A brief apology or answer to a certain crafty cloynar, or popish parasite, called Thomas smynthe. ¶ Behold the deceitful pen of the scribe, hath set forth lies. Hieremie. 8. Sir, though ye be a smith isaiah. 9 And beat upon the stythe ye come not to the pith Nor have not yet where with your spirit is very dry The scriptures to apply Ezec. 13. ye rather them deny Than there truth fortify Wbat measur ye observe In poesy proterue Eccl. 19 Axe of lady minerve And she will say ye swerver Full flatterynglye ye foin ye clatter and ye cloyne prou. 10 ye mangy matters join And all to catch the coin ye cobble and ye clowght To uphold the romish rowght But ye may have the gowght Hie. 50. Ere ye bring that abowght ye maintain sodomites with other hypocrites And play the parasites Abac. 2 To slay true israelites Against aftrawe ye stumble And at a block ye fumble Ye far like him that tumble For nought ye do but bumble. Math. 7 such one ye are iwis As popish priests may bliss For where all treason is Ye find nothing amiss. Esal. 56, Your hate ye can not hide Nor yet your popish pride Luc. 21. God will for hysprovyde When ye shall stand aside whiles you suppress the right Here wandering in the night joh. 12. Ye think God hath no sight Which is the very light The lord will once out spew such hypocrites untrue As byddethhies word adieu Pylde popery to renew. Apoc. 3 For cursed is that heart And worthy to have smart Hie. 48. Which will with them take part That scripture doth pervert Thomas smith. To troll away or troll in/ let not troll spare If troll truly troll/ troll needeth not to care An answer. Trolle in hath trolled truly, where troll away trolled amiss If ye will troll with trollars, Osee. 5. troll trewlyar after this Full like a troublous trollar, ye troll a trifling trace Trolle no more with the scriptures, except ye have better grace Thomas smith. ☞ A little treatise against seditions persons. OF late I perused/ two purposes several In thee kinds craftlye handled/ the truth for to tell Trolle away/ and troll in, men do them call Treating upon matter/ concerning the late Cromwell The one utterly minding/ the other to repel Trolle away (the truth is) much touched the quick And troll in (some what galled) be gan for to kick ¶ An answer to the bolsterar of sedition. In your perusing, ye seem very partial Trolle away judging, Gene. 8. of truth to have the trick Concerning Cromwell, troll in nothing at all But for hystrolling, to be an heretycke trolling betwixt them, Rom. 7. ye are a judge to quick The worse to allow, the better to condemn such untrue trollars, all verity contemn. When Crist was alive, johan. 5. such trifling trollars trolled Calling him traitor, and also Whom for their trolling, the phary sees extolled As yet to this day, there true successors do Did notsoche trollars, against the apostles go? Act. 4. What there reward is, we need not for to tell trollings truth trobling, trolleth evermore to hell. Thomas smith. Yet troll away told truth/ it can not be denied Declaring the offences/ wherein Cromwell offended Trolle in being troubled/ when he it espied With trollings to cover it, subtly contended Some trollats there be/ I would were amended For who that craftily coloureth/ any others offence Of likelihood in his own heart/ hath the same pretence. An answer. Trolle away dead lie, Pro. 12. in many things he told Though the lord Cromwell, hath died for his offence So soon as troll in, such trollings did behold He showed him of it, Gala. 6. with moche more grace and science between them yetrolle, Gala. 6. without indifference your verdict is nought, your judgement is worse such untrue trollars, are underneath gods curse No wretch so wicked, Ro. 10. but some will take his part None so unlearned, but some shall him uphold As men see profyght, so troll they in their heart Some that hath knowledge, are neither hot norcolde And very ass heads, Apoc. 3 authority maketh bold He that with the foot, so cruel parts will play The head will not spare, he once out of the way. Thomas smith. truely to troll, it is no manner of shame And trolling untrue/ is not to be maintained As every thing is/ so to give it proppre name amongs all true honest men/ should not be disdained The scripture so teacheth us/ it can not be feigned Against scripture who striveth/ he is none other like Than a traitor to his prince/ and to God an heretic An answer. We qui dicitis bonum malum & malum bonum Esa. v. Eph. 4. If truly to troll, stand with moche honest And trolling untrue, requireth rebuke and shame I greatly marvel, whiles you a trollar be