A discourse apologeticalA discours apologetical

That his Vouchee, Auto•, or Advocate (call him which you please, of whom before, and further hereafter) in a Pamphlet full of scurrility, and not free from Popery, telleth his Auditory a Tale, or a Parable, as he terms it, That the Church of England in the non-age of this latter age, being with child, brought ¹forth her eldest son, the Bishop; who grew apt to learn, and to make a good Scholar; and to him she gave her Lands: Speedily after she brought to light another boy, the Prebend; and to him she gave goodly houses annexed to Cathedral Churches, and fit pensions: She grew big again, and with more hast then good speed, brought into the world, a poor, weak, rash, dull, simple boy, the poor Curate, accordingly provided. For having already given away Lands and Houses, she gave him freely the Wallet behind the door. Then having for many years laid down her humour of Child-bearing, at length the humour took her again, and she conceived, bore with great pain, and brought forth in a fright, with much trouble and imminent danger of life, her last boy, to whom she gave a most hard Greek name [Greek or Hebrew]. I will not call it Nomen absoletum (obsoletum, it is like he meant) & velut rubigine infectum, a name grown out of use, and rusty, but confidenter dicam; I will say with courage, (and he had need of some courage or confidence at least, as his Latin sounds rather, to utter so notorious an untruth) that it was never acknowledged before in the pretended sense. His education was mean; for he was not brought up to much learning; yet experience and practise wrought him into a pert, but a most unhappy Knave, in the sense of all English, new and old; one that could act a part notably, and make faces and mouths, &c. This being his Mothers fourth and last child, and having before given her Lands to the first, her Houses to the second, her Wallet to the third; and having nothing left to bestow on him, she left him to shift for himself.

That his Vouchee, Auto•, or Advocate (cal him which you please, of whom before, and further hereafter) in a Pamphlet ful of scurrilitie, and not free from Poperie, telleth his Auditorie a Tale, or a Parable, as he terms it, That the Church of England in the non-age of this latter age, being with childe, brought ¹forth her eldest son, the Bishop; who grew apt to learn, and to make a good Scholar; and to him she gave her Lands: Speedilie after she brought to light another boy, the Prebend; and to him she gave goodlie houses annexed to Cathedral Churches, and fit pensions: She grew big again, and with more hast then good speed, brought into the world, a poor, weak, rash, dul, simple boy, the poor Curate, accordinglie provided. For having alreadie given away Lands and Houses, she gave him freelie the Wallet behind the door. Then having for manie yeers laid down her humor of Child-bearing, at length the humor took her again, and she conceived, bore with great pain, and brought forth in a fright, with much trouble and imminent danger of life, her last boy, to whom she gave a most hard Greek name . I wil not cal it Nomen absoletum (obsoletum, it is like he meant) & velut rubigine infectum, a name grown out of use, and rustie, but confidenter dicam; I wil say with courage, (and he had need of some courage or confidence at least, as his Latin sounds rather, to utter so notorious an untruth) that it was never acknowledged before in the pretended sense. His education was mean; for he was not brought up to much learning; yet experience and practise wrought him into a pert, but a most unhappie Knave, in the sense of all English, new and old; one that could act a part notablie, and make faces and mouths, &c. This being his Mothers fourth and last child, and having before given her Lands to the first, her Houses to the second, her Wallet to the third; and having nothing left to bestow on him, she left him to shift for himself.