The.xxxix. chapyter

I Sayed before, that I wolde towche of thys boke, and so haue I towched, hys fyrste chapyter hole, bycause it hath for the fyrste settyng forth the chyefe countenaunce of myldenes and charyte. And yet what charyte there is therin, whan it is considered I suppose you se. For no parte is there of the clergy that can please hym, neyther prelates, nor meane seculare prestes, nor relygyouse persons, not so mych as any one man / as you may playnely perceyue by other wordes of hys in other places of hys louing boke. And yet among al these fautes, I se hym fynde none with them y• rūne out in apostasye / but all the fautes be assygned in them y• abyde in theyr professyon styll. Nor I […] not in hys boke any cause of hys dyuysyon, to be founden in the sowynge and settynge forthe of these newe sprogen heresyes. And yet do they make, and nedys muste make wher so euer they come the greatest dyuysyon that can be / fyrst in opynyons and contraryouse myndes, and afterwarde in feruour of language and contencyouse wordes / and fynally yf it go forth long, in playne sedyciō, manslaughter, and open warre.

And this faute of these heresies he myght as well haue layed vnto y• clergye, as some of the tother that he so sore speketh of, yf he take heresyes for any. For lyke as noughty prestes and noughty relygyouse persons, haue all waye bene they that do those other fautes, whyche vnder the […]ygure of Some say thys […] layeth to y[…] charge of the spyrytualty: so haue noughty prestes and noughty relygyouse folke (beynge amonge the clergye as Iudas was amonge Crystes apostles) bytrayed the fayth of Cry[…]te, & bygonne and sette forth these vngraciouse heresyes, as tast & as feruently for theyr part, as nowghty laye […]olke […]or theyrs / and both twayne fyrst corrupte some of theyr company at home, and after rūne […] in apostasye, and put[…]e abrode theyr heresyes in wrytynge. And some men saye […] some pre[…]ates haue not done all theyr partes, in the repressynge and dewe punysshement of them. And yet as great fautes as these be, and suche as all the tempoa[…]tye sholde be most greued wyth & grudge at, and therfore shold be moste cause of thys dyuysyon, yf there be suche a dyuysyon / and that euery defaute that is in any noughtye persons of the spyrytualty be a cause of all moste an vniuersall dyuysyon and grudge of the whole corps of the temporaltye, agaynste the whole body of the spyrytualtye: yet I saye for all thys, the booke of thys pacyfyer layeth no pyece of thys faute vnto the spyrytualtye / but rather fyndeth faute & cause of grudge & dyuysyō in the spyrytualty, for ouer sore handelynge of them that are heretykes in dede / and laboreth to abasshe the ordinaries with obloquy, and put them in drede wyth fere of infamy, and falsely bereth them in hande that they haue punysshed many persōs for a wronge suspicyō, falsely cōceyued in theyr owne myndes agaynste those whome they punysshed.

And thus farre hath he gone in his fyrst chapyter. In whiche maner all be it I truste in god the man ment hym selfe but well / yet I fere me some wyly shrew hath somwhat set hym a wry in the temperyng o[…] hys wordes.