wise, hauing no fault but this, that she will be drunke once a day, and then she lyes her downe on her bedde, and cryes, O my God, my God, thou knowest I am drunke, and why I should offend thee my God by spuing thus, as I do. I haue not beene in Essex yet, but Ile set in my staffe there as I go home, for I haue a petition for my brother that made the Sermon of Repentance to deliuer vp for me to the Councell: but it must not be such a one as he deliuered for him selfe to my Lord Treasurer, beginning with O sweet Margery, could thy eyes see so fare, thy hands feele so farre, or thy eares heare so farre &c. for then euerie seruing man will mocke vs, but it must be of another tune, with most pitifully complaining, that a man can not call an Asse, asse, but he shall be had _coram nobis_. In this vaine enough, because actions of the case are chargeable, and Guilde men vncharitable. If the dogge _Martin_ barke againe, Ile hold him tugge for two or three courses, and then beware my blacke booke you were best, for I haue not halfe emboweld my register. Amend, amend, and glorie no more in your hipocrisie, least your pride and vaine glory betray our prosperitie to our enimies, and procure the Lords vengeance to dwell in the gates of our citie. The simple are abused, the ignorant deluded, and Gods truth most pitifully peruerted, and thou art that most wretched seducer, that vnder wolues raiment deuourest widowes houses. Visions are ceast, and all extraordinarie reuelation ended, although a good fellow in Cambridge, hearing all thinges might be obtained by prayer, prayed two dayes and two nightes for visions: wherefore broach no more heresies vnder colour of inspiration: if thou doest, thou art like to heare of me by the next Carrier. And so bon nute to your Noddishippe. Yours to command as your owne for two or three cudgellings at all times. _Cutbert Curriknaue the yonger._ FOOTNOTES [1] Hug. lib. de duob. abusio. [2] Greg. lib. 8. [3] Greg. lib. mor. [4] Ber. 2. ser. resur. [5] Ierome super Oseam. [6] Greg. 15. NOTES. PAGE 9, line 28. _induments_] from _induo_, Latin, to put on; cover over. The word, as a noun, does not occur in Todd’s Johnson nor in Nares. “Diana’s shape and habit them _indued_.”—_Sandys’ Ovid_, b. ii. “One first matter all _Indu’d_ with various forms.”—_Milton, Par. Lost._ P. 11, l. 6. _unuenidall sinnes_] Unvenial? it seems used in contradistinction to venial. P. 11, l. 8. _despairing protestations_] This is an allusion to “The Protestatyon of Martin Mar-Prelat, wherein notwithstanding the surprizing of the printer, he maketh it known vnto the world that he feareth, neither proud priest, Antichristian pope, tiranous prellate, nor godlesse catercap.”