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THE ANSWERE to the Cardinals Letter.
AND now that I am to enter in∣to the fielde against him by re∣futing his Letter, I must first vse this protestation; That no de∣sire of vaine glory by matching with so learned a man, maketh mee to vndertake this taske; but onely the care & conscience I haue, that such smooth Circes charmes and guilded pilles, as full of exterior elo∣quence, as of in ward vntruthes, may not haue that publike passage through the world without an answere: whereby my reputation might vniustly be darkened, by such cloudy and foggy mists of vntruthes and false imputations, the hearts of vnstay∣ed and simple men be mis-led, & the trueth itselfe smothered.
But before I come to the particular an∣swere of this Letter, I must here desire the