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that it is either lawful or binding, yet whether other 

 things be not to be preferred before it ; as extirpation 

 of heretics, reconcilements of schisms, pursuit of law 

 ful temporal rights and quarrels, and the like; and 

 how far this enterprise ought either to wait upon 

 these other matters, or to be mingled with them, or 

 to pass by them, and give law to them, as inferior 

 unto itself? And because this is a great part, and 

 Eusebius hath yet said nothing, we will by way of 

 mulct or pain, if your lordships think good, lay it 

 upon him. All this while, I doubt much that Pollio, 

 who hath a sharp wit of discovery towards what is 

 solid and real, and what is specious and airy, will 

 esteem all this but impossibilities, and eagles in the 

 clouds : and therefore we shall all intreat him to 

 crush this argument with his best forces : that by the 

 light we shall take from him, we may either cast it 

 away if it be found but a bladder, or discharge it of 

 so much as is vain and not sperable. And because 

 I confess I myself am not of that opinion, although 

 it be an hard encounter to deal with Pollio, yet I 

 shall do my best to prove the enterprise possible ; 

 and to shew how all impediments may be either re 

 moved or overcome. And then it will be fit for 

 Martius, if we do not desert it before, to resume his 

 farther discourse, as well for the persuasive, as for 

 the consult, touching the means, preparations, and 

 all that may conduce unto the enterprise. But this 

 is but my wish, your lordships will put it into better 

 order. They all not only allowed the distribution, 

 but accepted the parts : but because the day was 



