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[From ''Anti-Martinus, sive Monitio cuiusdam Londinensis, ad Adolescentes utriusque Academiae'', signed A. L. (1589; S. R. 3 July 1589), 59 (Anti-Martinist).]

Libros autem Martini qui legit, nihil aliud reperiet, quam perpetuatum conuitium; sic autem vibratum, vt facile videas ad huiusmodi scurrilitates conquirendas, totam eius vitam theatris illis Londinensibus, & leuissimis scenis, vel scurrarum & nepotum circulis insidiatam.

(d)

[From Theses Martinianae, or Martin Junior (c. 22 July 1589), sig. D ij (Martinist).]

'There bee that affirme the rimers and stage-players to haue cleane putte you out of countenaunce the stage-players, poore rogues, are not so much to be blamed, if being stage-players, that is plaine rogues (saue onely for their liueries) they in the action of dealing against Maister Martin, have gotten them many thousande eie witnesses, of their wittelesse and pittifull conceites.' The writer condoles with those who 'for one poor penny' play 'ignominious fools for an hour or two together'. Martin may 'contemn such kennel-rakers and scullions as have sold themselves' to be laughed at as 'a company of disguised asses'.

(e)

[From Martins Months Minde (Aug. 1589), in Grosart, Nashe, i. 164, 166, 175, 177, 180, 189 (Anti-Martinist).]

To the Reader. 'Roscius pleades in the Senate house; Asses play vpon harpes; the Stage is brought into the Church; and vices make plaies of Churche matters These Iigges and Rimes, haue nipt the father [Martin] in the head & kild him cleane, seeing that hee is ouertaken in his owne foolerie. And this hath made the yong youthes his sonnes, to chafe and fret aboue measure, especiallie with the Plaiers, (their betters in all respects, both in wit, and honestie) whom sauing their liueries (for indeede they are hir Maiesties men, and these not so much as hir good subiects) they call Rogues, for playing their enterludes, and Asses for trauelling all daie for a pennie [in margin, Martin the vice condemneth the Plaiers, Eigulus, sigulum] A true report of the death and buriall of Martin Marprelate. Martin being sundrie waies verie curstlie handled; as  wormd and launced, that he tooke verie grieuouslie, to be made a Maygame vpon the Stage [in margin, The Theater] as he saw that  euerie stage Plaier made a iest of him fell into a feauer Martin, calling his sonnes said  I perceiue that euerie stage plaier, if he play the foole but two houres together, hath somewhat for his labour: and I nothing [The common people are] now wearie of our state mirth, that for a penie, may haue farre better by oddes at the Theater and Curtaine, and any blind playing house euerie day In lept I with  twittle tattles; that indeede I had learned in Alehouses, and at the Theater of Lanam and his fellowes.*