VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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Greke Latine and Hebrue / and what sorow the scolemastirs that taught the true Latine tonge had with them / some betynge the pulpyt with their fistes for madnesse and roringe out with open and fominge mouth / that if there ware but one tirens or virgill in the world and that same in their sleues and a fire before them / they wold burne them therin / though it shuld cost them their liues / affirmynge that all good lerninge decayed and was vtterly lost sens men gaue them vn to the Latine tonge? ye and I dare saye / that there be .xx. thousand prestes curattes this daye in Englond and not so few / that can not geue you the right English vn to this texte in the pater noster / fiat voluntas tua sicut in celo & in terra and answere therto.

And assone as the significacion of the ceremonies was lost / and the prestes preached christ no lenger / then the comen people began to wax mad and out of their mindes vppon the ceremonies. And that trust and confidence which the ceremonies preached / to be geuen vn to Gods worde and Christes bloude / that same they turned vn to the ceremonie it selfe as though a man were so mad to forgett that the bosh at the tauern dore did signifie wine to be solde within / but wold beleue that the bosh it selfe wold quench his thirste. And so they became seruantes vn to the ceremonies / asscribynge their iustifienge and saluacion vn to them supposynge that it was nothynge else to be a christen man / then to serue ceremonies / and him most christen that most serued them / and contrary wise him that was not popish & ceremoniall / no christen man at all. For I pray you / for what cause worshepe we our spiritualtie so hiely or wherfore thynke

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