A New Yeares Gifte, dedicated to the Popes Holinesse and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B. G. [i.e. Bernard Garter]... In recompence of diuers singular and inestimable Reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated |
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The Argument of the foresayde Booke or Letter commended vnto thee.
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The Argument of the foresayde Booke or Letter commended vnto thee.
Th' aspiring mind, causd Reynold Poole to swarue,And to become a Traytor to the King,
Troth tryes it out, and law and iustice bring
Vnto his mates such death as they deserue:
He quakes for feare, and through the Seas doth carue
To Rome, and there is by the holy Pope
Made Cardnall, and obteynes a larger scope.
With might and mayne Poole then the Pope doth serue,
And sayth the King may not be supreme head:
Two learned men which do lament his fall,
Send him this Booke, that follie to forbid.
Yet he (God wot) regards it not at all,
But like an Asse, doth for a Scarlet hatte,
Forsake his God, his King, and Countrey flatte.
(B. G.)
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