"an
apparently accurate transcript" of the original, in the
possession of Mr. Heber. From the last mentioned work (vol.
ii., p. 11, &c.), there is rather a copious account of a yet
more formidable poetical attack against Wolsey, in the
"_Rede me and be not wroth_," of William Roy: a very rare
and precious little black-letter volume, which, although it
has been twice printed, is scarcely ever to be met with, and
was unknown to Warton. It will, however, make its appearance
in one of the supplemental volumes of Mr. Park's valuable
reprint of the _Harleian Miscellany_. While the cardinal was
thus attacked, in the biting strains of poetry, he was
doomed to experience a full share of reprobation in the
writings of the most popular theologians. William Tyndale
stepped forth to shew his zeal against papacy in his
"_Practise of Popishe Prelates_," and from this work, as it
is incorporated in those of Tyndale, Barnes, and Frith,
printed by Day in 1572, fol., the reader is presented with
the following amusing specimen of the author's vein of
humour and indignation: "And as I heard it spoken of divers,
he made, by craft of necromancy, graven imagery to bear upon
him; wherewith he bewitched the king's mind--and made the
king to doat upon him, more than he ever did on any lady or
gentlewoman: so that now the king's grace followed him, as
he before followed the king. And then what he said, that was
wisdom; what he praised, that was honourable only." Practise
of Popishe Prelates, p. 368. At p. 369, he calls him "Porter
of Heaven." "There he made a journey of gentlemen, arrayed
altogether in silks, so much as their very shoes and lining
of their boots; more like their mothers than men of war:
yea, I am sure that many of their mothers would have been
ashamed of so nice and wanton array. Howbeit, they went not
to make war, but peace, for ever and a day longer. But to
speak of the pompous apparel of my lord himself, and of his
chaplains, it passeth the xij Apostles. I dare swear that if
Peter and Paul had seen them suddenly, and at a blush, they
would have been harder in belief that they, or any such,
should be their successors than Thomas Didimus was to
believe that Christ was risen again from death." _Idem_, p.
370,--"for the worship of his ha