your wit, but for the pigg of your own sow (as you terme it) assuredly I must discommend your verdit. Tell me Gosson was all your owne you wrote there: did you borow nothing of your neyghbours? but of what booke patched you out _Ciceros_ oration? Whence fet you _Catulins_ invective? Thys is one thing, _alienam olet lucernâ non tuam_. So that your helper may wisely reply upon you with _Virgil_, _Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honores_, I made these verses other bear the name. Beleve me I should preferr Wilsons, shorte and sweete if I were judge, a peece surely worthy prayse, the practise of a good scholler, would the wiser would overlooke that, they may perhaps cull some wisedome out of a players toye. Well, as it is wisedome to commend where the cause requireth, so it is a poynt of folly to praise without deserte. You dislike players very much, theyr dealings be not for your commodity, whom if I myghte advise they should learne thys of _Juvenal_: _Vivendum est recte Cum propter plurima, tum his Præcipue causis: ut linguas mancipiorum Cont[=e]nas. N[=a] lingua mali pars pessima servi._ We ought to leade our lives aright, For many causes move. Especially for this same cause, Wisedome doth us behove. That we may set at nough[t] those blames, Which servants to us lay, For why, the tongue of evel slave, Is worst as wise men ever say. Methinks I heare some of them verifiing these verses upon you, if it so be that I hear them, I wil concele it, as for the statute of apparrell and the abuses thereof, I see it manifestly broken, and if I should seeke for example, you cannot but offend my eyes. For if you examine the statuts exactly, a simple cote should be fitted to your backe. We should bereve you of your braverye, and examine your au[n]cestry, and by profession in respect of ye statute, we should find you catercosens with a (but hush), you know my meaning, I must for pitie favor your credit in that you weare once a scholler. You runne farther to Carders, dicers, fencers, bowlers, dauncers, and tomblers, whose abuses I wold rebuke with you, had not your self moved other matters. But to eche I say thus, for dicing I wyshe those that know it not to leave to learn it, and let the fall of others make them wiser. Yf they had an _Alexander_ to govern they shold be punished, and I could wish them not to abuse the lenitie of their prince. _Cicero_ for a great blemish reputeth that which our gentilmen use for bravery, but _sufficit ista leniter attigisse_, a word against fencers, and so an end. Whom I wish to beware with _Demonax_ lest admitting theyr fencing delightes, they destroy (with the _Athenians_) the alters of peace; by raysing quarrellous causes, they worke uprores: but you and I reprove the[m] in abuse, yet I (for my part) cannot but allow the practise so it be well used. As for the filling of our gracious princes cofers with peace, as it pertaineth not to me, because I am none of her