L. VIVES.
NO (a) man except.] [The question of the Uirgin Mary was not yet a foote: but grew af∣terward * 1.1 betweene two orders of friers, both fiery, and led with vndaunted generalls, the Dominicans by Thomas of Aquin, and the Franciscans by Iohn Duns Scotus. Now the coun∣cell of Basil decred that she was wholly pure from all touch of sinne. But the Dominicans ob∣iected that this was no lawfull counsell, and the Minorites of the other side avowed that it was true and holy, and called the Dominicans heretiques for slandering the power of the Church: so that the matter had come to a shrewd passe, but that Pope Sixtus forbad this theame to be any more disputed of. Thus do these men esteeme councells or canons, bee they againe their pleasures, iust as an old wiues tale in a Flaxe-shope or at an Ale-house Gossiping.]