Besides, it is degrading to compare women to wine! He
is a coarse fellow who sets his wife on the same level with a
beer-barrel."
"Logic is not his strong point, and his comparisons halt on
crutches. In his answer to the Pope's excommunication, he writes,
among other things: 'If a hay-cart must move out of the way of a
drunken man, how much more must Peter and Jesus Christ keep out of
the way of the Pope?'"
"That is a pretty simile! Let us return to James Bainham."
"But let me tell you a little more about the fanatics in Germany.
Besides Karlstadt and his followers, other enthusiasts, quoting the
Bible and Luther, have had themselves rebaptized; their leader has
taken ten wives, supporting his action by the example of David,
Solomon, and even Abraham."
"The Bible again!--Call in Bainham, and then we will hear how the
matter stands! He was a lawyer in the Temple, you say, and has been
spreading Luther's teaching. Have we not had enough of Wycliffe and
the Lollards? Must we have the same thing again, grunted out by this
German plagiariser?"
"I am not an intolerant man," said More, "but a State must be
homogeneous, or it will fall to pieces. Ignoramuses and lunatics
must not come forward and sniff at the State religion, be it better
or worse."
"Let Bainham come, and we will hear him.
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