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CHAP. u of their clouts, and consider them as they be in them- 



XIV&amp;gt; selves.&quot; 



Facetious. For he would also mix a facetiousness with his discourses. 

 When Knox would have proved the unlawfulness of wo 

 men s government from that place in Isaiah, / will take 

 from you your honourable senators and your wise counsel 

 lors^ and I will give you boys and women to reign over you ; 

 he confuted it by saying, that it was not meant of boys in 

 age, but in manners ; not of women in sex, but in feeble 

 ness of wit : and then added, divertingly, that this argu 

 ment therefore arose of wrong understanding the word. As 

 His story of the Vicar of Trumpington, said he, understood Eli, Eli, 

 lama sabacthani, when he read the Passion upon Palm- 

 Sunday. Coming to which place he stopped, and calling 

 the churchwardens, said, &quot; Neighbours, this gear must be 

 &quot; amended. Here is Eli twice in the book. I assure you, 

 &quot; if my Lord of Eli come this way and see it, he will have 

 &quot; the book, [since his name was in it.] Therefore by mine 

 &quot; advice we shall scrape it out, and put in our own town s 

 &quot; name, viz. Trumpington, Trumpington, lama sabac- 

 &quot; thani&quot; They consented, and he did so, because he un 

 derstood no better. So they that use this place for a wea 

 pon against this matter do fault in homonymia; not con 

 sidering that words have proper significations and trans 

 lations. 



And once speaking to the Judges, &quot; Some in sport,&quot; said 

 he, u call you drudges, and not judges ; but I think in good 

 &quot; earnest, that it is contrary, that you make yourselves 

 u lords, and all other drudges.&quot; 



He called The Under Sheriff he would call the Under Thief; the 

 Sheriff Un- j ur y men ? or the questmen, the questmongers, and some- 

 der Thief, times the curstmongers. And he thus once facetiously as well 

 as sharply delivered his mind concerning the unjust mea 

 sures that poor men often received by their means : &quot; Be- 

 &quot; tween the High Thief and the Under Thief, my Lord 

 &quot; [the lord of the manor, or chief nobleman] and the 

 &quot; curstmongers, [the choice of whom was influenced by my 

 &quot; Lord,] poor men are outweighed.&quot; 



Judges, 

 drudges 



