The Expences of this _Pope_ were exorbitant; for he did undertake every thing rashly, and more out of _Capriccio_, than ripe judgment and deliberation: So that he undoubtedly did the Church more hurt than good. There is little to be said of _Innocent_ the Ninth, _Gregory_ the Fourteenth, and _Urban_ the Seventh; for the greatest mischief they did the Church, was, that they liv’d so little. We will therefore come to _Sixtus_ the Fifth. The _Nipotismo_ of this _Pope_ was one of the most innocent ones that ever was seen; for he hindred them from taking any part in the Government: So that they were in the Court, like Beggars at a Church door, of whom few People take notice. Not that he was so severe, as to hinder them from a share in his Fortune; for he did bestow large Revenues upon them all: observing nevertheless, to refuse always every thing that they begg’d, and to give them when they least thought of it. He did much affect this sort of Generosity, or rather Soverainty; for he never suffered any of his Relations to put their hands into his Coffers; nay, he was so absolute, that once he banished a Kinsman of his, because he found his House better furnished, than it could be by those Gratifications which he had received from the _Pope_, who used no more words with him but these, _We have given you so much_, _and you have so much_; _How came you by the rest_? And so without delay he banish’d him, and divided his Fortune amongst his other Relations. If the Nephews of other _Popes_ become rich, it is by the abuse they make of that Authority which they usurp in the _Pope’s_ Name. But it was not so with the _Nipotismo_ of _Sixtus_; for he never gave blindly, but with his eyes open, and discreetly: And if there were any Error committed in their growing rich, it was the _Pope_ that was the Author of it, and not they, who were meerly passive, and did but receive their Uncles Liberalities.