The wordes of the Admonition touching the gray Amise be these: we maruayle that they could espie in their last synode, that a gray Amis, which is but a garmēt of dignitie, should be a garment (as they say) defiled with superstitiō, and yet that coapes. &c. Do they not say that the Amis is but a garment of dignitie. &c? consider their words well, and you shall sée that master Doctor hath said truly.
The gray Amis was iustly taken away, bycause the vse of it is not established by any law of this realme, as the vse of other vestures be: and in mine opinion the By∣shops deserued commendation in so doing: for thereby they declared, that they will not suffer any rites or ornaments to be vsed in this Church, but suche only as are by publike authoritie established.
Experience hathe taught me that diuerse men be of that nature, that they haue a* 1.1 delight in opposing themselues to the present estate, and I sée it by proofe to be a great fault in diuers of you.
I haue hitherto serued as few contrary times, as you haue done: as for the gift of con∣formitie, which you say I haue, I thanke God for it, I haue learned to conforme my selfe to the time in that sense, that S. Paule hath willed me so to do. Rom. 12. and to* 1.2 lawes also and magistrates, as I am likewise commauuded in the. 13. Chapter of the same epistle.
What commodities you want, that I haue, I cannot coniecture: your meate and drinke is prouided with lesse trouble and charges vnto you, and in more delicate and deintie manner, than mine is: your ease and pleasure ten times more, you do what you list, go when you list, come when you list, speake when you list at your pleasure. What would you haue more? I know not why you should complaine, except you be of the same disposition with the Franciscane Friers, who when they hadde filled their bellies at other mens tables, were wont to cry out and say: O quanta patimur. &c. Some men are delited to be fed at other mens tables, and preferre popular fame be∣for Gold and siluer.