and Cicero Thei be reported to haue moued the mindes of the hearers and enforced theim to what thei woulde If this bee so praise worthie what saie you to our Paule which with bolde and chereful countenaunce though he stode in irons before the mightie and learned King Agrippa before the Princes of Syria and before Festus himself presidente of Iurie so learnedlie and plainlie pleaded his owne cause and that in a matier of deth and for a religion hated of all men that King Agrippa himselfe rauished in his wittes cried out saiyng Thou hast almoste made me a Christian man Actes xxvi And Festus himself ouercome with his most pure and clere oration saied with a loude voice Paule thou arte besides thy selfe moche Learning hath made the madde Yeat was this Festus neither vneloquent nor yet vnlearned nor one that hated the studie of philosophie I praie you in soche an audiēce in such hate of al mē and so heinous complaintes of false accusers besides this in a matier of death also yea in irons to what woulde Cicero your prince of Eloquence haue doen Cicero Without doubt his spirite stopped vp for feare scarce sobbingly could he haue brought furth one word For vpō a time as Plutarche reherseth neither bounde nor led in chaines but borne into the court hall in a softe chariot to pleade not his owne matier nor a matier of death but for Milo when he sawe Pompeies armed menne standing rounde about in bright harnesse he was amased and confounded at last trembling scarse bringing out one worde he began fearfully not to speake but to sobbe Besides this we haue wisedome couered also in goodly Allegories as figuratiue ceremonies parables canticles wher you shal find more misteries bothe honest and profitable than in all the vngodlie verses whiche al the minstrelles and Harpers haue song in the praise and honour of their wine God Bacchus In dede thei trimme vp their fables with alluring woordes and yeat geue you a swearde laied ouer with honie Most part of their writinges be of deflouring virgines adulterie lecherie deceipte crueltie murther vainglorie thinges not to be spoken of But our Poeme is pure cleane and honest with out all ieopardie Who euer spake or wrote more finely and wisely then our Solomon Of whome we reade in the thirde boke of Kinges the fowerth chapiter And GOD gaue Sapience and vnderstanding to SOLOMON aboue measure and a breadth of harte as the sande of the Sea And his wisedome excelled al the wisedome of the children of the East and of Egypte For of all mortalle menne he was the wisest And there came of all Nacions and Regions of the Worlde to heare his wisedome that was so moche spoken of Yea the Quene of SABA in Riche apparaile and of wonderful wisedome came also and when she had communed with him of al matiers and perceiued how he gouerned his Citie and Housholde shee saied The fame that I hearde in my lande of thine Eloquence and Wisedome is true but I woulde not beleue it till I came my selfe and see with mine yies And yet lo no not the one haulfe of thy matiers is tolde me thou so excelleste in Wisedome and passest all that is spoken of the. These most surest praises of our wisedome no man merueileth at and yeat we wonder at certeine fables and vaine thinges whiche very vain liers haue writtē of vain Philosophers Namely of Appolonius how he wente into Persia and so ouer the Mounteine Caucasus through the Albanes Scythians Massagetes those riche Kingdomes of Iude and passing ouer the greate Riuer PHYSON at laste came to the Brachmans all to heare Iarchas sittyng in his golden throne and drinkyng of the fountaine Tantalus and disputyng emong a fewe persones of the nature and properties of natural thinges We rather wonder at the great desires of Pythagoras and Plato of whiche that one is reported to haue gone to Egypt that other to the Prophetes of Mēphis by a painefull waie ieopardeous iourney Stād stil here a little I praie you and learne to be madde and wise together You thinke theim praise worthie and moche to be made of which toke a farre iourney to certaine wise men I wotte not who to learne of them I wot not what but these our men you neglect and despise yet of them to be taught all the whole worlde made haste to come because thei knew that the high God had there set vp his throne chaire of most excellent and perfecte wisedome And why folow not you their exāples whō you so greatlie praise and moche marueile at Now as touching an historie is there any like ours so auncient so sure so graue so profitable Cicero in his booke De oratore saieth An historie is the witnesse of time the light of truth Historie the life of remembraunce the maistresse of liuyng the messenger of Antiquitie And if this be so I maie saie trulie that none haue an historie but christien men As touchyng certaintie of time you haue