A15061:398
An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written
An answer to a certain book, written by Master William Rainolds student of divinity in the English college at Rhemes, and entitled, A refutation of sundry reprehensions, cavils, etc. by William Whitaker ...An answere to a certeine booke, written by Maister William Rainolds student of diuinitie in the English colledge at Rhemes, and entituled, A refutation of sundrie reprehensions, cauils, etc. by William Whitaker ...
Printed at London : For Thomas Chard, 1585
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.
It is a weariness to wade any further: & therefore I will for this book content my self with these examples and proofs of notable corruption therein committed by your translator, whosoever he was.
It is a wearines to wade any further: & therefore I will for this booke content my selfe with these examples and proofes of notable corruption therein committed by your translator, whosoeuer he was.
And because I have been already something long, I will be shorter in that which followeth, and as it were but glean one by one, where I might take up whole handfuls together.
And because I haue bene alreadie something long, I will be shorter in that which followeth, and as it were but glaine one by one, where I might take vp wholl handfulls together.
The book of Proverbs hath not escaped the foul hands of such corruptors rather then translators, as by many places of the same may too plainly be perceived.1 In the latter end of the fourth Chap. a great many of words together are added to ⟨p. 318⟩the text, as is acknowledged by the adversaries them-selves. In the sixth Chapter the vulgar translation hath, Thou hast fixed down thy soul with the stranger: Whereas it should be thus,2 thou hast shaken hands with the stranger. And after the 11. vers. a whole sentence is thrust into the text, which ought to have no place therein. Again in the 26. verse of his Chapter, where Solomon saith that by reason of a harlot a man is brought to a morsel of bread, the words of your translation are these, the price of an harlot is scarcely the worth of one loaf: