Anonymous

“ But thou wast daily at my preachings,
Both heard and saw, and yet misknaws.
⁠Master, quoth she, the scripture shows,
The Jewish woman which play'd the lown,
Conform unto the Hebrew laws,
Was brought to thee to be put down ”

“ Giving an account of her death, of her journey to Heaven: how on the road she fell in with Judas, who led her to the gate of Hell: and what conversation she had with the Devil, who would not let her in, also, how at last she went to Heaven and the difficulties she encountered before she got admittance there. ”

“ COURTEOUS Reader, what was Papal or heretical, in the former copy, is left out in this Edition: for their is nothing that c n offend the wise and jndicious not being taken up in a literal sense, but by way of allegory and mystical which thus may edify.
The whole Dialogue is nothing but that which is recorded in Scripture for our example, wherefore I appeal from the censorious and capricious critics, who start at straws and leap over blocks: and whose natures with the wasp is to suck nothing but venom out of the sweetest flowers ”

“ Therefore the one may read, and be edified the other read and be offended: let dogs bark what they will, the moon is still the same. Farewell.
THE WIFE OF BEITH.
IN Beith once dwelt a worthy wife,
Of whom brave Chaucer mention makes,
She lived a licentious life
And namely in venereal acts. ”