Wever, R. · published 1565 · first performed or written 1550 [1547-1553] (Annals) moral T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation typicality 0.84 · 497 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T5: god, christ, david, sin, holy, israel, lord, mercy, sins, faith.
Be you so sir? I cry you mercy than, you may say I am homely, & lack learning, to liken my father's voice unto a sows groaning But I pray you show me the cause, and why that you called me hither so hastily, A Hypocrisy, I am undone utterly Utterly undone, nay stop there hardly, For I myself do know the contrary, By daily experience: Do not I yet reign a broad, And as long as I am in the world, you have some treasure and substance. I suppose I have been the flower In setting forth thy laws and power, Without any delay By the mass if I had not been, thou hadst not been worth a flaunders pin, At this present day. the time were to long now to declare How many and great the number are, Which have deceived be: And brought clean from God's law, Unto thy yoke and awe, Through the enticement of me. I have been bused▪ since the world began, to graff thy laws in the heart of man, Where they ought to be refused: And I have so mingled gods commandments with vain zeals, & blind intents that they be greatly abused. I set up great idolatry With a kind of filthy Sodometry, to give mankind a fall: And I brought up such superstition Under the name of holiness and religion, that deceived all most all. As holy Cardinals▪ holy Popes, Holy vestiments, holy copes Holy armytes and Friars Holy priests. holy bishops Holy monks, holy abbots yea, and all abstinate liars. Holy pardons, holy beads, Holy saints, holy images, With holy, holy blood, Holy stocks, holy stones: Holy cloughtes, hole bones: yea, and holy holy wood. Holy skins, holy bulls: Holy rochetts, and cowls Holy crutches and staves Holy hoods, holy caps Holy mitres, holy hats a good holy, holy knaves. Holy days, holy fastings: Holy twitching, holy tastings, Holy visions and sights: Holy wax, holy lead: Holy water, holy bread: To drive a way spirits. Holy fire, holy palm: Holy oil, holy cream: And holy ashes also: Holy brooches, holy rings: Holy kneeling▪ holy sensings: And a hundred trim trams more. Holy crosses, holy bells: Holy relics, holy iovels: Of mine own invention: Holy candles, holy tapers: Holy parchementes, holy papers: Had not you a holy son? All these things, which thou hast done My honour and laws hath maintained, But now, Oh alas, one thing is begun By the which mi kingdom is greatly decayed I shall lose all, I am sore afraid, Except thy help I know right plain, I shall never be able to recover it again. God's word is so greatly sprung up in youth That he little regardeth my laws or me, He telleth his parents that is very truth, That they of long time have deceived be, He saith, according to Christ's verity, All his doings he will order and frame, mortifying the flesh with the lusts of the same.
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Be you so syr? I crye you mercy than, you may say I am homely, & lacke learnyng, to lyken my fathers voyce vnto a sowes groning But I pray you shew me the cause, and why that you called me hether so hastely, A Hypocrisie, I am vndone vtterly Utterly vndone, nay stop there hardely, For I my selfe do know the contrary, By dayly experience: Do not I yet raygne a brode, And as longe as I am in the worlde, you haue some treasure and substaunce. I suppose I haue ben the flower In settyng forth thy lawes and power, Without any delay By the masse if I had not bene, thou haddest not ben worth a flaunders pin, At thys present daye. the tyme were to long nowe to declare How many and great the number are, Whiche haue deceyued be: And brought cleane from Gods lawe, Unto thy yoke and awe, Through the intisement of me. I haue ben bused▪ since ye world began, to graffe thy lawes in the hart of man, Where they ought to be refused: And I haue so mingled gods cōmaūdemē tes with vaine zeales, & blind intents that they be greatly abused. I set vp great ydolatry With a kynd of fylthy Sodometry, to geue mankynd a fall: And I brought vp suche supersticion Under the name of holynes and religyon, that disceyued al moste all. As holy Cardinals▪ holy Popes, Holy vestimentes, holy copes Holy armytes and Fryers Holy priestes. holy bisshoppes Holy monkes, holy abbotes yea, and all abstinate lyers. Holy pardons, holy beades, Holy saincts, holy ymages, With holy, holy bloud, Holy stockes, holy stones: Holy cloughtes, hole bones: yea, and holy holy wood. Holy skinnes, holy bulles: Holy rochetts, and coules Holy crouches and staues Holy hoodes, holy cappes Holy miters, holy hattes a good holy, holy knaues. Holy dayes, holy fastinges: Holy twitching, holy tastinges, Holy visions and sightes: Holy waxe, holy leade: Holy water, holy breade: To driue a waye spirites. Holy fyre, holy palme: Holy oyle, holy cream: And holy ashes also: Holy brouches, holy rynges: Holy knelynge▪ holy sensynges: And a hundred trim trams mo. Holy crosses, holy belles: Holy reliques, holy iouels: Of myne owne inuencion: Holy candels, holy tapers: Holy parchementes, holy papers: Had not you a holy sonne? All these thinges, which thou hast done My honour and lawes hath maintained, But now, Oh alas, one thynge is begone By the which mi kingdome is greatly decaied I shall lese al, I am sore afrayed, Except thy helpe I knowe right playne, I shall neuer be able to recouer it agayne. Gods worde is so greatly sprong vp in youth That he litle regardeth my lawes or me, He telleth his parentes that is very truth, That they of longe tyme haue deceyued be, He sayth, accordynge to christes veritie, All his doynges he wyll ordre and frame, Mortifiyng the flesshe wt the lustes of ye same.