He determined to know nothing among them but Jesus Christ, and him crucified; and he told them, You disputers of this world, while you are deceiving simple souls with enticing words of man's wisdom and philosophy, falsely so called, you are trifling away your own souls and your hearers' into hell.

That was the great puzzle to the Greeks, who thought themselves very learned and cunning, and were great arguers and disputers about all deep matters in heaven and earth.

The fourth stanza, which mentions Erasmus and Luther, is the following: "Thou wast nother Erasmus nor Luter; Thou dyds medle no forther than thy potte; Agaynst hye matters thou wast no disputer, Amonge the Innocentes electe was thy lotte: Glad mayst thou be thou haddyst that knotte, For many foolys by the[e] thynke them selfe none, Yet all be nott dead, though thou be gone.

DISPUTER, avoir une discussion; se quereller.

Il aura pourtant beau faire, je déclare que je renonce à tous[105] procès avec vous, que je ne veux, pour arbitre de notre discussion, que vous et vos gens d'affaires, et que j'aime mieux perdre tout que de rien disputer.