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The second sort of men be those that come to great livings by their learning,¹ and when they have the reward of learning, they teach no more, as bishops and ministers of the Church: whom the Prophet calleth dumb dogs that cannot bark,² their mouths be so choked with the bones of bishoprics and benefices. I speak of such as know the trueth and love it, and not of such as neither know it nor love it. For although those men speak but seldom, yet it is too much: for better it were never to speak, then to speak falsely.

The second sort of men be those that come to great liuings by their learning,¹ and when they haue the reward of learning, they teach no more, as bishops and ministers of the Church: whome the Prophet calleth dumbe dogges that cannot barke,² their mouthes be so choked with the bones of bishoppricks and benefices. I speake of such as knowe the trueth and loue it, and not of such as neither know it nor loue it. For although those men speake but seldome, yet it is too much: for better it were neuer to speake, then to speake falsely.

1. 1Note well.
2. 2Isaiah. 56.Esaie. 56.

The third sort be our Nichodemes,¹ that can speak of Christ in the night, or to their friends, but openly they will confess nothing with the mouth, nor do any thing outwardly for fear of the world, that should sound to Gods glory. And these