That in your trolling, ye will true trollars blame And for your purpose, Eccl. 3. troll scriptures out offrame Soche treacherous trollars, I think to be no less Than those lewd persons, whom ye do here express your scripture ye troll, Esai. 5. from Isaiah the fift There spoken for them, that doth god's word blaspheme But ye can make it, to serve an other drift Than God that time showed, Mat. 16. or Isaiah could esteem such trolling of truth, cause yet some men to dame The bishop of Rome, the chief head of the church Scriptures so trolled, like mister yes can wurche. Thomas smith. I intend not to troll, to rake any part Division to mcreace, it needeth nothing But sorrowfully sighing/ I troll in my heart With myself in mind/ many times revolving How God to us hath ordained/ the most noble king Who 〈◊〉 connyt us/ hath travailed full fore yet many teyfeling trollars/ care lyttele therefore. An answer. A black more will change, Hier. 13. the colour of his skin As soon as his craft, an hypocrite shall hide ye troll with no part, division to begin And yet the people, from Crist ye would divide Some trollars lament, joan. 11. the falling of their pride Christian kings having, such trollars at their hand Are in worse taking, than they do understand Who maketh division? joan. 7. who is the peace breakar? Nat judas but Christ, yet judas doth betray! Paul worketh sedition, and is no treason speakar ye do the mischief, Act. 14. and yet ye make no fray The same fox that lurketh, the same fox take the pray Oh trolling gnato, Pro. 11. ye think ye be not seave yet by your trollings, perceive men what ye mean. Thomas smith. But as trollars troublous/ and full of envy At the laws of God, and of our good king In there trollings do trust, that there old heresy All good orders set a part/ shall flory she and spring There prechars no less comfort/ in their sermons do bring Even lately exhorting them, avoiding all dread And, persecution not regarding/ throughly to proceed. An answer. Here is a pretence, Math. 4 to turn stones into bread And a suggestion, to cast ourselves down backward Upon the mountain, for gold ye troll us lead Laws with good order, ye would us to regard And yet true prechars, Nu. 4. ye mind not to be hard False fables ye forge, to darken with their name trolling in such trash, as will be to your shame The scribe on his skirts, Mat. 23 doth gods commandments set The dcuyll resembleth, the massinger of light Who destroyeth laws? who doth good order let? But those pharisees, that christian people spite Sending such prophets, Hie. 23. as the day change to the night All them that abhor, there old pilled popetrye For the word of God, they accuse of heresy. Thomas smith. With many words more troublous/ than now I will rehearse Not doubting at all/ but at length they shall be known such trolling treacherous, my heart doth sore pierce considering how sedycyouslye/ among us they be sown Of late I well trusted, they hath been overblown But now I will perceive/ that neither favour nor smart, From the body can expel/ that is rooted in the heart An answer. More woldeye troll out, joan. 7. yfye could more rehearse Ye shall do no more, than God shall you permit Which trolleth forth tyrants, both terrible and fierce His flock to correct, job. 23. when they troll out of wit Among such trollars, ye are a trollar fit And I can ye thank, ye do full well your kind trolling now such hate, as lay long in your mind. All is sedition, joan. 21. that please not popish hearts All insurrection, when men from you decline Of your sort many, hath trolled traitorous parts And yet against them, no trollings ye define One religious zeal, Act. 23. doth you and them combine All heretyckes freely, ye may touch in your spite But none soche as died, for holy churches right. Thomas smith. A true trolling heart/ would be loath to pretend any purpose to maintain/ against God or high king The confession of an heretyck/ that lately deed offend And amongs others/ suffered for his deserving Sesecrettelye they embrace/ as most precious thing And yet plainly will I prove/ by good law and reason Contained therein/ both he resye and treason. Esai. 23 An answer. A true trolling heart, dwelleth not within your bosom For all the colours that you show outwardly In the confession, which came an heretics from Is moche lefle treason, 1. Tim. 4 and much less heresy Than in the trollings, of your hypocrisy whiles you shall contend, with reason and with law Your trolled scriptures, prove you a doting daw. The heretics that died, as all the people hard In the faith of Christ, Sapi. 5. meekly departed hence praying for our king, and our worthy prince Edward Long days to endure, inther pre-eminence In his confession, I find none other offence. 