enough, but because we stand in greater necessitie of the truth, then we doe of wordes, we will pro∣ceede with the more breuitie: if any man would seeke to accuse in taxing mens imperfections with too much seueritie, I answere, that he that will en∣deuour to wipe away blemishes, must first lay them open.The vnknowne disease is most doubtfull to be cured, and the lesse it is sought into, the more dan∣gerous to be healed. We doe seeke to couer vices, which the lesse they are thrust out, the more they eate and fester within. But wayward children are rather brought asleepe with rocking, then with rating: we wil therefore interlard our sowre taunts with sugred counsaile.Lying and slaundering.But with what patience might a man temper himselfe to speake of these most execrable crea∣tures, that doe endeuour themselues in nothing but in lying, and slaundering, whose poysoned breath is more pestilent then the plague of pestilence it selfe; whose deprauing tongues, are more persing then the point of a sword, & are whetted stil with scandelous and lying reports?It is holden more honest, openly to reprehend, then secretly to backbite: for as the soule is more precious then the bodie; so it is a greater offence to take away any mans good name, which refre∣sheth the soule, than to defraude him of his foode, that sustaineth but the bodie. And as the Philo∣sopher saith: Men are not borne onely to liue, but they must likewise endeuour to liue well. He addeth further, 0