"**Pray, O pray to God, dear friends, if you are not alread…
"**Pray, O pray to God, dear friends, if you are not already asses — that he will cause you to become asses... The greatest asses of the world are those who, lacking all understanding and instruction, and void of all civil life and custom, rot in perpetual pedantry; those who by the grace of heaven would reform obscure and corrupted faith, salve the cruelties of perverted religion and remove abuse of superstitions, mending the rents in their vesture.**"