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.

xvij.

xvij.] The xvij. Chapter. [1573]

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.

xviij.] The xviij. Chapter. [1573]

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.

besydes] ed., b sydes [1531], besides [1573]

whych] ed., whych / [1531], which, [1573]

It signifieth that the prelates / if they were