¶ The comparison between the Antipus and the Antigraphe or answer thereunto, with. Anapologie or defence of the same Antipus. And reprehence of the Antigraphe. ¶ Antipus, ❧ To hear of such things ye be not wont Nam horum contraria verissima sunt AS verily as Adam created first his God, So verily he tasted not, the fruit that was forbade As verily as Abel, did kill his brother Kayn So verily the ship made Noah, this is plain As verily as Isaac, his father did beget So verily the Sodomites remain unburned yet As verily as the Isralites, the Egyptians did oppress So verily did Moses give God the law doubtless As verily as Samson was, slain, of the lion ramping So verily did Goliath destroy David the King As verily as in Babylon the meats were eat of Bell So verily the dragon of brass devoured Daniel As verily as Christ did crucify the jews So verily the Apostles the Gospel did refuse As verily as Simon Magus the Apostles did confute So verily the Apostles did princes persecute As verily as the devil hath perfect love and hope So verily god's word doth constitute the pope As verily as Icicles within be hot and hollow So verily proud prelate's our master Christ do follow As verily as bread doth make and bake the baker So verily these thieves the priests can make their maker ☞ If Leighton will needs his maker make That these are true he can not forsake A papist he is and the pope's own knight That preacheth falsehood in stead of right He knoweth not how to pay his debts But with catching his creditors in the Pope's nets A thief, a robber, by preaching sedition Is better regarded then the kings commission Among Papists. ¶ Antigraphium Hear of such true things, As ye have been wont Nam ea audite verissima sunt AS verily as Adam was create by God So verily he tasted the fruit was forbade As verily as Abel was killed of cain So verily made Noy the ship, this is plain As verily as Isaac was of his father got So verily was the Sodomites consumed by fire hot As verily as the Egyptians God did oppress So verily gave God Moses the law doubtless. As verily as Samson killed the lion ramping, So verily was Golias killed of david the King As verily as in Babylon the meats were not eaten of Bell So verily the dragon of brass devoured not Daniel As verily as Christ was crucified of the jews So verily the Apostles taught us gods word & true news As verily as the devil hath not perfect love and hope So verily consent not I to the falseness of the pope As verily as the Isickelles with in be not hot and hollow So verily meek prelattes our master Christ do follow As verily as bread is made of the baker So verily by god's word we consecrate our maker As verily as god's word did turn Moses' rod So verily gods word consecrates the body of God As verily saint paul with me doth well accord Who makes no difference is guilty of the body of our Lord. ☞ Leiton can never of his own poor his maker make But only gods word no christian can this forsake No papist he is nor yet the pope's knight That preacheth the truth and abhorreth the unright He willeth to pay his creditors his debts desiring God to keep him from the pope's nets No thief nor robber but void of sedition A man well regarding our sovereigns' commission ¶ The writer. ☞ And you that call you Gospelers that in Ire do swell You are as far from the Gospel as heaven is from hell amend your lives and follow charity Leave your presumptuous and foolish vanity The mysteries of God ye know this is plain Ye cannot conceive in your fantastical brain commit yourselves to God, and the King And follow holy church to your ending For unto these three I will stick And never regard no flalse heretic But pray unto God that I may see him burn If he from heresy will not turn ❀ Of the Sacrament. The bread▪ which I will give, so clean▪ so pure Christ sayeth is very flesh steadfast and sure I think him a beast and a most vile noddy That will not believe Christ that saith it is his body I believe it with steadfast heart and mind As gods own words doth me command and bind So as I believe he made allthings of nought So I believe it is the body that on the cross me bought And the very blood as scripture maketh mention Was shed on the cross for mankind redemption. FINIS. ¶ Apologia Antipi, ❧ To speak false latin, I perceive ye be wont By your writing, ea audite verissima sunt. RIght rougheli and rashli, and well over seen With rugged reason, unclerkly conveyed Ye cowcher of stones, reproved I ween The proper antipus, that truly had said Without line or level, foundation ye laid Wherefore it appeareth, your work must decay For things evil grounded, will moulder away. ☞ To build your baggage, on an other man's ground As it hath been the custom, so will ye still use But the trade of your treachery, shall soon be confound Where with ye were wont, the truth to abuse Your doctrine and order, are both but confuse To maintain your errors, the scriptures ye frame So that ye must be overthrow with the same. ☞ To commend your diligence more than your wit It is my part, I can it not denay Your learning and cunning, I will not omit For though it be not much, it is not very gay Peradventure ye will think, this is but homely play So hastily your wit and learning to reprove But there be such occasions, as me thereto move ☞ How chanced you to stomach at Antipus the little sithen he taxed none, but such as papists were But it most needs be so, a fools brain is shittil And always doth show, which way the heart doth bear And even so did you now, without wisdom or fear That ye have been and be? Right earnestly express A papist most pestilent, no man will judge less. ❧ And in your antigraphe, you show yourself full wise Which ye wrote to antipus, whose contraries be just And yet, I think ye took some other daws devise As of some smoky Smyth, and other that ye trust To the which antigraphe, an answer make I must Wherein I trust the lord, willbe my help and aid To prove you an heretic, I am