M. Harding.M. Hardinge.

M. Harding.

M. Hardinge.

Ah Sirs, would ye have the common people come to the General Council? Whom mean ye, I pray you? Tinkers and Tapsters. fiddlers and Pipers, such as your ministers be? Alas poor souls. what should they do there? For there is no tinking nor tippling, no fiddling nor Piping. There may they shut up both budgets and mouths. For neither can they speak in such an audience to be understanded, nor can they understand, what is spoken. Look in your Books better, and you shall find Cyprian to make little for your purpose.

Ah Syrs, woulde ye haue the common people come to the Generall Councell? VVhom meane ye, I praie you? Tinkers and Tapsters. fydlers and Pypers, suche as your ministers be? Alas poore soules. what should they doo there? For there is no tinking nor tipplinge, no fidlinge nor Pypinge. There may they shutte vp bothe budgets and mouthes. For neither can they speake in suche an audience to be vnderstanded, nor can they vnderstande, what is spoken. Looke in your Bookes better, and you shall finde Cyprian to make litle for your purpose.

Had your matter been good, it might have been defended without lies. Being as it is, altogether beside Truth and reason, for some colour of maintenance of the same, ye pass all measure in lying. Where saith S. Cyprian that certain of the common people were called to Ecclesiastical Councils? Yea, specially where saith he,^‡ that the common people were made judges of Ecclesiastical ⟨p. 601⟩matters,² for so hath your Latin, which not without guile your Lady interpreter commonly turneth, were made acquainted with Ecclesiastical matters? If you had meant true dealing. Defender, you would have quoted the place: but you knew thereby your falsehood should have been espied.