The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

BE not offended most dear Reader that divers things are overseen through negligence in this little treatise. For verily the chance was such, that I marvel that it is so well as it is Moreover it becometh the book e u•n so to come as a mourner and in vile apparel to wait on h•s master which showeth him self now again not in honour and glory, as between Moses and H•ly as: but in rebuke and shame as between two murderers, to try his true friends and to prove whether there by any faith on the earth.

BE not offēded most dere Reader that diuers thynges are ouersene thorowe neglygence in thys litle treatise. For verely the chaunce was such, that I maruayle yt it is so wel as it is Moreouer it becometh the boke e u•n so to come as a morner and in vyle apparayle to wayte on h•s master which sheweth him selfe nowe agayne not in honoure and glory, as betwene Moses and H•ly as: but in rebuke and shame as betwene two mortherars, to trye hys true frendes and to proue whether there by any fayth on the erth.