An other book against Rastel named the subsidy or bulwark to his first book,…An other boke against Rastel named the subsedye or bulwark to his fyrst boke,…

This he counteth jesting slandering¹ and railing saying that no reasonable man will think these points to be things belonging to virtue / but rather spices and branches of pride / and that I show not my self therein charitable but rather malicious nor no wisdom therein / but rather folly / adding that if I had been half year at two schools / that is to say the school of discretion and the school of charity I should more have prospered in virtuous learning then I have done in other schools this .vii. year. And sayeth that I have ben at the schools of slandering railing and jesting.

This he counteth gestinge sclanderinge¹ and raylinge sayinge that no reasonable man wyll thynke these poyntes to be thīges belonginge to vertue / but rather spyces and branches of pryde / and that I shewe not my selfe therin charitable but rather malicious nor no wysdom therin / but rather folye / addynge that yf I had bene halfe yere at two scoles / that is to saye the scole of discrecion and the scole of cheryte I shulde more haue prospered in vertuous lernyng then I haue done in other scoles this .vii. yere. And sayeth that I haue ben at the scoles of slanderynge raylinge and gestinge.

1. 1Rastell

Dear brother if it had been so that I¹ had spoken certain words in dead which might have seemed in your eyes to be railing / detracting and slandering (as I have not / saving a little jesting) would you disprove my doctrine thereby? what will you then say to S. John baptist which called the pharisees (then heads of the church / as are now our doctors) generation of vipers?² would you therefore conclude that his doctrines where nought / I think you be not so childish. And it seemeth this one sentence to be more railing and slandering