  
And are so good a clerk.   Infidelitas. 

By Terragramaton  
I charge ye appear anon  
And come out of the dark   Intrantsu●●t. Sodomismus 

Have in than at a dash  
With swasshe merry annetswasshe  
Yet may I not be to rash  
For my holy order's sake.   Necromantia. Idololatria. 

Nor I son by my troth  
Tha cau●●a courage of sloth  
And such a cumbrous caught.  
Yeh wot not what to do.   Infidelitas. 

At Christmas and at Paske  
Ye may dance the devil a mask  
Whiles his great cauldron pla●e  
you such a pretty minion  
And you now in religion  
Such two I never saw  
Is not thy name idolatry▪   Sodomismus. 

Yes, an wholesome woman verily,  
And wallsend in philosophy  
men's fortunes she can tell  
She can by saying her ave mary  
And by other charms of sorcery  
Ease men of the loath ache by and buy  
Yea, and farche the devil from hell  
She an c●nyike the Cow and hunt the fox  
And help men of the ague and pox  
So they bring money to the box  
When they to her make mdne.  
She can fetch again all that is lost  
And draw drink out of a rotten post  
Without the help of the holy Ghost  
In working she is alone.   Infidelitas. 
What sometime thou wert an he.  Idololatria. 

Yea, but now yeh am a she  
And a good mydwyf● perdie  
Young children can Icharme▪  
With whisperings and whishings  
With crossings and with kissings  
With blazings and with blessings  
That spirits do them no harm.   Infidelitas. 

Then art thou like to Clysthenes.  
To Clodius and Euclides,  
Sardinapalus and Hercules  
Which themselves oft transformed  
Into a woman's likeness  
With agility and quickness  
But they had venus' sickness  
As writers have declared.   Sodomismus. 
Let her tell forth her matter.  Idololatria. 

With holy oil and water  
I can so cloyne and clatter  
That I can at the latter  
Many sutelties contrive  
I can work wiles in battle  
If I do ones but spittle  
I can make corn and cattle  
That they shall never thrive.   

When ale is in the fat  
If the Oruar please me not  
The cast shall fall down flat  
And never have any strength  
No man shall ton nor bake  
Nor meat in inseason make  
If I against him take  
But lose his labour at length.   

Their wells I can up dry  
Cause trees and herbs to die.  
And slay all pullerye  
Where as men doth me move  
I can make stoles to dance,  
And earthen pots to prance  
That none shall them enhance  
And do but cast my glove.   

I have charms for the plough  
And also for the cough  
She shall give milk enough  
So long as I am pleased  
Apace the myl● shall go.  
So shall the credle do  
And the mustered querne also  
No man therewith diseased.   Infidelitas. 
Than art thou for me fit.  Sodomismus. 

The woman hath a wit  
And by her gear can sit.  
Though she be somewhat old?  
It is mine own sweet bully  
My muskyne and my mullye,  
My gelover and my cullye  
Yea mine own sweet heart of Gold.   Infidelitas. 
I say yet not to bold.  Idololatria. 
Peace fondelinge, tush a button  Infidelitas. 

What wilt thou fall to mutton?  
And play the hungry glutton  
Afore this company?  
Rank love is full of heat  
Where hungry dogs lack meat  
They will dirty puddings eat  
For want of beef and conye.   

Heyghe minion for money  
As good is draff as honey.  
When the day is hot and sonnye,  
By the blessed road of kent.   Sodomismus. 

say forth your mind good mother  
For this man is none other  
But our own loving brother  
And is very well content.   Idololatria. 

I never miss but palter  
Our blessed ladies psaulter  
Before saint Savours altar  
With my beads once a day  
And this is my comoncast  
To here Mass first or last  
And the holy friday fast  
In good time mought I it say.   

With blessings of Saint Germyne  
I will me so determine  
That neither for nor vermin  
Shall do my chickens harm  
For your gese seek saint Legearde  
And for your ducks saint Leonarde  
For horse take Moses' yard  
There is no better charm.   

Take me a napkin folte  
With the bias of a bolt  
For the healing of a ●olte  
No better thing can be  
For lamps and for botts  
Take me saint Wylfrides' knots  
And holy saint Thomas lots  
On my life I firebrand ye.   

For the cough take judas ●are  
With the paring of a pear  
And drink them without fear  
If ye will have remedy  
Three syppes are for the hyckocke  
And. vi. more for the chyckocke  
Thus my pretty pyckocke  
Recover by and by.   

If ye can not sleep but slumber  
give Oats unto saint Un●umber  
And beans in a certain number  
Unto saint Blaze and saint Blythe  
give onions to saint Cutlake  
And garlic to saint Cyryake  
If ye will shurne the head ache.  
Ye shall have them at queen hythe.   

A dram of a sheeps tyrdle  
And good saint trances girdle  
With the hamlet of an hyr●le  
Are wholesome for the pyppe  
Besides these charms afore  
I have feats many more  
That I keep still in store  
Whom now I over hip.   Infidelitas. 

It is a sport I trow  
To heat how she out blow  
Her witchcrafts on a row  
By the Mass I must needs smile.  
Now I pray the let me know  
What sedes that thou canst sow  
Mankind to overthrow  
And the law of nature beguile.   Sodomismus. 

Myself I so behave  
And am so vile a knave  
As nature doth deprave  
And utterly abhor  
I am such a vice truly  
As God in his great every  
Did punish most terribly  
In Sodom and in Gomorr▪  
In the flesh I am a fire  
And such a vile desire  
As bring men to the mire  
Of fowl concupisbence.  
We two together began  
To spring and to grow in man,  
As Thomas of aquine scan  
In the fourth book of his sentence.   

I dwelled among the sodomites  
The Beniamytes, and Madyanytes  
And now the popish hypocrites  
Embrace me every where  
I am now become all spiritual  
For the clergy at Rome and over all  
For want of wives to me doth fall  
To God they have no fear.   

The children of God I did so move  
That they the daughters of men did love  
Working such ways as did not behove  
Till the flood them over went.  
With noah's son Cham I was half joined  
When he is drunken father scorned  
In the sodomites I also reigned.  
Till the hand of God them brent.   

I was with Man not unacquainted  
When he on the ground his increase shed  
For me his brethren joseph accused  
As Genesis doth tell  
David once warned all men of us two.  
Do not as mules and horses will do.  
Confounded be they, that to images go  
Those are the ways to hell.   

Both Isaiah and ezechiel  
Both H●etemy and Daniel  
Of us the abominations tell  
With the prophets everychou  
For us two God struck with fire and water  
With battle, with plagues, & fearful matter  
With painful ertle, than at the latter  
Into Egypt and Babylon.   

As Paul to the Romans testify  
The gentiles after idolatry  
Fell to such be stiall sodomy  
That God did them forsake  
Who followeth us as he confess  
The kingdom of God shall never possess  
And as the Aparalyps' express  
Shall sink to the burning lake.   

We made Thalon and Sophocles  
Thamiras, Nero, Agathocles  
Tiberius and Iristoteles  
Themselves to use unnaturally  
I taught Aristo and Fuluius  
Semiramis and Hortensius  
Crathes Hyliscus, and Pontius  
Beasts to abuse most monstrously.   Infidelitas. 
Marry thou art the devil himself  Idololatria. 

If ye knew how he could pelf  
Ye would say he were such an elf  
As none under heaven were else.   Infidelitas. 

The fellow is well decked  
disguised and well necked  
Both knave bald and pypecked  
He lacketh nothing but help.   Sodomismus. 

In the first age I began  
And so perseverde with man  
And still will if I can  
So long as he endure  
If monkysshe sects renew  
And popish pre estes continue  
Which are of my retinue  
To live I shall be sure.   

Clean Marriage they forbid,  
Yet can not their ways be hid,  
Men know what hath betid  
When they have been in apparel  
Oft have they buried quick  
Such as were never sick  
Full many a proper trick  
They have to help their quarrel.   

In Rome to me they fall  
Both bishop and cardinal  
Monk, friar, priest, and all  
More rank they are then ants  
Example in hope july  
Which sought in his fury  
Two lads, and to use them beastly.  
From the cardinal of Nautes.   Infidelitas. 

Well, you two are for my mind  
Step forth and do your kind  
Leave never a point behind  
That may corrupt in man  
The law writ in his heart  
In his flesh, do thy part 
Ad Sodo.   
And his soul so pernart 
Ad Idol.   
Do thou the best thou can.   

Here have I pretty gins  
Both brooches beads and pins  
With such as the people wins  
Unto idolatry  
Take thou part of them here 
Ad Idol.   
Beads, rings, and other gear  
And shortly the be●ete  
To deceive Man properly   

Take this same staff and scrip  
With a God here of a chyppe  
And good beldame forward hip  
To set forth pilgrimage 
Ad Sodo   
Set thou forth sacramentals  
Say dyrge, and sing trentals  
Study the pope's Decretals  
And mixed them with buggerage   

Here is a stole for the  
A ghostly father to be  
To here, Benedicite  
A box of cream and oil  
Here is a purse of relics 
Ad Idol.   
bags, rotten boves, and sticks  
A taper with other tricks  
Show them in every soil   Sodomismus. 

I will corrupt God's Image  
With most unlawful usage  
And bring him into dotage  
Of all concupisbence.   Idololatria, 

Within the flesh thou art  
But I dwell in the heart.  
And will the soul pervert  
From God's obedience.   Infidelitas. 

Spare none abomination  
Nor detestable fashion  
That man's imagination  
By wit may comprehend  
To quicken our spirits among  
Sing now some metysonge  
But let it not be long  
least we to moche offend.   Post cantion●m, Infidelitas alta voce dicet. Oremus. 
OMnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram formasti laicos, da quesumus, ut sicut corum sudoribus divimus, ita corum uxoribus filiabus et domicellis perpetuo frui mereamur. Per domin● nostrum Papam,  Infidelitas. 

