day, if ever you raise your eyes to it.  For what a piece of stupidity it would be to prefer Hanmers and Charks to Christian antiquity!  But there are certain Lutheran enticements whereby the devil extends his kingdom, delicate snares whereby that hooker of men has caught with his baits already many of your rank and station.  What are they!  Gold, glory, pleasures, lusts.  Despise them.  What are they but bowels of earth, high-sounding air, a banquet of worms, fair dunghills.  Scorn them.  Christ is rich, who will maintain you:  He is a King, who will provide you:  He is a sumptuous entertainer, who will feast you; He is beautiful, who will give in abundance all that can make you happy.  Enrol yourselves in His service, that with Him you may gain triumphs, and show yourselves men truly most learned, truly most illustrious.  Farewell.  At Cosmopolis, City of all the world, 1581.

THE END.

[Footnote 1:  Cf.  Newman, Lectures on Anglican Difficulties, Lect. xii.:  “I say, then, the writings of the Fathers, so far from prejudicing at least one man (J.H.N.) against the modern Church, have been singly and solely the one intellectual cause of his having renounced the religion in which he was born and submitted himself to her.”]

[Footnote 2:  Richard Cheyne, Anglican bishop of Gloucester, to whom there is extant a letter from Campion, dated 1 November, 1571.]

[Footnote 3:  The Latin is Philippos.]

[Footnote 4:  Seems to refer to the first Protestant bishops, mighty hunters (Genesis x. 9) after place, and, to secure it, all too ready to alienate the manors and possessions of their see.]

[Footnote 5:  I have here paraphrased, as any literal translation would have been hopelessly obscure to most modern readers.  Campion could but hint darkly his comparison of the Elizabethan persecution to the Decian.  The Latin runs:  Etenim, ut nostrorum illa fuit Epistasis turbulenta, sic nostrorum haec evasit divina Catastrophe. Epistasis is “the part of the play where the plot thickens” (Liddell and Scott). Catastrophe is “the turn of the plot” (Id.).]

[Footnote 6:  Faeces et folles et alumenta gehennae.]

[Footnote 7:  Mali corvi.]