mettle

By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's mettell enough in his belly.

Your Maſter quits you: and for your ſeruice done him, / So much againſt the mettle of your ſex

They have neither gold nor silver of their owne, wine nor oyle, or scarce any corne growing in those united Provinces, little or no Wood, Tinne, Lead, Iron, Silke, Wooll, any stuffe almost, or Mettle; and yet Hungary, Transilvania, that bragge of their mines, fertile England cannot compare with them.