John Trapp on Revelation 17:9

Verſe 9. Here is the minde] q. d. Here is work for wiſe men to buſie their brains codicibus. about. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Sapientia eſt vel cordibus.

Seven mountains] The Jeſuites cannot deny but that Rome is here pointed at, as being ſet upon ſeven hils. So the ancient Rome was, whereof the preſent Rome is but a carcaſe, as retaining nothing of the old but her ruines, and the cauſe of them her ſinnes.