Chapter 2

THe Debella[…]yon of Salem and Bizans somtime two great townꝭ, which being vnder ye great turke, were by[…]wene Eas[…]er and Michelma[…] last passed, thys present yere of our lord, M.v.C. thyrty […] with a meruelouse metamorphosy[…], enchaunted and turned into two englyshe men, by the wonderful inuentyue wytte and wychecrafte o[…] Syr Iohn̄ Some saye the Pacifiar / and so by hym cōuayed hyther in a Dialoge, to defende his dyuysyō, agaynst ye Apology of Syr Thomas More knyght. But now beyng thus bytwene the sayde Mychelmas & Halowentyde nexte ensu[…]e in thys Debellacion va[…]shed: they be fl[…]dde […]ense and vanyshed, & are bycome two townys agayne / wyth those old names chaūged[…] Salem into Hierusalem and Bizanc[…] into Constantinople / the tone in Grece, y• tother in Syria / where they may se them that wyll, & wynne them that can. And if the Pacifier conuaye them hyther agayne, & tenne suche other townys with them, embatayled in suche dyaloges: […]yr Thomas More hath vndertaken, to put hym selfe in thaduenture alone agaynst them all. But and y[…] he lette them tary styll there […]he wyll not vtterly forswere it / but he is not mych mynded as yet, age now so cō mynge on & warynge all vnwyeldy, to go thider & geue thassaulte, to such well walled townys, wythout some suche lusty company as shalbe somewhat lykly to, lepe vp a lytell more lyghtly.