from that tyme hitherto / even .xij. hundred yeres longe / hath euer some what moare wayght bene added to / for to kepe vs downe and to confirme vs in blindnesse? how be it / as longe as the significacions bode / they hurted not the soule / though they were paynful vnto the body. Neuer the later I impute this oure greuous faull in to so extreme and horrible blyndnesse (wher in we are so depe and so dedly brought a slepe) vn to nothinge so moch as vn to the multitude of ceremonies. For assone as the prelates had sett vpp soch a rable of ceremonies / they thought it superfluous to preach the playne texte any longer and the law of god / feith of Christ / loue toward oure neyboure and the ordir of oure iustifienge & saluacion / for as moch as all soch thynges were playd before the peoples faces dayly in the ceremonies and euery child wist the meanynge: but gott them vn to allegories / faynynge them euery man aftir his awne brayne / with out rule / all most on euery silable / and from thence vnto disputynge and wastinge their braynes aboute wordes / not attendynge the significacions vntyll at the last the laye people had lost the meaninge of the ceremonies and the prelates the vnderstondynge of the playne texte / and of the Greke Latine and specially of the Hebrue which is most of nede to be knowen / and of all phrases / the propir maner of speakynges and borowed speach of the Hebrues.

Remembir ye not how with in this .xxx. yeres and ferre lesse / and yet dureth vn to this daye / the olde barkynge curres dunces disciples and like draffe called scotistes / the childern of darkenesse / raged in euery pulpyt agenst