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built in their owne houses: & that first of all in the 

 morning, they have recourse thither, to make their 

 prayers, neither do they suffer any man before they 

 have done their devotion, to interrupt them. These be 

 the things which he hath set downe as some notable 

 disgrace unto the Islanders. And no marvell : 



For filthy swine detest all cleanly ones, 



And hogs uncleane regard not precious stones. 



Which I feare, least it may be too truely affirmed of 

 this slanderer, as it is manifest out of these two last 

 objections. 



Howbeit, sithens he himselfe is a most sufficient 

 witnesse of his owne vertues, we will referre the reader, 

 who is desirous to know more of him unto his booke 

 of rimes against Island, which we have now examined 

 in our former sections : at whose railing & filthy speeches 

 we have bene ashamed on his behalfe : insomuch that 

 those things which he with satyrical, satyrical ? nay 

 sathanicall biting and reviling of our nation, hath not 

 blushed to write, are irksome for us to repeat : so great 

 & abominable is his insolency, & his reproches so 

 heinous. Good God ! whosoever shall view this cart- 

 lode of slanders (for we have mentioned the least part 

 thereof, because I was loth to lose my labour, or, as the 

 wise man sayth, to answere a foole according to his 

 [I. 589.] foolishnesse, whereas in his rimes there is not one word 

 without a reproch) will he not judge the authour of this 

 pasquill to have bene a most lewde man, yea the very 

 drosse of mankinde, without pietie, without humanitie ? 



But here I have just occasion to doubt whether the 

 authour of these revilings hath bene the more injurious 

 to Islanders, or the Printer thereof Joachimus Leo (and 

 whatsoever else they be who in their editions dare neither 

 professe their owne name, nor the name of their Citie) 

 which Leo hath nowe twise, if not oftner, published the 

 saide pamphlet at Hamburg. Doe you suffer this to 

 goe unpunished, O ye counsell and commons of Ham- 



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