Geneua Bible, that his attendant Italian had brought with him to make vp the bargaine. But for all the Scripture he could alledge, it should not bee, _Phil. Stu._ was no meate for her tooth, God wote he could not get a penyworth of leachery on such a pawne as his Bible was, the man behinde the painted cloth mard all, and so O griefe, a good Sabaoths day work was lost. Stand to it _Mar-martin Iunior_ and thou art good inough for ten thousand of them, tickle me my _Phil._ a litle more in the flanke, and make him winche like a resty iade, whereto a dreaming deuine of Cambridge, in a certain priuate Sermon of his, compared the wicked. Saist thou me so good heart, then haue at you Maister Compositor, with the constructiō of _Sunt oculos clari qui cernis sydera tanquam_. If you be remembred you were once put to your trumpes about it in _Wolfes_ Printing-house, when as you would needes haue _clari_ the infinitiue moode of a verbe passiue, which determined you went forwards after this order. _Sunt_ there are, _oculos_ eies, _qui_ the which, _cernis_ thou doest see, _clari_ to be cleare, _tanquam sydera_ as the Stars. Excellent well done of an old Maister of Arte, yet why may not hee by authority challenge to himselfe for this one peece of worke the degrees hee neuer tooke. Learning is a iewel my maisters, make much of it, and _Phil. Stu._ a Gendeman euery haire of his head, whom although you doe not regard according as he deserues, yet I warrant you _Martin_ makes more account of him then so, who hath substituted him long since (if the truth were well boulted out) amongst the number of those priuy _Martinists_, which he threatens to place in euery parish. I am more then halfe weary of tracing too and fro in this cursed common wealth, where sinfull simplicitye pufte vppe with the pride of singularity, seekes to peruerte the name and methode of magistracy. But as the most of their arguments, are drawn from our graue fathers infirmities, so al their outrageous endeuors haue their ofspring from affected vainglory. Agreeing with the saying of _Hug._ “Innobedientiæ morbus ex superbiæ tumore procedit, sicut sanies ex vlcere.”[1] The disease of disobedience proceeds from the swelling of pride, as madnesse from some vntollerable vlcer. The cause whereof _Gregory_ thus expresseth.[2] “Dum plus exquirunt” saith he, “contemplando quam capiunt, vsque ad peruersa dogmata erumpunt, et dum veritatis discipuli esse negligunt, humiliter magistri erroris fiunt.” Whiles by study they search out more then they vnderstand, they breake forth into peruerse opinions, and whiles they neglect to be the schollers of truth, they most basely become the schoolemaisters of error. For such is the boldnesse of our boyish deuines, that they will leape into the pulpet, before they haue learned _Stans puer ad mensam_, and talke very desperately of dicipline, before they can construe, _Qui mihi discipulus_. “Qui venit institui” saith _Cassiodorus_, “antequam