"Dona date, astantes; versus ne reddite; sola
Imperat æthereis alma Moneta deis."
and to his love of buffoons:
"Cur non te fingi scurram, Pasquille, rogasti?
Cum Romæ scurris omnia jam licent."
and with reference to the death of Leo, suddenly, under suspicion of poison, and without the sacrament:
"Sacra sub extrema, si forte requiritis, horâ
Cur Leo non potuit sumere: vendiderat."
On the death of Clement VII. (1534), attributed to the mismanagement of his physician, Matteo Curzio:
"Curtius occidit Clementem—Curtius auro
Donandus, per quem publica parta salus."
To Paul III. (1534—50) who attempted to silence him, Pasquin replied:
"Ut canerent data multa olim sunt vatibus æra;
Ut taceam, quantum tu mihi, Paule, dabis."
Upon the spoliation of ancient Rome by Urban VIII.: