Religion
Epigram 18: Who dares affirme the Popes of Rome
From The Sculler (1612)
Who dares affirme the Popes of Rome are Proud,
Amongst the Heretickes himselfe must shroud:
Or who dares say they'r giuen to Auarice,
In selling heauen and hell for summes of price?
Or who dares speake such words of trechery,
To say the Pope is giuen to Letchery?
Or who is he, dares be so impious,
To say his holynes is Enuious?
Or , for feare of euerlasting scath,
Dares once accuse his holynes of Wrath?
Or who is he that dares once veresy,
The Pope doth vse excessiue Gluttony?
Or who dares say that like a droane or moath,
Like an vnpreaching Priest he liues by Sloath?
He that against him this dares iustifie,
Is a plaine Protestant, and such am I.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 18: Who dares affirme the Popes of Rome.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/23/.
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Taylor, John. “Epigram 18: Who dares affirme the Popes of Rome.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/23/.
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