Chapter XCI: French

Clergé _Romain_ l’an mil six cens & neuf,
Au chef de l’an fera Election,
D’un gris & noir de la Campagne yssu,
Qui oncques ne fut si malin.

English.

The _Roman_ Clergy in the year a thousand six hundred and nine,
In the beginning of the year shall make choice
Of a gray and black, come out of the Countrey,
Such a one as never a worse was.

ANNOT.

Wanting the Chronology of the Popes, I have not set down who that Pope was, then whom our Author saith there never was a worse, but the time being so punctually prefixed, it will be an easie matter for the Reader to find out satisfaction in this point.