nothing before the Olympiades were founde and thei began but in the time of Esaie vnder king Iothan Olympiades when thei first began So these your writers confound many thinges together and laie them in heapes all out of ordre breaking of their matier with vaine folishe fables the Grecians especiallie which studied not trueth but rather to lie and therfore are condemned of Cicero Quintilian and Iuuenal Lodouicus viues speakyng plainelie saieth some for feare of reproche to lie the more safelie leauyng the Grecians matiers fette their compasse a farre of from the Persians Egiptians and Chaldees as did Herodotus the father of lies and Diodorus Siculus a triflyng Grecian Your aucthours also write of light matiers neither pleasaunt nor profitable and sette out their bablyng with vaine descriptions no goodnesse at all But our moste profitable historie truelie declareth the ordre of times seuering the kingdomes one frō another speaketh of nothing without a good reason It maie best also be called the messenger of antiquitie For beginnyng at the creation of the worlde it holdeth on to the Monarchie of the Persians euen vnto Xerxes Iosephus writyng against Appion of Alexandria saieth thus The Greke historiens as Acusilaus and those that folowed him aboute the time of Cadmus Milesius were but a little before the warres of the Persians as witnesseth Hellanicus So the Greke historians there began where ours left of The Latines be moche later Now then it is plaine whether our historie or theirs mai rather be called the messenger of Antiquitie Finallie as the holie writers in learnyng and varietie farre passe the prophane so in glorie and renoume through al kingdomes frō the beginning of the world thei excel all other so that to saie that Philosophie is therfore most commendable because it hath alwaies bene had in moste price is a thing to no purpose The kingdomes of Egypt and Assyria were of all the world most auncient In how great estimation Ioseph Moses were in that one it is well knowen In the other how shone our Philosophie Esai xxxviii when as Esaie Prophecied in one night about the walles of Hierusalem were slaine an hundred foure score and v. M. men To speake nothing of the high aucthoritie of Samuel Iosue and Dauid Dooe we not reade of king Solomon how he was magnified aboue all the kinges of th earth as well in riches as wisedome And as in the monarchie of Babilō dominiō was geuen to our Daniel so did Mardocheus rule the whole kingdome of the Medes By the mightiest kinges of Persia Cyrus and Darius great Priuilegies were graunted to our Philosophers This is euident in Iosua Esdras and Nehemias whiche by fauoure of the princes of Persia built vp againe both temple citie In thempire of the Macedoniens at the request of Ptolomeus Philadelphus king of Egipt whiche sent also giftes of incomperable value to the temple of Hierusalem our lawe was translated into the Greke tonge But in the monarchie of the Romains the Bible now dispersed through the whole worlde so willinglie was receiued of all men that al whiche had witte and knowlege moste gladlie badde your deceiptful Philosophie farewell Why then go you now about to call it vp againe being ones dead and buried Or what remaineth els then all lies quite forsaken to geue our selues wholie to be instructed in the moste auncient certaine and moste holesome Philosophie of the Bible FINIS Londini in aedibus Richardi Graftoni Reginae a typographia excusum Anno Domini M.D.LIII. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum VERSVTVS CELAT SCIENTIAM PRO. 12. GRAM MVSIC ASTRO LOG GEoMET RETHOR ARITHM
v.c.lxx yeres Genesis The first booke declareth the beginnyng and causes of all thinges speciallie the creation of man how it was frō the beginnyng how he fell and was restored again how all men came of one and being dispersed through the world by enormeous faultes angred God and caused the fludde to come vpon them Againe how thei that were saued in the same gaue the beginnyng to all kingdomes last of Abraham Isaac and Iacob holie Prophetes whiche liued before the lawe written in tables the liues condicions maners religion notable dedes and saiynges be discribed and how thei descended out of the lande of Chanaan into Egipt For these and other good men this first boke of Moses was called of some The booke of iuste men Yet with vs and our elders hath their naming preuailed whiche called it Genesis doubtlesse of the generation and beginnyng of al thinges at which Moses beginneth his booke The seconde boke declareth how the Israelites oppressed in Egipt by Pharao Exodus deliuered by their capitain Moses were ledde into desert through the redde sea how thei fought against the Amalechites were fedde with breade that rained downe from heauen how at the commaundemēt of God thei