And as for their waggynge of their fyngers over it, and sayenge syxe or seauē wordes in Latyn, helpeth them nothynge at all. For how can they beleue by the meanes of hys wordes, when they knowe not what he sayeth? And as towchynge the daylye and commō breade that I eate at my dynner, whether I haue a Preste or not, I blesse it with my harte (ād not with my fyngers) and hartely geue God thankes for it. For yf I haue an hundreth Prestes to blesse it, yet am not I excused therbye. For excepte I blesse yt my selfe, yt profyteth me no more then yf it were vnblessed. And I blesse yt my selfe, thā I care not what the Preste prate. For as longe as I vnderstonde hym not, yt profyteth me nothyng. But in good fayth I wene the Byshoppes and their proctoure wote not what a blessynge meaneth. Therfore deare bretherne harken to me. To blesse God, is to geue hym prayse ād thankes for hys benefyttes: [Sidenote: To blesse.] To blesse a Kynge or a Prynce, is to thanke hym for hys kyndenes, and to praye to God for hym, that he maye longe reygne to the laude of God and wealth of hys commons. To blesse a mās neyghboure, is to praye for hym and to do hym good. To blesse my breade or meate, is to geue God thankes for it. To blesse my selfe, is to geue God thākes for the greate benefyttes that I haue receyued of hym, and to praye God that of hys infynyte goodes he wyll increase those gyftes that he hath geuen me, and fynyshe hys worke which he hath begonne in me, vnto hys laude and prayse. And as towchynge thys fleshe, to fulfyll hys wyll in it, and not to spare yt, but scourge cutte ād burne it, onelye that it maye be to hys honoure & glorye. Thys is the forme of blessynge, and not to wagge two fyngers ouer them. But alacke, of this blessynge our Byshoppes be ignoraunte. [Sidenote: More.] ❧ But as for those that are good & faythfull folke, and haue any grace or any sparcle of reason in their heades, wyll (I verely thynke) neuer be so farre overseane, as in thys artycle (the trouthe wherof God hath hym selfe testyfyed by as many opē myracles as euer he testyfyed any one) to beleue thys yonge man vpon hys baren reasons agaynste the faythe ād reasō both of all olde holy wryters ād all good Christen people thys xv.C. yeares.