Now are these horesons forth  
It will be somewhat worth  
To see how they will work  
The one to poison the heart  
The other the outward part  
Ingeniously will luck.   

The law of Nature they will  
Infect, corrupt and spill  
With their abomination  
idolatry with wickedness  
And sodomy with filthiness  
To his most utter damnation.   

These two will him so use  
Each one in their abuse  
And wrap it in such evil  
That by their wicked cast  
He shall be at the last  
A morsel for the devil.   

Now underneath her wings  
idolatry hath kings  
With their nobility  
Both dukes, lords, knights and earls  
Fair ladies with their pearies  
And the whole communalty.   

Within the bounds of sodomy  
Doth dwell the spiritual clergy  
Pope, cardinal and priest  
Nun, canon, Monk and friar  
With so many else as do desire  
To reign under Antichrist.   

Detesting matrimony  
They live abominably,  
And burn in carnal lust.  
Shall I tell ye farther news?  
It Rome for Prelates are stews  
Of doth kinds. This is just.   

The law of nature I think  
Will not be able to wink  
Against the assaults of them  
They having so high prelate's,  
And so many gteat estates  
From hens to jerusalem.   

Pause now a little while  
Mine ears doth me beguile  
If There not a sound  
Yon folk hath sped I guess  
It is to by the Mess  
Away now will I round●.   Exit Nature lex. 

I think ye marvel, to see such alteration  
At this time in me, whom God left here so pure  
Of me it cometh not, but of man's operation  
Whom daily the devil, to great sin doth allure  
And his nature is full brittle and unsure  
By him have I got this fowl disease of body  
And as ye see here, am now thrown in a lepry.   

I wrought in his heart, as God bade tr●estlye.  
Him oft provoking, to love God over all  
With the inner powers, but that false idolatry  
Hath him perverted, by slayghtes diabolical  
And so hath sodomy, through his abuses carnal  
That he is now lost, offending without measure  
And I corrupted to my most high displeasure.  
I abhor to tell, the abusions bestial  
That they daily use, which boast their chastity  
Some at the altar, to incontyvencye fall  
In confession some, full beastly occupied be  
Among the close nuns, reigneth this enormity  
Such children s●eythey, as they chance for to have  
And in their prevyes, provide them of their grave.  
Ye Christian rulers, see ye for this a way  
Be not illuded, by false hypocrisy  
By the stroke of God, the world will else decay  
permit priests rather, God's lawful remedy  
Than they should i●c●r●●, most bestial sodomy  
Regard not the pope, nor yet his whorish kingdom  
For he is the master, of Gomor and of Sodom  
With Man have I been, which hath me thus defiled  
With idolatry, and unclean sodomy  
And worthy I am, from God to be exiled  
Pity me yet lord of thy most bounteous mercy  
I will forth and mourn, till thousende remedy  
Promise haste thou made, to a glorious lybercie  
To bring heaven & earth, them wilt thou (I trust) restore me.    

Incipit Actus tertius.  Moseh lex. 

THe lord perceiving, his first law thus corrupted  
With unclean vices, sent me his law of Moses  
To see him for sin, substancyallye corrected  
And brought in again, to a trade of godliness  
For I am a law of rygout and of hardness  
I straightly command, and if it be not done  
I threti●, I curej, and slay in my anger soon.   

To God I require a perfect obedience  
condemning all sache, as do it not in effect  
I show what sin is, I but den sore man's conscience  
To him am I death, when his life is infect  
Yet if he take heed, to Christ I him direct  
forgiveness to have, with like health and salvation.  
least he shuloe despair, and fall into damnation.   Infidelitas. 

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,  
A pastime quoth a, I know not the time nor when  
I did laghe so moche, sense I was an honest man  
Believe me and ye will, I never saw such a sport  
I would ye had been there, lie might have made the fort.   Moseh lex. 
Where wouldest thou have had me, tell me good brother mine.  Infidelitas. 
At the Mynorasse sir, late yester night at compline.  Moseh lex. 
At the Mynorasse? why what was there a do?  Infidelitas. 

For such an other, would I to Southampton go  
In deed yesterday was their dedication  
And thither in God's name, came I to see the fashion  
An old friar stood forth, with spectacles on his nose  
beginning this Anteme, a my faith, I do not gloze.   
 
Cupides preciosi.  Moseh lex. 
And what did follow of this?  Infidelitas. 

I shall tell ye by God's bliss  
Then came Dame Isbell an old Noun and a cal●e  
Crowing like acapon, and thus began the Psalm.   
 
Sepe expugnauetun● me a iuuentute 〈…〉  Moseh lex. 
And what includeth this mystery?  Infidelitas. 

A simple problem of bytcherye  
When the friar begun, afore the Nun  
to sing of precious stones  
From my youth saith she/ they have comfort me  
As it had been for the nonce   Moseh lex. 

I assure the plain, I set not by such gauds  
Thy usage show thee, to be brought up among bauder   Infidelitas. 

It was a good world, when we had such wholesome stories  
Preached in out church, on sundays and other feryes  
With us was it in●rye  
When we went to bury  
And to our lady of grace  
To the blood of hails  
Where no good cheer fails  
And other holy place.  
When the pryestes might walk  
And with young wives talk  
Than had we children plenty  
Then Cuckolds might leap  
A score on a heap  
Now is there not one to twenty.   

When the Monks were fat  
And rank as a rat  
With bellies like a Boar.  
Then all things were dear  
Both beef, bread and bear  
Now grudge the iourers sore.   

When bishops might burn  
And from the truth turn  
The syllye simple soul.  
Than dut●●● no man creak  
Open mouth nor speak  
Of Christ nor yet of paul.   

No we are the knaves bold  
With Scriptures to bold  
And teach them every where  
The carter, the souter  
The bodger, the clowter  
That all will away I fear.   

At us so they pull  
Our livings are dull  
We are now like to fall  
If we do not fight  
For the churches right  
By the Mess we lose all.  
But I pray ye sir, tell me what is your name▪   Moseh lex. 
The law of Moses, to lie were I to blame  Infidelitas. 
In the same parties, what do you intend?  Moseh lex. 

Mankind to reform, that he his life amend  
I show what sin is, & what thing pleaseth God  
I comfort the just, and the ill, I punish with rod  
The common people, have thought it commodious  
divers Gods to have, with rites superstitious.   

My commandment is, to seek one God alone  
And in all their needs, to him to make their moan  
Among the gentiles, was it thought none injury  
If a man were hurt, to slay his adversary  
This thing I forbid, and say, thou shalt not kill  
Law is the revenger, the man may do no ill.   

Some persons there are, that inordynatlye love  
Those are persuaded, all things them to behove  
Which I inhybyte, saying continually  
No rape shalt thou do, nor yet commit advouteye  
Thou shalt do no theft, nor covet that is not thine  
Against thy neighbour, shalt thou not falsely define.   Infidelitas. 

We may do nothing, if we be pinned in thus  
Neither you nor God, to that hard trade shall bring us  
We must have one God, and worship him alone  
Matye that in deed, would make a Turk to g●●ne  
If we be stricken, we may not strike again?  
Aprope●●●gyne▪ and dyscretlye unto r●d ●la●ne  
For companies sake, ye say we may not love  
I defy your worst, and to you there is my glove.   Moseh lex. 
What? thou wilt not fight thy wits are better than so.  Infidelitas. 

In the quarrel of love, I shall prove ye ere I go  
By the Mess I think, to put ye to your four.   Moseh lex. 
Thou were much better, to keep thy patience.  Infidelitas. 

Nay by cocks soul frynd, I must lay ye on the coat  
In loves cause to fight, ye may soon have m●a f●● ar●  
Nay but have at your py●ch●, defend ye if ye may.   Moseh lex. 

Such a fool art thou, as seeks thine own decay  
If I once meddle, to thee, it will be death  
didst thou never here, that law slayeth in his wrath.   Infidelitas. 
By the blessed lord, than will I play Robsons part.  Moseh lex. 
Why what part wilt thou play?  Infidelitas. 
By cocks soul give over, so soon as I feel smart  Moseh lex. 
It will be to late, it I one scupple with the  Infidelitas. 

Then let me alone, and we shall soon agree  
And I shall be glad to be acquainted with ye.   Moseh lex. 
Acquaintance good fellow, thou mayst soon have of me  Infidelitas. 

The worst fault I have, I am hasty now & than  
But it is soon gone, I took it of a woman  
But what mean those tables, that ye have in your hand.   Moseh lex. 

Keep silence a while, and thou shalt understand  
Three things I declare, the first are the precepts moral  
Next, the laws judicial, and last the rites ceremonial  
The moral precepts, are God's commandments ten  
Which ought evermore to be observed of all men  
The laws of Nature, the moral precepts declare  
And the pleasant works, to God they teach & prepare  
They stir man to faith & provoke him also to love  
To obey, to serve, and to worship God above  
Into stony tables, God wrote them first of all  
That they should remain, as things continual▪  
The first hath but three, which tend to God's high honour,  
Seven hath the second, & they concern our neighbour.  
The first doth expound, the first law natural  
The next the other, making them very formal  
Inspryt● it the first, that we should God honour and love  
To outward working the second doth us move  
For●ydoynge all wrongs preserving just marriage  
nourishing true peace, and other godly usage.   Infidelitae. 
What is the effect, of your laws judyciall?  Moseh lex. 

