But seeing the wisest Enditer,
hath directed the penne of his holiest writers to vse this terme, not
only in a good meaning, but also in a significant sense, and to
sanctifie the thing itselfe in sundrie parts of his seruice: such
iesters dishonest indiscretion is rather charitably to bee pittied,
then their exception either angerly to be grieued at, or seriously to
bee confuted.
I am not ignorant, how sorely the whole storie of Brute, is shaken
by some of our late writers, and how stiffely supported by other some:
as also that this wrastling pull betweene Corineus and Gogmagog, is
reported to have befallen at Douer. For mine owne part, though I
reuerence antiquitie, and reckon it a kind of wrong, to exact an
ouer-strict reason for all that which vpon credite shee deliuereth;
yet I rather incline to their side, who would warrant her authoritie
by apparant veritie. Notwithstanding, in this question, I will not
take on me the person of either Iudge, or stickler: and therefore if
there bee any so plunged in the common floud, as they will still gripe
fast, what they haue once caught hold on, let them sport themselves
with these coniectures, vpon which mine auerment in behalf of
Plymmouth is grounded.
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