And for the Holy Legend[8] the Bible to put in his stead,
Every man to look thereon at his list and pleasure,
Every man to study divinity at his convenient leisure,
With a thousand new guises more you know as well as I.
And to term him by his right name, if I should not lie,
It is New Custom, for so they do him call,
Both our sister Hypocrisy, Superstition, Idolatry and all.
And truly me-thinketh, they do justly and wisely therein,
Since he is so diverse, and so lately crept in.
Ignorance. So they call him indeed, you have said right well,