owne schame) haue declared thame selves I nothing dowbt but that in few
wordis I should lett ressonabill men vnderstand that som that this Day
lowlie crouche to your grace, and lauboure to make me odious in your eyes,
did in your aduersitie neyther shew thame selvis faithfull frendis to
your grace, neyther yit so loving and cairfull ouer thair native cuntry as
now thai wold be esteamed.

But omitting the accusation of others for my owne purgation and for your
graces satisfaction I say. That nothyng in my booke conceaued Is, or can
be preiudiciall to your graces iust regiment prouided that ye be not found
vngrate unto GOD. Vngrate ye shalbe proued in presence of His throne,
(howsoeuir that flatterairs Iustifie your fact) yf ye transfer the glory
of that honour in which ye now stand to any other thing, then to the
dispensation of His mercy which onelye mackethe that lauthfull to your
grace Which nature and law Denyeth to all woman. Neyther wold I that your
grace should fear that this your humiliation befoir GOD should in any case
infirm or weaken your Iust and lauthfull authoritie befoir men. Nay madam
such vnfeaned confession of goddis benefittis receaued shalbe the
establishment of the sam[e] not onelye to your self, bot also to your sead
and posteritie. Whane contrariwise a prowd conceat, and eleuation of your
self shalbe the occasion that your reing shalbe vnstabill, trublesum
and schort.

GOD is witness that vnfeanedlie I both love and reverence your grace, yea
I pray that your reing may be long, prosperous, and quyet. And that for
the quyetnes which CHRISTIS membris before persecuted haue receaued vnder
yow but yit yf I should flatter your grace I were no freind, but a
deceavabill trater. And therfor of conscience I am compelled to say, that
neyther the consent of peopill, the proces of tyme, nor multitude of men,
can establish a law which GOD shall approve, but whatsoeuer He approveht