The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…

Your importunity hath caused me, contrary to mine own nature, to utter these things, which otherwise I could have concealed. O, boast not •our self to much of your great reading. When ye bring me any old Doctor, or council, for ⟨image 64⟩your purpose in the matters ye we now talk of, then will I say, ye have read much.

Your importunitie hath caused me, contrary to myn own nature, to vtter these things, which otherwise I coulde haue conceiled. O, bost not •our self to much of your great reading. When ye bring me any olde Doctour, or councell, for ⟨image 64⟩your purpose in the matters ye we now talke of, then will I saye, ye haue read muche.

As for Gelasius how soever it pleaseth. D. Tapper to co•tue him, he sayeth plainly, that in the Sacrament there remaineth the substance, and nature, of bread and wine. But ye say, I allege Gelasius otherwise then I find him, and hereof your friends have made much a do. I see, it must be a very small fault that shall escape your eyes. Gelasius words be these. Non desinit esse substantia panis, vel natura vin•. Which words, having not the book at hand, I re ported thus: Non desinit esse substantia panis, & natura vini. I beseech you, how far went I […] from the words, or from the meaning of the author? I see it was ⟨p. 63⟩not for nought, that children in the Schools were wont to find a difference between these two propositions comedy bis panē, and bis panem comedy. But I perceive the fault was such that ye were loth to make matter of it. If I had altered any part of the sense and meaning of the writer, I trow, I had ben like to hear more of it.