Pictor in fabula

The English Jesuits have beat the Spaniards into such a stupidity, by perswasion, that they scarse either see them, or the scholers, even in the streets; but they run to them, and kisse their garments; thinking they will all very suddenly be martyrs. And somtimes they runne upon confessed sinnes; that they may please, and flatter the senses of people. Michael Angelo, a painter of Rome, having enticed a young man into his house, under the smooth pretence of drawing a picture by the sight of him: bound him to a great woodden crosse, and having stabbed him to the heart with a pen-knife, in imitation of Parrhasius that had tortured an old captive in the like cause, drew Christ hanging, and dying upon the crosse, after his resemblance, and yet escaped without punishment. And this picture, because it sets forth Christ dying, as if the picture it selfe were dying, and with a shew of motion in every part; and because it gives the death of Christ to the life; is had in great veneration amongst them.