Quid autem de dignitatibus potencia{que} disseram qs wo vere dignitatis ac pot••statis insc•• c••lo ersequatis Que si ī īprobiss••num quē{que} ceciderint. que incendia flammis ethne ••ructantibus q dilu••••um etc
B••t what shal I saye of dignitees & powers / the whi∣che ye men that neyther knowen verry dignite ne ve∣ry power areisen hem as high as the heuen the whiche dig∣nitees & powers. if they comen to any ••i••kid man. they don as grete domages & destruccions as doth the flambe of the mōtayne ethna. whan the flambe waloweth vp. ne no delu∣uy•• ne doth so cruel harmes / certes ye remēbre wel as I trow that thilk dignite that men clepe the imperie of coūceilours the whiche whilom was begyn̄yng of fredom / your elders coueyted to haue don away that dignite for the pryde of the