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&quot; defence of your country, I think you should make the C H A P. 

 &quot; Queen much richer, and abler to meet with your enemies, XIIL 

 &quot; and yourselves much the honester.&quot; 



The Popish Clergy he called &quot;spiritual spiders. 1 And The Popish 

 Bonner, the fat, cruel Bishop of London, he called &quot; My Clergy&amp;lt; 

 &quot; Lord Lubber of London.&quot; 



The Bible he called &quot; a Paradise, wherein are to be found The B bie. 

 &quot; all the best herbs and fruits that be.&quot; 



&quot; A good purpose overthrown by the might of mam- 

 &quot; mon.&quot; 



&quot; No man s judgment is so sound, no man s wit so ripe, No infain- 

 &quot; nor his learning so perfect, but he may sometime miss the blhty&amp;gt; 

 &quot; quission.&quot; 



&quot; As a man that would buy a house, will not so much 

 &quot; weigh the gay painting as the sure building ; so who 

 &quot; will judge of any matter truly, must lay it before his eyes 

 &quot; nakedly.&quot; 



&quot; Miracles are not the work, but the impediment of na- Miracles. 

 &quot; ture.&quot; 



&quot; The breach of good laws is the breakneck of the 

 &quot; country.&quot; 



Speaking of some ignorant persons that yet will talk and 

 prate, he said, &quot; They were like a certain Sir John, which 

 &quot; said, By my priesthood, if the Trinity were not in my 

 &quot; portas, I would not believe it.&quot; 



He compared a false argument, cunningly set out with A false ar- 

 words, &quot; to a well kembed bush, where never a hair lay S ument - 

 &quot; amiss, so long as the man had a house to cover him: but 

 &quot; when he comes into the wind, it is soon ruffled. Or like 

 &quot; a painted madam s face, which, so long as nobody blows 

 &quot; upon it, nor sweat riseth in it, is gay glistering : but any 

 &quot; of these means maketh the wrinkles soon appear. So is a 

 &quot; false argument decked with fair words : it seemeth good, 

 &quot; but turn it naked, and you shall soon see the botches.&quot; 



He made women to be of two sorts, &quot; some of them Women. 

 &quot; wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a 

 &quot; number of -men.&quot; But another and a worse sort of them, 

 and the most part, he thus facetiously, but sharply de- 



