fer these bookes to be read, and they shall soone displace
all bookes of godly learnyng. For they, carying the will to vanitie
and marryng good maners,

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shall easily corrupt the mynde with ill opinions, and false
iudgement in doctrine: first, to thinke nothyng of God hym selfe,
one speciall pointe that is to be learned in _Italie_, and _Italian_
bookes.

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And that which is most to be lamented, and therfore more nedefull to
be looked to, there be moe of these vngratious bookes set out in
Printe within these fewe monethes, than haue bene sene in England
many score yeare before. And bicause our English men made _Italians_
can not hurt, but certaine persons, and in certaine places, therfore
these _Italian_ bookes are made English, to bryng mischief enough
openly and boldly, to all states great and meane, yong and old,
euery where.

And thus yow see, how will intised to wantonnes, doth easelie allure
the mynde to false opinions: and how corrupt maners in liuinge, breede
false iudgement in doctrine: how sinne and fleshlines, bring forth
sectes and heresies: And therefore suffer not vaine bookes to breede
vanitie in mens wills, if yow would haue Goddes trothe take roote in
mens myndes....

They geuing themselues vp to vanitie, shakinge of the motions of
Grace, driuing from them the feare of God, and running headlong into
all sinne, first, lustelie contemne God, than scornefullie mocke his
worde, and also spitefullie hate and hurte all well willers thereof.
Then they haue in more reuerence the triumphes of Petrarche: than
the Genesis of Moses: They make more account of _Tullies_ offices,
than _S. Paules_ epistles: of a tale in _Bocace_, than a storie of
the Bible. Than they counte as Fables, the holie misteries of
Christian Religion. They make Christ and his Gospell, onelie serue
Ciuill pollicie: Than neyther Religion cummeth amisse to them....

For where they dare, in cumpanie where they like, they boldlie
laughe to scorne both protestant and Papist. They care for no
scripture: They make no counte of generall councels: they contemne
the consent of the Chirch: They passe for no Doctores: They mocke
the Pope: They raile on _Luther_: They allow neyther side: They like
none, but onelie themselues: The marke they shote at, the ende they
looke for, the heauen they desire, is onelie, their ow