But the greatest difficulty that I find in the execution of this my design, will be, how to separate the good Corn from the Tares: for all that the _Nipotismo_ does, is thought good and just by them, though never so wicked; and the _Romans_, on the contrary, will scarce allow of any of their actions, though never so virtuous. Christ has often compared in his Gospel the Church to a Field; and indeed it was a very fit Metaphor: for, like a Field, it has always been either sowed, or mowed; and it is a hard matter to know, whether the number of the Sowers does exceed that of the Mowers, though their Employment be very different. But certainly we may say, That the _Popes_ Nephews have always been the Mowers, and the rest of Christian Princes the Sowers. And as Princes have made no difficulty of taxing themselves and their Subjects, and parting with the dearest fruits of their labours, to give to the Church; so the _Pope’s_ Nephews have made no scruple of dissipating and spending in their Pastimes and Pleasures, that which Princes had spared out of their own Treasure for them. What would _Constantine_, _Pepin_, _Charlemagne_, the Countess _Mathilda_, and so many other Princes say, if they should come into the World again, to see those Lands and Revenues, which they so charitably gave to the Church, divided, and cast lots for, as his Vestments? Truly I think, that they would now think it as a pious Work, to take from the Church-men by force, that which they had before given so willingly: and this because they would deliver so many People from the intolerable oppression of these _Nipotismo’s_. And indeed their insatiability is such, that the Church and the State, ruined and spoiled as it is by so many hungry _Nipotismo’s_, would scarce suffice for their maintenance, if Forreign Princes did not take a pride in enriching the Church by great Revenues, which are all devoured by the hungry _Nipotismo’s_; who are very justly compared to the _Hydra’s_ Heads, whereof one was no sooner cut off, but there sprung seven worse and more envenomed in the place. It is a kind of a Miracle to me, to hear Princes murmur at the disorders the _Nipotismo’s_ commit, in robbing the Church, and perverting the use of its Riches; And yet to see those very same Princes contribute out of their own Revenues, and their Peoples Sweat and Labour, towards the enriching of those that they blame.