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things will not excuse the imitation of evil in ano 

 ther. It should be contrariwise with us, as Caesar 

 said, &quot; Nil malo, quam eos similes esse sui, et me 

 mei.&quot; But now, &quot; Dum de bonis contendimus, de 

 malis consentimus ; while we differ about good 

 things, we resemble in evil. 



Surely, if I were asked of these men, who were 

 the more to be blamed, I should percase remember 

 the proverb, that the second blow maketh the fray, 

 and the saying of an obscure fellow ; &quot; Qui replicat, 

 multiplicat ;&quot; he that replieth, multiplieth. But I 

 would determine the question with this sentence ; 

 &quot; Alter principiura malo dedit, alter modum abstulit;&quot; 

 by the one means we have a beginning, and by the 

 other we shall have none end. 



And truly, as I do marvel that some of those 

 preachers which call for reformation, whom I am far 

 from wronging so far as to join them with these scof 

 fers, do not publish some declaration, whereby they 

 may satisfy the world, that they dislike their cause 

 should be thus solicited ; so I hope assuredly, that 

 my lords of the clergy have none intelligence with 

 this interlibelling, but do altogether disallow that 

 their credit should be thus defended. For though I 

 observe in one of them .many glosses, whereby the 

 man would insinuate himself into their favours, yet I 

 find it to be ordinary, that many pressing and fawn 

 ing persons do misconjecture of the humours of men 

 in authority, and many times, &quot; Veneri immolant 

 suem,&quot; they seek to gratify them with that which 

 they most dislike : for I have great reason to satisfy 



