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cordinge to the lawe of charytye, vpon my former protestation to 
you, you doe most gladly creditt me, as you wryte; and so trulye 
you may, and I hartely thanke you for it. for it was the greatest 
thinge that I desyred to prove vnto you, as a matter that I ought 
to thinke, if I woulde retayne the reputation of an honest man, 
shoulde neerly touche me; which beeinge cleered, as bothe in my 
conscience, and in your good mynde it is, I feare not any thinge 
ells greately in all this cause, ffor wheras you goe forwarde to prove 
by your Case of Sempronius and Seius, by a sayinge of Tullie’s 
agaynst the gouernours of armyes in his tyme, and by myn owne 
wordes Ad Zoilum and Ad Criticum, that thoughe I had no suche 
particular intent, yet in the generalytye the censure lighted vpon 
you: thoughe I ame hartelye sorry that it should so vnhappelye 
fall owte, yet all that may I grante withowte offence, I trust, 
for the mayne matter is not, whether you had occasion to thinke 
your selfe to be touched in the generalytye, or no, beinge of that 
opinion, you are; but whether the opinion be iustifiable, or no. 
you thinke, yea; I think, nay..if I should saye Vni creditis ? the 
cause weare lost playnly on my syde. <<p. 44. > 
But because you assure me in your treatyse, that you mislike 
nothinge in intytlynge Momus to thos reasons which I make hym 
to vse, nor in myn answere to them; if I can prove his to be vn- 
sownde, and my defence to be good; I will trye what I can doe, to 
showe, that the truthe in this controversye, belongethe rather to 
my answere, then to the reasons fathered on Momus 1 . Wherin 
I ame affected as if I weare advocate to a fayre mayden suspected 
and accused of incontinencye, whoe had gevne in wordes and 
gesture, as in strictnes of severytye thay mought be construed, 
some small shewe of lytenes, but whome notwithstandinge 
I weare fully perswaded, to be in deede, very honest; evne so I fare 
in this cause, whearin not one, but twoe fayre may dens, Tragcedia 
and Comoedia , are not only greevusly suspected, but vehemently 
and eloquently accused, not by evrye common Orator, but by C. 
Cassius , or M. Cato, of dissolute lyfe anti manners, and may 
perhapps, I confesse, somtyme have gevne some littell suspition 
therof, beinge straytely examyned, but yet are suche, as by 
whome in my conscience I doe verely thinke, no suche thinges 
can well be prooved, as farr as we can be charged to be answerable 
for their acquayntance, vsage, and conversation amongst vs, 
1 I will assure you also that I mislike nothing in your entitling Momus 
unto our reasons of reproofe, or in your answere to them, if, as you approoue 
your cause of confidence on the one parte, so you shall on the other. For 
your protestation of your own conscience doeth binde me by the law of charitie 
to thinke that you haue done this in singlenesse of heart, without spite and 
malice. But the trueth of the thinges themselves, that you chalenge, belongeth 
to the reasons fathered on Momus, not to your aunswere, in my opinion. [ Over¬ 
throw , p. 3.] 
