A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…

To the right honourable sir Thomas Neville knight, Theodore Basil wisheth long life, continual health, and prosperous felicity.

To the ryght honorable syr Thomas Neuel knyght, Theodore Basille wysshethe lōge lyfe, cōtynuall helth, and prosperous felicite.

I Have not forgotten with how gentle & thankful mind (as I may pass over the singular bene ficence & grand liberality, which at that time ye showed to me) your right honourable mastership did receive y• Christmas Banquet which now of late I dedicated unto your name, chiefly when you had diligently compared it with the most holy word of God, the touch stone of all ¹doctrine to try the adulterine, fail ned & false from the sincere, germane & true learning, & perceived that it did not only agree with the most ⟨image 3⟩sacred Scriptures, but also with the teaching of the ancient Doctors of the holy church, whom you have as all men ought, in great admiration, with whose authorities it is opu•ently fortressed. Verily for the probation of that my work, & comparing it with the trueth of Christ & the doctrine of the holy & learned Doctors, I can none otherwise but highly commend, praise, advance, & magnify the industry & labour of your right honourable mastership, which so prudently prove all kind of doctrine with the true & infallible touchstone of gods most blessed word. For in thus doing you show your self not to be led with any blind or partial affect, but with an upright & high indifferency, much alienated & estranged from the man ners of divers men at this time, among whom some as foolish simple receive all kind of doctrine with out ⟨image 3⟩