The B. of Salisbury.The B. of Sarisburie.

The B. of Salisbury.

The B. of Sarisburie.

Had you not had a shrewd sharp wit, M. Harding, and a very good liking of the same, ye could never have made your self so great sport of so small a matter. The Lady Interpreter pitieth your case, and wisheth you a little more discretion: and would be much ashamed to answer your follies.

Had you not had a shrewde sharpe witte, M. Hardinge, and a very good likinge of the same, yee coulde neuer haue made your selfe so greate sporte of so smal a mater. The Lady Interpreter pitieth your case, and wisheth you a litle more discretion: and woulde be mutche ashamed to answeare your folies.

If the Council, we speak of, were not the Emperors Council, then much less was it the Popes Council. For in those days, as hereafter it shall be declared more at large, Councils were summoned by Emperors, & not by Popes. And what reason have you to show us, that the Council, being summoned by the Emperor, might not be called the Emperor Council, as well, as the Pope, being admitted, & allowed by y• Emperor, might be called the Emperors Priest? Odoacer,¹ in the third Council of Rome, in the time of Pope Symmachus, said thus: Miramur, praetermissis nobis, quicquā fuisse tentatū: Cùm etiā Sacerdote nostro superstite, nihil sine nobis debuisset affumi: We marvel, that any thing was attempted without our knowledge: for as much as, Our Priest (he meaneth the Pope) being alive, nothing may be done without us. ²Liberatus saith, Flavianus Episcopus Eutychem ad Concilium Suum venire praecepit: Flavianus the Bishop (not of Rome, but of Antioch) Commanded Eutyches to come to his Council. Hereafter, M. Harding, ye may take time, to study for some better quarrel. Surely this was very simple.