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doctor his opinion on his profession, saying, " If 

 "I were of the queene's counsel!, I would set you to 

 " the plough and carte, for the devil a whit of good 

 " yee doe with your studies but to set men together 

 " by the ears, some with this opinion, and some 

 " with that, some holding this way, and some 

 " another, and that so stiffly as though the troth 

 " must, as they say that have the upper hand in con- 

 " tencion ; and this contencion is not also the least 

 " cause of former uprores of the people, some 

 " holding of the one learning, and some of the 

 " other. In my minde, it made no matter though 

 " we had no learned men at all." 



The knight objects to this opinion, and very 

 properly asks, " if we had no learned men, how 

 " should the prince have counsailors ? how should 

 " we have Christian religion taught us ? how 

 " should we know the estate of other realmes, and 

 " have conference with them of all countryes, 

 " except it were through learning, and by the . 

 " benefit of letters ?" 



The capper, after some observations from the 

 doctor, concedes to this view taken by the knight, 

 and says, " I meane not but I would have men to 

 " learn to wryte and reade, yea, and to learne the 

 " languages used in countrys about us, that we 

 " might tell our minds to them and they to us, yea 

 " and that we might reade the holy scriptures in 

 " our mother tongue; and as for your preaching, 

 " (except yee agree better) it made no matter how 



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