did create a Magistrate and at the last receiued lawes also describyng settyng out and commaundyng true religion holie maners rites ceremonies and finallie al due and good ordre in the cōmune wealthe Here also is touched a little their shamefull offence that thei did in worshippyng the golden calfe And of their commyng out of Egipte whereof it principallie treateth this booke is called Exodus Leuiticus Vnto this ioigneth Leuiticus so called of the Leuitical ministeries which it teacheth It sheweth sundry kindes of sacrifices vowes pollucions infections general clēsyng of sinnes lawful vnlawful mariages like other It speaketh a little of ciuill Gouernaunce but speciallie of holie rites or customes and as we might saie the bishoppes or canon lawes Here maie we see how vertuous and learned priestes ought to be All the misteries of the gospel the priesthode sacrifice of Christ his vertue power yea and our whole redēptiō couertlie wrapped in figures is here throughlie conteined ¶ The fourth booke is called Numeri peraduēture of this Numeri that in it the people of Israel are nūbred It declareth the actes from the second yere of their going out of Egipt euē vnto the death of Moses In it be many notable exāples of sondrie cōmocions rufflinges emōg rebellious people There is shewed what euill ende sedicious persones come vnto what maruellous chaunces happen to the rulers them selues Moses of all menne moste constant and pacient suffred vntollerable thinges dooen to him bothe by his owne people and other foreins to and yet he him selfe is not fautlesse neither Many thinges are in this boke which perteine to religion and ciuil gouernaūce speciallie this That bishoppes ought not to flie from intermedlyng wyth matiers of the cōmon weale nor a ciuil officer to passe little vpon religion Almost at the ende be described great battailes and certaine lawes are declared at large in the great plaine of Moab The fift and last booke is called Deuteronomium Deuterono or seconde lawe and as you woulde saie The lawe expouned now the second time This is added of Moses vnto the other afore as a briefe of all heauenlie Philosophie In it is conteined all that euer serueth to liue wel and vertuouslie The briefenesse thereof is moche commended and set by and is a plaine commentarie of the ten commaundementes This Booke the Lorde woulde haue still in the handes of his people wherin he hath so ordred all matiers as to all degrees and ages thei maie be moste mete and conuenient Iosue The booke of Iosue declareth principallie the trueth of Goddes promise How after the death of Moses the people of Israel by the leadyng of Iosue of whom the booke hath his name as of the chiefe persone were brought into the lande of promise the princes and people of the Cananites vainquished destroied in punishment for their great sinnes It hath a goodlie description of the holie Lande and sheweth vnto vs an example of a verie good Prince and obedient people It conteineth the historie of .xxvi. yeres or therabout Iudges The Booke of Iudges taketh his name of the Iudges of Israel whose actes and gouernaunce it declareth And countyng Iosue him selfe there were emong the people thirtene Iudges not as Kinges and Monarches but pastours presidentes and consuls of free people Here is set out a fre state with many chaunges victories slaughters Oppressions Deliueries iudgementes and commocions Also the mutabilitie of the commons alwaies ready to the worst diuerse heauie chaūces the fight betwixt religion and supersticion is here declared It is a mirrour of that weale publique where is no head officer but euerie man foloweth what liketh him best it sheweth what euil end that to moche libertie cometh vnto Thē ensueth ciuill battail and destruction within theim selues The historie is of .cccxxxvi. yeares accountyng hereunto the time of Iosue and .xxiiij. yeres out of the ministration of Helie Ruthe The little booke of Ruth toke the name of the chiefe person It treateth of no high matier but sheweth how after harde happes and greuous tēptations cometh a merie ende and that vertue is rewarded if we cōtinue stil in goodnesse and refuse not honest labour It hath a rehearsall of Dauids or rather of Messias kinred very profitable for that that foloweth and the vnderstandyng of the promise of God This historie perteineth to the times of the Iudges After this folowe .ij. bokes of Samuel Samuel and Kinges and .ii. bookes of kinges a woorke of many and sondrie matiers very profitable and full of learnyng By moste notable examples in them be declared and confirmed the lawes and promises of GOD. Out of theim also are made the Psalmes and homelies of the Prophetes To be shorte emong the best goodliest cunningest and moste necessarie bookes of the Scripture these be not the laste