't is well enough; but if he should go into Fleet-street, and sit upon a stall, and twirl a band-string, or play with a rush, then all the boys in the street would laugh at him.

6. Verse proves nothing but the quantity of syllables; they are not meant for logic.

POPE.

1. A POPE's bull and a pope's brief differ very much; as with us the great seal and the privy seal. The bull being the highest authority the pope can give, the brief is of less. The bull has a leaden seal upon silk, hanging upon the instrument; the brief has "sub annulo piscatoris" upon the side.

2. He was a wise pope, that when one that used to be merry with him before he was advanced to the popedom, refrained afterwards to come at him, (presuming he was busy in governing the Christian world,) the pope sends for him, bids him come again, "and," says he,

we will be merry as we were before; for thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.” *

* "Go, my son," said the chancellor, Oxenstern, “and see with how little wisdom the world is governed."

3. The pope, in sending relics to princes, does as wenches do by their wassails at newyear's tide; they present you with a cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them money, ten times more than it is worth.

4. The pope is infallible where he hath power to command, that is, where he must be obeyed; so is every supreme power and prince. They that stretch his infallibility further, do they know not what.

5. When a Protestant and a Papist dispute, they talk like two madmen, because they do not agree upon their principles. The one way is to destroy the pope's power, for if he hath power to command me, 't is not my alleging reasons to the contrary can keep me from obeying for example, if a constable command me to wear a green suit to-morrow, and has power to make me, 't is not my alleging a hundred reasons of the folly of it, can excuse me from doing it.

6. There was a time when the pope had power here in England, and there was excellent use made of it; for 't was only to serve turns, as might be manifested out of the records of the kingdom, which divines know little of. If the king did not like what the pope would have, he would forbid the pope's legate to land

upon his ground. So that the power was truly then in the king, though suffered in the pope. But now the temporal and the spiritual power (spiritual so called, because ordained to a spiritual end) spring both from one fountain, they are like to twist that.

7. The Protestants in France bear office in the state, because though their religion be different, yet they acknowledge no other king but the king of France. The Papists in England, they must have a king of their own, a pope, that must do something in our kingdom; therefore there is no reason they should enjoy the same privileges.

8. Amsterdam admits of all religions but Papists, and 't is upon the same account. The Papists, where'er they live, have another king at Rome: all other religions are subject to the present state, and have no prince elsewhere.

9. The Papists call our religion a parliamentary religion; but there was once, I am sure, a parliamentary pope; Pope Urban was made pope in England, by act of parliament, against Pope Clement. The act is not in the book of statutes, either because he that compiled the book would not have the name of the pope there, or else he would not let it appear that they meddled with any such thing; but 't is upon the rolls,

10. When our clergy preach against the pope and the church of Rome, they preach against themselves; and crying down their pride, their power, and their riches, have made themselves poor and contemptible enough they dedicate first to please their prince, not considering what would follow. Just as if a man were to go a journey, and seeing at his first setting out the way clean and fair, ventures forth in his slippers, not considering the dirt and the sloughs are a little further off, or how suddenly the weather may change.

POPERY.

1. THE demanding a noble for a dead body passing through a town, came from hence in time of popery; they carried the dead body into the church, where the priest said dirges; and twenty dirges at four pence a piece comes to a noble; but now it is forbidden by an order from my lord marshal; the heralds carry his warrant about them.

2. We charge the prelatical clergy with popery to make them odious, though we know they are guilty of no such thing; just as heretofore they called images mammets, and the

adoration of images mammetry, that is Mahomet and Mahometry; odious names, when all the world knows the Turks are forbidden images by their religion.

1. There is no stretching of power it is a good rule, "Eat within your stomach; act within your commission."

2. They that govern most make least noise. You see when they row in a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and sweat; but he that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.

3. Syllables govern the world.

4. "All power is of God," means no more than "Fides est servanda." When St. Paul said this, the people had made Nero emperor. They agree, he to command, they to obey; then God comes in, and casts a hook upon them, "Keep your faith": then comes in, "All power is of God." Never king dropped out of the clouds. God did not make a new emperor, as the king makes a justice of peace.

5. Christ himself was a great observer of the civil power, and did many things only jus