[1] Thus the popes within a while lost all their autho|ritie, which they had before time within this relme in the appointing of bishops, and other rulers of chur|ches; and in like manner also they lost shortlie after their authoritie of leuieng tenths of spirituall pro|motions, the which they in former times had vsed, to the great detriment of the realme; which lost nothing by this new ordinance: for the English people were not compelled afterwards to depart with their mo|nie vnto strangers, so largelie as before, to content the gréedinesse of that coruorant generation of Ro|manists, whose insatiable desires would admit no stint, as infected with the dropsie of filthie auarice, for

Omnia des cupido, siua non perit inde cupido,

Quò plus sunt potae plus sitiuntur aquae.