THE FOURTEENTH CHAPTER

The author somewhat showeth that the clergy doth no wrong in leaving heretics to [the] secular hand, though their death follow thereon. And he showeth also that it is lawful to resist the Turk, and such other infidels, and that princes be bounder thereto.

Marry, quod your friend, but as methinketh, the bishop doth as much as though he killeth him, when he leaveth him to the secular hand, in such time and place as he wotteth well he shall soon be burned.