nothing afraid ❧ In all your hole Antigraphe, ye vary nothing fro The antipus: but the contrayes do declare A boy of twelve year old, as well could have done so Wherefore ye show your wit, to be but weak and bare To inter in correction, of things that perfect are But in the latter lines, great grief, ye seem to take Because he said such thieves, could not their maker make ☞ Ye bring a piece of scripture, your heresy to maintain That as god's word in Egypt, made a serpent of the Rod So god's word maketh God, ye have a peevish brain Know ye not ye Roman, that the very word is god? Then how can he make himself, thou heretical cloddy? Art thou not ashamed, such poison to spew yet? Christ is not made, nor create, but only was beget. ❀ I know full well they shift, & what thou wilt object I know well thou wilt say, it is by concecration For that is all the hold, of thy most cursed sect And by that word consecrate, came all the abomination For as ye have abused it ye made it execration A word I say it is invented but by man Search all the evangely and find it if ye can ❀ As verily saint Paul with your sayings doth accord As light doth with darkness which easily may be spied For where he speaketh of difference of the body of the Lord He meaneth not as you flesh flies do, and that shallbe tried The christians the body, ●o Christ the head, he applied proving the poor his menbers as well as the rich to be The which when ye regard not no difference make ye ¶ As when the congregation to the lords supper shall come To eat the bread worthily the lords death to betoken They must accept all like and not some more than some For all they be partakers of Christ's body broken This is the very meaning of that saint Paul hath spoken Because this bread doth signify the lords doth in our prence Between the bread & other needs must we make a difference ¶ To eat Christ's flesh & eke to drink his blood Is so to dwell in Christ as he may dwell in us Lo here ye may see plain it is a spiritual food Believe and thou hast eaten saint Augustine said thus Christ when he gave the bread, with hands so glorious Said when ye shall, do this do it remembering me He said not when ye do it, my body shall it be ¶ This is my body said he, which for you shallbe given What think ye, did he mean a body made of bread? No, but it that was present and was betrayed that even, He said for them and many, soon after should be dead He created not an other, no such things shall ye read The death of that one body, for all men is sufficient So with his holy memory, let all men be content ¶ He took the cup and said, this is the testament new In my blood. How think ye, made he his blood of wine? He gave it for a witness, of his blood shedding true Why should you any otherwise, his holy words define Or as men nothing spiritual to fleshelynes incline And take his words grossly after their Iwishe ways As saint john the evangelist in the sixth Chapter says ¶ But O thou gross pharisee, for go thy fleshly mind Let scripture the Illuminate, thy judgement is but crass A man God made thee, reasonable by nature in thy kind And that by thine unthankfulness wilt make thyself an ass treading within the trade, of the most wicked Mass Wherein thou keepest compass, as a blind horse in the mill God grant the to see better, when it shallbe his will FINIS. Now where as ye stand in Leytons' defence, Papistical acts, ye seem to commence For standing by him stoutly as a champion chief It is folly to axe you, and your fellow be a thief Ye have under take he shall his debts pay But that shallbe the morrow after domes day Ye say the kings commission, full well he doth regard Regard ye it better both, or ye shall have reward With papists. Your other words also entitled the writer A man may soon perceive sprang from some shepebiter Ye call men Gospelers, and say they swell in Ire But you be full of charity, ye wish them in the fire Ye will teach men their duty, to God and to the King Which know their duty, better than you in that thing Ye will follow holy church, ye say to your ending The holy church of Rome, no dought is your meaning Ye say in your Antigraphe that you forsake the Pope But no thank to you, graviercy gentle Rope. In your writing of the sacrament, ye play sir hoddy doddy, In understanding the scriptures as crafty as a calf He that believeth not as you, ye call him a vile noddy But you prove more a daw, than I would take ye by half, I leave ye as ye be, and make no more a do. Nothing have you written, but ye be answered there to. FINIS. ¶ A Mason, a Smyth, and a Painter fine With a Mugge, and a Grey, and a Perkens gross Be foes to Antipus, at whom they repine, And him with great anger, they turn and they toss. As cruel as jews, that did Christ on the cross, To put him to rebuke, they do what they may, But they miss of their purpose, and go the wrong way. ¶ The Mason first at Babylon began, building of the tower, that men call Babel, Though he be a Babilonite, Nemprothes own man. That now raineth in Rome, it is no great marvel Thubalkaim the first smith, and graver of metell, For antiquity and friendship, must needs stand him by To forge him his tolls, to build Idolatry. ☞ An other there is, that height master Mugge An aider and adbettour, with all his hole power As nimble in carrying, as is my spaniel rug, He will catch a lie by the end, & within half an hour Bear it a mile of, for fear it should be sour, The Painter shall go with him, to paint the matter fair Whoso lacketh papists, here he may have a pair. Then is there one Perkens, with a belly somewhat large Of kin to Perken Warbeck, as by his name appeareth Which for his good conditions, may row in the barge, At good he stoppeth his ears, but evil he soon heareth, And all such as are papists, full earnestly he cheereth, And Grace that badgerd, may not be left behind Nor their sword bearer of s. Mildredes who knoweth all their mind In knavery. In heresy In bawdry. In popery. 〈◊〉 cetera.