VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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How be it let it be the holy gost that was in the maide of kent. Then I praye you what thinge worthy of so greate prayse hath oure ladye done? Our lady hath deliuered her of the holy gost & emptyed her of moch hie lerninge which as a goodly poetisse / she vttered in rimes. For appose her now of christ / as scripture testifieth of him / and thou shalt finde her clene with out ryme or reason. The mayde was at home also in heuenly pleasures / and our lady hath deliuered her out of the ioyes of Orestes and brought her in to the miseries of middell erth agayne.

Our Lady dyd the mayde of Kent small pleasure.[1573]

Orestes [1531]

xvij.

As for dulia / yperdulia and latria / though he shew not with which of them he worsheped the cardinalles hatt / ys answered vnto hym all ready.

xviij.

In the .xviij. where he wold faine proue that the popes church can not erre / he allegeth thynges wherof he myght be asshamed / yf he were not past shame / to proue that the bisshopes haue auctorite to lade vs with tradicions nether profitable for soule nor body. He bringeth a false allegorie vppon the ouerplus that the Samaritane if it were layde out / promised to paye when he came agayne / for the bysshopes tradicions. Nay M. More / besydes that allegories which euery man maye fayne at his pleasure can proue nothynge / Chryst interpreteth it him selfe / that it betokeneth a kynde mynde and a louinge neyboure / whych so loued a straunger / that he neuer left carynge for hym / both absent as wel as present / vntyll he were full hole and comen out of all necessite.

Tradycyons [1531]

Allegory [1531]

It signifieth that the prelates / if they were