Another time were found in the streets of _Rome_, a great quantity of Pictures; in every one of which was drawn a poor Prelate, asking Alms from the Church to content himself withall; to whom the Church made answer, _For my part_, _I have not a farthing_, _the_ Barbarines _have taken all from me_.
Almost at the same time, was seen a Medal, which represented _Pasquin_, loaden with Swords, Musquets, Daggers, and other Weapons, with an inscription that said,
which thing displeased the Barbarines beyond measure, conceiving that all this was nothing but a design to make the people rise in Armes against them; so that though they set a good face upon it, yet secretly they disposed things to their defence, in case of a sedition.
And certainly had it not been, that the _Romans_ did every day look for the Popes death, there would have happened some revolution, for the hatred of the people to the _Barbarines_ encreased more and more the longer the Pope lived; one thing particularly exciting publick envy and jealousie, which was, that the _Barbariens_ did every day plant their Armes in some place or another of the City, to eternize their Name and Family.
One of my friends had the curiosity, to reckon all the Bees (that is, the _Barbarines_ Armes) that the _Barbarines_ had placed here and there, as well in the City, as in the State of the Church, and found their number to be above ten thousand, in Painting, Stone and Marble.
The _Barbarines_ tryed to make themselves great Princes; and trusting to the great sums of money which they had got together, thought they might make themselves Masters of a good part of _Italy_: Their first design was, to put themselves in possession of the Dutchy of _Urbin_, which in the year 1631. was fallen to the Church, by the death of _Francisco Maria della Rovere_; but they found the Cardinals very averse, and resolved not to consent to the alienation of so considerable a part of the Popedom; they thought therefore that it was better to let it alone, considering the injuries they had already done to _Venice_, and the great Duke of _Tuscany_, who without doubt would have crossed their design.
But to be at once revenged of their Enemies, and draw respect from their Friends, they fram’d a design of driving the _Spaniards_ out of the Kingdom of _Naples_, and giving the Crown of that Kingdom to _Don Tadeo_; this they thought, by reason of the decaying State that the House of _Austria_ was then in, that they might bring to pass with little or no trouble; but when the business came to be weighed, and discussed, in the presence of a Prelate, of great esteem and credit, of their party, he told them, _That the_ Neapolitans _had received such ill impressions of the Pope and his Family_, _that they would sooner give themselves to the_ Turk, _then to the Barbarines_.