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You talk you know not what. There were no rea son in it: for that were the way to break all order, and give our minds altogether to toil, and never serve God. For you would not S y here neither if you had your will, but the Sundays should shortly go down for company. You will leave nothing standing. Nay Sirrah, if any man hit the nail on the head, it should be you, because you are a Smith but soft, you are so hight with your rip rapping, that you miss the nail and And isle also. For my partly although I do boldly work on Ho lie days as other tailors use Christmas day and all, yet would I not miss the Holy-days for any good, nor would I break the order without necessity. But is it so easy a mat ter to put down the Holy-days think you? And will you do it with the furious fire-fork? And you Master Gardener that will rake up Holy-days and Fasting-dais Like weeds, and bury them all in a rrench, you are both both foully deceived. For neither have you put down the Fasting-dais, because still they are bidden in Churches, nor is the case alike for Fasting is private, and cannot so well be punished, but if you come not to Church, up you go not to Church, up you go for a Recus to and you were my father. Yea, and with many more; and kept the eves half holy. Not so neither. They lived very well: and had not the twentieth beggar that we have: and were great house keepers every man almost. They built all the Towns, Col ledges and Religious houses. No, no. They suffered no kind of lighter works to e done in those days, much less such pain full labours as they were. They did in those days give grea honour to such as suffered death for Christian religion, although the men were as poor as Christ's fi shermen. And therefore the days of their martyrdom they kept holy, and came to Church to glorify and praise that God, for whom those Saints died, there were people exhorted to do the Like. Thou speakest against reason. For if thou must needs die, first, or last, Wertenberg not better to die for a glorious cause, so to be sure of heaven, & willingly in perfect memo ry, then against thy will wrestling with death, & overcome in the end with great pain, and perhaps passed thy senses. There is no question of it except we should dis credit all Historiographers, who make honourable mention of them I all ages before us. And in our own time and memory there have been many such men. They be Historiographers. No, Historiographers man. Not so neither: you must mark well, & pronou ̄ ce it joust as I do. Thus then. Hi-sto-ri. What to do? And what of that? That's no matter: so that you utter the syllables full as I do. A sullebub. I did not speak of a sullebub. No such matter. I said you must observe every syl lable. Canst thou tell what a sillable is? How wilt thou observe them then if thou know not a sillable? Ere a one there man? why the word is framed of many syllables. Come then mark well His-to-ri-o-gra-phers. That's right indeed. I am glad of it: this was soon learned indeed: now put together, and speak it short as I did. Who: the longer the worse. I think you are fasting to day and that hinders your speech: go play and fill your belly and weel at it again soon. So do all cunning folks: be dainty of your skill or else you shall never be entreated at first, nor thanked at last. Will you refer it then to judgement of indiffe rend men? we are all neighbours, let us not fallen out about things that none of us have skill in. Weel give you the choice, so that you name none of your own trade, and and indifferent man. Weel not refuse him, nor any that is honest. Sir, our business is not worldly, though it concern worldly men, even as your life is not worldlike, though bo dilie you live on earth. I told you so much before, you never needed to have troubled the good man. Thou teach all the Parish. Wilt thou turn prea cher?