The.xvii. chapyter

BVt I wote not fully by what o[…] casyon yt is, that nowe of late the gre[…]t […] of all the laye people haue founde defaulte / as well at prestes as religyous, so farreforth that yt is now in maner noted through all the realme, that there is a great dyuysyon bytwene the spyrytualtye and the temporaltye. And veryly yt is great pytye, that such a noyse shuld spryng and go abrode.

In the begynnyng he sayd that dyuysyon reygneth now betwene spyrytuall men and spyrituall mē. And then sayth he here: But it reygneth now bytwene spyrytuall men and temporall men.

I am contente to let his but alone, and wyll not shote ther at for this ones. How be yt surely his but beynge a preposycyon aduersatyue, standeth more properly to shote at betwene his two nowes, then yt wolde yf yt were turned into some cōiunccyon copulatyue.

But where as he cā not fully tell by what occasyon the great multitude haue founde defaute, as well at prestes as religyous / a mā nedeth neuer to study for occasyons therof / but yf he be so curyouse as to seke for fautes, he maye sone fynd inough, not onely in prestes and in relygyous, but in euery sorte and kynde of temporall people to, & euer might yet in euery age syth crystendome beganne, and may peraduenture yf he serche well, fynde some in hym self to. So y• yf there be no nother cause of varyaunce then that / they may both spiritualty and temporalty take eche other by the hande like good felowes, and agre to gether well inough.

But yet happeth yt well that this good pacyfyer hath so great pytye, that the noyse of this diuisyon shold spryng and go abrode. For he to remedy that mater with all, and to pul backe the noyse therof, and to stoppe vppe clerely the sprynge / bycause all shold be hushte and neuer mo wordes made therof, hath as ye se put yt oute abrode in prent.