If this veyne bleede but sixe ounces more I shall proue a pretie railer, and so in time may growe to bee a proper Martinist. Tush, I doo but licke ouer my pamphlet, like a Beares whelpe, to bring it in some forme; by that time he replies, it will haue clawes and teeth, and then let him looke to bee scratcht and bitten too. Thou seest Martin Moldwarpe, that hetherto I haue named none, but markt them readie for the next market: if thou proceed in naming, be as sure as thy shirt to thy knaues skinne, that Ile name such, as though thou canst not blush, because thou art past shame, yet they shall bee sorie, because they are not all without grace. Pasquil is coming out with the liues of the Saints. Beware my Comment, tis odds the margent shall be as full as the text. I haue manie sequences of Saints, if naming be the aduantage, and ripping vp of liues make sport; haue with thee knuckle deepe, it shall neuer bee said that I dare not venter mine eares where Martin hazards his necke. Now me thinkes Martin begins to stretch himselfe like an old fencer, with a great conscience for buckler and a long tongue for a sword. Lie close, you old cutter at the locke, _Nam mihi sunt vires, et mea tela nocent_. Tis ods but that I shal thrust thee through the buckler into the brain, that is through the conscience into the wit. If thou sue me for a double maime, I care not though the Iurie allow thee treble damages, it cannot amount to much, because thy c[=o]science is without wit, and thy wit without conscience, and therefore both not worth a penie. Therefore take this for the first venew, of a yonger brother, that meanes to drie beate those of the _Elder_ house. Martin, this is my last straine for this fleech of mirth. I began with God morrowe, and bid you God night. I must tune my fiddle, and fetch some more rozen, that it maie squeake out Martins Matachine. III.--NICHOLAS BRETON (Wit and Will _has been already more frequently reprinted than most things of Breton's, but these reprints have been in very small numbers, and not generally accessible. It is given here as being equally characteristic of the author and of the time, both in matter and in form, in the mixture of verse and prose, in the plays on words, in the allegory, in the morality, and in the style._) THE WIL OF WIT, WIT'S WILL, OR WIL'S WIT, chuse you whether. Containing five discourses, the effects whereof follow. READE AND JUDGE. Compiled by NICHOLAS BRETON, gentleman. _Non hà, che non sà._ Vires sit Vulnere Veritas. London: Printed by THOMAS CREEDE, 1599. TO GENTLEMEN SCHOLLERS AND STUDENTS WHATSOEUER