Chap. 2. the. 27. Diuision.
I can not tel whether you would abuse your reader here with the fallation of the accent, by∣cause this worde great is so placed betwene Basile and Metropolitane, that it may be as well re∣ferred to the Metropolitane, as to Basill, and so you hauing put no comma, it seemeth you had as lieue haue your reader, reade great Metropolitane as great Basil. But that the simpler sort be not deceyued therby, it is not out of the way to let the reader vnderstande what a great Metropolitane this was, whiche appeareth, for that when he was threatned by the magistrate confiscation, of his* 1.1 goods, answered, that he was not afrayde of the threatnings, and that all his goodes were a very fewe bookes, and an olde gowne: suche were then those Metropolitanes, vnder whose shadowes M. Doctor goeth about to shroude all this pompe and princely magnificence of Archbishops.
You search verie narowly when you misse not a comma, but you knowe what nugator signifieth. All men of learning can tell that Basile is in common speach called Basile the great. And yet if he were called great Metropolitan, the title might verie well agrée vnto him: for he had large and ample iurisdiction, being