we shall haue domes daye (as they call it) shortely.  Cannius.  We haue therfore more nede to prepare our selues in a redines agaynst that day, and that with as moche spede as maye be possible.  Poliphemus. as for my part I loke and wayte styll euery day for the myghty hande and power of christ.  Cannius.  Take hede therfore that thou, when christ shall laye his myghty hande vpon the be as tendre as waxe, that accordynge to his eternall wyll he maye frayme & fashyon the with his hande.  But wherby I praye the dothe these prophetes coniecture & gather that the worlde is almost at an ende.  Poliphe.  Bycause men (they saye) do the selfe same thinge nowe adayes that they dyd, and were wont to do which were lyuynge in the worlde a lytle whyle before the deluge or Noyes floode.  They make solempne feastes, they banket, they quaffe, they booll, they bybbe, they ryot men mary, ||wome are maryed, they go a catterwallynge and horehuntinge, they bye, they sell, they lend to vserie, and borowe vpon vserie, they builde, kiges keepe warre one agaynst another, preestes studie howe they maye get many benefyces and promocios to make them selfe riche and increase theyr worldly substaunce, the diuynes make insolible sillogismus and vnperfyte argumetes, they gather conclusyons, monkes and freers rune, at rouers ouer all the world, the comyn people are in a mase or a hurle burle redy to make insurrections, and to conclude breuelie there lackes no euyll miserie nor myschefe, neyther hoger, thyrst fellonie, robberie, warre, pestilence, sedicio, derth, and great scarsytie and lacke of all good thynges.  And howe say you do not all these thynges argue and sufficientlie proue that the worlde is almost at an ende?  Cannius.  Yea but tell me I praye the of all thes hoole hepe of euyls and miseries whiche greueth the ||moste?  Poliphemus.  Whiche thynkes thou, tell me thy fansie and coniecture?  Cannius.  That the Deuyll (god saue vs) maye daunce in thy purse for euer a crosse that thou hast to kepe hi for the.  Poliphe.  I pray god I dye and yf thou haue not hyt the nayle vpon the head.  Now as chaunceth I come newly from a knotte of good companye where we haue dronke harde euery man for his parte, & I am not behynde with myne, and therfore my wytte is not halfe so freshe as it wyll be, I wyll dyspute of the gospell with the whan I am sobre.  Canni.  When shal I se the sobre?  Poli.  When I shall be sobre.  Cannius.  Whe wyll that be?  Poliph.  When thou shalt se me, in the meane season god be with you gentle Cannius and well mot you do.  Cannius.  And I wyshe to you a gayne for my parte that thou ware in dede as valiaunt or pusaunt a felowe as thy name soundeth.  Poliphe.  And bycause ye shall lose nothynge at my ||hande with wyshynge I pray god that Cannius maye neuer lacke a good can or a stoope of wine or bere, wherof he had his name.

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[C]The dialoge of thynges
and names.