[1] [2] And to colour the matter with some fauourable pretext, and to make men the better willing, & more readie to giue franklie, he promised with that monie to make warre against the Turke. By this meanes the po [...]e got a great masse of monie, which he had conueied ouer vnto him by such trustie messengers (doubt you not) as he had appointed; and yet nothing doone against the Turks, which in the meane season did much hurt to the christians. [For it was no part of his meaning (what colourable shew soeuer he made of tendering the succourlesse people) to impart anie portion thereof to so good a vse; Abr. Fle [...] but rather for the supportation of him and his swarme, who before they will bate an ace of their gorgeous gallantnesse, the whole world shalbe co [...]sened. Such is the collusion of the pope, such be the shamelesse shifts of him and his cleargie for the maintenance of their owne courtlie brauerie, which is wicked vanitie; farre passing the pompe of anie prince, were the same of neuer so rare magnificence; as he well noteth that said full trulie:

—immenso princeps non visus in orbe est,

Cui tanti fastus tantáue pompa fuit.Antith. [...] & pap [...] pag 31 40.

Ingreditur quando miserae Babylonis in Vrbes,

Cernitur hîc plusquam regia pompa comes.

Huic equus est spumans ostró insignis & auro,

Altisono cuius sub pede terra fremit, &c.]