Such things to command, as are civil or temporal  
From vice to refrain, and outward injury  
Quiet to conserve, and public honesty  
These are to support, the laws of the second table  
ceremonial rites are also commendable  
In holy days, garments, temples & consecta●ions  
sacrifices & vows, with offerings and expi●acions   

Which are unto Christ, as figures, types, & shadows  
As Paul doth declare, in his Epistle to the hebrews  
These are only figures, and outward testimonies  
No man is perfect, by such dark ceremonies  
Only pertain they, unto the third commandment  
Of the Sabbath day, till Christ the lord be present.   
In his death ending, the whole judicial priesthood.  Infidelitas. 

Good days might ye have, ye speak full well by the rood.  
I am a poor lad, and by my troth bent earues●lye▪  
To wait upon ye, and to be your very lackye.   Moseh lex. 
What art thou called, I pray the heartily.  Infidelitas. 

gray friar am I none, by the Mess I can not flatter.  
I am infidelity, to tell the truth of the matter.   Moseh lex. 
And hast thou so long dissembled thus with me?  Infidelitas. 
Yea, for advantage to smellout your subtlety.  Moseh lex. 
Avoid hens I say, thou false infidelity.  Infidelitas. 
Nay that I will not, by yngham trinity.  Moseh lex. 

Wilt thou not in deed, than will I fet hither the power  
Of judges & kings, to subdue the within this hour.   Exit. Infidelitas. 

Such knights will I have, as shall confound them all▪  
Is Saducees & scribes, with the sec● pharysaycal●  
By help of my children idolatry and Sodomye  
The law of Nature, I cast ones in a lepry  
I have yet two more, ambition & Coneytousnes  
Which will do as much to the law of Moses  
Where are my whoresons, that they come not away.   Iutisconsu●tus. avaritia. 

Yea, whoreson on thy face, even in thy best array  
I will thou know it, I am a worshipful Doctor  
A Scribe in the law, and a profitable proctor.   Infidelitas. 
gup with a vengeance, how comest thou so aloft.  avaritia. 

I shall tell the man, if thou wilt comen more solte  
By feigned flattery●, and by coloured adulation  
ambition here also, rose of a like foundation.   Infidelitas. 
Come, are me blessing, pretty boys apace  Ambitio. 
I will not bow sure▪ to such a foolish face.  Infidelitas. 
Axe blessing I say, and make me no more ado.  Ambitio. 
Unsemely were it, we Prelates should do so.  avaritia. 
For no compulsion will I do it by sweet mary.  Infidelitas. 

I must fetch ye in, there is no remedy  
A naughty horsons, have I brought ye up hitherto?  
And know not your father, ye shall drink both ere I go   Ambosimul. 
No more at this time, forsooth we cry amercye.  Infidelitas. 
Down on your knees than, & axe me blessing shortly.  Ambosimul. 
Bless me gentle father, for sweet saint charity.  Infidelitas. 

Arise noughtyknaves, God let ye never to the  
Though among ourselves, we mu●mur●, brag, & face  
Sometime for lucre, sometime for the higher place  
Yet for advantage, in this we all agree  
To blind the rulers, and deceive the commonalty.   avaritia. 

Art advised of that, by the Mess we are in deed  
Yet of our knaveries, the foul & will nevertake heed.   

To labour with a spade  
Our colour would it fade  
We may not with that trade  
We love so much our ease  
We must live by their sweat,  
And have good drink and meat  
When they have not to eat  
The substance of a pease.   

We lead them in the dark  
And so their conscience mark  
That stutdye they are and stark,  
In every wicked evil  
We teach idolatry  
And laughed full merely  
To see each company  
Run headlongs to the devil.   

Ifwe may have the tithings  
And profitable offeryages  
We came not to what doings  
They customably fall  
We are such mercenaries  
And subtile proprietaries  
As from the flock all carries  
The w●lle, skin, flesh and all.   

In our perambulations  
We look for commendations  
And lowly salutations  
In temple, house and street.  
Our lousy latin hours  
In boroughs and in bowers  
The poor people devours  
And tread them under feet.   Ambitio. 

I am ambition, whose bysposycyan  
Is honour to appete  
I gape for empire, and worship desire  
As Minos did in Crete  
I look up Aloft, and love to lie soft  
Not caring for my flock  
Have jones the fleece, with pigs, lambs, and gese  
They may go turn a Sock.   

Lucifer I made, so highly to wade,  
To God he would be equal  
Of Adam and Eve, I slew the believe  
And caused them to fall  
What need I rehearse, the giants most fierce  
With the builders of Babel  
Nemrod the tyrraunt, with them there applyaunt,  
Agreed to my counsel.   

From me would not go, cruel Pharaoh  
No more would Amalech  
Saul, Achitophel, Absolo●, jesabel  
Nor Adonisedech.   

I made Roboam, and Hierobeam  
With Nabuchodovosor  
Triphon, Alchmius, and Simon magus  
To abuse them evermore.   

Inpryde I exceed, and no people feed  
But with lies for advantage  
As Mantuane tell, to lead men to hell  
Is my most common usage.   

High things I attempt, and will in exempt  
From princes iurisdition  
A am such an enyll, as bring men to the devil  
Without any contradiction.   Infidelitas. 

Here is a prelate even for mine own tooth  
Such an other is, not in the whole South  
Clap thou somewhat more, as thou hast begun  
I like weal your talking, by the holy Nun.   avaritia. 

I Coutyse am, the bevyll or his dam  
For I am insacyate  
I ravish and pluck, I draw and I suck  
After, a wolvish ra●e.   

Father nor mother, Sister nor brother  
I spare not in my mood.  
I fear neither God, nor his rightful rod  
In gathering of good.   

But house and meadow, from the poor widow  
I spare not forto take  
Right heirs I rob, and as bare as job  
The fatherless I make.   

With me took Nadab, Nabal and Achab  
With all the clergy of Bell  
judas and Giezi, with the sons of Hel●  
And the sons of Samuel.   

jannes' and Jambres, also Diotrephes  
Wrought wilful wickedness  
So did Menelaus, with false Andronicus  
And all for covetousness.   Ambicio. 

With vices seven, I close up heaven  
And spear up paradise  
I open hell, by my counsel  
Maintaining every vice.   Auarititia. 

For Silver and gold, with falsehood I hold  
Supporting every evil  
I have it in awe, for to thoke the law  
And bring all to the devil.   Infidelitas. 

By the blessed trinity, no men more fit for me  
To do my business.  
ambition to beguile, and Avarice to defile  
The law of Moses.  
Tell me first of all, what wilt thou do ambition.   Ambitio. 

I am thine own child, thou knowest my disposition  
I will sure do, as did the Phylystynes.   Infidelitas. 
Why what did those knaves?  Ambitio. 

They stopped up Abraham's pits, as Genesis diffynes  
With mud and with mire, & left them full unclean   Infidelitas. 
By the same practise, tell me what thou dost mean.  Ambitio. 

With filthy gloss, and dirty exposition,  
Of God's law will I hide, the pure dispositions  
The key of knowledge, I will also take away  
By wresting the text, to the scriptures sore decay.   Infidelitas. 
And what wyste thou, my fellow covetousness?  avaritia. 

A veil will I spread, upon the face of Moses  
That none shall perceive, the clearness of his countenance  
Which is the law, the meaning & true ordinance.   Infidelitas. 
Why what will ye say, unto the ten commandments  Ambitio. 

We must poison them, with wilworks, & good intentes  
Where as God doth say, No strange gods thou shalt have  
With Saints worshipping, that clause we will deprave.  
And though he command, to make no graved image  
For a good intent, yet will we have pilgrimage  
Though he will us not, to take his name in vain  
With traditions yet, thereunto will we constrain.   

No Sabbath will we, with God's word sanctify  
But with lip labour, and idle ceremony.  
To father and mother, we may owe none obedience  
Our religion is, of so so great excellence.  
Though we do not slay, yet may we hertyckes burnè  
If they will not soon from holy Scripture turn  
What though it be said, thou shalt do no fornication  
Yet will we maintain, much greater abomination  
Though theft be forbid yet will we continually  
Rob the poor people, through prayer & purgatory  
God hath inhibited▪ to give false testimony  
Yet we will condemn the Gospel for Heresy.   

We should not covet our neighbours house nor wife  
His servant nor b●ast, yet are we therein most rife  
Of men make we swine, by the draff of our traditions  
And cause them nothing to regard but superstitions  
As Dogs unreasonable, on mos●vyle carrion feed  
So will we cause them, seek idols in their need.   
And always their ground, shallbe for a goodintent  Infidelitas. 

More mischievous I trow, the devil could not invent  
Than you two can do, by the Mess ye are alone  
little could I do, were ye once from me gone  
To the corrupting, of the law of Morses  
Go forward therefore, in your deceitfulness   avaritia. 

With superstitions, the jews ceremonial laws  
I will so handle, they shall not be worth▪ two. straws  
The laws judicial through cawtels and delays  
I will also drown, to all righteous men's decay  
To set this forward, we must have sophistry  
philosophy and Logycke, as science necessary  
The bishops must hold their priests in ygnoraunee  
With long latin hours, lest knowledge to them chance  
Let them have long matins, long even songs & long Masses  
And that will make them as dull as ever were asses  
That they shall never be able to prophecy  
Or yet preach the truth, to our great injury.   

Let the cloisterers be brought up everin silence  
Without the Scriptures, in pain of disobedience  
See the lay people, pray never but in latin  
Let them have their Crede, and service all in latin  
That a latin believe, may make a latin soul  
Let them nothing know, of Christ, nor yet of paul   

If they have english▪ let it be for advantage  
For pardons, for Dirges, for offerings & pilgrimage  
I teken to make them, a new Crede in a while  
And all in english, their conscience to beguile.   Infidelitas. 
Rehearse unto me, the articles of that Crede.  avaritia. 

