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NO marvel in deed though our Minstrel David saith, ¹that he was sore troubled for speaking. For he singeth a very homely song little pleasant and sweet to the ears of beastlike, carnal & fleshly men. Who can abide to be called a liar, yea & that without any reverence taken? yet he shameth not to speak universally, & to say that every man is a liar, without exception. Surely me think that David wanteth here the chief point ²of a Minstrel & of a singing man, which is to lye & flatter, or at the least to fashion his song according unto the audience, & with his singing to please so many as hear him. Is ⟨image 31⟩David now become a man of solely tle experience, that he thinketh the holy Pharisees, the wise Scribes, the learned Bishops, the devout Priests, the godly rulers of the temple. &c. could be contented to be called liars, which would be noted tho row out all the world to be the princi pall teachers of all verity & trueth, & alone to have the key of knowledge Undoubtedly David kept sheep to long for to be a Minstrel to such delicate & soft religious parsons. But David was a good plain, sī ple, & homely man brought up in y• country, & endowed with that spirit, wherewith S. Paul was, when he ³said, If I did please men, I should not be the servant of Christ•. For even as John Baptist, when he saw many of the Pharisees & Sadducees ⁴coming unto his baptism, called them the generation of vipers for all their glistering hypocrisy & feigned holiness, ⟨image 31⟩& as Christ called y• Scribes ⁵& Pharisees blind guides, straining out a gnat but swallowing up a camel, painted sepulchres, outwardly in appearance righteous before men, but inwardly full of hypocrisy & iniquity, & as S. Paul called