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And in an other council / that the bishops should not give them selves to ¹feasts / but be content with a little meat. Let these bishops be compared with ours / whose chambers shine with gilt / whose walls are hanged with clothes of Auris / whose cupboards are laden with plate / whose tables and diets are furnished with multitude and diversity of dishes / whose daily dinners are feasts: Let them I say be compared together / and they shall be found so unlike / that if those old bishops were alive / they would not know each other. For they would think that ours were princes / and ours would think that they were some hedge priests / not worthy of their acquaintance or fellowship.

And in an other councell / that the byshops shoulde not giue them selues to ¹feastes / but be content wyth a little meate. Let these byshops be compared wyth oures / whose chambers shine wyth gilt / whose walles are hanged wyth clothes of Auris / whose cupbordes are loden wyth plate / whose tables and diets are furnished wyth multitude and diuersity of dishes / whose daily dinners are feastes: Let them I say be compared together / and they shall be founde so vnlike / that if those olde byshops were aliue / they wold not know each other. For they would thinke that oures were princes / and oures woulde thinke that they were some hedge priests / not worthy of their acquaintance or fellowshyp.

1. 15. canon. Concil. Tyronensis.

In the same council of Carthage / it was decreed / that no bishop sitting ¹in any place / should suffer any minister or elder to stand. Now I will report me to themselves how this is kept / and to the pore ministers which have to do with them / and come before them.