The booke of Iudges sheweth a state of gouernaunce where the people or rather the chiefe emong them dooe beare rule The Historie of Samuel of the Kinges setteth out in his colours a Monarchie or one highe gouernour describing not onely what a King is but the facions also of al his Courte and Kingdome bee it good or eiuell Here maie you finde how lawes be chaunged religion kept or neglected notable examples also of Vertue and vice of trueth falshod prudence iustice of princes and priestes bothe good and badde But who is hable in fewe woordes to comprehēde the great varietie profite of matiers in these bokes The first chieflie describeth the gouernaunce of Samuel and Saul The seconde of Dauid the third painteth out the glorie of Solomō how mightie kingdomes decaie except thei be mainteined by feruent loue of Godlinesse religiō vertue and concorde So in the
paste The same Hierome in the preface of his first boke vpon the cōmentaries of Esai saith thus Let no mā thinke that I can briefely prehende the argument of this volume touchyng all the holie misteries of the Lorde as well howe Emanuel borne of a Virgine did noble woorkes and miracles as that being dead and buried he rose againe to saue all nacions of the worlde What should I speake of his Logike or of his Philosophie natural and moral What soeuer is of holie Scripture what soeuer the tongue of man is hable to vtter and witte to comprehende in this booke it is included These be the wordes of S. Hierome Ieremie The Prophete Ieremie in his writyng is not so faire and pleasaunt as Esaie but more homelie and nere the capacitie of the common people yet in sentence as good He was borne in a little strete called Anathoi .iii. miles frō the Citie him selfe a Priest and of the kinred of priestes sāctified in his mothers wombe He prophecieth being yet a verie yong man as he saith him self he began in the .xiii. yere of Iosias and ceassed not by the space of .xl. yeares after the citie was destroyed Yea for his plaine preachyng and free mouthe he was stoned to death and so gaue vp his spirite to the Lord. He rebuked the sinnes vsed in his time idolatrie falsehode couetousnesse fraude crueltie riote He moued them to repentaunce and amendment He taught diligentlie faieth in God and shewed theim how to liue He spake also of their captiuitie and comforted the sorie shewyng aforehande the destruction that should come to the nacions borderers He wrote also a lamentation wherin he bewaileth the ouerthrowe of that noble citie and royall kingdome Yeat in that kinde of writing appeare merueilous tokens of the iustice and goodnesse of God Ezechiel Ezechiel he also coming of Priestes was taken prisoner with Ieconias and caried into Babilon Where he taught the same thinges that holie Ieremie did in Iudea Euery where after the office of a prophete he putteth in his writinges common places of Christe He also prophecieth against Tire and other nacions threatning vnto theim the iudgement iust punishment of God He stādeth moche in declaring the building vp again of the tēple newe citie Doubtlesse propouning vnto vs the Misteries of the churche wrapped vp in couerture Daniel being yeat but a very young man was led awaie into Babilon with Ieconias Daniel This man described vnto vs very elegātly certein profitable goodly histories of his time the fight of true false wisedome of religion also supersticiō He liued vntil the time of Cyrus King of Persia being then .lxxx. yeres olde He was a man of so great wisedome that of him rose this Prouerbe Wiser then Daniel whiche Ezechiel vsed in his .xxviij. Chapiter Of al wisemen he was called Polyhistor that is one that knewe many thinges For like as he rehearseth vp the fatall chaunces of all kingdomes so in a brief historie or prophecie rather in fewe woordes he comprehendeth and finisheth that whiche the cōning and curious writers of the Gentiles coulde not telle in many bookes how to beginne Onely he openeth vnto vs truely the matiers of the Babylonians Persians Macedonians and Romaines and declareth of Christ the euerlasting kingdome How Antichriste also shall rise vp what mischief he shall woorke before at last he be destroied He sheweth the destruction both of the Citie and of the whole worlde the daie of iudgement the rising againe of the bodies and life euerlasting The lesser prophetes After folow the .xij. prophetes whom we cal the lesser not for the smalnesse of the matier woorke or learning but for their breuitie and because in gretnesse length and copie thei bee vnlike to the other .iiii. whom thei call the greater Oseas standeth firste sine of wit Oseas and vtterance but somewhat brief and therfore obscure He prophecieth most against the tenne Tribes or Kingdome of Israel Sometime he toucheth a litle the Tribe of Iuda He rebuketh the