#Parson.# So is all the _Mess_, I dare avow this, As good in every point as _Pistel_ or _Gospel_ is. #John.# The foul evil it is! Who would think so much? In faith, I ever thought that it had been no such. #Parson.# Then have we the _Canon_, that is holiest. #John.# A spiteful gay thing, of all that ever I wist. #Parson.# Then have we the _Memento_, even before the sacring. #John.# Ye are morenly well learned! I see by your reck'ning That ye will not forget such an elvish thing. #Parson.# And after that, we consecrate Very God and Man; And turn the bread to flesh, with five words we can. #John.# The devil ye do! I trow this is pestilence business! Ye are much bound to GOD for such a spittle holiness! A gallows gay gift! With five words alone, To make both God and Man; and yet we see none! Ye talk so unreasonably well, it maketh my heart yearn, As eld a fellow as I am, I see well I may learn. #Parson.# Yea, JOHN! and then, with words holy and good, Even, by and by, we turn the wine to blood. #John.# Lo! Will ye se? Lo! who would have thought it? That ye could so soon from wine to blood ha brought it? And yet, except your mouth be better tasted than mine, I cannot feel it other but that it should be wine. And yet I wot ne'er a cause there may be, why Perchance, ye ha drunk blood oftner than ever did I. #Parson.# Truly, JOHN, it is blood, though it be wine in taste. As soon as the word is spoke, the wine is gone and past! #John.# A sessions on it! for me. My wits are me benumme: For I cannot study where the wine should become? #Parson.# Study, quoth ha! Beware, and let such matter go! To meddle much with this, may bring ye soon to woe. #John.# Yea, but, mast[er] Parson! think ye it were right, That, if I desired you to make my black ox white; And you say, "It is done!" and still is black in sight; Ye might me deem a fool, for to believe so light? #Parson.# I marvel much, ye will reason so far! I fear if ye use it, it will ye mar! #John.# No, no, sir! I trust of that I shall be 'ware, I pray you, with your matter again forth to fare! #Parson.# And then we go forth, and CHRIST's body receive; Even the very same that MARY did conceive. #John.#