The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

¶ Duke Memnon.

WHat tyme the valyaunt capitayn Memnon held warres agaynst y^e great Alexander on the behalfe

of Darius kynge of Persia, it chaun¦ced that a certayne hyred sowldiour in the armie of Memnon made very moche raylynge vpon kynge Alexan∣der. Memnon hearynge hym, layde hym on the pate with hys speare and thus rebuketh hym. I gyue the wa∣ges, syr knaue, and meate and drynke to fyghte wyth Alexander and not to rayle vpon hym. Let Chrysten men at lest waye take example herby, to leaue theyr fowle and detestable ray∣lynges farre vnworthye for suche as professe Chrystes doctryne, that forbyddeth vs to calle oure brother but fole. Some we call Pharisees, we beknaue, we defye as naughtye papistes w^t other lyke opprobriouse wordes, vnmete for Chrysten mens eares, but as for to fyght agaynste theym, and to confounde them wyth pure doctryne and good lyuyng, that

we woll not. Agayne other some, we beheretike, we call Lutheranes, and all that naught is, but to shew them charitably where they erre, & rightly to instructe them, we woll not.