[129] Diametrically.  The word is indistinctly written.

His inference at lenth was thus:  since the business is thus then, Messieurs, Mesdames, mon cher Auditoire, yeel do weill in all occassion to make your address to the Virgin, to invock hir, yea definitivly I assert that if any of you have any lawfull request if yeel but pray 30 dayes togither once every day to the Virgin ye sal wtout faill obtain what you desire.  On whilk decision I suppose a man love infinitly a woman who is most averse from him, if he follow this rule he sall obtaine hir.  But who sies not except thess that are voluntary blind whow rash, inconsiderat, and illgrounded thir decisions are, and principally that of invocking the Virgin, since wtout doubt its a injury to Christ, whom we beleive following the Scripture to be the only one Mediator betwixt God and Man.  Also, I find Christ calling us to come to him, but never to his mother or to Peter or Paull.

It will not be a unreasonable drollery whiles to counterfit our Regent, Mr. James,[130] if it be weill tymed, whow when he would have sein any of his scollers playing the Rogue he would take them asyde and fall to to admonish them thus.  I think you have forgot ye are sub ferula, under the rod, ye most know that Im your Master not only to instruct you but to chastize you, and wt a ton[131] do ye ever think for to make a man, Sir; no, I promise you no. [He killed Kincairnes father by boyling the antimonian cup, which ought only to seep in.][132] Inter bonos bene agier.[133] When any plead a prate[134] and all denied it, I know the man, yet neminem nominabo, Honest Cicero hes learned me that lesson.

    [130] I have not discovered who Mr. James was.

    [131] ‘Wt a ton’ is possibly ‘with a tone,’ i.e. raising his voice.

    [132] Interlined.

    [133] Agier for agere.

    [134] Played a trick.

We cannot forgett also a note of a ministers (called Mr. Rob.  Vedderburne) preaching related me by Robert Scot which happened besyde them.  God will even come over the hil at the back of the kirk their, and cry wt a hy woice, Angel of the church of Maln[moon]sy, compeir; than Ile answer, Lord, behold thy servant what hes thou to say to him.  Then God wil say, Wheir are the souls thou hest won by your ministery heir thir 17 years?  He no wal what to answer to this, for, Sirs, I cannot promise God one of your souls:  yet Ile say, behold my own Soul and my crooked Bessies (this was his daughter), and wil not this be a sad matter.  Yet this was not so ill as Mr. John Elies note of a Minister was, who prayed for the success of the Kings navy both by sea and be land.

The very beggers in France may teach folk thrift.  Ye sall find verie few women beggers (except some that are ether not working stockings, or very old and weak) who wants[135] their rock in their bosome, spining very busily as they walk in the streets.