I haue sayd nothing of the authors of the Admonition, which their owne doings proueth not to be true, and if you will also take it vnto your selfe, who can let you. If notwithstanding al my iourneys to see and salute my houses and lyuings, I be founde to discharge my duetie there, and also to haue read as much as you, that haue suche leysure, it is at the least an argument that I am not idle. I loue not to boast of my self. Your too too arrogante and contemptuous speaches prouoke me further than mode∣stie requireth. I am not ashamed of my readyng, and yet I will make no compari∣sons.
I haue sundrie times both priuately and publikely, as I am able to proue by suffi∣cient* 1.1 testimonies, and you cannot denie, offered you conference by writing of these matters, I haue earnestly moued you vnto it, and you haue alwayes refused it. This had bene a quiet and the best and most assured way: for litera scripta manet, That whiche is set downe in writing remaineth. Howbeit I refuse no way that shall be thought con∣uenient to the Magistate, neyther am I afrayde of your stoute bragges, for I knowe what substance is in you: but yet by the way this may be noted, what you bunt after and séeke for, when you refuse priuate conference by writing offered vnto you, and cry out for publike disputation: scilicet popularem laudem, popular praise: But therein do you follow the vaine bragges of other sectaries. &c.