Symon auffert, Symon donat; Hunc expellit, hunc coronat; Hunc circumdat gravi peste, Illum nuptiali veste.[695] There were few more popular poems in the Middle Ages than the “Apocalypsis Goliæ,” the more than doubtful authorship of which, at the close of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, is claimed for Walter Mapes in England and Gautier de Châtillon in France; and the enduring reputation of which is attested by an English version as late as the sixteenth century. The author, whoever he be, inveighing against the evil courses of the archdeacons, assumes that the extortion of the “cullagium” was almost universal. Seductam nuntii fraude præambuli Capit focariam, ut per cubiculi Fortunam habeat fortunam loculi, Et per vehiculum omen vehiculi. Decano præcipit quod si presbiteri Per genitivos scit dativos fieri, Accusans faciat vocatum conteri, Ablatis fratribus a porta inferi.[696] Towards the middle of the thirteenth century, Peter de Vinea also has his fling at the same corruption, and though the part he took in the fierce quarrels between his master Frederic II. and the papacy renders him perhaps a prejudiced witness, still his ample experience of the disorders of the church makes him an experienced one. Non utuntur clerici nostri vestimentis: Sed tenent focarias, quod clamor est gentis— —Dehinc reum convocant, et, turba rejecta, Dicunt: Ista crimina tibi sunt objecta; Pone libras quindecim in nostra collecta, Et tua flagitia non erunt detecta. Reus dat denarios, Fratres scriptum radunt; Sic infames plurimi per nummos evadunt: Qui totam pecuniam quam petunt non tradunt, Simul in infamiam et in pœnam cadunt.[697]