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dansinge, kissinge, and other demeanour, reported to you of them, 
with suche a mynde as I will forbeare to speake of. if you had 
byn present your selfe, I ame so farr perswaded, of your Candor , 
wisdome, and gentill nature, that you would not have condemned 
them of suche thinges as infamous, howsoever in your iudgment 
you might deeme them otherwise, very defectyve, as we did, and 
doe. As for the opynion of the learned, grave frende, you meane, 
I knowe howe farr he did sumwhat dislike some commicall action, 
in my heeringe, which is not heere to be repeated, but I ame sure, 
that bothe before, and after, he muche commended them to me, 
and furthred them with his adyvse, purse, and paynes, and would 
be sorrye that any speeche of his, shoulde be, by mistakinge, 
alleaged agaynst vs, whome he lovethe, as we love, and reverence 
hym. 
Muche lesse have I done you, or any other iniurye, by entwytinge 
you, as settinge nothinge by theire iudgment, whoe dissent from you, 
and approve owre Playes; and so offendinge agaynst the rule of 
charytye, when rather I shoulde have thought, that you dissented 
from them, as Austin did from Cyprian, whose iudgment notwith¬ 
standing e he reuerenced, and made accownte of. for first, I did not 
vse this verse, Academise tu iudicia nihili facis ? to entwite any 
sorte of men. next, I did not thinke, till I harde of the Preacher, 
and receyved your letter, that there had byn so many as to make 
vp a number in this Vniuersitye, of whome owre Playes weare so 
mysliked, as nowe I perceyve there are, and yett but a number 
only, and to this daye, of my knowledge, I can not name any man 
that is of your opinion, besyde you twoe; so littell curious ame 
I in soymdinge other menns pryvatt thoughtes, as one, whoe, in 
thos thinges, this only ende proposed, if not sine inuidia laude m 
inuenire, as he say the in the Comedy e 1 , yet to procure, I trust, 
honest contentment to my selfe, and my frendes, aduorsus nemini. 
Lastly I doe with <!p. 64 > all lowlynes of mynde, reverence yours, 
or any other godly learned manns iudgment, and doe rather 
mislike myne owne when it differethe from such a on’s, then 
entwyte hym for dissentinge from myne. As for your sayinge owte 
of S. Paule, to them that are not of your opinion heerin, thay may 
saye the same to you, and others, if ye be otherwyse mynded, God 
shall revele the same evne to you. Neyther can they take otherwise 
then in good parte, that you preferr before them, the iudgment of 
the Churche, in so many Councells, and ffathers. but thay thinke 
that thay have libertye, as well, in this, as in many other thinges, 
to interprete the voyce of the Churche, in the Councellsand Fathers, 
accordinge to that good measure of the Spyritt, which thay also 
have receyved. ffor your furder sayinge to me, and proposinge 
1 Gager’s side-note: Ter* And. Act. 1. Sc. 1. 
