My conscience cleere my chiefe defence,
I neither seek by brybes to please,
Nor by deceyte to breede offence;
Thus do I lyve, thus will I dye,
Would all did so as well as I.

"FINIS. [Symbol: CROWN] E. DIER."

S.W.S.

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ROBERT CROWLEY.

"Be pleased to observe," says Herbert, "that, though 'The Supper of
the Lorde' and 'The Vision of Piers Plowman' are inserted among the
rest of his writings, he wrote only the prefixes to them" (vol. ii.
p. 278.). Farther on he gives the title of the book, and adds, "Though
this treatise is anonymous, Will. Tindall is allowed to have been the
author; Crowley wrote only the preface." It was originally printed at
Nornberg, and dated as above [the same date as that given by "C.H.,"
No. 21. p. 332.]. "Bearing no printer's name, nor date of printing,
I have placed it to Crowley, being a printer, as having the justest
claim to it" (p. 762.). {356} There is a copy in the Lambeth Library,
No. 553. p. 249. in my "List," of which I have said (on what grounds I
do not now know), "This must be a different edition from that noticed
by Herbert (ii. 762.) and Dibdin (iv. 334. No. 2427.)." I have not
Dibdin's work at hand to refer to, but as I see nothing in Herbert on
which I could ground such a statement, I suppose that something may be
found in Dibdin's account; though probably it may be only my mistake