The articles are these, give ear and take good heed  
First they shall believe, in our holy father Pope  
next in his decrees, and holy decretals.  
Then holy church, with sencer, cross and cope  
In the Ceremonies, and blessed Sacramentals  
In purgatory then, in pardons and intrentals  
In praying to saints, and in saint Frances hood  
In our lady of Grace, and in the blessed rood  
They shall believe also, in relyckes and religion  
In our ladies psalter, in free-will and good works  
In the ember days, and in the pope's remission  
In bedes and in bells, not used of the turks  
In the golden Masses, against such spirits as lurks  
With charms and blessings. This creed will bring in money  
In english therefore, we will it clerkly convey.   Infidelitas. 

Yea, and burn the knaves, that will not believe the crede  
That into the ditch, the blind the blind may lead.   Ambitio. 

Then I hold it best, that we always condemn  
The Bible readers, lest they your acts contempue.   Infidelitas. 

Yea, never spare them, but evermore play the bytar  
Expressing always, the tropes and types of thy mitre   Ambitio. 
Why, what dost thou think, my mitre to signify.  Infidelitas. 

The mouth of a wolf, and that shall I prove by & by  
If thou stoop downward, lo, see how the wolf doth ga●e  
Ready to devour the lambs, least any escape  
But thy woluyshnes, by three crowns will I hide  
Making the apope & a captain of all pride  
That when thou dost slay, such as thy laws contemn  
Thou mayst say, not I, but the powers did them condemn  
The cables betoken, the laws of se non & cannon   Ambicio. 
I trow thou wouldest say, the. two. laws civil & Canon  Infidelitas. 

As I spoke I thought, & still think by saint johan  
Yea, persecute still the instructors of the people  
And thou covetousness, let no bell ring in steeple  
Without a profit. tush, take money every where  
So nigh clyppe and shave, that thou leave never a here   avaritia. 

I caused the Pope, to take but now of late  
Of the grey friars, to have a canonyzate  
Franciscus de pola, three thousand ducats and more  
And as much besides/ he had not long afore  
For a cardinal hat, of the same holy order  
Thus draw we to us, great goods from every border  
Pope Clement the seventh paid once for his papacy  
Three hundred thousand, good ducats of lawful money   Infidelitas. 
I marvel how he could come to so much good.  avaritia. 

Yes, yes, by pollage, and by shedding Christian blood.  
Crosers and Mytars, in Rome are good merchandyce  
And allto little, to maintain their pomp and vice   Ambitio. 

The pope for whoredom, hath in Rome and Uiterbye  
Of gold and silver, a wonderful substance yearly  
Tush they be in England that much rather would to dwell  
Whores in their dioceses, than the readers of Christ's Gospel.   Infidelitas. 

They do the better, for by them they may have profyght  
As for the other, do trouble them day and night  
Well, now step forward, and go do your business  
To the corrupting, of the law of Moses.   avaritia. 
Doubt not but we shall, make him a crepple blind.  Infidelitas. 
Sing then at our farewell, to recreate our mind.  Finita catiuncula exeunt ambo. Infidelitas. 

Now am I left alone, And these. two. merchants gone  
Their mischief to seclude  
I think within a while, they will trap and beguile  
The worthy law of jude.  
ambition first of all, with his rites bestial  
Will make the people swine  
In draff will he them lead, and with traditions feed  
Where they shall sup or dine   

covetousness will work, that many one shall bark  
Like dogs against the truth  
Some shall gods word defile, and some will it revile  
Such beastliness ensueth.   

Ambition hath this hour, all the whole spiritual power  
And may do what him lust  
Now covetousness doth rule, & hath both horse & mule  
All matters by him dyseust  
Now bysshopryt●es are sold, & the holy ghost for gold  
The pope doth buy and sell  
The truth may not be told, under pains manifold  
With sendings down to hell  
The people priests do famish, and their goods from them ravish  
Yea and all the world they blind  
All princes do they mock, and rob the sellye flock  
Nothing they leave behind  
On the face of Moses, a veil they have cast doubtless  
The light of the law to hide  
Lest men to christ should come, from ceremonies dumb  
As to their heavenly guide  
The law can never be, at any liberty  
Where such two enemies rain  
Now is it time to walk, of this more will I talk  
When I come hither again.   Exit▪ Moseh lex. 

If pity may move, your gentle christian hearts  
Let it now stir ye, to mourn this heavy chance  
Two enemies with me, have played most wicked parts  
And left me stark blind, God knoweth to my sore grievance.  
And I think also to your moth hindrance  
To lead you to Christ, sometime a guide I was  
Now am I so blind, I can not do it, alas.   

Most rigorously those enemies now of late  
Did fall upon me, and spoil me of my sight  
One was ambition, which ever ought me hate  
And Coveyeousnesse, the other enemy height  
Now forsooth and God, iutheyr most cruel spite  
The one made me blind, the other made me lame  
And when they had done, thereat they had great game.   

Thus a blind cryple, I wander here alone  
Abiding the time and grace, of restoration  
By the son of God, to whom I make my moan  
My cause to pity, and grant me supportation  
Lest I be left here, to utter desolation  
And extreme decay without any remedy,  
If he did not help of goodness and of mercy.   

Ye christian princes, God hath given you the pour  
With sceptre and sword, allvyces to correct  
Let not ambition, nor covetousness devour  
Your faithful subjects, nor your officers infect  
Have to your clergy, a diligent respect  
And see they do not corrupt the laws of God  
For that doth require, a terrible heavy rod.   

God gave me to man, and left me in tables of stone  
That I of hardness, a law should specify  
But the Pharisees, corrupted me anon  
And took from me clean, the quyueru●s of body  
With clearness of sight, and other pleasures many  
Now will I to Christ, that he may me restore  
To more perfection, than ever I had afore.   
Finis Actus tertius.   

Incipit Actus quartus.  Euangilium. 

un faithfulness hath, corrupted every law.  
To the great decay, of Adam's posterity  
were it not for me, which now do hither draw  
All flesh would perish, no man should saved be  
I am Christ's Gospel, and infallible verity  
Such a power of God, as saveth all such as believe  
No burden nor yoke, that any man will grave.   

In the blood of Christ, I am a full forgiveness  
Where faith is grounded, with a sure confidence  
I am such a grace, and so high tidings of, gladness  
As raise the sinner, and pacify his conscience.  
I am spirit and life, I am necessary science  
I require but love, for man's justification  
With a faith in Christ, for his health and salvation.   Infidelitas. 

God's benison have ye, it is joy of your life  
I have heard of ye, and of my mistress your wife.   Euangilium. 
If thou hardest of me, it was by the boy●e of God.  Infidelitas. 

Nay, he that spoke of ye, was telling of a God  
In an Oystre boat, a little beyond queen hythe  
A Northern man was he, & he besought ye to be blithe   Euangilium. 
If he spoke of me, he was some godly preacher.  Infidelitas. 
Nay sir by the roo●e, nor yet a wholesome teacher.  Euangilium. 
After what manner dydhe speak of me? tell.  Infidelitas. 

He swore like a man, by all contents of the Gospel  
He swore and better swore, yea, he did swear & swear again.   Euangilium. 

That speaking is such, as procureth eternal pain  
Will not the people, leave that most wicked folly?  
And it so damnable, to hear it I am sorry  
But what didst thou mean, whau thouspakest of my wife?   Infidelitas. 

Nothing, but I thought it was joy of your life  
That ye were so good to your neighbours as ye are   Euangilium. 
Why, how good am I? thy fantasy declare.  Infidelitas. 

Ye ease them among, if it be as I hear  
When ye are abroad, there is fine merycheare.   Euangilium. 

As thou art, thou speakest after thy hearts abundance  
For as the man is, such is his utterance.  
My wife is the church, or christian congregation  
Regenerate inspyryte, doing no vile operation  
Both clean and holy, without either spot or wrinkle  
The lamb with his blood, did her wash & bespryncle.   

This is not the church, of disguised hypocrites  
Of apish shavelings, or papistical sodomites  
Nor yet as they call it, a temple of lime and stone  
But a lyvysh building, grounded in faith alone  
On the hard rock Christ, which is the sure fosidation  
And of this church, some do reign in every nation  
And in all countries, though their number be but small   Infidelitas. 

Their number is such, as hath run over all  
The same Danes are they, men prophecy of plain  
Which should over run this realm yet once again.   Euangilium. 
What Danes speakest thou of? thy meaning show more clearly.  Infidelitas. 

Dane johan, Dane Robert, Dane Thomas, and Dane Harrye.  
The same are those Danes, that lay with other men's wives.  
And occupied their lands, to the detriment of their lives.  
These are accounted, a great part of the church  
For in God's service, they honourably wurche  
yelling and crying, till their throats are full sore.   Euangilium. 

That Church was describe, of Isaiah long afore  
This people (saith God) with their lips honour me  
In vain worship, they teaching men's fatuyte  
Apparent is that church, and open to the eyes  
Their worshippings are, in outward ceremonies  
That counterfetchurch standeth all by men's traditions  
Without the scriptures, & without the hearts affections  
My church is secret, and evermore will be  
Adoring the father, in spirit and in verity  
By the word of God, this church is ruled only  
And doth not consist, in outward ceremony  
This congregation, is the true Church militant  
Those counterfeit Desardes, are the very Church malignant.  
To whom Christ will say, I know none of your sort   Infidelitas. 
Moche are they to blame, that brethren so report  Euangilium. 

Such are no brethren, but enemies to Christ's blood  
As put salvation, in shaven crown mitre, or hood.   Infidelitas. 
I pray ye how long, have your sweet spouse continued  Euangilium. 

