VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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with him / with soch opposicions / answerynges & argumentes as shuld serue only to sett forth their purpose. As master More thorow out all his boke maketh / quod he / to dispute and moue questions after soch a maner as he can soyle them or make them appere soyled / and maketh him graunte where he listeth and at the last to be concluded and led wother Master More wyll haue him. Wherfore I wyll not reherse all the argumentes / for it were to longe / and is also not to be beleued that he so made them or so disputed with them / but that they added and pulled awaye and fayned as they liste as their gise is. But I wyll declare in light that which Master More ruffeleth vpp in darkenesse / that ye maye se their falshed.

quod] quoth [1573]

First if ye were not false ypocrites / why had ye not disputed openly with him / that the world might haue hearde and born recorde / that that whych ye now saye of him were true? what cause is there that the laye people might not as well haue hearde his wordes of his awne mouth / as reade them of youre wrytynge / excepte ye were iuglynge spirites that walke in darkenesse?

ypocrites] ed., ypocrires [1531], hypocrites [1573]

When Master More saith the church teacheth that men shuld not trust in their workes / it is false if he mene the popis church. For they teach a man to trust in domme ceremonyes and sacramentes / in penaunce and all maner workes that come them to profite / whych yet helpe not vnto repentaunce ner to fayth ner to loue a mans neyboure .

to] [1573], no [1531]

Master More declareth the meaninge of no sentence he describeth the propir significacion of no worde ner the difference of the significa