A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…

To return to your unprofitable excursions / how oftentimes in your book / do you pull at the magistrates sword / and what sword you would have I leave to the consideration of all men / seeing you are not satisfied with their imprisonment / whereupon also doth ensue the expense of that which they have. What matter is in all these / that bringeth any help / to the decision of these causes / that are in question between us? how many leaves have you wasted / in confuting of the quotations / which (you say) are vain / foolish / unlearned / and to no purpose of that / for which they are alleged? And if they be so / where learned you / to spend so much time / about them? Did you never learn / that spoude, ta me spoudes axia, elegchein, tôn atopôn esti? to confute trifling things seriously / is a point of those / which have no judgement / to know what is meet for the time and place / and other such circumstances? If I should of the other side now go about to maintain every place / to be not unfitly quoted / unto that end wherefore it is alleged / and show how unjust your reprehensions are / and how small cause you have / to lead them oftentimes / so gloriously in triumph (as you do) which I assure you / I could do in the most places. (As / what could be more fitly alleged / to induce to read the book / then that they should * try all things? what more fitly / to hold men from ¹rash condemning of things / then that they should be * slow to speak? what more fitly / to move that they should not mislike of the goodness of the cause for the simplicity or base degree of them that defend it / then / that we * should not have ²the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ / in respect of persons? and what more unjustly done / then that you should whip them / for the printers fault / in putting one place for an other). If I say / I should thus go about / to make good every place / how evil should I deserve / either of learning / or of the truth it self / in blotting of much paper / whereby no profit would come to the reader? And if the days of a man / were as many / as the days of an Oak / I would neither willingly trouble / nor be troubled / with such strife of words. Seeing therefore / God hath shut us in so narrow terms / me think / men should have conscience of pestering the world / with such unprofitable treatises.

To returne to your vnprofitable excursions / how oftentimes in your boke / do you pull at the magistrates sworde / and what sworde you would haue I leaue to the consideration of all men / seing you are not satisfied with their imprisonment / whereuppon also doth ensue the expence of that which they haue. What matter is in all these / that bringeth any helpe / to the decision of these causes / that are in question betwene vs? how many leaues haue you wasted / in confuting of the quotations / which (you say) are vaine / foolish / vnlearned / and to no purpose of that / for which they are alleaged? And if they be so / where learned you / to spend so much time / about them? Dyd you neuer learne / that spoude, ta me spoudes axia, elegchein, tôn atopôn esti? to confute trifeling things seriously / is a poynt of those / which haue no iudgement / to know what is meete for the tyme and place / and other such circumstances? If I should of the other side nowe go aboute to maintayne euery place / to be not vnfitly quoted / vnto that ende wherefore it is alleadged / and shew how vniust your reprehensions are / and how small cause you haue / to leade them oftentimes / so gloriously in triumph (as you do) which I assure you / I could do in the most places. (As / what could be more fitly alleaged / to induce to reade the booke / then that they should * try all things? what more fitly / to holde men from