Sens the beginning, and now is in Christ renewed.  
Adam did promise, of Christ's incarnation  
So had Abraham, with his whole generation  
Which was unto them, a preaching of the Gospel  
Into salvation, and deliverance from hell.   Infidelitas. 
By this time I hope, ye have a fair increase?  Euangilium. 

She is not barren, but beareth and never cease  
The Corinth's first epistle, hath this clear testimony  
In Christo jesus, per Euangilium vos genui  
I have begot you, in jesus Christ saith paul  
By the Gospel preaching, to the comfort of your soul.   Infidelitas. 

Than are ye a ouckolde, by the blessed holy mass  
As I said afore, so cometh it now to pass  
For I am a prophet, by high inspiration led  
Now like I myself, much better than I did  
Ye say that saint Paul, begat your wife with child.   Euangilium. 

By misunderstanding, thou art ungraciously beguiled  
An only minister, was paul in that same doing  
That he therein did, was by the gospel preaching  
His mind is the Gospel, to have done that operation  
And this must thou hold, for no carnal generation.   Infidelitas. 

Marry so they say, ye fellows of the new learning  
Forsake holy church, and now fall fast to wyving.   Euangilium. 

Nay they forsake whoredom, with other dampnableusage  
And live with their wives, in lawful marriage  
Whiles the pope's oiled swarm, reign still in their old buggerage   Infidelitas. 

Yeà, poor married men, have very much a do  
I count him wisest, that can take a snatch and to go?   Euangilium. 

Thou seemest one of them, that detesteth matrimony▪  
Which is afore God, a slate both just and holy.  
Of such as thou art, saint Paul did prophecy  
By the holy Ghost, that a certain company  
In the latter days from the truth of God should fall  
Attending to spirits, of error diabolical   

Which in hypocrisy, will teach lies for advantage  
With marked conseyences, inhabiting marriages  
Thou apperest by thy fruits, to be infidelity   Infidelitas. 

I am none other, but even the very he  
And hither now come I, to commenthe matter with ye   Euangilium. 
Avoid cursed fiend, and get the out at the gates.  Infidelitae. 

Nay first will I serve ye, as I lately served your mates  
And hence will I not, for this place is for me  
Who should here remain, but I infidelity?   Euangilium. 

Well, than for a time, I must depart from hens  
But this first will I say, before this andyens  
Easier will it be, concerning punishment  
To Sodom and Gomor, in the day of judgement,  
Than to those Cities, that resist the verity  
At the suggestions of infidelity.  
That people will be forever and ever lost  
For it is the great sin, against the holy Ghost  
In the old law first, the father his mind expressed  
Then came his son christ, & made it more manifest  
And now the holy Ghost, is come to close up all,  
If he be not heard, extreme damnation will fall  
No prayer remaineth, nor expiration for sin  
To them that no profit, of the word of God will win.  
Take good heed therefore, & say that ye have warning   Exit. Infidelitas. 

God send your mother, of you to have a fondeling.  
By the mass I think, he is well out of the way  
Now will I contrive the drift of an other play  
I must work such ways, Christ's law may not continue,  
In a while am I like, to have none else of my retinue  
Come anyons I have, to begin this tragedy,  
Namely false Doctrine, and his brother hypocrisy  
They will not belong, I suppose now verily  
By cocks soul me think, I see such a company  
Him, I say children, will not my voice be heard  
As good is a beck, as is adieu vow guard.  
By my honesty welcome, mine own companions both   Intran● Pseudodoctrina. 

Thou shalt have a livery of the same cloth,  
Gramatcyes by God, my old friend infidelity.   Hypocrisy. 
What brother su●psuap, how go the world with thee▪  Infidelitae, 
What, friar ●●ypflap, how say ye to, Bendicite?  Hypocrises. 
Marry nothing but well, I cry now advantage  Infidelitae. 
At her purse or arse, tell me good friar fuccage?  Hypocrisy. 

By the Mess at both for I am a great penytensar  
And sit at the pardon, tush I am the pope's own vicar  
If thou lackest a piece, I know where thou mayst be sped  
With choice of a score, and brought even to thy be●▪   Pseudodoctrina. 
Art thou not ashamed, to talk so like a knave?  Hypocrisy. 

No, for it is such gear, as the holiest of us will have  
Pope, cardinal, bishop, monk, canon priest & friar,  
Not one of ye all, but a woman will desire.   Pseudodoctrina. 
Our orders permit us not, to have them in marriage  Hypocrisy. 

No, but ye fatche them in, by an other carriage.  
Ye do even as we do, we both are of one rate.   Infidelitae. 
By the Mess I laugh, to here this whoreson prate▪  Pseudodoctrina. 
What fashion use ye, to us here intimate.  Hypocrisy. 
Ego distingu●, whither ye will have Lions or Paris.  Pseudodoctrina. 
Of them both to show, it will not be far amiss▪  Hypocrisy. 

In Paris we have, the mantel of saint jews  
Which women seek moche, for help of their barrenness.  
For be it once laid, upon a woman's belly  
She go thence with child, the miracles are seen there daily  
And besides all this, ye would marvel in confession  
What our fathers do, to assoil them of transgression   

johan Thessecelius, assoiled a young woman ones  
Behind the high altar, till she cried out of her bones  
And as for lions, there is the length of our lord  
In a great pillar, she that will with accord  
Be fast bound to it, and take such chance as fall  
Shall sure have child, for within it is hollow all   

Tush, I could tell ye, of moche more wondre than this  
In course to hear them, I think ye would ye bliss.   Pseudodoctrina. 
As thou hast begun, go forward in it and te●●.  Infidelitae. 
Such a knave I suppose, is not from hens to hell.  Hypocrisy. 

In our religion, was an holy popish patriarch  
Which of all bawdry, might be the great monarch.  
The Nuns to confess, he went from place to place  
And two hundred of them, he broached in that space  
Many spices he eat, his courage to provoke  
Such a fellow was he, as of that gear had the stroke   Pseudodoctrina. 

Now somewhat will I tell, to confirm thy tale withal  
In king ferdinand's time, in Spain was a cardinal  
Petrus mendoza, was the very man that I mean  
Of lemans he had, great number besides the queen  
One of his bastards, was an earl, an other was duke  
Whom also he abused, and thought it no rebuke.   

joannes Cremona an other good cardinal  
For reformation, of the clergy spiritual  
Came once into England, to damn priests matrimony  
And the next night after, was taken, doing bytcherye  
Doctor Eckius also, which fiercely came to dispute  
In ●psia with luther, minding there him to confute.   

For marriage of pryestes, three children ●ad that year  
By this may ye see, that sometime we make merry cheer   evangelium. 

Marry that do ye, I shall bear ye record now  
But how will ye answer, for breaking of your vow.   Pseudodoctrina. 

We never break vow, so long as we do not mary  
Though we in whoredom, be never so bold and busy.   Infidelitas, 

By your order then, ye may walk moche at large  
What hast thou hypocrisy, to lay for thy discharge   Hypocrisy. 

Saint Frances habit, with the holy girdle & hood  
Nove can go to hell, that therein die by the rood  
In case saint Frances, be sure upon their side  
Else may they fortune, to be of their purpose wide  
For I teade of one that should have gone to the devil  
But the spirits of hell, could do no him no evil.   

Till saint Frauces came, & look from him this cowl  
Then went he to hell, the friars did here him howl.  
I will therefore serve S Frances, with heart and mind  
With daily memories, that he may be my friend  
And than I care not for all the devils in hell  
That I have told you, is more true than the Gospel.   Infidesitas. 

Then are ye more sure, than monks for your heritage  
For their lands are here, but ye claim heaven for advantage.   Pseudodoctrina. 

Yet is it to them, a very pleasant thing  
Their Abbot at home, to be called lord and king.   Infidesitas. 

Nay monk and churl, for here ●s no king but one,  
If he be a king, his mace is a marry bone  
And his crown a cowtorde, such knaves as come from the cart  
Must be called kings, for playing a popish part.   Pseudodoctrina. 

It becometh not thee, the romish pope, so to lurch  
considering he is the highest of the church.   Infidesitas. 
If he be the highest, than is he the Wethercock  Pseudodoctrina. 

Ah, now I pertain, thou art disposed to mock  
Of all holy Church, he is the principal head.   Infidesitas. 

Marry that is true, he sendeth out bulls under lead  
And he hath two ways, the one to open hell  
The other speaketh heaven, thus do new heretics tell  
They report also that Dogs have no devotion  
To his holy laws, nor his old instruction.   Pseudodoctrina. 
Why should dogs hate him? make that more evident  Infidesitas. 

They love no p●se portege, nor yet red herrings in lent  
Steckfysshe nor oysters, but curse him body and bone  
And would his red sprottes, & rotten fish were gone  
Tush, I hear them I, and that maketh me full sad.   Hypocrisis. 
Either thou dost mock, or else thou art sure mad.  Infidelitas. 
There the people complayve very moche of the.  Pseudodoctrina. 
What is their prattling, I pray the heartily tell me.  Infidelitas. 

They say thou teachest, nothing but lousy tradictons.  
And lies for lu●●e, with damnable superstitions  
And thus they conclude, that the draff of popish prysies  
Is good enough for Swine, by whom they do mean the papists.  
Yea, and they say also, the diet of men is all  
To most bile carrion, the dogs will soon fall   Pseudodoctrina. 
Than do they compare, the papists unto dogs.  Infidelitas. 

Marry that do they, and to such swynies she hogs  
As in swyllandsosse, are brought up all their life  
such are the Papists, they say both man and wife  
They say also, that thou art a naughty knave  
By prowling and lying, ye friars would all have  
Thine order they say, is sprung even out of hell  
And all this knowledge, they have now of the Gospel.   Hypocrisis, 
Why, where is he now, I beseech the heartily tell.  Infidelitas. 

