Fortes Christi milites modo recesserunt;
Sathanæ satellites templum subverterunt ;
Laceras et debiles oves prodiderunt ;
Cuculi degeneres nisis successerunt.
Patres quondam nobiles pestes fugarunt,
Et in fide stabiles languidos sanarunt ;
Vita venerabiles signis coruscarunt ;
Actus per laudabiles Christo militarunt.
Tales erunt vestibus asperis vestiti ;
Ut moderni mollibus raro sunt potiti.
Hii præclaris moribus erant insigniti ;
Juvenes a sordibus sacris eruditi.

Heu! nunc mercenarii, nec veri pastores,
Rectores, vicarii, mutaverunt mores;

Ambitu denarii subeunt labores ;

Tales operarii merentur morores :

Isti pro ciliciis utuntur pellura ;
Farciunt deliciis ventres tota cura;
Dant post[ea] spurcitiis se sine mensura;
Suffulti divitiis vivunt contra jura.

Dum capella tegitur nobili vestura,
Sponsa Christi rapitur nudata tectura;
Vinea destruitur porcorum ursura,
Et vitis evellitur, carens jam cultura.

Sacerdotes Domini sunt incontinentes ;
Actus suo nomini non sunt respondentes ;
Sacra dantes homini forent et docentes;
Sui mores ordini non sunt congruentes.
Ista super æthera sanguine scribantur,
Ut patenti littera sæculis legantur;
Ignibus cum vetera peccata purgantur,
Sua ferant onera jam qui dominantur.

En amor et caritas regnis refrigescunt;
Livor et severitas gentibus ardescunt;
Cleri plebis veritas et fides tepescunt;
Hinc regni nobilitas et fama quiescunt.
Feminæ fragilitas omni caret laude;
Mercantum subtilitas versatur in fraude;
Et fratrum dolositas jungit caput caudæ.
Homo, si jam veritas te gubernat, gaude!
Explicit.

CAMD. SOC. 6.

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P. 14. SONG ON THE TIMES.-Giraldus Cambrensis has inserted a copy of this Song in the Speculum Ecclesiæ, MS. Cotton. Tiberius, B. XIII. fol. 126, vo, and attributes it to the famous Golias, which is commonly supposed to be only a fictitious name for Walter Mapes. This takes away all doubt as to its age, and the explanations given by Flacius Illyricus may be right. There is another copy in a Cottonian MS. of the thirteenth century, Vespas. A. xix. fol. 59, r°, where it is entitled De veneranda justitia Romanæ curiæ. In Giraldus, the song commences with the 13th line, Roma mundi caput est, &c. In the other Cotton. MS. it begins as in our text. The variations afforded by these two MSS. are as follow:-P. 14, l. 1, Romanæ reb., C.-6, profluit, C. -9, the first est is omitted in C.-10, Tegunt picem, C.-P. 15, l. 12, ramus in sap., C.-15, trahit enim, G. and C.-17, res et sing., C.-21, In hoc consistorio, G. and C.-27, petunt quando petis, G. and C.-28, eadem et metis, C.-P. 16. The first 16 lines in this page are omitted in Giraldus. —l. 5, nummus, C.-6, rot. placet, totum pl., C.-7, ita pl... Romanos, C.-10, obiceret, C.-11, Et sanc., C.-12, transeunt, C.-13, venit parca, C.-15, pro munere, C.-P. 17, l. 1, et.. sit, G. and C. animanti, C.-2, Respondet hæc tibia, G. and C.-6, li mort, C.-7, G. and C. have Porta at the beginning of this line, and Papa in the next. G. omits the words chartula quærit: it ought to be observed that in this MS. the song is written as prose, so that such omissions are easily explained.-8, G. and C. omit the words cursor quærit.—9, omnis quærit, G. si des si quid uni, G. and C.-10, Totum mare salsum est, tota, G. and C. except that the former has salseum for salsum est: see another example of this expression in the present volume, p. 228, 1. 19.—11, Des.. des .. addas, G.-1. 12, the extract in Giraldus ends here.-P. 18, 1. 4, totum impl., C.-6, habet Pluto, C.-9, dant divitibus, C.

P. 44, 1. 3 of Song against the Bishops, read fungar vice cotis, "I will perform the part of a whetstone."

P. 282, 1. 5 of translation, for Edward, read Edmund.