Thocht na manis mynd in maters ze resolue:
For (zit till vse this same manis Elogie)
To speik the treuth, and speik the treuth trewlie,
Num. 23. 24.
Is not a thing[400] (said he) brethren doutles.
Thairfoir speik trewly but Hypocrisie,
Gif ze wald haue the praise of vprichtnes.
Let vice ay in the awin cullouris be kend,
2 Timot. 4.
But beiring with, or zit extenuatioun,