John Trapp on Titus 1:12

Verſe 12. Even a Prophet of th[illegible: 1 letter]ir own] Epimenides the Poet, who by his countrey-men the Cretians was counted a Prophet, and had divine honours done to him after his death.

The Cretians are alwaies liers] So were the Carthaginians, Tyrij que bilingues. The French had ſo often deceived the Engliſh, that ſuch as they mean to deceive, they call by a common byword, Ias A[illegible: 2 letters]l[illegible: 2 letters], The Engliſh. The Cretians were loud liars, even to a Proverb. Of Delon Homer ſaith, That he had an art in lying. But Eu[illegible: 1 letter]aem[illegible: 1 letter]a Joannes (that Cretian Dae noni[illegible: 1 letter]ck) wins the whet[illegible: 1 letter]on[illegible: 1 letter] one from all his countrey-men, whiles he bluſheth not to tell the world in print, that theſe are the doctrines and practices of the Proteſtants, to worſhip no God, to frame our religion to the times, to pretend the publike cauſe to our private luſts, to break our words, as we ſee good for our purpoſe, to cover deadly hatred under fair flatteries, to confirm tyranny by ſhedding the bloud of innocents, &c.