THE
ANTIQIVTIE
OF
THEEVES
CHAP.
I.
In
which
the
Author
compareth
the
miseries
of
Prison
to
the
paines
of
Hell
.
THe
terror
of
Hell
which
is
set
forth
to
us
in
holy
Writings
,
doth
so
resemble
to
us
the
miseries
which
are
endured
in
prison
,
that
if
this
had
not
that
hope
which
th'
other
wanteth
we
might
attribute
unto
it
the
title
of
a
true
Hell
,
seeing
that
in
this
which
is
most
proper
to
them
,
the
one
and
the
other
haue
a
mutuall
and
full
correspondence
,
which
maketh
me
to
wonder
much
at
the
vnprofitable
diligence
with
which
some
late
writers
distill
their
brain
's
to
finde
the
meanes
how
they
may
properly
represent
unto
the
world
the
horrour
of
that
terrible
mansion
,
when
they
might
have
attained
to
the
end
of
their
purpose
in
shewing
onely
the
desperate
life
which
people
suffer
in
prison
,
which
shall
be
perfitly
knowne
with
its
extreame
miserie
,
if
first
of
all
we
particularly
treate
of
the
torments
which
are
perpetually
exercised
in
Hell
.
The
Authors
,
who
write
upon
this
subject
,
bring
the
paines
of
Hell
to
two
points
;
the
first
and
chiefe
of
which
is
their
depriving
from
the
essence
of
God
,
which
they
call
essentiall
paine
,
it
being
that
,
which
properly
containeth
all
the
torments
that
can
be
imagined
in
Hel.
And
that
same
is
so
extreame
and
so
cruell
,
that
if
the
soule
had
in
the
other
world
as
many
pleasures
and
contentments
as
the
thought
of
man
could
imagine
,
being
deprived
of
God
,
it
could
not
have
any
thing
which
had
one
onely
shadow
of
comfort
.
Because
that
God
being
the
roote
and
the
fountaine
of
all
goodnesse
,
and
all
contentments
and
delights
,
which
are
in
●he
world
being
stored
up
in
him
alone
,
it
is
evident
that
with
him
the
soule
shall
have
all
consolation
which
is
possible
to
be
imagined
and
that
without
him
it
shall
be
plunged
into
a
bottomlesse
depth
of
sorrow
&
confusion
,
with
which
and
with
the
certainty
that
it
hath
,
that
its
griefes
shall
never
be
ended
,
it
curseth
its
being
,
its
birth
and
its
life
.
The
other
paine
which
the
damned
suffer
in
Hell
is
the
accidentall
paine
,
so
called
because
it
is
joyned
to
the
former
as
an
accident
,
which
serveth
to
make
the
apprehension
of
the
damned
more
sensible
,
throwing
them
headlong
into
the
bitter
sight
of
their
miserie
.
To
this
is
joyned
the
detestable
companie
of
Divells
,
the
horrible
and
frightfull
lodging
,
the●
severall
kindes
of
torments
,
the
continuall
lamentations
,
the
disorder
,
the
confusion
,
the
fire
,
the
brimstone
,
the
darkenesse
and
a
thousand
other
afflictions
,
of
which
,
and
of
the
depriving
of
Gods
being
and
presence
,
that
wretched
and
perpetuall
Hell
is
composed
.
And
as
touching
the
varietie
of
officers
,
that
beare
rule
in
this
darke
dungeon
;
wee
know
already
that
in
that
great
battell
which
Saint
Michael
th'
Archangell
had
against
Lucifer
,
for
the
throne
and
the
glory
of
the
Creator
,
not
onely
the
same
Lucifer
fell
from
Heaven
,
and
from
the
highest
of
his
perfection
to
the
lowest
and
hollowest
gulfes
of
Hell
▪
but
also
a
great
number
of
evill
angells
with
him
,
who
were
copartners
with
him
in
his
rash
and
accursed
purpose
.
And
these
although
they
do
equally
partake
with
him
in
the
paine
essentiall
,
which
is
being
deprived
of
God
,
have
neverthelesse
some
difference
amongst
themselves
:
whether
it
be
that
everyone
is
of
one
kind
,
as
saith
a
Doctor
of
the
Church
,
or
whether
for
that
they
had
more
or
lesse
consent
in
his
malice
.
Because
that
without
doubt
those
who
obstinatly
defended
the
pride
of
Lucifer
fell
with
him
into
the
deepest
place
of
the
earth
which
is
the
center
of
the
the
world
where
divines
doe
place
Hell
.
And
those
who
were
not
so
vehement
;
but
onely
approved
his
purpose
with
a
certaine
and
determinate
fellow-liking
,
fell
not
so
low
:
I
will
say
that
the
accidentall
paine
of
them
was
not
so
great
as
that
of
these
others
.
And
of
this
sort
the
accidentall
paine
of
these
spirits
was
made
severall
according
to
the
degrees
of
the
malice
which
they
had
in
their
sinne
.
And
though
that
in
Hell
there
is
no
order
,
as
Iob
saith
;
there
is
notwithstanding
a
certaine
government
and
order
among
these
spirits
vnder-placed
and
divided
into
severall
companies
with
diverse
degrees
and
qualities
.
