Peter also; with many other extraordinary adventures of the said
Martin in several places with many considerable persons.

With a digression concerning the nature, usefulness, and necessity
of wars and quarrels.

How Jack and Martin, being parted, set up each for himself. How
they travelled over hills and dales, met many disasters, suffered
much from the good cause, and struggled with difficulties and wants,
not having where to lay their head; by all which they afterwards
proved themselves to be right father's sons, and Peter to be
spurious. Finding no shelter near Peter's habitation, Martin
travelled northwards, and finding the Thuringians, a neighbouring
people, disposed to change, he set up his stage first among them,
where, making it his business to cry down Peter's powders, plasters,
salves, and drugs, which he had sold a long time at a dear rate,
allowing Martin none of the profit, though he had been often
employed in recommending and putting them off, the good people,
willing to save their pence, began to hearken to Martin's speeches.
How several great lords took the hint, and on the same account
declared for Martin; particularly one who, not having had enough of
one wife, wanted to marry a second, and knowing Peter used not to
grant such licenses but at a swingeing price, he struck up a bargain
with Martin, whom he found more tractable, and who assured him he
had the same power to allow such things. How most of the other
Northern lords, for their own private ends, withdrew themselves and
their dependants from Peter's authority, and closed in with Martin.
How Peter, enraged at the loss of such large territories, and
consequently of so much revenue, thundered against Martin, and sent
out the strongest and most terrible of his bulls to devour him; but