_Martin._ _No have_, forsooth: and it is even he that hath written against thy faith." Then _Martin_ said: "Dost thou not know one Master Chamberlain? _Careless._ No forsooth; I know him not. _Martin._ _No dost!_ and he hath written a book against thy faith also."--_Id._, vol. iii. p. 164. "_Lichfield and Coventry._ We heard of no such order. _Lord Keeper._ _No did?_ Yes, and on the first question ye began willingly. How cometh it to pass that ye will not now do so?"--_Id._, p. 690. "Then said Sir Thomas Moyle: 'Ah! Bland, thou art a stiff-hearted fellow. Thou wilt not obey the law, nor answer when thou art called.' '_Nor will_,' quoth Sir John Baker. 'Master Sheriff, take him to your ward.'"--_Id._, vol. vii. p. 295. Is it needful to state, that the original editions have, as they ought to have, a note of interrogation at "Baker?" I will not tax the reader's patience with more than two other examples, and they shall be fetched from the writings of that admirable papist--the gentle, the merry-hearted More: "Well, quod Caius, thou wylt graunte me thys fyrste, that euery thynge that hath two erys is an asse.--Nay, mary mayster, wyll I not, quod the boy.--_No wylt_ thou? quod Caius. Ah, wyly boy, there thou wentest beyond me."--The Thyrde Boke, the first chapter, fol. 84. of Sir Thomas More's _Dialogues_. "Why, quod he, what coulde I answere ellys, but clerely graunt hym that I believe that thyng for none other cause but only bycause the Scripture so sheweth me?--_No could ye?_ quod I. What yf neuer Scripture had ben wryten in thys world, should there neuer haue bene eny chyrch or congregacyon of faythfull and ryght beyleuyng people?--That wote I nere, quod he. _No do ye?_ quod I."--_Id._, fol. 85. In taking leave of this idiom, it would not perhaps be amiss to remark, that "ye can," in Duke Humphey's rejoinder to the "blyson begger of St. Albonys," is not, as usually understood, "you can?" but "yea can?" * * * * * _To be at point_ = to be at a stay or stop, _i.e._ settled, determined, nothing farther being to be said or done: a very common phrase. Half a dozen examples shall suffice: " . . . . . What I am truly Is thine, and my poore countries to command: Whither indeed before they (thy) heere-approach, Old Seyward with ten thousand warlike men Already _at a point_, was setting forth." _Macbeth_, Act IV. Sc. 3. 1st Fol.