The second [seventh] sermon of Master Hugh Latimer which he preached before the Kings…The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges…

They will do then as other ⟨image 119⟩men do, they are come to have experience, to be practitioners.¹ The maids child is ever best taught, for he that stands up right in office, he is the fellow, Samuel would never have thought that his sons should have been so corrupted.² It is a perilous thing, a dangerous state to be a judge. They felt the smaker of this world, a perilous thing. And therefore Chrysostom sayeth. Miror si aliquis retrosum saluabitur. I marvel (sayeth he) that any ruler can be saved. If the peril were well considered, men would not be so desirous as they be.³ The world y• world hath many subtle sleights, it is a crafty thing & very deceitful, a corrupter, & who is it whom the world doeth not corrupt and blind at one time or other? ⟨image 120⟩What was the way they walked Declinaverunt post a•aritiam. That is one. They stooped after gains, turned a side after lucre. What followed Acceperunt munera They toke rewards,⁴ gifts, bribes (I should call them) for that is their right name. Peruerterunt judicium. They turned Justice upside down. Either they would give wrong judgement, or else put of & delay poor mens matters.

They wyll do then as other ⟨image 119⟩men do, they are come to haue experience, to be practisioners.¹ The maydes childe is euer best taughte, for he that standes vp ryghte in offyce, he is the fellow, Samuel wold neuer haue thought that hys sonnes shold haue bene so corrupted.²