By this tale ye maye perceiue, how greuouse and perillous all ciuyle sedicions be, so doubtfull may it stand, that a man can not tel on which side to holde. For he that now is stronger, another tyme is weaker, as Fortune list to turne hir wheele. FOOTNOTES: [300] Dormitory. [301] During the Wars of the Roses. In _The First Part of Edward IV._, by Thomas Heywoud, 1600 (Shakesp. Soc. repr. p. 41), Hobs, the Tanner of Tamworth, says:-- "By my troth, I know not, when I speak treason, when I do not. There's such halting betwixt two kings, that a man cannot go upright, but he shall offend t'one of them. I would God had them both, for me." + _Of the vplandishe[303] priest, that preached of Charitie._ cxvii. + A priest in the countrey, not the wysest nor the best learned, preached to his parisheners of charitie so vehemently, that he sayed plainely, that it was impossible for anye man to be saued or to come to heauen without charitie, except onely the kynges grace, God saue hym. FOOTNOTES: [302] This word is in the original text printed twice by an oversight. I have struck out the duplicate. [303] _i.e._ a person dwelling in the uplands or mountainous districts where the learning of the cities had not very deeply penetrated. Hence the word became synonymous with ignorant and uninformed. Alexander Barclay's fifth eclogue is "Of the Citizen and Uplandish Man." The poem of _Jack Upland_ is printed in the old editions of Chaucer and in Wright's _Political Poems and Songs_, 1861, ii. 16. Mr. Wright assigns to it the date of 1401. "He hath perus'd all the impressions Of Sonnets, since the fall of Lucifer, And made some scurvy quaint collections Of fustian phrases, and _uplandish_ words." Heywood's _Fair Maid of the Exchange_, 1600. + _Another sayinge of the same preest._ cxviii. + Before the kynges Maiestyes commissioners sent[304] downe intoo the realme in visytacyon, it chaunced the forsayd preest among other to appere: to whom one of the vysytours (guessyng quickly what docter he was) sayde: Mayster parsone, howe spende you youre tyme? what rede you? Forsoothe, syr (sayd the preest), I occupy my selfe in readyng the New Testament. That is very well done (sayd the commissioner). But sir, I pray you, who made the newe Testament? That dyd (said the preest) kynge Henry the eyghte, God haue mercye vpon hys soule![305] FOOTNOTES: [304] Perhaps _went_ is the true reading. [305] "What must he (the king) do then? He must be a student. He must write God's booke himselfe, not thinking because he is a king, but he hath licence to do what he will, as these worldly flatterers are wont to say."--_Latimer's Second Sermon before King Edward VI._ 1549. + _Of the fryer that praysed sainct Frauncis._ cxix.