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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09137	The first parte of Pasquils apologie Wherin he renders a reason to his friendes of his long silence: and gallops the fielde with the Treatise of reformation lately written by a fugitiue, Iohn Penrie.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 19450; ESTC S121966	20,797	34

THE First parte of Pasquils Apologie Wherin he renders a reason to his friendes of his long silence and gallops the fielde with the Treatise of Reformation lately written by a fugitiue Iohn Penrie Printed where I was and where I will bee readie by the helpe of God and my Muse to send you the May-game of Martinisme for an intermedium betweene the first and seconde part of the Apologie Anno. Dom. 1590. THE FIRST PART OF PASQVILS APOLOGIE IF it be a vanitie and vexation of hart for a man to toyle in hys life to gather-treasure when he knowes not whither he be wise or foolish that shall inherite it we may thinke the sweat of our spirits to be somewhat friuolous which write print when we cannot tell whether they will prooue sober or franticke to whom we leaue the possession of our labours It is nowe almost a full yeere since I first entred into the lystes against the Faction promising other Bookes which I keepe in yet because the opening of them is such an opening of waters as will fill the eares of the world with a fearefull roaring Were I but a dogge wise men would suffer me to bay in the defence of mine own maister but being a liuely stone squared and layd into Gods building by the hands of many excellent workmen in the Church of England when I see the theefe and the sente of Church-robbers is in my nosthrils shall I not lay out my throate to keepe them off I know that since the beginning of all these broyles in our Church of England not onely the L. Archb. of Canterburie in his learned works but many other reuerende religious and worthy men both at Paules-crosse and the Pulpits in Cittie and Country haue with great skill and sobrietie toucht euery string of the holy scriptures and warbled sweetlie to cast out the foule spirit of the Faction with Dauids harpe but their madnesse on the contrarie part hath so encreased that their attempt is still to nayle our best men to the wall with the speare of slaunder By these euents you may easily perceiue what successe they are like to haue that deale with so leaden and sandie braines he that hazards his time and cost to teach them aduentures to waken the drowsie out of a dreame their heads fall downe the lower for the lifting vp and they defile vs with dust when they snake themselues I could for my part be well contented to throwe my selfe at their feete with teares and entreatie to stop their course that the weake for whom Iesus Christ hath dyed may not see vs runne one at another like furious Bulles foming and casting out those reproches which heereafter we shall neuer be able to wipe awaie and when we should ioyne to encounter the common enemie the first view of each other wil enforce vs to braule againe But seeing sobrietie will doe no good let them be well assured that if I catch such a brimse in my pen as I caught the last August I will neuer leaue flynging about with them so long as I finde anie ground to beare me Contention is a coale the more it is blowne by dysputation the more it kindleth I must spit in theyr faces to put it out Euer since the last Michelmas Tearme many thousands of my freendes haue looked for me whom I am loath to enforce to loose their longing and though in silence I gloate through the fingers at other matters yet am I not carelesse of the quarrell nowe in hand The peace of Ierusalem which the faithfull are bound to pray for is the onely thing that hath brought me to thys long and quiet pause wherein I haue set the example of Dauid before mine eyes seeking with my hart a surcease of Armes euen of those that hated peace and prepared themselues to battaile when I spake vnto them The case so standing I trust I am worthy to be held excused if I muster and traine my men a newe that the enemies of GOD and the state wherein I liue may be stopt of theyr passage and driuen backe or vtterly foyled in the field and ouerthrown My labour in this peece of seruice will be the lesse because the byshop of my soule my L. Archb. of Cant. strooke off the head of the serpent long agone it is nothing but the tayle that mooueth now Some small rubs as I heare haue been cast in my way to hinder my comming forth but they shall not profit It is reported that a student at the Lawe hath vndertaken to be a stickler betweene vs all his booke is not in print and I came a day short of the sight of the coppie of it For any thing I heare he quencheth the strife with a pinte of water and a pottle of fire I little thought his leysure would haue suffered him to haue any more then a common kinde of knowledge in matters so farre remoued from the course of his studie place and calling They that are most conuersant in the Scriptures finde the booke to be shut with many seales it is not for euery finger to breake them vp the word is a treasure kept vnder many locks which are not to be opened with euerie key He onely that hath the key of Dauid hath graunted out a commission to the lippes of his Priestes to come within it So that if I doubt of any matter there I may not knocke for it at the Chamber-dore of a common Counseller but haue recourse vnto them whom God himselfe appointed to teach Iacob before any Inne of courte was reard I can tell him that M. Bucer Peter Martyr and that auncient Entellus of the Church of England the B. of Sarisburie haue trauast our Church with as graue a gate as he and founde nothing in it to stumble at Therefore what I say to him I say to the rest of our Reformers whose tongues are so busie to licke out the moates of their bretherens eyes if they haue any wisedome in theyr vessels let them be carefull howe they lende it out least that when the suddaine shoute of the comming of the Bridegroome shall be giuen and euerie virgin would be glad to trime his owne Lampe there be not enough for them and others Some other things there are that made me looke backe and measure the rase I had runne alreadie before I bid any man the bace againe To this I was stirred vp by the dislike that some had of the ierke which I gaue to Fryer Sauanarol ô quoth one he was the first that inuented our Religion this fellow seemes to haue a Pope in his bellie as bigge as Alexander he would make you beleeue that our Church hath borrowed the light of her Torche at a Fryers Taper which is far otherwise Our Religion in England is no newe excrement of the braine of man but drawne out of the fountaine of all trueth God himselfe who spake in olde time to our fathers to Adam to Enoch to Noah to Abraham and so downward