638 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
writings doe remaine. But as farre as possiblie I may without 
neglect of the duetie I owe to God and to his Church, I yeelde to 
your request: that is, I will endeuour to make plaine vnto you the 
iniuries and wrongs that your aunswer doth me, as brieflie as the 
necessarie clearing of the truth, and scattering of the mistes where¬ 
by you goe about to darken it, will permit. 
The communication thus introduced consists essentially 
in a minute dissection of Gager’s letter, rather than in im¬ 
portant additions to the matter of the argument. 
To this violent utterance Gager offered no reply, and with 
it the direct controversy between the two men ceased. 1 
Nor need one wonder at the subsequent reticence of the 
dramatist of Christ Church, for in “the iudgment of any 
man that is not froward and perverse” his one humane and 
temperate reply to his Puritan opponent had already amply 
justified the dramatic productions of his revered Alma Mater. 
1 The highly technical continuation of the controversy in the Latin 
letters passed between Rainolds and Albericus Gentilis is recounted by 
Boas, University Drama in the Tudor Age , pp. 244-248. 
