T. C. Pag. 156. Sect. 2.
Sed etiam quodam in loco facetus esse voluisti. Deus bone, quam te illud non decet. Heere M.* 1.1 Doctor was disposed to make him selfe, and his Reader merie, but it is with the bagpipe or coun∣trey mirth, not with the harpe or lute, which the learned were wont to handle. For he hath packed by togither the olde tale of the curst wyfe, and of the thiefe that tooke away the Priests purse, very familiar and homely geare: It might peraduenture make M. Doctor hoppe about the house, but the learned and the wyse, can not daunce by this instrument.
It pleaseth M. Doctor to compare those which be put out of their liuings without iust cause, to heretikes. curst wyues, and to theeues, but all men do vnderstande how rightly. What his trou∣bles be within, and in his conscience, the Lorde God and he knoweth best, but as for the outwarde persecution which he suffreth, it is not suche as he neede thus to stoupe and to grone, and to blowe vnderneath it, as though he had some great burthen vpon his shoulders. And if he cōplayne of the persecution of the tongue, to let passe his immoderate heate of speeche, whych he vseth with those that he hathe to doe withall, the tongue whiche is more intemperate than his is in all his booke, shall hardely be founde.
And I thanke God, I can be mery with the bagpype, I am neyther ashamed of the Instrument, nor of the countrey. But what diuinitie call you this? alacke poore spite at the bagpipe. Surely you doe me a pleasure when you tell me of it. You haue omitted nothing that by any meanes might serue you for a iest. O great grauitie. &c. But let vs leaue puerilia, pueris.
I knowe none of you put from your liuings, without moste iuste cause: if there be any iniuried that wayes (God be thanked) they maye finde iustice. My quietnesse with∣in my conscience (I moste humbly thanke my God therefore) dothe mitigate the