By the mess abroad, & I firebrand ye maketh revel.  
I commoned with him, and he did us despise  
Against him therefore, somewhat we must devise.   Pseudodoctrina. 

Marry that must we, or else it will be wrong  
He will sure destroy us▪ if we do suffer him long  
Needs must we serve him, as we once served Christ.   Infidelitas. 
Why mad brained whoresons, how did ye handle Christ  Pseudodoctrina. 

As he preached here, we followed from place to place  
To trap him in snare, and his doctrine to deface  
Than found we the means, to put him so to death  
least he against us, should open any more breath  
And we set four knights, to kept him down in his grave  
That he never more, our living should deprave.   

And thus must we serve the Gospel, no remedy  
Else will he destroy our livings perpetually.  
Better one were lost, than we should perish all  
As Cayphas once said, in Counsel pharisaical.   Infidelitas. 

By god well said, when ye have him in his grave  
Stamp him down, till he shit, & serve him like & knave   Hypocrisis. 
We must so order him, that he go no more at large.  Pseudodoctrina. 

Four knights wyllwe hire, whom we shall streyghtlye charge.  
To keep him down hard, the first are ambitious Prelates.  
Then covetous lawyers, that God's word spite fuliye hates.  
Lords without learning, and justices unrightful  
These will keep him down, & rap him on the skull.  
Their Summoner's and their scribes, I firebrand ye shall steer  
With baylyurs and catchpoles, to hold him down every where  
I trow Rug & Corbet, at Norwitch will do their part  
With wharton of bongaye, and for my sake put him to smart.   Hypocrisis. 

And I will raise up in the universities  
The seven sleepers there, to advance the pope's decrees  
As Dorbell and Duns, Durand & Thomas of Aquyne  
The master of sentens, with Bachon the great deuyue  
Henricus de Gandavo, and these shall read ad cletum.  
Aristotle and Albert, de secretis mulierum  
With the Commentaries, of Auicen and Aueroyes  
And a Phoebo Phebe, which is very good for boys   Infidelitas. 

Yea and let the pope, as Gods own Uicat here  
In his hand▪ iii. crosses, &. three crowns on his head were  
His power betokening in heaven, in earth, & in hell  
That he may command all kings, & subdue the gospel   Pseudodoctrina. 

His self may do that he need command none other  
Is not he the head of the holy church out mother  
May not be make sayuts & devils at his own pleasure  
Which hath in his hands, the keys & church's treasure  
So well as he made saint Herman first a saint  
And twenty years after, of Heresy him attaint.  
first he sent him to heaven, by his canonization  
And from thence to bell, by avexcommunycation  
We read of formosus, that after he was dead  
One pope his fingers, another cut of his head  
And threw his Carcase, into the flood of Tiber  
With the head and fingers, as Platina doth remember   

In token that he, is judge over quick and dead  
And may damn and save, by his pardons under lead  
Sylvester the second, to the devil himself once gave  
For that high office, that he might damn and save  
He offered also his stones to Satan, they say  
For priests chastity, and so went their marriage away   Hypocrisis. 
Here is one coming, inquire what he intend.  Infidesitas. 
Ha? it is the Gospel, from him God us defend.  Exit secreto, Pseudodoctrina. 
Show me brother mine, who did the hither send.  evangelium. 

The father of heaven, of his mere beuyu●lence  
I desire therefore, of free audience.   Pseudodoctrina, 
Ye mind than to preach afore this company?  evangelium. 

In the laws of God, would I instruct them gladly  
For none other way, there is unto salvation  
But the word of God, in every generation  
That qayckeveth, that saveth, that bringeth unto heaven.  
As before his death, Christ taught the Apostle eleven.   Pseudodoctrina. 

Preach here thou shalt not, without the authority  
Of pope or bishop, or some of their affynytie.   evangelium. 
God's word, never taketh his authority of man.  Pseudodoctrina, 
Thou shalt not here preach, do thou the best thou can.  Hypocrisis. 

God's blessing on your heart, it is spoken even like a man.  
Ye knowethiss day sir, we have a full holy feast  
And must go procession, with the blessed rood of rest  
We have long matins, long laudes, long hours, long prime.  
Mass, evensong, compline, & all must be done in time  
Sensing of the Altars, and casting of holy-water  
Holy bread making, with other necessary matter.   evangelium. 
Have God commanded any such things to be done  Pseudodoctrina. 

What is that to thee? go meddle with old shone  
Canst thou say, but they are good significations?   evangelium. 
I say they are fruits of your imaginations.  

To bring in luere, and darken Gods high glory.  
Of you God doth axe, no such vain beggary  
Christ never sent his, to she we significations  
But his living word, to all the Christian nations  
Ye forsake the Lord, as Esaias doth tell  
And highly blaspheme, the holy of Israel.   

In his first chapter, this horrible sentence is  
Quis hec frusteanea quesivit, be manibus Bestris,  
Who hath required, of yousuche sacrifice  
In vain offer you, that unto manded service  
Your incense to me, is great Abhomyvation  
I sore abhorred it, and moche detest your fashion   

When ye pray to me, I give ye none attendance  
But avert my face (saith God) & my countenance  
By this ye may see, that the lord doth not regard  
your maugre muttering, neither grant it any reward  
No man willeth Paul, to speak in the congregation  
In a strange language, without interpretation.   

In your latin hours, the flock do ye not consider  
But declare yourselves, to be Romish all together  
Be not led about (saith Paul, by any strange letuing  
What else is your doctrine, but a blind popish thing?  
He testifieth also, Non enim ut baptizatem  
Dis●t tu● Christue, sed ut Euangeliz●rem.  
Christ hath not me sent, that I should baptize, saith Paul  
But to preach his word, to the comfort of man's soul  
Loo, though baptism be a thing very necessity  
yet must it give place, to God's word, no remidye  
Why than preferreye, your draffies she ceremonies  
To the gospel preachyuge, O dampuable injuries.   Hypocrysis. 
Why suffer ye him, to prattle here so long?  Pseudodoctrina. 
Get the hence shortly, or with thee, it will be wrong.  Intran●. Infidelitas. 

Peace be here and God, master Doctor by your leave  
That I may declare, a pardon here in my slene  
Of our Lady of Boston, Ingham, and saint johannes Frarye  
With the indulgence, of blessed saint antony   Pseudodoctrinai 
Well, take thy pleasure, and do it hardly.  Hypocrisy. 

Sir he doth me wrong, for this day it is my station  
To preach my brotherhood, and gather my limitation   Pseudodoctrina. 

Who first spoke, first speed, step forth and read thy pardon  
And when he hath done, your course is, father warden.   evangelium. 
What course appoint ye, for preaching of the Gospel  Pseudodoctrina. 
I would thy Gospel, and thou, were both now in hell  evangelium. 
Why and shall this baggage, put by the word of God  Pseudodoctrina. 
Thou wilt not be answered, till thou feel a sharper rod  Infidelitas, 

Good Christian people, I am come hither berelye  
As a true poctour, of the house of saint Antony  
Of clean remission, I have brought ye indulgence  
A pena et culpa, for all your sin and ●ff●ure  
By the Authority of pope Leo and pope Clement  
Pope Bonyface, pope Pius, pope johan, and pope Innocent.   

And here I bless ye, with the wing of the holy ghost  
From thunder to save ye, and from spirits in every coo●●  
Lo, here is a bell, to hang upon your hog  
And save your cattle, from the biting of a dog  
So many as wyllcome, to this holy frater●ytie  
Come pay your money, and ye shall have letters of me   Pseudodoctrina. 
Let me have a letter, for I will be a brother  Hypocrisy. 
Then give me a bell, for I will be an other.  evangelium, 

O damnble leadyuge, of babylonical sodomites  
Yourselves ye declare, to be shameful hypocrites  
Lord pity thy people, and take away these guides  
These scorners, these robbers, these cruel homicides  
Such prophets are they, as God did never send  
As Heir my saith, they damnable ways pretend.   

Woe hypocrites woe, for here ye tryfie and mock  
With christian people, & the kingdom of heaven up lock  
Ye count it a game, to lose that Christ hath bought  
With his precious blood, & here most dearly sought  
O ye are wretches, and pestilent Antichristes'  
ministers of Dagon, and most deceitful papists.   

Like tavenouse Wolves, poor Widows ye devour  
By title of prayer▪ eternal damnation is your  
Your own dreams ye follow, but matter moche more weighty  
Ye do not esteem, as judgement, faith, and mercy  
Woe pharisees woe, ye make clean outwardly  
But inwards ye are full, of coveytousues & bawdry.   

Painted tombs are ye, apryenge tight beautiful  
But within ye stink, & have thoughts very shameful  
Ye slew the prophets, your doing yet bear witness.  
How think ye to avoid, that point of unrighteousness  
Oh raging serpents, and vyperouse generation  
How can ye escape, the danger of damnation   Pseudodoctrina. 

Who made the so bold, to meddle within my cure?  
And teach new learning? an heretic art thou sure  
If due search were made, we should find thee (I think) no priest   evangelium, 
Yes, anointed of God, but no popish Antichrist.  Pseudodoctrina. 
Let me see, where are the letters of thy ordres?  evangelium, 

Where christ his self is, & not in the same borders  
No such priest am I, as is anointed with oil  
But the holy Ghost, for I am none of this soil.   Pseudodoctrina. 

Here I attach thee, for a buysye scismatyke  
And will the accuse, for an heinous heretic  
Say hands upon him, & deprive him of this apparel   
Hic best spotiatum sordidioribus induunt.  

