The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

if it be first considered / that you account divers for pleasant speeches / which are not / thereby to avoid that you could not answer. Of which sort is that 767. line 6. and 576. line 23. Secondly / if it be considered / that you take some things otherwise: then I wrote them. For example / where I note your homily mirth of the curst wife, and thief which stole the ¹priests purse, to have been with the bagpipe and not with ether the harp or lute: you expound it / as though I had taken my self to the country wherein you were born. Which verily I meant not / but had regard only to the greek proverb / whereof Tully maketh ²mention: that those which could not come to the honour to handle the harp, were content to use the bagpipe. Which is evident / in that I oppose country, not your country, your mirth, to learned mirth. Here also (seemeth) should be considered / how you have •oden us: with those reproaches / which you accuse me of. Wherein / not to waste paper in rehearsal of all: I will only give a taste of your later book, for that / off your other book in which all know your intemperance: you deny there is any such thing / because I gathered it not.³

if it be first considered / that yow account diuers for pleasant speaches / which are not / therby to auoide that yow could not answer. Of which sort is that 767. line 6. and 576. line 23. Secondly / if yt be considered / that yow take some thinges otherwise: then I vvrote them. For example / where I note your homelie mirth of the curst wife, and theef which stole the ¹priests purse, to haue bene vvith the baggipe and not vvith ether the harpe or lute: yow expound it / as thowghe I had taken my self to the countrey wherin yow were born. Which verely I ment not / but had regard onely to the greke prouerb / wherof Tully maketh ²mention: that those vvhich could not come to the honour to handle the harpe, vvere content to vse the bagpipe. Which is euident / in that I oppose countrey, not your countrey, your mirthe, to learned mirth. Here also (seemeth) should be considered / how yow haue oden vs: vvith those reproches / vvhich yow accuse me of. Wherin / not to waste paper in rehersall of all: I will onely giue a tast of your later book, for that / off your other boke in which all know your intemperancie: yow denie there is any suche thing / because I gathered yt not.