handsomely; but 'tis ridiculous for him to dance, Poetry when he should go.

5. 'Tis ridiculous for a Lord to print Verses; 'tis well enough to make them to please himself, but to make them public, is foolish. If a Man in a private Chamber twirls his Band-string, or plays with a Rush to please himself, 'tis well enough; but if he should go into Fleet-street, and sit upon a Stall, and twirl a Band-string, or play with a Rush, then all the Boys in the Street would laugh at him.

6. Verse proves nothing but the quantity of Syllables; they are not meant for Logic.

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Pope

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POPE'S Bull and a Pope's Brief differ very much ; as with us the Great Seal and the Privy Seal. The Bull being the highest Authority the Pope can give, the Brief is of less. The Bull has a Leaden Seal upon silk, hanging upon the Instrument; the Brief has sub Annulo Piscatoris upon the side.

2. He was a wise Pope, that when one that used to be merry with him, before he was advanced to the Popedom, refrained afterwards to come at him, (presuming he was busy in governing the Christian World,) the Pope sends for him, bids him come again, and, says he, we will be merry as we were before; for thou little thinkest what a little Foolery governs the whole World.

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3. The Pope in sending Relics to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassails at Newyear's tide; they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.

4. The Pope is Infallible, where he hath power to command; that is, where he must be obeyed; so is every Supreme Power and Prince. They that stretch his Infallibility further, do they know not what.

5. When a Protestant and a Papist dispute, they talk like two Madmen, because they do not agree upon their Principles. The one way is to destroy the Pope's Power; for if he hath Power to command me, 'tis not my alleging Reasons to the contrary can keep me from obeying for Example, if a Constable command. me to wear a green Suit to-morrow, and has Power to make me, 'tis not my alleging a hundred Reasons of the Folly of it, can excuse me from doing it.

6. There was a Time when the Pope had Power here in England, and there was excellent use made of it; for 'twas only to serve turns, as might be manifested out of the Records of the Kingdom, which Divines know little of. If the King did not like what the Pope would have, he would forbid the Pope's Legate to land upon his ground. So that the Power was truly in the King, though suffered in the Pope. But now the Temporal and the Spiritual Power (Spiritual, so call'd, because ordained to a

Spiritual End) spring both from one Fountain; Pope they are like two twists that

7. The Protestants in France bear office in the State, because though their Religion be different, yet they acknowledge no other King but the King of France. The Papists in England they must have a King of their own, a Pope, that must do something in our Kingdom; therefore there is no reason they should enjoy the same Privileges.

8. Amsterdam admits of all Religions but Papists, and 'tis upon the same Account. The Papists where'er they live, have another King at Rome; all other Religions are subject to the present State, and have no Prince elsewhere.

9. The Papists call our Religion a Parliamentary Religion; but there was once, I am sure, a Parliamentary Pope; Pope Urban was made Pope in England by Act of Parliament, against Pope Clement. The Act is not in the Book of Statutes, either because he that compiled the Book would not have the Name of the Pope there, or else he would not let it appear that they meddled with any such thing; but 'tis upon the Rolls.

10. When our Clergy preach against the Pope and the Church of Rome, they preach against themselves; and crying down their Pride, their Power and their Riches, have made themselves poor and contemptible enough; they did it at first to please their Prince, not considering what would follow. Just as if a man were to go a journey, and seeing, at his

Pope first setting out, the way clean and fair, ventures forth in his Slippers, not considering the Dirt and the Sloughs are a little further off, or how suddenly the Weather may change.

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CVIII

Popery

'HE demanding a Noble for a dead body passing through a Town, came from hence. In time of Popery, they carried the dead Body into the Church, where the Priest said Dirges; and twenty Dirges at four Pence a piece, comes to a Noble; but now it is forbidden by an Order from my Lord Marshal; the Heralds carry his Warrant about them.

2. We charge the Prelatical Clergy with Popery to make them odious, though we know they are guilty of no such thing: just as heretofore they called Images Mammets, and the Adoration of Images Mammetry; that is, Mahomet and Mahometry, odious names; when all the World knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion.

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'HERE is no stretching of Power. good rule, Eat within your Stomach, act within your Commission.

2. They that govern most, make least noise. You see when they row in a Barge, they that do

drudgery-work, slash, and puff, and sweat; but Power. he that governs, sits quietly at the Stern, and State scarce is seen to stir.

3. Syllables govern the World.

4. All power is of God, means no more than Fides est servanda. When St Paul said this, the People had made Nero Emperor. They agreed, he to command, they to obey. Then God comes in, and casts a hook upon them, keep your Faith: then comes in, all Power is of God. Never King dropped out of the Clouds. God did not make a new Emperor, as the King makes a Justice of Peace.

5. Christ himself was a great observer of the Civil power, and did many things only justifiable because the State required it, which were things merely Temporary, for the time that State stood. But Divines make use of them to gain Power to themselves; as for Example that of Dic Ecclesia, tell the Church; there was then a Sanhedrim, a Court to tell it to, and therefore they would have it so now.

6. Divines ought to do no more than what the State permits. Before the State became Christian, they made their own Laws, and those that did not observe them, they Excommunicated, [naughty men] they suffered them to come no more amongst them. But if they would come amongst them, how could they hinder them? By what Law? By what Power? they were still subject to the State, which was Heathen. Nothing better expresses the Condition of Christians in those times, than

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