Truth.
And all this while they fed you
With vain and empty showe, 130
Which never Christ commanded,
As learned doctors knowe:
Search then the holy scriptures,
And thou shalt plainly see
That headlong to damnation 135
They alway trained thee.
Ignorance.
If it be true, good vellowe,
As thou dost zay to mee,
Unto my heavenly fader
Alone then will I flee: 140
Believing in the Gospel,
And passion of his zon,
And with the zubtil papistes
Ich have for ever done.
FOOTNOTES:
[807] [I will.]
[808] i.e. faithen: as in the Midland counties they say housen, closen, for houses, closes. A.
[809] [I.]
[810] [friar.]