1. Tim. 2 But as Christ doth say, such slayghtes are in the sects As would in manner, deceive the very elects. Thomas smith. In any wife imprinted/ they will not it shall be The dawgers thereof/ in themselves mistrusting Wherefore ever ye man/ may well pexceyve and see What hearts they do bear/ to God and our good king Every of them secretly/ must have it in writing But Christ faith verily/ there is nothing concealed But at length shall be known/ and openly revealed. Nihil opertum ꝙ non reveal tur. Mat. 10 An answer. It is imprinted, wherefore by law and reason Prove I can right well, Eccl. 7. that ye alyar be Very hot ye are, in judging men of treason The hidden secrets, of all men's hearts ye see As ye judge ye are, by holy saint Paul's decree such taunting trollars, Rom. 2. are tetrici thrasones And in there trollings, full nought ye nebulones A scripture ye troll, as did the devyllin desert To serve your purpofe, Math. 4 trolling the pith aside Hid secrets saith Crist, shall now be clear and apert Meaning such scriptures, Luc. 12. as the pharisees did hide With their traditions, hypocrisy and pride Thus Christ declareth it, in the. xii. chapter of Luke False trolling of texts, will turn ye to rebuke. Thomas smith. Who against them trolleth/ a papist they him name They have none other thing, themselves for to defren de I would that all papists/ had an open shame And that all heretyckes/ themselves would a mend Than should we have no cause/ further to contend But uniformly to live/ to one with the other And joy fully to in habit/ as brother with brother. Ecce que bo num & que 10 cundun, Psa. 132 An answer. We call them papists, judae. i. that maintain papistry Both having their fruits; and scripture for us to lay If all such papists, should have shame openly I think ye could not, be farre out of the way As judas with Christ, Ps. 27. with physics here ye play No brother is he, that gods word doth not further Except he be Cain, which doth poor Abel murder. Still ye troll scriptures, 2. cor. 6 but nothing in their kind coveting full sore, to have a fles helye concord belial and Christ, were never of one mind David commended, Ps. 132. a unite in the Lord Which with your peltrye willeth us not to accord For light with darkness, shall never well agree Nor popish falsehood, with Christis verity. Thomas smith. Soche should be our trollings/ Christ us so tracheth Deus charitas est qui manet in charitate. 1. joan. 4. commanding ever peace/ among us for to be Hntrewlye he trolleth/ that otherwise preacheth Stirring to any sedition, malice or enmity Where banished us discord/ and reigneth all charity That realm in God resteth/ and God is in it Being charity himself/ as saith the holy writ An answer. Christ never trolled, Esa. 57 such peace as ye would have Neither in Matthew, in Luke, nor yet in johan though in your trollings, ye falsel ye them deprave Of old cankered scribes, the armour ye do on Nat Barrabas but Christ, joan. 18, accusing of sedition To the world saith Christ, I send no peace but the sword By the which is meant, the rigour of god's word. ye troll forth your texts, Mat. 7. commixting pearls with draff For Christ said in deed, they should be trodden of swine Non est pax impijs, your charity is but chaff Though ye cry pax pax, as Isaiah doth define ye speak of charity, joan. 16. and draw by an other line Christ said, that with you, we should have tribulation And in him alone, our peace and consolation. Thomas smith. Than towards that charity/ troll we on apace Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis &. Math. 15 Advancing ourselves/ with all convenient speed A more accept able pilgrimage/ surely never was For which God gave to man, any merit or meed Our labour or great burden/ let us nothing dread Nor regard the wilfulness/ of our body or flesh For at the iournayes' end/ Christ will us refresh An answer. If ye troll to Christ, as ye mind nothing less With the pharisee, Luc. 18 ye may not yourself advance For meed or merit, as ye do here express For none can deserve, Rom. 11 the heavens in heritance But here men may see, your trolling ignorance The fruits of our flesh, ye mill us not to regard So trolling us Christ, full like a wanton steward. Than troll ye scripture, Math. 11 that Christ will you refresbe At your iournayes' end, for your great labour, and pain Christ there taketh the law, for the burden of ourfleshe Easing our