A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

No tongue is to be accounted learned in it self, but only in respect of some other thing, and, as the learned term it, Per accidens, That is, either for the eloquent manner of utterance, or for the substance of learned matter therein contained, or for the learning, and knowledge of the speaker. But the Latin Service, besides that it is not eloquent in it self (as in deed it needeth not to be) sometimes it holdeth not good congruity, but is utterly void of reason. Wherein, let this one example stand for many. In the praises of the Blessed Virgin, it is written thus, Cuius Dominus humilitatem respiciens, Angelo nuntiante, concepit Redemptorem muncli. By the learning of this learned tongue, we are taught, it was not our Lady, but our Lord, that was mother unto Christ: For so it falleth out in construction, Our Lord conceived the Redeemer of the world. The substance of the matter therein contained, is sometimes vain, and full of fables, sometimes wicked, and Idolatrous. The Priests, that utter this tongue, for the most part such, as are hardly able to make it learned.¹ Pope Zechariah saith, that a Priest in his time Baptized a Child by these words, In nomine Patria, & Filia, & Spirita Sancta. And S. Augustine saith,² that divers Priests in his time, in their common Latin Service, where as the people understood the Latin Tongue, uttered Barbarisms, and Solecisms, ³that is to say, spake false Latin: and further saith, Multa in illis reperiuntur contra Catholicā Fidem. In the same prayers many things are found contrary to the Catholic Faith. Such is this Tongue, that M. Harding here so highly commendeth, to be so learned.

No tongue is to be accompted learned in it selfe, but onely in respecte of some other thinge, and, as the learned terme it, Per accidens, That is, either for the eloquent manner of vtterance, or for the substance of learned mater therein conteined, or for the learninge, and knowlege of the speaker. But the Latine Seruice, bisides that it is not eloquent in it selfe (as in déede it néedeth not to be) sometimes it holdeth not good congruitie, but is vtterly voide of reason. Wherein, let this one example stande for many. In the praises of the Blessed Uirgin, it is written thus, Cuius Dominus humilitatem respiciens, Angelo nuntiante, concepit Redemptorem muncli. By the learning of this learned tongue, wée are taught, it was not our Lady, but our Lorde, that was moother vnto Christe: For so it falleth out in construction, Our Lorde conceiued the Redeemer of the worlde. The substance of the mater therein conteined, is sometimes vaine, and ful of fables, sometimes wicked, and Idolatrous. The Priestes, that vtter this tongue, for the most parte suche, as are hardely hable to make it learned.