The pageant of popes

contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of grace 1555 : deuided into iii sortes, bishops, archbishops, and popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in two bookes, and the third sort in fiue, in the vvhich is manifestlye shevved the beginning of Antichriste and increasing to his fulnesse, and also the vvayning of his povver againe, accordinge to the prophecye of Iohn in the Apocalips : shewing manye straunge, notorious, outragious and tragicall partes, played by them the like vvhereof hath not els bin hearde, both pleasant the profitable for this age

by Bale, John