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Cambilhom, Johann · 1610

protestants and Calvinists, and thus inquire of them what good they have written against the Jesuits. And those villains have undoubtedly been the very ones who for some time have miserably deceived many of our own and finally utterly ruined them. But so that everyone may henceforth guard and provide for themselves against such hangman’s knaves, and also avoid such spies, I will briefly recount what these godless Jesuits have recently deliberated.
But why, one might further ask here, does this gatekeeper of theirs keep women’s clothing? Just hear what I have to say: in his entire life, the Leno pimp/procurer—whom Terence mentions in his comedies—was never as thoughtful and cunning regarding his flirtations and dalliances as the Jesuits are in their hunt for whores today, especially this gatekeeper, who has an immoderate number of ways and means to reconcile such harlots to himself and his own, and what else the Jesuits [might obtain] through the ear-confession,