faultes of the priestes princes and people sinne and Idolatrie vpholding religiō and goodnesse He warneth them to repent least thei all perishe and sheweth that all nacions shal be called Ioel semeth to haue prophecied in the time of Ezechias he Esaie together Ioel after the destruction of the tenne tribes He moueth the kingdom of Iuda to repentaunce He setteth out the horrible daie of the Lorde and their miserie to come whiche yeat might be auoided by amending their liues Yeat after he saieth it shal be better with theim and sheweth the signes of loue in the churche of whiche Peter is an interpreter in chactes Amos neither a Prophete nor the sonne of a Prophete not brought vp in any the liberall sciences Amos was but a rude homely vnlerned mā yet in few sharp wordes he preached to the tenne tribes still calling vpon repentaunce as the other Prophetes did And against the nacions that were borderers he spake very grauely touching their sinnes and the iust punishment of GOD. He was sore greued against the religious of the Ieroboams and the wanton liuing of the priestes He prophecied also of the calling of the Gentiles He liued and taughte when the younger Ieroboam reigned in Israel and King Osias in Iuda or Ierusalem Abdias reasoneth against Idumea in the time of Achas King of Israel Abdias and though he bee the shortest of all the prophetes yeat dooeth he comprehende in a summe al the chief pointes of true religion namely that god is to be worshipped and that in loue and charitie dooyng to our brother no wrong at all For the lorde will reuenge it He declareth saluation to be in Sion euen in Christe and his faithful churche He telleth the Idumeans aforehande that thei shoulde be destroied with the causes why and that nothing maie deliuer theim from the harmes hanging ouer their heddes Ionas beareth the figure of Christ diyng and rising again Ionas Wherof the lord himself maketh menciō in Math. He hath set out in a pure and fine Historie the propretie nature and disposicion of god how mightie how good iust he is being god of the gentiles also how vain the counsailes of men be which are taken against the lord what true repentaunce is how weake man is and that the proude fleshe reasone and deuise of man woulde kepe her estimation and be highly set by yea though it wer to the great hurt of other He liued vnder Ieroboam king of Israel being bothe a prophete an Apostle of the Gentiles Yet prophecied he to his owne nacion also as it is written in the fowerth boke of Kinges Micheas semeth to haue been the folower of Esaie Micheas verely thei liued both at one time and had bothe al one supporter euen Ezechias a right verteous king He cried out principallie against the .ij. tribes and then against the .x. He thretneth vnto theim vtter destructiō for
folowe it He cōcludeth his worke with praiers to God Baruch The prophet Baruch is moche alleged of the doctoures He wrote a litle boke being in captiuitie at Babilon He confesseth God to be iust and worthely to haue punished the Iues he knowlegeth their faultes blameth the stubburne inobediēce of his naciō He desireth perdō for their offēces that God hauing pitie vpō his people at the last wolde bring thē again into their countreie Further to stirre vp faith in their hartes he telleth that Israel shal be sent home again The Epistle of Ieremie Thepistle of Ieremie put vnto Baruch warneth the captiues that thei tourne not frō the true god reuerēce the gods of Babylon And therfore he greuously rebuketh idolatrie coūsailing thē to worship the very God serue him onely I thought good to adde hereunto that whiche Theodorus Bibliander hathe written to oure greatte profite of the bookes Ecclesiastical in his woorke De optimo genere interpretādi hebraica in whiche he briefly toucheth bothe the effecte of the bokes The times of the bookes Ecclesiastical and the times when thei were writtē which we haue not set out his woordes be these The Ecclesiastical bookes also thei call Hagiographa And although thei haue no fitte aucthoritie to strengthen and confirme thinges that come into contencion as haue the Canonicall writinges ye at are thei not reiected as APOCRYPHA soche as is the Prophecie of ELDAD and MED AD. Apocrypha Thasscention of Moses the Apocalyps of Helyas and many other like deuises of the Deuilles Spirite But the Ecclesiasticall bookes bee admitted bothe to bee taughte and learned of faithfull people of many so reuerenced that some menne putte Iudith in the order of Canonicall Scripture The times of thecclesiastical Bookes We will rehearse theim keping the due order of times whē thei were written Parte of theim conteine Histories from the time of Ezechias vnto the birthe of Pompeie whiche firste tooke from the Iewes their kingdome Tobias translated hy Saincte Hierome out of