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,