st needes be skilfull, and a doer, in such matter
and maner, as you terme _Coniuring_. Weening, thereby, you aduaunce his
fame: and that you make other men, great marueilers of your hap, to haue
such a learned frend. Cease to ascribe Impietie, where you pretend
Amitie. For, if your tounges were true, then were that your frend,
_Vntrue_, both to God, and his Soueraigne. Such _Frendes_ and
_Fondlinges_, I shake of, and renounce you: Shake you of, your Folly.

[3.]

_Imperfectly zelous_, to you, do I say: that (perhaps) well, do you
Meane: But farre you misse the Marke: If a Lambe you will kill, to feede
the flocke with his bloud. Sheepe, with Lambes bloud, haue no naturall
sustenaunce: No more, is Christes flocke, with horrible slaunders, duely
aedified. Nor your faire pretense, by such rashe ragged Rhetorike, any
whit, well graced. But such, as so vse me, will finde a fowle Cracke in
their Credite. Speake that you know: And know, as you ought: Know not,
by Heare say, when life lieth in daunger. Search to the quicke, & let
Charitie be your guide.

[4.]

_Malicious Ignorant_, what shall I say to thee? _Prohibe linguam tuam a
malo. A detractione parcite linguae. +Cause thy toung to refraine from
euill. Refraine your toung from slaunder.+_ Though your tounges be
sharpned, Serpent like, & Adders poyson lye in your lippes:

[Psal. 140.]

yet take heede, and thinke, betimes, with your selfe, _Vir linguosus non
stabilietur in terra. Virum violentum venabitur malum, donec
praecipitetur._ For, sure I am, _Quia faciet Dominus Iudicium afflicti:
& vindictam pauperum._

Thus, I require you, my assured frendes, and Countrey men (you
Mathematiciens, Mechaniciens, and Philosophers, Charitable and discrete)
to deale in my behalf, with the light & vntrue tounged, my enuious
Aduersaries, or Fond frends. And farther, I would wishe, that at leysor,
you would consider, how _Basilius Magnus_, layeth _Moses_ and _Daniel_,
before the eyes of those, which count all such Studies Philosophicall
(as mine hath bene) to be vngodly, or vnprofitable. Waye well
_S. Stephen_ his witnesse of _Moses_.

[Act. 7. C.]

_Eruditus est Moses omni Sapientia Aegyptiorum: & erat potens in verbis
& operibus suis. +Moses was instructed in all maner of wisedome of the
Aegyptians: and he was of power both in his wordes, and workes.+_ You
see this Philosophicall Power & Wisedome, which _Moses_ had, to be
nothing misliked of the Holy Ghost. Y