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Priest.
Pack-man, if thou believe the Legendary ;
The Masse is elder far then Christ or Mary ;
For all the Patriarchs, both more and lesse,
And gi-eat Melchisedeck himself said Mass.
Paeli-mmi.
But good Sir John, spake all these Fathers Latine ?
And said they Masse in surplices and Satine 1
Could they speak Latine long ere Latine grew ;
And without Latine no Mass can be true.
And as for Hereticks that now translate it,
False miscreants, they shame the Masse and slate it ?
Priest.
Well, Pack-man, faith, thou art too curiousv
Thy spur-blind zeal, fervent, but furioiis :
I'd rather teach a whole Coven of Monks,
Then such a Pack-man with his Puritane spunks.
This thoii must know, that cannot be deny'd,
Rome reign'd o'er all when Christ was crucify'd ;
Rome Ethenick then, but afterwards converted,
And grew so honest, and so holy hearted,
That now her Emp'ror is turn'd in our Pope,
His Holiness, as you have heard, I hope.
He made a Law, that all the World should pray
In Latine Language to the Lord each day :
And thus in our Traditions j^ou may try,
Which if you list to read, and shal espy
The Pope to be Christs Vicar, sole and sure,
And to the Worlds end will so endure.
Pack-man.
Surely this purpose puts me far aback,
And hath mo points, then pins in all my pack ;
What ever poAver you give to your Pope,
He may not make a man an Ape, I hope.