Multi ad sapientiam pervenirent nisi se iam pervenisse putassent

Righte honorable owere Universitie in policie is wronged by false and unjuste measure. The rust of Ennuie dwell not within owre bounds, and in Christianitie we never maligned any learned man livvinge. Invidia virtutis Comes, But if Oxforde only be Athenes for humanitie and Hyrusalem for divinitie, we must of necessitie burn all the bookes of owre studies. For if owre ignorance and barbarisme doe so abounde as is (malitiously) imputed unto us, we must leave owre Colledges, and goe on pilgrimage Ad magnum studium quod nunc viget ad vada Boum to the Forde of Oxen, and repaire to the well called Fons Sapientiae, which is like Helicon and Pernassus and there drincke of their Musyes Wisdoome and learninge. For my parte I protest, I derogate nothing from the Universitie of Oxeforde, but doe honor it hyghely (and as the Poete saieth) doe fervently love and laboure to helpe all Schooles of Learninge to my powre. Quantum Iones Animae que valent. But I do not honor nor magnifie Hypercriticall pride, which Pawle never preached when he saied Scientia inflat Charitas vero aedificat. Non sic didicistis Christum. Occam, Duns, Dorbel and Dorman, Clinch and Clictonie, Thomas and Tartaret, Barwarde and Bu , Bricot and Hocot, Johannes Grostheade, Arnoldus de Tungaris, Giniolphus that worthy Esquire, Dulbertus de ceremoniis ferrugineis and all the Rustic Rable of the Rowte did never flowe owte of the fountaine of owre springe. Antiquitie, that Ridiculouse unlearned and chyldishe question, taken for an Emminente and Transcendente Supremacie of Learning, which in their dreme ys before us, Tempore, Natura, ordine, honore priori and is so much worshipped and Exalted, it is no lesse reverenced and kissed of us as the Golden Toa of the proudest Poape: and we do willingly submitte owre selves unto it as to the Golden Shrine of the Ladie Lauretta: But with some proviso, In the law et in foro conscientiae. Let them give us leave to thincke that Recentissima quaeque sunt emendata maxima. We confess that the Universitie of Oxeford hath swarmed with farre more Seminaries, not onely mownte Sion, nor thonelie Sanctuarie of God, nor yet become Noes Arke, extra quam non est salus: owre most learned and most excellente worthy Kinge (for number (absit individia verbo) have hearde mutch more learned sermones from hence then from Oxeford. Wee doo owre dewtie before his Majestie, heere, but in vaine glorie, we do not applawde one another, neither sing we mutually Gloria patri, nor vse hypocrisie, humi serpimus they mownte in Excelsis. Fie on arrogancie, ware of presumption. Humbleness of spirite is a pretious pearle in Goddes Eye, and it is an ornament in Ecclesiasticall persones: The psalme sayeth, Lorde I an not high minded, I have no prowde lookes,1 and owre poore cleargy with us: In ira & tumore spiritus, looke not will not nor can not put downe, per principatum ex erroris opinione conceptum by weake Idle and phantasticall braines Habet & Musca splenem & formicae sua bilis in est. Owre preachers heere, do exspect Cardinall Wolsies new resurrection before his time and doo thinke he will shine againe in glory emong the Oxeford men, Cum corona Imperiali, like the bright glistering and Orientall Sunne. The highe prieste ofRome and counterfet Monarche of the worlde, would be called servus servorum Dei. a most humble seruant in humilitye, But his Gouermment ys subtiltie, pride, Crueltie and Tyrranie. Men in prosperitye have no vnderstanding. Concerning owre Divines howsoeuer the superioure powre of their aduersaries accompt disgrace or oppress them, they will be fownd of all honest, wise and learned men, In euery degree of learninge their eqwall's, if not their superiour's: for bragging and boastinge, yt is nothing el's but a shaddow and ostentation, and Ambition, and a vaine pompe most like a puffed and swolne bladder, sownde of Hierarchie, having in it selfe no substance at all yssuing from the spirit of understanding or true learning. Brieflie to conclude. I must say with the Romayne Oratoure

Nemo alterius virtuti muidet qui satis confidit suae.
The most learned Scaliger neuer write this sentence of owre Vniversitie.
Loquor meo more barbare, & ab Oxonio non e Rostris aut e Comitijs.
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Furtum est alienae rei ablatio muito domino.

Aemuli nostri, animo furandi, haue taken away from us all owre goodes and have engrossed and barrelled up all owre commodities (unawares to us) and have sold them to blind men, and to Dulman and Ignoramus.

Forestallauerunt markettum nostrum, et nos non solum clam momorderunt et pupugerunt, sed etiam crudeliter, hoc est (ut Attice Loquar) furialiter et rusticaliter grossissime strookedownauerunt et knockedownauerunt.