An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
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An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
Marprelate controversy
that they haue ther horse-hire and other charges allowed them out of the
poor mans box, or els it is no bargain. All this fadges wel yet, if we
had once determined who shold be father of the act. Why what a question
is that, when we haue so many persecuted elders abroad. The blinde, the
halt, or the lame, or any serues the turn with them, so he hath not
on a cloak with sleues, or a cap of the vniuersity cut. Imagin that
place to be furnished, where shall we finde moderators, that may deale
indifferently twixt both parts. _Machiuell_ is dead many a yeare agoe,
or els he had bene a fit man for this may-game, therefore whom shal we
haue now, since it must be neither yours nor ours. Some vpstart countrey
Gentleman, that hath vndone all his tenants by oppression, euen such a
one as _Scar._ of Warwicke shire, that being a noted _Martinist_, be
frinded his poor coppi-holder _Criar_, and turnd him out of all that ere
he had very orderly. How thinke you my lay brethren? is not here a trim
conuocation towards. But mark the end of it, and then you may haps see
odde buffeting with the buttond bookes, and battring down of bishopricks.
_Giles_ of Sidborough wil off his gown at least, and make demonstrations
of Logique with his fists like _Zeno_, what though he be low and cannot
reach so hie as an Archbishop, may not he stād like a iackanapes on his
wiues shoulders, and scold for the best game with all that come. He is
sauing a reuerence a spritish dispu[t]er, and a pestilent felow at an
vnperfect sillogisme. Nay mark me well, and take me at my words, he
shal speake false Latine, forge a text, abuse a Bishop, or make a lie of
reuelation for more then I speak off with any man in Englād. Neither do
I flatter him herin for he hears me not, if I did, it were no matter,
considering that _virtus laudata crescit_.
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