As for his fore-remembred good causes and effects, I sawe not,
but that if the peoples mindes were guided by the true leuell of
christian charity & duetie, such necessary and profitable
contributions might stil be continued gratis, & the country eased
of that charge to their purse and conscience, which ensueth this
gourmandise. His reply was, that if this ordinance could not reach
vnto that sanctity which dependeth on the first table, yet it
succeeded the same in the next degree, as appertayning to the second.
Mine exception against the title, he mockingly matched with their
scrupulous precisenes, who (forsooth) would not say Christmas,
nor Michaelmas, as other folk did; but Christs tide, and Michaels
tide: who (quoth he) by like consequence must also bind themselues
to say, Toms tide, Lams tide, and Candles tide. But if the name of
ale relish so ill, whereas the licour itselfe is the English mans
ancientest and wholesomest drinke, and serueth many for meate and
cloth too; he was contented I should call it Church beere, or Church
wine, or what else I listed: mary, for his part hee would loqui cum
vulgo, though hee studied sentire cum sapientibus.
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