VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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And as for there raylynge loke in their excomunicacion / and se whether they spare kinge or emproure or the testament of god. And as for obedience to father and mother / Nay / they be immediatly vnder god and his holy vicar the pope / he is their father and on his ceremonies they must wayte. And as for vnthankefull / they be so kynde / that if they haue receaued a thousand pound londe of a man / yet for all that they wold not receaue one of his offspringe vn to a nightes herber at his nede / for their founders sake. And whether they be vngodly or no I reporte me vn to the parchment. And as for churlishnesse / se whether they will not haue their causes venged / though it shuld cost hole regions / ye and al christendome / as ye shall se and as it hath cost halfe christendome all redie. And as for their promise or trucebreakynge / se whether any appoyntement maye endure for their dispensacions / be it neuer so lawfull / though the sacrament were receaued for the confirmacion. And se whether they haue not broken all the appoyntementes made betwene them and their founders. And se whether they be not accusers and traytours al so of all men / and that secretly and of their very awne kynges and of their awne nacion. And as for their heedinesse / se whether they be not prone / bold and runne hedelonge vn to all mischeue / with out pitie and compassion or caringe what misery and destruccion shuld fall on other men / so they maye haue their present pleasure fulfilled. And se whether they loue not their lustes / that they will not be refrayned from them ether by any law of god or man. And as for their apperaunce of godlynesse / se whether all be not gods seruice that they fayne / and se whether not

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