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thoughe he were never so godly; and yet at home, in his secrett 
chamber, he might withowte offence doe all thes thinges. in like 
sorte, for a boye to pray in the Churche openly, with a caule, or a 
frenchehoode on his head, as you wryte 1 , thoughe his mynd weare 
never so chaste, it weare a greate fault; but it followethe not that 
therfor it is so, for a boy or a yonge man, to come on the Stage 
with a cawle or a frenchehood on his head. As for my Epiphonema 2 , 
it is not eger, as you terme it; neyther did it isswe from the bitter 
fowntayn of cursed speakinge. but I vsed it only in a iest to 
Momus , as we commonly doe the owld sayinge, to the which I 
alluded, maledida glossa quae cor rump it textum. I thanke God I 
doe not vse to curse any man; and therfore I assure you, I had no 
other meaninge in it then I speake of. Wheras you saye 3 * * * * 8 that 
at least you coulde have wisshed myn answere had byn mylder, if 
not in regarde of a younger preacher, whoe did so expound that Texte 
in a godly Sermon before my booke was printed etc. I answere that 
I only replyed to Momus his arguments, withowte any implyinge 
of the Preacher; whom I esteeme to be a good man, a good scholler, 
and a good preacher, notwithstandinge if not in respecte of me, 
never offendinge hym, in worde or deed, upon whome all the audy- 
ence knwe his sharpe reprehension cheefely lighted; yet in respecte 
of owre whole house, so longe after the thinges weare past, and 
allmost forgotten, hym selfe beinge but a younge man, and so for 
authorytye, or judgment, but as his equalls are, and so, in so 
dowtfull a matter, might be deceyved; me thinkes he might, and 
should have done well, to have spared so greevus a speeche, vttred 
so publickly, which if it shoulde come to dwe tryall, he coulde not 
iustifye. to whom nowe also I saye nothinge but this, that I must 
pray hym to pardon me, if yet, I can not see any sownde reason, 
why he, or any ffellowe of Queens College , or of any other house, 
to goe no higher, shoulde thinke his iudgment ought to be a peremp- 
torye rule, and sentence from the which there should lye no furder 
1 Nowe, what if a man should preach or pray in the Church with such a 
veile as women beare in this respect; with a calle (for examples sake) or with 
a French hoode: shoulde he offende, or no? Your inference sayeth, Nay, 
vnlesse he weare it with a Jewde intent, as Clodius did. For no apparell, 
but the minde, doeth make a man dishonest [Side-note, from Momus, lines 
152-154: Non ergo velum foeminae viro est scelus; Sed prava mens, libido, 
malitia, ac dolus: Nee habitus ullus sed animus turpem facit]: and therefore 
it is no fault for a man to pray with a French hoode on his head. [ Overthrow , 
p. 15.] 
2 Wherfore you had done better service to the trueth, if, in steede of your 
egre knitting up of this point with this epiphonema. Cursed is the glosse that 
corrupteth the good text [side-note, from Momus, line 168: Maledicta textum 
glossa quae vitiat bonum], you had obserued rather as Tertullian doeth, thqt 
the good text you speak of, I meane, the holy Scripture specifieth not any ap¬ 
parell Cursed by God , but onely womans worne by man; and had applied it also 
against mens wearing of it in stage-playes, as hee doeth. [ Overthrow, p. 16.] 
8 See above, p. 605, note 1. 