the Chaldee into Latine as was Iudith also mencioneth those thinges that wer doen emong the Assirians after the tenne Tribes were ledde into captiuitie teaching by notable example what loue ought to bee in parentes children and maried folkes Iudith shewing the nature of faithfulnesse and constaunce declareth that Bethulia was besieged of Nabuchodonozors Lieutenaunte Iudith father to the great Nabuchodonozor whiche tooke prisoners Ioachim Ieconiam and Zedechiam howe it was deliuered by the meanes of the righte holie woman Iudith And I am in doubte whether it was in that battaile in which Manasses also king of Iuda was caried awaie into Assiria shortlie after sente home againe For while he ruled emong the Medes Dioces called also Arphaxat builded the Citie Echatana in the Countrie of Medea But I knowe that Iosephus referreth these thinges to the time of Cambyses Damel hath the remenaunt of Susanna and the Dragon of Bel. In Hester bee certeine thinges added vnto it Susanna Bel. Hester The thirde of Esdras The thirde of Esdras repeateth somewhat of the passouer of Iosias written in the bookes of Kinges and of those thinges whiche be in Esra and Nehemias after their retourne out of Babylon minglyng ther with a goodly contentione of witte and wisedome in whiche zorobabel hadde the victorie The bokes of the Machabees declare the affliction of Israel by Antiochus Epiphanes and the Macedones in whom is the euident figure of Antichriste Parte of the Ecclesiastical bookes treate of vertue and good liuyng Baruch Baruch gatheryng together the sentences of Esaie and Ieremie whiche make to the reprofe of Idoles rebuketh Idolatrie verie sore Fourth of Esra The fourth booke of Esra hath diuers prophecies and is verie moche in visions as is also Ezechiel zacharias and Daniel Iesus the soonne of Sirach about the .cxxxviii. Olympiade put foorth his boke Ecclesiasticus whiche is called also Sapientia and Hierome founde it in Hebrue intitled by the name of Parables Ecclesiasticus It teacheth Philosophie in sentences whiche is a verie olde vsage and in it be many thinges spoken of before in the Preacher and in the Prouerbes of Solomon Sapientia The booke of wisedome whiche is ascribed to Philo the moste eloquent of all the Iewes and as cunnyng menne dooe saie in maner an other Plato doth more largely and in Grekishe eloquence declare soche thinges as in the beginnyng of the Prouerbes dooe perteine to the praise of true wisedome The praier of Manasses whiche is not in the Greke examplers sauoureth plainely of the Hebrue phrase Manasses Praier Thus moche saieth our Theodorus Now will I retourne to my purpose Thou hast O reader as farre forth as we can shewe and comprehende in briefe expositions The darknes and errours of the Philosophers the riches and ample learnyng of our heauenlie Philosophie Saie on now you our aduersaries what maie be thought that we lacke or what you thinke we ought to begge of that your Philosophie Verely if you will confesse the trueth you must say that we be destitute in no part of true learnyng wisedome I graunt in dede that in the bible nothing is taught of that part of Philosophie whiche is called Sermocinal neither of thinges natural or artes Mathematical For these be as it were handmaides to leade vs to the quene of all sciences teache vs that we maie be able to speake with her and learne true knowledge of thinges perteinyng to God man speciallie the actes sermonicall Moderate studie of the sciēces doeth helpe to wisedome We dooe not condemne the sobre moderate studies herein but confesse theim necessarie and moche helping to atteine wisedome Philosophie learned in measure profiteth moche Yet this we saie that to knowe God leade our liues vertuouslie not onely is taught in our Bibles but also more plainelie and perfectlye then in all your writynges For your Philosophers haue written hereof darkelie yea and falselie to in many poinctes Aristotle whiche in this part is with you a King Aristotle and in maner worshipped for a GOD hath for the nones darkened those thinges whiche he wrote of Moral Philosophie yea of naturall to He vsed also doubtfull sentences that might be bowed to whiche side you liste and as he checked all writers before him so fearyng to be taunted againe his saiynges corrected of thē that came after he made sure prouision in case he were caught by one shifte or other to winde him selfe out He wrote also vnto king Alexander that none shoulde vnderstād his commentaries excepte he hadde hearde them redde of his owne mouthe at home in his house He studied for a kinde of enditynge more briefe and cutted then euer was any that sometime he semed rather to pointe to the matier then speake it out plainelie whiche thing Lodouicus viues a man of a sharpe witte iudgment right wel perceiued In his