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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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XXI, SERMON ON 'THE PLOUGHERS.' ^47clothinge <strong>the</strong> naked, <strong>the</strong> pore & impotent, vp wyth deckynge<strong>of</strong> ymages and gaye garnishinge <strong>of</strong> s<strong>to</strong>ckes and s<strong>to</strong>nes,vp wyth mannes traditions and his lawes, Downe wyth Gods 315traditions and hys most holy worde, Downe wyth <strong>the</strong> oldehonoure dewe <strong>to</strong> God, and vp wyth <strong>the</strong> new gods honour,let al things be done in latine. There muste be nothyngebut latine, not as much as Memen<strong>to</strong>^ homo, quod ' cinis es, et incinerem reuerteris—Remembre, man, that thou arte asshes, 320and in<strong>to</strong>asshes thou shalte returne,' Whiche be <strong>the</strong> wordesthat <strong>the</strong> minister speaketh <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> ignoraunte people when hegyueth <strong>the</strong>;;z asshes vpo« asshe wensdaye, but it muste bespoken in latine. Goddes worde may in no wyse be translatedin<strong>to</strong> englyshe. Oh that our prelates woulde be as dili- 325gente <strong>to</strong> sowe <strong>the</strong> corne <strong>of</strong> good doctrine, as Sathan is <strong>to</strong>sowe cockel and darnel ! And this is <strong>the</strong> deuilyshe ploughinge,<strong>the</strong> which worcketh <strong>to</strong> haue thinges in latine, and letteth<strong>the</strong> fruteful edification.

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