Loo, thus will I handle all them, that shall take thy quarrel  
Hold away with this gear, and lay it forth aside.   Hypocrisis. 
Nay, tarry brother mine, for away shalt thou not slide  evangelium. 
I am not going, why dost thou slander me?  Infidelitas. 
But ne him to ashes and show to him no pity.  Pseudodoctrina. 

Brent shall he not be, if he will no more do so.  
Fellow how sayest thou? wilt thou here abjure or no?   evangelium, 
I will neither abjure, nor yet recant God's glory.  Pseudodoctrina. 

I offered the reason, and thereto thou wilt not applied,  
Well get the forward for thou shalt sure die  
The temporal power, shall judge the to the fire  
At our Accusement, and holy religious desire.   evangelium. 

Thought you for my sake imprison men cruelly  
Famysshe them, stock them, and them with faggots fry  
Hurt me ye shall not, for I can never die  
And they for my sake, shall live perpetually.   Pseudodoctrina. 
Here is a prating, with a very vengeance hennce.  Exeunt cum ●ol Hypocrisis, 
This horrible hetetycke, now shall we well recompense  Infidelitas. 

Yea, hurne him well friar, and let him no longer reign  
Say on grieve faggots, to put him to more pain   

By the mess I laugh, to see how this ge●e doth work  
He is like of them, to have no more gra●r than a turk  
For such knaves they are, as a man shall not lightly find.  
And take over hell, companions they are to my mind  
My business all, is now at good conclusion  
That I have brought these. three laws to confusion  
Now shall I be able, to live here peaceably  
And make frolic cheer, with hay how frysfa jolye  
The law of Nature, I cast first in a lepry  
By the secret help, of idolatry and sodomy.   

The law of Moses, I made a cripple blind  
Avarice and ambition, to help me were not behind  
And now Christ's law, I have brout for heresy  
By help of false doctrine, and my cousin hypocrisy  
On these same three laws, all other laws depend  
And can not prevail, now these are at an end.  
If Christian governors, do not these laws uphold  
Their Cyuple ordinances, will soon be very cold  
Well, this valiant George, hath made them all to stoop.  
Cheer now may I make, and set cock on the hoop  
Fill in all the pots, and bid me welcome hostess  
And go call me hither, mine own sweet minion Bess▪   
Finit Actus quartus.   

Incipit Actus quintus.  Uindicta Dei. 

QUid gloriaris in malicia? qui potens es in iniquitate.  
Thou vengeable wretch, replete with poison and vice  
Why dost thou thus, rejoice in cruelty and maiyte?  
thinkest thou that God sleepeth, & will not his defend  
And that thy mischief, shall never have an end  
The blood of Innocentes, to him for vengeance call  
And therefore this hour, must I fiercely upon the fall   Infidelitas. 

Thou spirit of the air, I straygtly conjure the here  
By Panton & Craton, and charge the to come no near.   Uindicta Dei. 

thinkest thou to stop me, with thy foolish consuration  
Whom God sendeth hither, for thy abomination.   Infidelitas. 
What art thou called? thy name to me rehearse.  Uindicta dei. 

I am Uindicta Dei, in punishment most fierce,  
With water, with sooerde, and with fire I must thee pierce   Infidelitas. 
Be good in thy office, & thou shalt have money & meat  Uindicta Dei. 

By filthy rewards, thou canst not me entreat  
But that I will do, as God hath me commanded  
For if worldly gifts, my fury might have changed  
The buyvetfall world, had been drowned with water  
Nor Sodom & Gomor, with so fiery fearful matter  
Nor yet the Israelyties, with terror of the sword  
With hunger & pestilence, in the anger of God's word   

Pharaoh in egypt, the plagues had never felt  
Might I have been stopped, for silver or for gold  
Into Egipte I brought, ten terrible punishments  
Upon the people, for breaking his commandments  
Their wholesome waters, I turned into blood  
I multiplied frogs, to poison therewith their food.   

I made wasps and Dranes, them grievously to sting  
And all kinds of flies, soon after did I in bring  
Upon their cattle, I threw the fowl pestilence  
Both botch, bile, and blain, they had for their offence  
lightenings and hailings, destroyed their Corn and fruit.  
A swarm of hungry locusts, their pastors destitute   

The space of three days, I gave them palpable darkness  
I slew the first gotten, of man and beast, for thy rudeness  
For I never strike, but for the infidelity.   Infidelitas. 
Strike for me quoth ●? By the marry Mass I defy them  Uindicta Dei. 
What thou wilt not so, thy brains are not so light  Infidelitas. 
Anger me not to much, for if thou do, I fight  Uindicta dei. 

All that will not help, thy wicked workings now  
When the stronger come, the weaker must needs bow  
The law of Nature, infected thou hast, with a lepry.   Infidelitas. 

Nay, it was not I, but that witch idolatry  
And that polled shorn knave, that men call sodomy   Uindicta Dei. 

Of whom syronge they first? but of infidelity?  
Therefore thou shalt have, that plague of penalty  
Which they first tasted, for their Iniquity  
For those two vices, I drowned the world with water  
In token whereof, I plague thee, with the same matter.   
Hic Infidelitatem ●●●●pha percutit,  Infidelitas. 

tush, I defy thy worst, this shall not drive me hē●●  
For after the flood, with Cham had I residence  
And so continued, till Moses' law came in  
With his jolly tricks, a new rule to begin   Uindicta Dei. 

And him thou cortuptest, with Avarice and Ambition  
And so didst leave him in miserable condition  
Thou shalt have therefore, that than to them was due  
Most terrible battle, the Israelties untrue  
That time did suffer, for their infidelity  
Wherefore with this sword, I justly banish the.  
Because thou shalt here, give place to Christ's gospel  
Gladio Infidelitatem denuo cedit.   Infidelitas. 

Yet will I not hence, but again one's rebel.  
Did not I remain, with judas, and other more?  
When Christ preached here, and taught them to ve●● him sore.  
Yes, and after that, was I with Simon Magus  
With Saunder coppersmith, with Elimas and Demetrius.  
And now I persever, among the rank rabble of Papists  
teaching their shearlings, to play the Antichriste●●   Uindicta Dei. 

The Innocent blood, of saints continually  
Doth all unto God to revenge their injury▪  
Against false doctrine and cursed hypocrisy  
Whom thou hast raised the glory of the Gospel  
To darken, and his friends most miserably to quell.  
Wherefore thou shalt have like as thou hast deserved  
For thy wicked doings, thy punishment now doubled.  
Ignis ipsum precedet. The Prophet David saith thus.  
Atque inflammabit in citcuitu inimicos eiue.  
A consuming fire, shall run before the judge  
His enemies consuming, they shall find no refuge.   

Ob scesera et culpas hominum, titusque nephandes  
In cineres ibit tissus, tenuimque favillam  
As Mantuan writeth, for the wickedness of the  
The earth to ashes, by fire, shall turned be.  
Ignis flamnia Infidelitatem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coget.   Infidelitas, 

Credo, credo, credo. I say, credo, credo, credo,  
To the denill of hell, by the Mess I ween I go.   Exit. Deus Pater. 

As we have seen here▪ how I have stricken with fire  
The pestilent vice of infidelity  
Sowyll I destroy, in the fierceness of my●tyre▪  
All sects of error, with their enormity  
Which hath risen out of that iniquity  
For as it is said, that my hand hath no set  
Shall up by the root, no power may it let.   

The Apostle johan, in the Apocalypse doth say  
He saw ● new he even, and a new earth appearing  
The old earth and see, were taken clean away  
That heaven is man's faith, that earth his understanding.  
Whom we have renewed, by our most sexxet working  
The old cavered earth, exiling with the see  
Which is superstition, and infidelity.   

A new Jerusalem, the said john also see  
As a beautiful 〈…〉 to her husband  
Our ●●ue faithful church is that same fair City  
Whom we 〈…〉, by the power of our right hand  
As a spouse to Christ, in every Christian land  
〈…〉 the decrees, of babylonical popery  
That●●● in spirit, may walk to our glory.   

〈…〉 three laws, for you will I clere also  
Of such infections, as by infidelity  
Ye have reciyved, that ye with he● may go  
Declaring the ways, of Christian liberty  
〈…〉, she may take, 〈…〉  
For her only God, and be our people still  
In our laws walking, according to our will.   Omnes simue. 
At your commandment, we are most blessed lord,  Deus pater. 
Approach nyghar than, and ye shall be restored.  

Thou law of Naturewe first begin with the  
restoring the again, to thy first purity  
Avoid idolatry, Avoid vile sodomy.  
We charge ye no more, this law to putrefy  
Keep still that same heart for a sign perpetual  
That thou wert written, in man's heart first of all.   

Thou law of Moses▪ give me that veil from the  
No longer shalt thou, neither blind nor crooked be  
Hence thou ambition, and cut said covetousness  
I here banysche you, from this law ever doubtless  
Lose not those tables, which are a token ture  
That thou in the flesh, shalt ever more continue.   

Thou law of the Gospel, though thou be last of all  
In operation yet, thou art the pryacypall  
From the I exile, hypoetysye and false doctrine  
With all that depend, upon the papisticall●yne  
Reserve the came book, for a sign of heavenly power  
For the book thou art, that john from headuen did devour.   Nature lex. 
Everlasting praise, to thy glorious majesty.  Moseh lex, 
Our heavenly governor, great is thy gracious pity,  Christi lex. 
Of mankind thou art, the eternal felicity.  Nature lex. 

Now leavest thy servants, in thy perpetual peace  
To do the service, from hence, will we notcease.   Moseh lex. 

For your eyes have seen, what thou hast now prepared  
For thy people's health, which hath benhere declared.   Christi lex. 

