“Deerest Robin,

“Nowe (blessed bee God) I can write and thou receaue, freely, I never in my life sawe more deepe sence, and lesse will to shewe ill unchristianly, then in that wch thou diddest write to us when wee were att Windsor, and thou in the middest of thy tentation, wch indeed (by what wee understood of itt) was a great one, and occasioened the greater, by the letter the Generall sent thee, of wch, thou wast not mistaken, when thou didest challenge mee to bee the pēner.