ornatissimus Henricus Hovardius, Elizabethæ temporum scriptor.

"So long as Bell was served with his messe of meate, not one of the "blacke guard made proffer to forsake the vault: so long as Micha* "will fill the hand, he shall not want a Levite to instruct his family. "While Christ had one barley loaf, the cormorants which sought only "satisfaction of the bellie, would not depart to their houses; and so long 66 as there is one ounce of gold or silver left about the shrine, some "greedy Sycophant or other will not sticke to cry out Great is Diana "of the Ephesians."+

Quare ecclesiam cogor quam amavi semper reprehendere, et nocturnus et matutinus precari ut repeteret veterem illam severitatem siquidem illa decus, honestatem, laudem, dignitatemque desiderat, quibus rebus caruit nimium diu. Postremó, erumpat enim aliquando vera et me digna vox! non spe fallaci recuperandæ libertatis afficior, cerno enim, quamvis e longinquo melioris Solem diei tenebras præsentes disrupturum et ex fumo lucem daturum. Cur non ego planâ et integrâ gratulatione talem epocham recipiam? cur non quodcunque antiquo oppugnat morbo plaudam atque exoptem, quum amissimus non modo succum et sanguinem sed etiam colorem et

Judges xvii, 10. "And Micah said unto him, dwell with me, and "be unto me a father and a Priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of "silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the "Levite went iu."

+"A Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophecies, writ"ten by Henry Howard, late Earl of Northampton, Lord Privy Seale. "Chap. ix. Printed by John Charlewood, servant to the Right Honourable Philip, Earle of Arundel. London, 1583."

speciem pristinæ ecclesiæ? Ubi ubi est Cranmerus ille nostras qui distillanti et retorridâ manu impiam Reginam vicit et totius Papatûs horrores? qui sub Rege clementissimo verus extitit ecclesiæ Reformator, et perfidam illam Religionis et sæculi Mammonis et Christi concordiam dirimere et violare erat paratus ni Mors labori invidens grandia etiam immortalia meditantem prævenisset? Ast mortuus est Edvardus et inique periit Cranmerus; ergo cecidit, quod nunquam iterum videbitis, portentum illud unum in terris, Rex qui potuit honesté agere et Episcopus qui voluit ecclesiam expurgare.* His autem, et longa sunt, quæ dixi finem ponant Miltoni verba,

* A letter of Thomas Cranmer, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, to Cromwell, on the new foundation of Canterbury Church. "My very "singular good Lord-After my most hearty commendations, this shall "be to advertise your Lordship that I have received your letter, dated "November 27, and therewith a bill concerning the devise for the new "Establishment in the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury, by which "your Lordship requests our advice thereupon, by writing, for our mutual "consents. Surely, my Lord, as touching the books drawn and the "order of the same, I think it will be very substantial and godly founda❝tion, nevertheless in my opinion, the Prebendaries which will be allowed "£40. a piece, yearly, might be altered to a more expedient use. And "this is my consideration; for having experience both in times past and "also in our days, how the said sect of Prebendaries have not only spent "their time much in idleness, and their substance in superfluous belly"cheer, I think it not a convenient state or degree to be maintained, "considering first, that commonly a Prebendary is neither a learner nor "a preacher, but a good viander. Then by the same name they look to "be chief, and bear all the whole rule and pre-eminence in the College "where they be resident, by means whereof the younger of their own "nature, given more to pleasure and good cheer or pastimes than to

quæ nec commentatore nec commendatione egere et breviter exprimere quod ego anhelus vix potui videntur. "Let us not be so over credulous, "unless God hath blinded us, as to trust our "dear souls into the hands of men that beg so "devoutly for the pride and gluttony of their "own backs and bellies, that sue and sollicit so "eagerly not for the saving of souls, the conside"ration of which can have no place at all, but "for their Bishopricks, Deaneries, Prebends, and "Chanonries. How can these men not be cor

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rupt, whose very cause is the bribe of their own "pleading, whose mouth can not open without

"abstinence, study, and learning, shall be easily brought from their "books to follow the example and appetite of the said Prebendaries, "being their heads and rulers: And the state of Prebendaries hath been "so excessively abused, that when learned men have been admitted into “such room, many time they have desisted from their good and godly "studies, and all the virtuous exercises of preaching and teaching. "Wherefore if it may stand with the King's gracious pleasure, I would "wish not only that the name of Prebendary were exiled his Grace's "foundation, but also the superfluous condition of such persons."

Edward VI. in a tract "On Reformation of many Abuses :"—" But "because those Bishops who should execute discipline in correcting "manners—some from Papistry, some from ignorance, some from age, "some from their ill name, some from all these,-are men unable "to execute this discipline, wherefore it were necessary that those who were appointed to be Bishops or Preachers were honest in their lives "and learned in their doctrine, that by rewarding of such men others "might be allured to follow their good life. But as for Discipline, I "would wish no authority given generally to all Bishops, but that com"mission be given to those that be of the best sort of them to exercise it " in their dioceses."

"the strong breath of avarice, simony, and sacrilege, embezzling the treasury of the Church "on painted and gilded walls of temples, wherein "God hath testified to have no delight; warm

ing their palace and kitchens, and from thence "their unctuous and epicurean paunches with "the alms of the blind, the lame, the impotent, "the aged, the orphan, and the widow? Should "not these men rather be heard that come to

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plead against their own preferments, their

worldly advantages, their own abundance? for "honour and obedience to God's word, the con"version of souls, the Christian peace of the "land, and union of the Reformed Catholic "Church, the unappropriating and unmonopoli"zing the rewards of learning and industry from "the greasy clutch of ignorance and high feed'ing? We have tried already, and miserably "felt what ambition, worldly glory, and immo"derate wealth can do; what the boisterous and "contradictional hand of a temporal, earthly, "and corporeal spirituality can avail to the edi

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fying of Christ's holy Church; were it then "such a desperate hazard to put to the venture "the universal votes of Christ's congregation, "the fellowly and friendly yoke of a teaching "and laborious ministry, the pastor-like and "apostolick imitation of meek and unlordly dis"cipline, the gentle and benevolent mediocrity

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"of Church maintenance, without the ignoble huckstering of pidling tithes. Were it such an "incurable mischief to make a little trial, what "all this would do to the flourishing and grow"ing up of Christ's mystical body—as rather to "use every poor shift, and if that serve not, to "threaten uproar and combustion, and shake "the brand of civil discord."-Valete!

ZAPOTES.

Sinistra cornicans avis abiit in malam rem: plaudite.

PEROGOPOLYNICES.

Plaudo quam maximé! perrorationem somniis expectabam.

PHILOCOPRUS.

Dormire mehercule non potui, tantas faces belli et seditionis præ se tulit Orator. Incendium timui. Totum quod dixit iniquius erat quam quod audiri debeat.

ZAPOTES.

Attamen abiit excessit, evasit, erupit: id mihi corculum refocillat. Tristitiæ atque irarum quodcunque sermone nobis injecerit vino penitus temperare et diluere instituamus.

ARCHIDIACONUS.

Bibite non segniter, Reverendi Fratres! heus puer! nitida adferto pocula, post tantam tempestatem non leviter incumbendum est amphora.