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The Reply. Sarum.

Howe are ye so privy to my reading▪ Wise men avouch no more then they know, ⟨p. 61⟩ye lacked shift when ye were driven to writ thus. I assure you I have not been so slack a student these. xx. years, but that besides other old writers of divers sorts Greek and Latin, I have not spared to read over, even such as have written of your side, as […], Pigghius, Hosmasterus, […], Hossius, and such others, and yet, vmil this day I never set abroad in print. xx. lines. But this is your old wont, to make the people think that we read nothing else but. ii. penny doctors, as ye call them. As in the disputation at Westminster, ye would seem to stand in doubt, whether we were able to understand you or no, when ye speak a little Latin: and as of late ye doubted not to say, that master ⟨image 63⟩doctor Martyr was not abl• to make a Sillogismus, which thing in deed, is as true, as the rest of your religion.

HOwe are ye so priuie to my reading▪ Wyse men auouch no more then they knowe, ⟨p. 61⟩ye lackte shift when ye were driuen to wryt thus. I assure you I haue not been so slacke a student these. xx. yeares, but that besydes other old wryters of diuers sorts Grek and Latine, I haue not spared to reade ouer, euen suche as haue wrytten of youre syde, as 〈…〉, Pigghius, Hosmasterus, 〈…〉, Hossius, and suche others, and yet, vmil this day I neuer set abroad in prynte. xx. lynes. But this is youre olde wont, to make the people thinke that we reade nothinge els but. ii. penny doctoures, as ye call them. As in the disputation at Westminster, ye would seme to stand in doubt, whether we were able to vnderstande you or no, when ye speake a little Latine: and as of late ye doubted not to saye, that mayster