Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass, Part 1 · Chapter 13
Of the litle ſmall vermine and wormes which fall into the Chalice, and of the wine that is poyſoned. CHAPTER XIII.
ITem, ſi muſca vel ara nea, vel aliquid taliū ante conſecrationem in Calicē ceciderit, vel etiā venenum immiſſum fore deprehenderit, vinū debet infundi, quod eſt in Calice: & abluto Calice, aliud vinum cum aqua poni ad conſecrandum.
Sed ſi aliquid horum, poſt conſecrationē accide rit, debet muſca, vel aranea, vel aliquid taliū, cautè capi, & in alio Calice diligenter inter dig…s pluries lauari, & vermis comburi, & ablutio cum cineribus combuſtis in Sacrario reponi… vel, ſi ſine horrore & abhominatione fieri poteſt, ſumatur à Sacerdote.
Sed, ſi probabiliter timeretur, quod ſpecies vinieſſet infecta veneno, vel Sacerdos ſine vomin vel horrore nimio ſumere non auderet, comburatur vt ſupra: quia, venenum nullo modo debet ſumi, ſed cum reliqui… debet ſanguis talis, o… venenum eſt immiſſu…, in vaſculo mundo reſeruari. Et, ne Sacrament… maneat imperfectū, deb… Calicē denuo rite praepa rare & reſumere conſe crationē ſanguinis ab i… loco, Simili modo, &c
Et nota, quod ſecund… Doctores, nihil abhominabile ſumi debet, occaſione huius Sacramenti.
ALso a if anie flie, ſpider, or anie ſuch like thing fall into the Chalice before the conſecration, or if it be perceaued that any man hath put poiſon into it, then, that wine that is in the Chalice is to be poured out, & when the Chalice is waſht and rinſt, then ſhall other wine, mixt with water, be put into it, to be conſecrated.
b Howbeit if any of theſe thinges happen after the conſecration, thē ſhall he ſlilie take the flie, ſpyder, or anie other ſuch like thing, and diligently waſh it betweene his fingers, ouer ſome other Chalice, in diuerſe waters,VVal. vponupon the forſt beginninges and encreaſe of the Maſſe. and ſo burne the vermine, c and put the water that waſhed it, with the aſhes into the pixe: d or elſe let the Prieſt if he do it without feare and abhorring receaue it him ſelfe.
e But if he feare, and that there be any likelihood, that the nature of the wine is infected with poiſon: or, if the Prieſt dareth not receiue it, f for feare he ſhould caſt it vp, or ſtand in great horror, let it then be burnt, as hath bin before ſaid. For, a man may in no wiſe take the poiſon. g But that blood wherein the poiſon is, muſt be kept in a cleane veſſell with the reliques. And leſt the Sacrament ſhould be imperfect, he muſt againe in due order make ready the Chalice, and rehearſe the conſecratiō of the blood beginning at this place, In like maner &c.
And here is to be noted, that the Doctours are of this opinion, that no abhominable thing is to be receaued by occaſion of this Sacrament.
a It is not meete that any ſmall flie, or anie ſuch like vermine, ſhould ſo trouble theſe God makers,Tully in his 1 & 2. bookes of Diuin. as the king of Moloſſes Ape troubled the Lacedemonians, whenas he ouerthrew the payle wherein the lots of Dodena were.
b Here, a man may learne the Art to fiſh for flies and ſpiders, and to make a lye pot to put thē in. In deede he muſt be verie warie and cunninge how he goeth about them. For theſe beaſtes I tell you, are very ſubtill and dangerous, but eſpecially whē they are dronk, as theſe are which are drowned in wine, or to ſpeake more properly, as the Prieſtes ſay, in blood. Becauſe the wine after the conſecration, is then no more wine, but blood. Wherupon there may ſome queſtion ariſe: to wit, whether theſe flies, ſpiders, or ſuch other like vermine, dronke blood or elſe wine, ſeing that they are choked withall, euē as they that are drowned, which had not ſo come to paſſe except they had dronk more then was meete. Howbeit I will leaue the determination hereof to the good Gentlemen my maiſters the Sorboniſtes.
c The ſhrine is a place wherein is put all the holy traſh, as reliques and ſuch other thinges. And therefore this ſhall be the ſhrine for flies, ſpiders, and vermine: and ſo in the Popiſh Church, flies, ſpiders, and vermine ſhalbe in the number of their reliques and holy traſh, becauſe ſuch reliques are meeteſt for ſuch Sainctes as they hauehave.
d This is to be vnderſtood, of the ly pot which we earſt ſpake of, wherein theſe flies, ſpiders and wormes are waſht. Howbeit if this meſſe of girtbrew, or belly vēgeance like not M. Sir Iohn Pancridge: he is diſcharged of it, if he poure it into the ſtewe amongſt the reliques: and beſides, it hath no verie good taſt with it, by reaſon of the drugs that are mingled therein.
e In this place it is a great deale worſe, then in the ly pot amongſt the flies. For that were a very dangerous bloud, if it ſhould kill him: & farre vnlike the bloud of Ieſus Chriſt, that giueth life, which Pope Victor the third found by experiēce, as heretofore hath bene ſhewed.
f It is rather better to ſet them on fire, then to make another ſhrine, & mo reliques of the Prieſts vomit, with the poiſoned reliques. For that vomi… ſhould be burnt, & afterward put into the ſhrine.
g This is not ſaid without cauſe, for accident are not onelyonly without ſubſtance.
h Reliques of the poiſoned precious blood or the prieſts God. Wherfore it is alſo to be honored, & caried about in proceſſion, euen as was the holy hoſt of Dion, which was ſo martyred by a Iewe, a… that, by the teſtimony of the ſinging cake, or virgine wax, which the Prieſts colored & made red, there came out of it very blood, euen as came out of the hoſt of the God of the Iacobins of Berne, & out of the handkerchief of Cābray. For, is not this holy blood to be ſaid to be martyred, whē as it is empoiſoned. It had bin much better for Pope Victor, that the empoiſoned wine which he dranke, had bin put into ſuch a ſhrine in the Church, then to make a ſhrine of his ſtomach and belly, which could not digeſt it. Although the Popes cauſe th… ſelues to be borne vponupon an hie horſlitter, & to be worſhipped as God, yea with greater honour and magnificence then their white cakie God, whom they cauſe to ride before them vponupon a white gelding: yet doe I verily beleeue, that they had rather hauehave ſuch blud be caried & worſhipped in their ſtead, then to gulpe it downe as Victor did.