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…

And thus will I make an end / leaving to the consideration and indifferent weighing of the indifferent reader / how true it is that I have before propounded / that our Archbishops / Metropolitans / Archdeacons / Bishops / have besides the names almost nothing common with those which have been in elder times / before the sun of the gospel began to be marvellously darkened / by the stinking mists which the devil sent forth out of the bottomless pit to blind the eyes of men / that they should not see the shame and nakedness of that purpled whore / which in the person of the clergy / long before she gat into her seat prepared her self by painting her writhen face / with the colours of these gorgeous titles and with the show of magnifical and worldly pomp. For the devil knew well enough / that if he should have set up one only bishop in that seat of perdition / and left all the rest in that simplicity wherein God had appointed them / that his eldest son should neither have had any way to get into that / and when he had gotten it / yet being as it were an owl amongst a sort of birds / should have been quickly discovered.

And thus will I make an end / leauing to the consideration and indifferent waying of the indifferent reader / how true it is that I haue before propounded / that our Archbyshops / Metropolitanes / Archdeacons / Byshops / haue besides the names almost nothing common with those which haue bene in elder tymes / before the sunne of the gospell began to be maruellously darkned / by the stincking mistes which the deuill sent forth out of the bottomles pit to blynde the eyes of men / that they shoulde not see the shame and nakednes of that purpled whore / which in the person of the cleargy / long before she gat into her seate prepared her selfe by paynting her wrythen face / with the couloures of these gorgeous titles and with the shew of magnifycall and worldly pompe. For the deuill knew well enough / that if he should haue sette vp one only byshoppe in that seate of perdition / and left all the rest in that simplicitie wherein God had appoynted them / that hys eldest sonne shoulde neyther haue had any way to gette into that / and when he had gotten it / yet being as it were an owle amongst a sort of birdes / shoulde haue bene quickly discouered.