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Mirrovr of new reformation

wherein reformers, by their owne acknowledgement, are represented ad viuum. The beauty also of their handy-worke is displayed

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XXII. VPON BEZA, BETWIXT HIS Candida and Andebert.
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XXII. VPON BEZA, BETWIXT HIS Candida and Andebert.

What ? is not Beza yet resolu'd? nor yet?
Stil doth he doubt on whether part to set
His spacious lustes, his lustes as hard to fil
As is the gulf of his insatiate wil?
See, see, ô, how he, fearful to distast
Either damnation, his loosse eyes doth cast
Alike on both, as if he faine would gleane
Equal

Amplector quoq; sic & hunc & illam, vt totus cupiam videre vtrumque, integrisque frui integer duobus, &c. Beza his owne words vbi supra.

acceptance both from Boy and Queane.

Now her he courts; then fearing least that act
Displease his Ganimed, he seemes t'retract
His former errour, and assures the Boy
That he alone shal be is onely ioy.
His iealous punke at last perceaueth this,
And stormes therat; he calmes her with a kisse:
Then, to his

Priores tibi desero Andeberte: Quòd si Candida forte conqueratur, quid tum? basiolo tacebit vno. ib.

Boy: thou sweet (saith he) art myne,

Thou art my cheef delight. O rare Diuine!

Among other wanton Epigrammes which Beza writ, there is one extant of his inordinate liking to his Ganimed called Andebertus, and his woman Candida, wherin he debateth whether sinne be may preferre, and finally makes choice of the boy before his woman. See this in Beza's Epigrammes print. at Paris an. 1548. In so much as Schlusselberg confesseth saying, that it is euident that Beza did write most obscene verses to Germanus Andebertus, whom he chose at Orleans, and that Beza made him his Adonis. Theol. Calu. l. 1. f. 93. see more in proem. p. 4. & 92. 93. & l. 2. f. 72. & hereafter XXXIV. 20. 21. 22. 23.