A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to…A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to…

M. Harding.

M. Hardinge.

Here by your leave, Sir Defender, you play false, and are taken, as it were, with false Dice, and therefore ye ought justly to lose all that ye have unjustly won by your false play,¹ and false Dice: I mean your shameful falsifying of this Council by you alleged. And for this and other your falsehood it is right you lose the credit, which unjustly (because by false Teaching) you have won among the Unlearned.² That your false play might not soon be espied, you do as like to Master Ivel, as though you were his Fathers Sonne. For that false sleight he useth more, then any that ever I read. For where as we have seven Councils of Carthage, nether show you, which of them it is that you allege, nor give any notice of the number, where the Canon may be found. But contrariwise as the Lap wing with her busy cry leadeth a man from her nest, so you lead us from the Place, where it is, by putting in the Margin of your Book the number, 47. that not finding it by your note,³ we should give over further looking for it. Who doth evil, hateth Light, saith Christ. So here falsifying^* and forging a Canon of a Council, you would fain walk in clouds, that your lying might not be deprehended, &c. So had it ben done more circumspectly for furtherance of your false head, if the matter should never come to trial of Learning.

Here by your leaue, Syr Defender, you playe false, and are taken, as it were, with false Dyse, and therefore ye ought iustly to lose al that ye haue vniustly wonne by your false playe,¹ and false Dyse: I meane your shameful falsefieinge of this Councel by you alleaged. And for this and other your falsehed it is right you lose the credite, whiche vniustly (bicause by false Teachinge) you haue wonne amonge the Vnlearned.