For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Ver. 12. For it is a shame] Sit honos auribus. Joannes a Casa so far forgot both honesty and nature, that he boasted openly of his beastly sodomy; yea, most impudently commended that odious sin in an Italian poem, set forth in print. Faber of Vienna, another filthy Papist, published such a stinking book that Erasmus thus wrote to him,

" Mente cares, si res agitur tibi seria: rursus

Fronte cares, si sic ludis, amice Faber. "

Which are done of them in secret] Sin secretly committed shall be strangely discovered, either by the sinner himself, as Judas, or by his companions in evil. When the solder is once melted, this glass will fall in pieces, and all will come out.

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