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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…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ Sarum.
YE suppressed, ye say, your first letters, for that they were to sow• That had been all one to me, for sour words are not enough to quail• the trueth.
YE suppressed, ye saye, your first letters, for that they were to sow• That had bene all one to me, for sowre wordes are not inought to quail• the trueth.
Howbeit, to my knowledge, I gau• you no ill words to increase that humour. But if ye strive still against nature, as ye say ye have done now, & conquer the rest of your affections to, I doubt not but we shall soon agree.
Howbeit, to my knowledge, I gau• you no ill wordes to encrease that humour. But if ye striue stil agaist nature, as ye say ye haue done nowe, & conquere the reast of your affections to, I doubt not but we shall sone agree.