Answer
pp. 13–141 passages
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If Mr. Bs. purpose were to deal only1 with the Question in controversy, why runneth he out into gsuch by-matters, as make nothing at all thereunto? Why doth he labour so much to cast such aspersions, to procure ⟨p. 14⟩hprejudice, as well upon my manner of my dealing, as on the matter that I deal in? Or what is this but as if one should cast filth and dirt openly in a mans face, and yet bear the standers by in hand, that he did it not to disgrace him? But proceed we.
If Mr. Bs. purpose were to deale onely1 with the Question in controuersie, why runneth he out into gsuch by-matters, as make nothing at all thereunto? Why doth he labour so much to cast such aspersions, to procure ⟨p. 14⟩hpreiudice, as well vpon my manner of my dealing, as on the matter that I deale in? Or what is this but as if one should cast filth and durt openly in a mans face, and yet beare the standers by in hand, that he did it not to disgrace him? But proceed we.
- 1T. G.
- g[Greek or Hebrew]. Aristot. rhet. l. 1. c. 1.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Aristot. rhet. l. 1. c. 1.
- h[Greek or Hebrew]. Arist. ib.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Arist. ib.