conscience, of men's traditions plain But in your trolling, ye have an other vain In your cottacyon, Deu. 13. for the alevynt of Mathewe ye troll the fystent, to be known a trollar true. Thomas smith. ●nd than as true trollars/ together let us remain omnis anima potesta tibussublimioribus sub. Ro. 13. perfectly fast knit/ in one peace/ unite and love With glory unto God/ evermore glad and fain Our noble prince truly/ to serve as doth us behove And all others to tender/ as duty doth us move Bsing still among us the self same love and concord Which is to us commanded/ by Christ the eternal lord An answer. This trolling were good, 1. Pe. 2. if ye could follow it And no more covet, to have them overblown That faver god strewthe, as they suppose most fit Of Christian people, in this life to be knowne Reporting by such, Hier. 9 sedition to be sown ye neither troll peace, nor a christian amity But declare yourself, an imp of iniquity. We must love in Christ, joh. 15. if we love christianly For love out of Christ, is but a pagans love In god's word therefore, let us love to his glory And obey our king, Rom. 13 as christian men behove With meekness of heart and no sedition move And than shall we troll, in peaceable unity As God us willeth, by his heavenly verity. Thomas smith. And now in that love/ let us all with one voice pray For the preservation/ of henry our most noble king And Kateryne our queen/ that they together may prosperously continue/ to their hearts desiring And Edward our prince, that most angelykt thing That they all together/ may long live and rest And after with him reign, qui in celis est. Amen. An answer. Nat only with voice, Math. 6 as did the hypocrites But when ye shall pray, pray from the very heart Expressing the faith, of christian israelites And troll with your prince, no sickle flattering part Lest after this life, Pro. 27 ye troll to eternal smart Better is a stripe, of him which is a friend Than a kiss of him, that beareth a wicked mind. In faith and in spirit, johan. 4. let us of God require Our King, Queen, and Prince, to live here prosperously Not as you do troll, unto their hearts desire But unto god's mind, 1. Tim. 2 and of his name the glory Thus trolleth saint Paul, with Abacuch and Hieremye Lord grant them long life, to thy sweet will and pleasure Thy flock ruling here, which is thy most dear treasure AMEN. God save the king. And his offspring, Amen. Thomas smith. To troll away or troll in/ let not troll spare If troll truly troll/ troll needeth not to care An answer. Betwixt his troll and troll, if troll no better troll Trolle may troll with trollars, that troll the gossips bowl If troll will troll with trollars, let troll troll verity Or elstrolle with ill trollars, johan. 9 will troll dishonest Where troll hath trolled untruly, let troll troll back again For trollinge with ill trollars, trolleth many one to pain Thomas smith. Composed by Thomas smy the/ servant to the kings Royal majesty/ And clerk of the queens graces, ounsell (though most unworthy.) An answer. The pharisee in deed His phylacterye spread. His skirts he doth dilate To furnish his estate Mat. 23. The scribe set forth his hem With pearl and with gem With many titles proud The poor truth to out crowd ●●e painteth himself with pen 〈◊〉 or to be scene of men Luc. 11. Here master smith must be To the kings high majesty A servant scant so simple As reynarde under a wimple A clerk, Hier. 8. a learned man Which worldly cautels can Yea, clerk of the queens counsel And persecuteth the Gospel Yet is he most unworthy And that he speaketh truly 1. joh. 4. This work he hath composed Wherein he hath not glossed By colours of hypocrisy By falsehood nor by vain glory no more then reynarde fox Or friar with his box It is good by saint jone Mat. 7. That priests have such a won As can so clerkelye write and poetelye endite Which will not from them waver and is in so great favour Being the kings servant So witty and so pregnant He that shall with him school Will find him no small fool. Hest. 3. None heretycke now shall rout Nor dare put forth his snout But will pluck in his horns Actu. 4. as doth new ale in corns The gospellarsnow will shrink and not be able to wink The knaves shall no more check Nor against us popystes beck Gen. 39 With him they dare not dally For fear of Putiphars valley or else for daniel's dean But now sing in a mean. Dani. 6. Now may we tithes home troll and care but for the bowl We may let the gospel go For he is our mortal foo We are fortunate this tide To have smith on our side. joan. 7. Our kingdom would else fall