ainst them?_ I am in doubt whether
ye are able. Are they not stronger in your own parliament
house than yourself 8

So captive are your laws unto them, that no man that they
list to excommunicate may be admitted to sue any action in
any of your Courts 9

Neither have they any coulour [_pretence_] to gather these
yearly exactions but they say they pray to GOD to deliver
our souls from purgatory. If that were true we should give
a hundred times as much. But many men of great literature
say there is no purgatory: and that if there were and that
the Pope may deliver one soul for money, he may deliver him
as well without money; if one, a thousand; if a thousand,
all; and so destroy purgatory. 10

6. _But what remedy? To make many hospitals for the relief of
the poor people?_ Nay, truly! The more the worse. For ever
the fat of the whole foundation hangeth on the priests'
beards 12

7. Set these sturdy loobies abroad in the world to get
themselves wives, to get their living with their labour
in the sweat of their faces, according to the commandment
of GOD 13

_BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIMON FISH'S WORKS._

A Supplication for the Beggers.

ISSUES IN HIS LIFETIME.

A. _As a separate publication._

1. [1529. Printed abroad.] 8vo. See title at _p._ 1. Wholly printed in a
clear italic type.

2. 1529. [Printed abroad.] 4to. Klagbrieff oder supplication der armen
duerfftigen in Engenlandt | an den Konig daselb gestellet | widder die
reychen geystlichen bettler. [A Letter of Complaint or Supplication of the
necessitous poor in England shewn to the King thereof against the rich
spiritual beggars] M.D.XXIX. [with a preface by SEBASTIAN FRANCK.] Black
letter.

3. 1530. [Printed abroad.] 8vo. Supplicatorius Libellus pauperum, et
egentium nomine, Henricho VIII. Serenissimo Angliae regi etc. oblatus,
contra quotidianas religiosorum ibidem iniurias et impiam auariciam. Ex
Anglico in latinum versus. M.D.XXX.

In the same type and style as No. 1. and with an engraved framework on the
title page that may eventually lead to a knowledge of the foreign printer
of both the editions.

B.