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An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief…An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe…
An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief and plain declaration of the true religion professed and used in the same.An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe and plaine declaration of the true religion professed and vsed in the same.
Londini: printed by Reginald Wolfe, 1564
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Who put in arms Henry the son against The Emperor his father Henry the fourth,1 and wrought so that the Father was taken prisoner of his own son, and being shorne and shamefully handled, was thrust into a monastery, where with hunger & sorrow he dived away to death? Who so ilfavoredlye and monstrously put the Emperor Frederick's neck under his feet,2 and as though that were not sufficient, added further this text out of the Psalms: Thou shalt go upon the Adder and cockatrice, and shalt tread the Lyon and Dragon under thy feet? Such an example ⟨image 58⟩of scorning and contemning • Princes majesty, as never before this was heard tell of in any remembrance, except I ween, either of Tamerlane the king of Scythia a wild and barbarous creature, or else of Sapor king of the Persians. All these notwithstanding were Popes, all Peters successors, all most holy fathers, whose several words we must take to be as good as several Gospels. If we be counted traitors which do honour our Princes, which give them all obedience as much as is due to them by Gods word, and which do pray for them, what kind of men then be these, which have not only done all the things before said, but also allow the same for specially well don? Do they then either this way instruct the people as we do, to reverence their magistrate: or can they with honesty appeache us as seditious persons, breakers of the common quiet, and despisers of princes majesty?
Who put in armes Henry the sonne against Themperour his father Henry the fourth,1 and wrought so that the Father was taken prisoner of his owne sonne, and beinge shorne and shamfullye handeled, was thruste into a monasterie, where with hunger & sorow he diued away to death? Who so ilfauoredlye and monstrouslye put the Emperour Frederikes necke vnder his feet,2 and as though that were not sufficient, added further this texte out of the Psalmes: Thou shalt go vpon the Adder and corkatrice, and shalt treade the Lyon and Dragon vnder thy feete? Suche an example