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Now for mine own part so far am I from misliking these laws, that, considering the great and general abuse of the games by them prohibited, committed by such as both wast their preciousest time, and throw away their wealth and thrift together at these exercises and the like; I wish rather that both the laws were yet severer then they are, and that those that are, were better put in execution then for the most part they be.

Now for mine owne part so far am I from misliking these lawes, that, considering the great and generall abuse of the games by them prohibited, committed by such as both wast their pretiousest time, and throw away their wealth and thrift together at these exercises and the like; I wish rather that both the lawes were yet seuerer then they are, and that those that are, were better put in execution then for the most part they be.

For the French States and Synods with their Canons and Constitutions, having not seen them, I can say nothing but this to them; that if they have utterly abandoned the use of those games among them; (which I doubt much of) yet neither doth that prove every lusorious Lo• simply unlawful, ⟨p. 207⟩nor make the games in that regard evil unto us.

For the French States and Synodes with their Canons and Constitutions, hauing not seene them, I can say nothing but this to them; that if they haue vtterly abandoned the vse of those games among them; (which I doubt much of) yet neither doth that proue euery lusorious Lo• simply vnlawfull, ⟨p. 207⟩nor make the games in that regard euill vnto vs.