William Roye's Dialoffue between a Christian Father and Ins stnbliorn Son. 423 



thyiige wheron to oroiinde tbeyru selves agayust vs, they were 

 nott ascbamed faulcely to diffame theym, whiche long-e befbre 

 tbat tyme were deed and rotten, as my father, Thynkiug-e that 

 defamynge of hym, they shulde qwenche and dereken the cleare 

 and evident ligbt of g-od. whyche they hate worsse then other 

 toade or addre, as a tbyng-e agaynst their beilies moste noyous 

 and contrary, saynge, his father wolde eate noo porke, what 

 frute can socbe a tre brynge fortbe. But knowynge that the 

 innocency, bothe of my father, and also of me, is not vuknowne 

 (in that bebaulfe) vnto all the nobles of the realrae, I lytell 

 regarde their heddy vndiscrecion. Yet it is vnto my berte a 

 coresaye ^ amonge all wotber moste greveous, to se the pryce 

 of the precious bloudde of Christ so despitfully to be troden 

 vnder fote, by socbe vncleane swyne. and the moste hol 

 [fol. 2^] som doctrine therof, to be forbidden, thorowe the 

 howlynge and barkynge of socbe cruell, and infame dogges. 

 Whose cruell tyranny foxye cavillacion, and resistence, have 

 moare inflammed my bert, and couraged my mynde, to go 

 aboute the translacion of holy scripture. Insomoche tbat I have 

 allredy partly translated, certayne bokes of the olde testament, 

 the wbicbe, with the healpe of God, jerr longo sbalbe brought 

 to lygbt. Notwithstondynge in the meane season 1 castynge 

 in my myude the meane peoples capacite, and the greate 

 supersticion, whiche so longe hatbe rayned and hadde vpper- 

 bonde, thought it very necessary to make some smale treatous, 

 wberby somwhat they mygbt be the better prepared, and taugbt 

 bowe to demeane theym seines, in the profunde misteries and 

 greate iudgementes of God, conteyned in the old testament, 

 and propbetes. And whyles I tbus ymagened, I happened on 

 a smale worcke, whiche after my iudgement, is a treatous very 

 excellent, late turned oute of douche into latten. Whiche in 

 the redynge of it, greatly delited me, and that nott only 

 because of the due and naturall ordre of it, but rather 

 because I se there as I am (wliere this boke is comenly in 

 vse) [fol. 3"] bothe yonge and olde, practise in lyvynge, all 

 tbose tbinges whyche the boke teacheth by wrytynge. Ye 



1 = corsey. Vgl. Nares, Glussary, ed. Halliwell & Wriglit. London, 1859. 

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