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The answer.
The first, and most speciall note giuen to know those here∣tikes by whom Saint Peter here speaketh of, is that they be li∣eng masters. Which how it is, and alwaies hath béene annexed to your religion, and the teachers thereof, may appéere to the in∣different Reader, by the answers to these your notes, and by your bookes of beastly fained myracles. Your other note of preaching libertie, and licentious life, cannot in all the worlde be so fitly sought, and so surely founde as amongst your selues. For by your doctrine our ladie is so good a gentlewoman,* 1.1 that so men serue her, be they whoores, be they théeues, be they what they will be, it is no matter she will entreat and obtaine pardon for them. And her seruice is neither painfull, nor costly, for it consisteth in say∣eng of a few Aue Maries, and now and then praieng to our ladie, and somtimes offering of a taper. As for licentious life who haue béene able to match your most holie fathers of Rome?