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CHAP. III. Of their Vsurpation over Prin∣ces in their Administration: And first of their disdainfull Speeches.
THis much for their Vsurpation over Princes at their entrie: Followeth their Vsurping in their admi∣nistration, which may bee seene in foure, In disdainfull speaches: Abuse of their persons in base offices: Vsurping o∣ver their Lawes in a directiue Power; And censuring them by a coactiue power. Disdainfull Speeches are the first fruits of their prid, & contempt of Princes: So they call them Dogges or Curres to the Pope the great Sheepeheard: If these Dogs (sayeth Becane) be a 1.1 watchfull and tru∣stie, they must bee readie at the Sheepeheards hand. This is no other then what the Pope did to Franciscus Dandalus the Venetian, when hee made him like a Dogge eate crummes vnder his table at Lions. And Scioppius b 1.2 compa••eth them to Asses, carying burdens at the Popes will, and calleth Charles the Great a great Asse: But their Analist aboun∣deth in reproaching the Emperours: Hee calleth Henry the fourth Rex Apostata, Exemplum Regibus Henricianae haeresis labe conspersis, an Apostate King, and an exemplar to them who are guiltie of the Henrician heresic. Like∣wise a contemner of God. And againe obstinate and periured and that like Herod hee persecuted the anoynted of God. And when they had stirred vp against him his Sonne Henrie the fifth, who betyme plyed not their courses as they would, they payed him also with reproaches, and their Analist calleth him in Patrem Carnifex, his Fathers Burrio, and sacrilegious, a Traitour, a Monster, a Tyrant. Gregorie the seventh calleth Henrie the fourth Membrum Diaboli,