M. Hardinge.
Here is mutche a doo, and as some saie, greate boste, and smal roste: many wordes, litle matter. The sense of these wordes (if I be not deceiued) resembleth M. Iewels chalenging sprite, as like as an E We re∣sembleth a sheepe. VVhat we can bringe foorth, we saie not‡ 1.1 Neither thinke wee it necessary at your requeste, to shewe, what we haue reade, and what we knowe. Bosting and bragging shewes we leaue to you: that you require, hath ben sufficiently declared other wheres. Al thinges are not to be saide at al times. Yet two of your lowde lies besides other that you make here, I wil be so bolde, as to discouer. The decrees of the late Tridentine Councel (for that is it that you meane) although they be not yet in al place moste exactely obserued, yet be they not repealed, cut of, and abolished againe, as you saie.
* 1.2 And what a fowle lie is that other, where you saie, that our selues acknowledge and confesse openly that the faith and Doctrine, whiche we holde, is not Auncient, and Vniuersal, for times, places, and consente of al? VVhat els meane we, when we chalenge vnto vs and claime the Catholike Faithe? But this is your accustomed slender Rhetorike, when proufes and argumentes of truthe faile you, to vse the figure of impudent lieinge, and saie, that we our selues confesse it to be true, whiche you impute vnto vs. VVhat so euer you saie in this place, we maie of right retourne it euer to you. So we do, and so