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A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare
A reply unto M. Hardinges answer by perusing whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weak, and unstable grounds of the Romaine religion, which of late hath been accounted Catholic. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare by perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weake, and vnstable groundes of the Romaine religion, whiche of late hath beene accompted Catholique. By Iohn Iewel Bishoppe of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Black Oliphant, by Henry Wykes, Anno. 1565Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Blacke Oliphante, by Henry VVykes, Anno. 1565
Article 3 › M. Harding. The .19. Division.Article 3 › M. Hardinge. The .19. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .19. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .19. Diuision.
This much, or more, might here be said of the language of the People of Gallia, now called France, which then was Barbarous and vulgar, and not only Latin, and 971 yet had they of that Nation their Service then in Latin: as all the West Church had. That the common language of the people there was vulgar, the use of the Latin serving for the learned, as we must needs judge: we have first the authority of Titus Livius.2 Who writeth, that a Galloes, or as now we say a French man of a notable stature, provoked a Romaine to fight with him, Man for Man, making his challenge by an Interpreter. Which had not been done, in case the Latin tongue had ben common to that Nation: Next, the Place of Ulpianus before mentioned: Then the record of Aelius Lampridius, who writeth that a Woman of the order of the Druids, cried out aloud to Alexander Severus, Mammaea her Son the Emperor,3 as he marched forward on a day with his armie, Gallico sermone, in the Gallical tongue, these words, boding his death, which right so shortly after followed: Vadas: nec victoriam speres: ne militi tuo credas. Goo thy way: and look not for the victory:4 trust not thy Soldiers. Lastly, the witness of S. Hierome: who having travailed over that Region, and therefore being skilful of the whole state thereof, acknowledgeth the people of Treveres, and of that territory, to have a peculiar language, diverse from Latin, and Greek.
This muche, or more, might here be saide of the language of the People of Gallia, nowe called Fraunce, which then was Barbarous and vulgare, and not onely Latine, and 97