They darkely tearmed or by some letter ment,

For so they thought, how euer the world did frame,

Preserue themselues from shame, or being shent:

For, howsoeuer contrary it went,

They might expound their meaning otherwise,

As haps in things should newely still arise.

36.

And thus there grewe of a mistaken truth,

An art so false as made the true suspect:

Whereof hath come much mischiefe, more the ruth