An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
Religion
An Almond for a Parrot: Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate.
Marprelate controversy
more then expired. It seemes he stayes for some Saintes that are yet to
suffer, and wants none but _Martin_ to make vp his legend of Martyres,
if it be so I woulde thou wouldest come aloft quickly, that we might
haue this good sport altogether, and not liue euer in expectation of
that which is not. O I could furnish him to the proofe with such a
packet of male and female professors, as the world might not patterne.
A good old dunstable doctor here in London, should be the formost of
them, that saide his wife was as good as our Ladie: and another time
quarrelling with one of his neighbours that was a sadler, about setting
vp of the Organs, in a good zeale he lift vp his fist, and stroke out
two of his fore teeth, like a right man of peace: where haue you lived
my brethren, that you haue not heard of that learned Presbiter, that
talking how _Adam_ fell by eating of the Apple, discourst thus: _Adam_
eate the Apple and gaue it to his wife, whereby is to be noted that the
man eate and the woman eate, the man eate, but how, a snap and away: the
woman eat, but how, she laide her thumbe on the stalke, and her finger
on the coare and bitte it ouerthwart, in which byting it ouerthwart, she
broke all the commaundements, insomuch as vnder ten greene spots the ten
cōmmandments in euery Apple are comprised: and besides that corrupted her
fiue senses. From whence wee may gather this obseruation, that a woman
alwaies eates an Apple ouerthwart. Why, this is sound diuinitie, and apt
for to edify, _Sed abeundum est mihi_, and from the Cleargie must I
leape to the Laytie. Wherefore God euen good man _Dauy_ of Canterbury,
and better lucke betide thee and thy limbes, then when thou dauncedst a
whole sunday at a wedding, and afterwardes repenting they selfe of thy
prophane agilitie, thou entredst into a more serious meditation against
what table thou hadst sinned, or what part was the principall in this
antike iniquitie. The eyes they were the formost in this enditement, but
the legs, (O those leude legs,) they brought him thither, they kept him
there, they leapt, they daunced, and I leualted to the Vials of vanitie:
wherefore, what didst thou but like a true christian chastised them
accordingly. The scripture saith, if thine eye offend thee, plucke it
out, _Dauy_ saith, my hose and shoes haue offended mee, therefore will I
plucke them off. This text thus applyed, off went the wollen stockings
with a trice, and they with the good neates leather shoes were cast both
into the bottom of a well. The sinners thus punished, and all parties
pleased, home went the pilgrim _Dauy_ barefoote and barelegge. And now
since wind and tide serues, now I care not if I cut ouer to Ipswitch:
there is a Cowdresser there that I am sure will entertaine me if she be
not dead, great _Iane_ of Ipswitch they call her, one that hath beene
a tender mother to many a Martinist in her time, and hath a very good
insight in a canne of strong wine. A good vertuous Matrone is she and a
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