Indéede, if this apparell were of that nature, that a lye is, your similitude of the midwiues had some shew in it: and yet must you of necessitie confesse, that their lying to Pharao did much good per accidens: for otherwise the men children of the Israelites, and euen Moses himselfe had bin murthered: and you are not ignorant that diuers writers in this respect excuse that doing of theirs. You knowe likewise what the opinion of some is, touching that kynd of lye that is called officiosum mendacium: but for my part, I am in that point of Sainte Augustines iudgement. But your similitude is not lyke: and if it were, yet makes it agaynst you, for theyr lying dyd good, as I haue sayd e before.
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