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hath sette and plantid theym in the erth in England, which hath brought 

 forth to bodyly stokk and braiinchis and levys by the risyng of the sonne 

 in the spryng of the yere. But whan the sonne comyth to the mystery 

 of his gift at mydsoraer, beholdyng England soo willyng to robbe Spayn 

 to gete from it Goddes gifts, the sonne turnyth from the northe towards 

 the southe and will not giff no vertu of good to non of the comodites 

 of Spayn, soo removid into England, nother ripnes swetnes stength in 

 operacion, nor no propertie, that shuld help and encrease England to the 

 hurt and hynderaunce of Spayn. So evident to see, how the office of 

 the sonne is not only to mynester alle the gifts of Godd yerly to every 

 reame region or contrey on the erthe accordyng like as Godd in the first 

 begynnyng gaff it, but also the sonne by his office holdith and kepith 

 every reame and contrey in his own right, that noo oon robbe nor hurte 

 another. What a lorde is Godd, that so rightw^isly mynesterith right to all 

 reames and contreis roAvnd abowt all the hoU erthe by his oonly oon 

 great brode seale of his law of sone of man , gevyng mete for bodily 

 levyng to all men in this world, as in John VI°: operamini cibum, quem 

 ßlius hominis dahit vobis; hunc enim pater signavit^) etc. What a wisdome 

 is of erthly kynges, that in oon litle reame, which is but as a howse in 

 comparison of the kyngdom of sone of man , that in so litle quantite 

 cannot giff to every man right and kepe every man in his right by oon 

 ordinary hedd-seale , but for a sory cotage of a noble rent by yere must 

 have many writyngs and many sealis , and therby can nother see nor 

 know, how to have right clerly nor suerly. Soo false is mens Avisdome 

 and policy. 



It may well be said: in England is no right Order, wher all and 

 every man sekith the policy ageynst the ordynaunce of Godd oon to robbe 

 another in distroyng the holl welth of the reame, to see, how the pastures 

 of shepe to encrease so great quantite of wolle to suffice the inordinat 

 nomber of Staplers in the reame, which within a sixty yers hath distroyed 

 a 400 or 500 villages in the myddell parts of the body of the reame 



1) Evang. Job. VI, 27. 



2) Ganz ähnlich Cardinal Pole in Starkey's Dialogue p. 72: And ther, wher hath 



