Satyra.

Thus he forbids the monuments of the ancient parents,
Histories, arts, medicines, and the laws of Kings,
And the famous books of wisdom, and of good poets,
And whatever the ancient Greeks and Latins wrote.
Indeed, he will provide us everything from Roman presses,
And will thus keep everything in an imposed halter,
Of course. He truly seeks plunder everywhere in this manner:
And what you take elsewhere and from German shores,
That he now attempts to store in Vatican chests.

Furthermore, is it not a sign of a maddened fury,
That moved by a sad vertigo of the mind like Ajax,
He proscribes not only heretics, but also friends,
And his own supporters? For Rotterdam Erasmus,
Wolfius, Hartungus, Cognatus, and Doletus,
Zasius, and Gebilerus, and Henricus Glareanus,
Then also Pyrcheymerus and Beatus Rhenanus,
And many others, whom the rabid Index contains,
I do not know when, or in which books they embraced
The dogmas of Luther, or attacked the Papacy.
But who is so stupid as to praise known abuses?
And to approve the life of priests, and wicked gains?
And the deeds and state of impostor monks?
Therefore, will it be permitted to no one to grumble against these?
Can he therefore not be a Catholic, who has spoken any
Word more freely? Is this not violent tyranny?
So that he may promote this everywhere, and hold it powerfully,
Cerberus has placed stupid monks in charge everywhere.