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Poverty is shameful, turpis egestas. Now what's shameful is contrary to the Venerati∣on, which the People ought to have for Pre∣lates, and which make the Basis of their Em∣pire, quella venerazione ch'è la base de loro imperio. Ecclesiastical Revenues then ought to be imployed above all to enrich the Pre∣lates and not others. A man naturally abhors
Poverty, and the pains-taking which accom∣panies it as necessary to get a livelyhood: 'Tis this same dread that makes men labour, to the end they may shun poverty: if then for all this same dreadfulness of poverty, yet so many People of the poorer sort do still lye lazy, what would they do when they saw, that there was a setled bank for them in the Riches of the Church?* 1.1 Che sarebbe quando ve∣dessero una provisione abondate e sicura per tutti poveri. So that 'tis better that this bank be applied for to inrich the Prelates, than to succour the Poor's misery: the Poor must be made to work to heap up in others that Na∣taural dread which they have of Poverty and pains-taking, which accompanies it, in tal maniera simantien l'orrore verso la povertà come compagna dello stento.* 1.2 If a man reads Chapter the Ninth of the Ninth Book, and Chapter the Ninth of the Sixteenth Book of the History of our Cardinal's Council, he shall see by what the Cardinal speaks thereof poverty, as also by what he hath already said, that he talks after another manner than Mahomet. The Cardinal approves the dread and shunning of poverty, which he attri∣butes to Nature, whose inclination's God will not, quoth he, destroy; and the false pro∣phet Mahomet, in his Alehoran in the Chap∣ter of the Cow, say's the Devil will frigh∣ten you with poverty, condemning the fear of poverty, as a temptation of the Devil. Thus the Policy of Mahomet, is tyrannical and contrary to Nature, but our Cardinals,
is Religious and all full of new lights.
Ibid.
Ibid.