A light thou hast sent, which is thy joyous Gospel  
To the consolation of the house of Israel.   Nature lex. 
In rejoice of this, make we some melody.  Moseh lex. 
The name of our God, to praise and magnify.  Christi lex. 
I assent thereto, and will sing very gladly.  
Hic ad Dei gloria● canta●unt. In exitu Israel de Aegipto, ●●l aliud simile.  Deus Pater, 

Now have we destroyed, the kingdom of Babylon  
And thrown the great whore, into the bottomless pit  
Restoring agayae, the true faith and religion  
In the Christian church, as we have thought it fit  
Depuring these laws, so to continue it  
Man is our creature, and hath grace in our sight  
To dwell with him now, is our whole hearts delight.   

Man is our people, his God we are again  
With him will we have, continual residence  
A way will we wipe, from all sorrow and pain  
He shall no longer despair, for his offence  
Nor have in his soul, any carefuldoubte of conscience  
The old popyshnes is past, which was dampuation  
We have now renewed, our Christian congregation.  
Stand forth Christian faith, and take our advertisement  
We here appoint thee, to govern our congregation  
See thou do nothing, without the admonishment  
Of these three laws here, Imprynt their declaration  
Of my sweet promises, and than make thou relation  
To my folk again, that they may walk to me  
Without popish dreams, in a perfect liberty.   Fides Christiana. 

Most heavenly maker, in it thoudoest command me  
Evermore will I, full prompt and diligent be.   Deus Pater. 

Thou law of Nature, shalt teach man God to know  
And thatto refuse, whereby any ill may grow.   Nature lex. 
From this your precept, shall I not vary I crow▪  Deus Pater. 

Teach thou him also, to worship one God about  
And his proper neighbour, to persecute with love.   Moseh lex. 
I hope blessed lord, to do as me shall behove.  Deus Pater. 

And thou shalt teach him, to love God in his heart.  
And those to forgive, by whom he sufferethsmarte.   Christi lex. 
In your appointments, will I do also my part.  Deus Pater. 

Work thou in the heart, a knowledge necessary  
In the flesh, work thou, by outward ceremony.  
Change thou notto the sp●et▪ ● workings of these two  
And cause our people, in a perfect way to go  
Take heed christian faith, to the teachings of these three  
And move our people, to walk in the verity.  
The promises we made, in all these three are Gospel  
We would thou shouldest so, to our Congregation tell  
Our everlasting blessing, be with you ever more.   Omnes simul. 
To thy sweet name lord, be praise & perpetual honour▪  Fides Christiana. 

It hath pleased God, to put me in this office  
To govern his church, and christian Congregation  
And therein do, as ye shall me entice  
give me I pray you, such wholesome exhortation  
As may be to Man, aclere edification  
And I will be glad, to take your adurttyshment  
As it shall become, any child obedient.   Christi lex. 

Ye speak it full weal, than mark what shallbe said  
And diligently, look that it be obeyed.   Nature lex. 

The effect of me, is for to know the lord  
everlasting, strong, most gracious and godly  
And as touching Man, to have fraternal concord  
F 〈…〉 r to nourish, and to do non injury  
To 〈…〉 ●●uenasites made, and love true matrimony  
These noble effects, so temper you in man..  
That them to fulfil, he do the best he can.   Moseh lex. 

The effect of me, is for to worship the lord  
As one God alone, and to fly from Idolatry  
Not to flee nor steel, nor yet to bear false record  
To show what is sin, and to seek the remedy  
Public peace to hold▪ and sore to punish the guilty  
From these good effects, see that man never soo●rue  
then shall he be sure, that God will him preserve.   Christi lex. 

The effect of me, is for to worship the lord  
In the inward spirit, and to favour friend & eumye  
And in all points else, with God's will to accord  
To preach remission, to save and to justify  
In Christ all to se●elyfe, justice, peace and mercy  
These heavenly effects, in man so incorporate  
That he may in spirit, be newly regenerate.   Fides Christiana. 

More sweet than honey, are your three exhortations  
And registered they be, in my memorial  
Now will I forward, to all the Christian nations  
And see in effect, these laws observed all  
To the abolishment, of the dreams papistical  
Now the light is come, the darkness dieth away  
I trust in the lord, men will walk in the day.   

Good Christian people, to these three laws apply  
First know that ye have, a living God above  
Than do him honour, and his name magnify  
Worship him in sprite, as the Gospel you doth move  
Than obey your queen, like as shall you behove  
For she in her life, that lord doth represent  
To safeguard of the just, and sinners' punishment.   

See that ye regard, such laws as she doth make  
For they are of God, as Solomon doth report  
Of these laws doubtless, those laws their groundings take  
To the public wealth, to give aid, strength, and comfort  
For preservation, of all the christian sort  
In no case follow, the ways of ●eygnolde Pole  
To his damnation, he doubtless playeth the fool.  
Have ● due respect, unto your country native  
Which hath brought ye up, and given ye nourishment  
Even from your cradles, to these days nutritive  
Do that ye may do, to her wealth and preferment  
minister to bet, no hateful detriment  
A dog to his friend, will never be unloving  
Let reason in ye, not lose his natural working.   Nature lex. 

Who liveth without law, shall perish without law  
And therefore we have, three laws to you describe  
That after their lives, ye should in your living draw  
We have also showed, how they have been corrupted  
By fowl Idolaters, and sodomites polluted.  
By covetous priests, and by ambitious prelate's  
Hypocrytall friars, false Doetours and false Cutates   Moses lex, 

Who hath restored, these same thyr laws again  
But your late josias, and valiant king Henrye  
No prince afore him, took ever yet such pain  
From England to banish, idolatry & fowl sodomy  
covetousness, ambition, false Doctrine & hypocrisy  
It was he that brought, Christ's verity to light  
When he put the pope, with his filthiness to flight.   Christi lex. 

From damnable darkness, as my brother here doth say  
He hath delivered, this realm of England godly  
bringing his Subjects, into the true path way  
Of their soul's safeguard▪ if they now follow it wisely  
And left them he hath, the same way still to fortify  
His noble son Edward, such a king of God elect  
As questionless, while helyved, did perform it in effect   Fides christiana. 

Pray we to the lord, for the long continuance  
Of Queen Elizabeth, in this worlds habitation  
And that of her Noblesse, she have true maintenance  
In the principles of this most worthy foundation  
that she may to Christ, bring us from desolation  
And for her noble counsellors, to god let us all pray  
That in the true faith, their hearts direct he may.   
Amen.   

The ten commandments briefly.  

love thy Lord God. Swear thou no oath  
Thy sobbeth keep. Please thy friends both.  
witness none ill. Hold no man's wife.  
Bribe man's good. Slay not with knife  
wish no man's house. Nor Ox nor Ass  
As thou wilt have. Do thou like case.   
¶ These Commandments need not be rehearsed in the Interlude.   

¶ A song upon Benedictus: Compiled by john Bale.  

BEnedictus dominus, Deus Israel Which hath over thrown, the mighty Idol Bell  
The false God of Rome, by power of the Gospel  
And hath prepared from the deep lake of hell.  
Redemptionem ple●i● suc.   

●t erexit cornu, of mercy, health and grace  
That cruel Tyrant, now clearly to deface  
Whose bloody kingdom, dymynyssheth apace  
By the word of God, which lately hath take place.  
In Homo David, pueti sui▪   

Sicut jocutus est, the Lord celestial  
That Romish Antichrist, is like to have a fall  
With his whole rabble, of sects diabolical  
And now the number, will flourish over all  
Prop●etatum eius.   

Salutem ex inimicis, now we may daily hear  
The enemies of Christ, with him doth witness bear  
Saul is become a Paul, and preaching every where  
Now may we receive, most heavenly wholesome gear  
De manu corum qui advocate nos.   

Ad faciendam misericodiam  
The son of our God, from his high gloryecam  
To redeem the sin, of the children of Adam  
And to remember, to faithful Abraham  
Testamentisui sancti.   

Ad iusiurandum, which God hath made afore  
Unto our fathers he will keep evermore  
Promised he hath if we regard his lore  
For saking the Pope, with his damnable store  
Daturum se nobis.   

Ut sine timore, from Romish tyrants free  
The lord grant us grace, that we may speakers be  
Of his holy word, and therein to agree  
That in the Gospel and Christian liberty  
Seruiam●● iiii.   

In sanctitate, and pureness of life  
Let us now travail, both maiden man and wife  
All tyghtrous doings, in us be ever rife  
That we persevet, without debate orstryfe  
Omnibus dicbus nostril.   

Tupuer Propheta, elected of the lord  
Our Queen Elizabeth, to have God's law restored  
followest josias, therofto take record  
In all thy doings, and in God's holy word  
Patate via●●iu●.   

Ad dandam scicentiam, for men's health and save guard  
Christ's holy Gospel, by the is freely heard  
Wherein doth cousyst, their life and full reward  
With preservation, from dangerous i●oba●dye.  
Peccatorum corum.   

P●t viscera misericordie  
Christ our dear master, us daily ouerse  
Lest we here perish, in our iniquity  
Our mediator, continually is he.  
Orions ex afto.   

Illuminare, sweet lord we the desire  
To menin darkness, and in the popish mire  
Let not his baggage, thy faithful servants tire  
But us deliver, from them and from hell fire.  
In viam pacis.   
Amen.   
THUS ENDETH this Commedye, concerning three Laws, of Nature, Moses, and Christ, corrupted by the sodomites, Pharisees, and Papists most wicked. Compiled by john Bale.   

IMPRINTED AT London/ in S. bride's Churchyard, over against the North Door of the Church, by Thomas Colwell.  
Anno Domini. M. D. LXII. vi. Die Novembris.