So
as
the
good
Angells
in
the
heavenly
Ierusalem
are
divided
by
their
order
into
Angells
,
Archangells
,
Thrones
,
Powers
,
Cherubins
,
Seraphins
,
and
other
holy
dignities
.
All
the
Legions
of
Divel●
which
fell
from
Heaven
remained
subject
to
the
Arch-angell
Michael
,
who
hath
commandement
and
empire
over
them
all
.
As
also
according
to
some
mens
opinions
,
every
good
Angell
of
Princes
hath
commandement
over
one
Legion
.
And
beside
the
obedience
which
all
of
them
owe
to
Saint
Michael
,
as
to
their
Captaine
Generall
vnder
God
,
they
have
also
among
them
their
Prince
of
malice
,
to
whom
they
are
subject
and
obey
,
and
upon
him
depend
diverse
Liev●tenants
and
Governors
,
who
wholly
divide
the
governement
of
all
the
hellish
malice
,
every
one
of
them
having
vnder
his
charge
the
disposing
and
good
order
of
his
band
.
Neither
lesse
nor
more
than
in
a
well
ordered
Campe
,
where
there
is
a
great
multitude
of
Souldiers
,
the
body
of
the
armie
is
divided
into
severall
Regiments
,
as
are
the
Generall
,
the
Camp-master
,
Captaines
,
Ensignes
,
Sergeants
;
Corporalls
and
others
of
this
sort
,
who
order
the
Souldiers
and
the
armie
.
And
as
there
are
sundry
Offices
of
these
,
some
being
foot●
▪
others
horse
,
some
Musqueters
,
others
Pikemen
,
and
finally
of
severall
employments
:
there
are
also
among
the
evill
spirits
severall
Offices
and
places
,
some
tempting
by
Covetousnesse
,
others
by
Riotousnesse
,
others
by
Ambition
,
and
finally●
every
particular
sinne
hath
its
appointed
and
determinate
Officers
,
having
all
of
them
equally
;
one
onely
end
and
scope
to
carrie
soules
to
Hell
.
In
this
Divellish
armie
there
are
some
Div●ls
,
that
never
come
out
of
Hell
,
but
are
evermore
shut
up
within
it
,
receiving
the
soules
which
enter
in
thither
,
and
giving
to
them
a
place
and
kinde
of
torment
which
their
sinnes
deserve
.
There
are
others
who
are
ever
wandring
,
c●mpassing
the
earth
to
and
fro
,
and
searching
for
soules
to
carrie
them
into
Hel.
Neverthelesse
let
no
man
thinke
that
these
have
any
power
o●
authoritie
to
beare
away
one
soule
to
Hell
,
nor
these
others
to
shut
up
in
their
darke
dennes
,
vnlesse
it
be
by
the
expresse
commandement
and
particular
commission
of
God
.
And
so
much
concerning
these
hellish
Officer●
.
As
for
its
largenesse
,
it
is
such
,
that
all
sorts
of
sinfull
soules
enter
into
Hell
,
and
it
is
ordinarily
full
fraughted
and
peopled
with
Blasphemers
,
Perjur'd
persons
,
Murtherers
,
Adulterers
,
Envious
persons
,
and
to
conclude
with
all
sorts
of
Evill-doers
:
who
although
they
have
in
common
the
essentiall
paine
,
which
is
the
wanting
of
God
,
and
are
all
of
them
in
Hell
,
yet
they
have
severall
roomes
and
torments
according
to
everie
ones
deserving
,
sithence
it
is
certaine
that
the
paine
of
him
that
oweth
little
shall
not
be
so
great
at
all
as
the
paine
of
him
that
oweth
much
,
and
that
the
just
Iudge
chastiseth
and
recompense●h
every
one
according
as
he
deserveth
.
To
all
this
varietie
is
added
the
extreme
confusion
of
Hell
,
the
disorder
,
the
vnquietnesse
,
the
vnrulie
cariage
,
and
con●in
ualagitation
,
with
which
they
are
alwaies
tormented
,
seeing
it
is
evident
,
that
where
rage
and
despaire
reigneth
,
there
can
be
no
friendly
fellowship
nor
agreement
.
This
estate
,
practise
&
disposition
of
the
horrible
pit
of
this
hellish
lodging
is
the
lively
pourtraict
of
that
desperate
life
,
which
men
suffer
in
prison
,
in
which
the
beholder
shal
find
so
in
tire
&
so
mutuall
a
correspondence
that
there
is
not
almost
any
other
difference
between
them
but
in
the
name
.
Because
that
first
to
the
essentiall
paine
of
Hel
,
which
is
the
depriving
of
Gods
powerful
presence
,
the
want
of
liberty
hath
correspondence
,
which
with
a
just
●i●le
we
may
cal
a
paine
essentiall
,
for
so
much
as
it
is
the
queen
of
al
the
apprehensions
&
motives
of
sorrow
,
which
are
able
to
afflict
a
good
wit
.
And
as
in
that
,
the
soule
being
deprived
of
God
,
it
is
also
deprived
of
all
worldly
pleasures
,
even
so
in
this
(
to
wit
in
prison
)
it
enjoyeth
not
any
thing
which
hath
the
least
shadow
of
content
.
Because
that
although
a
prisoner
were
clothed
with
purPurple
,
served
as
a
King
,
fed
with
the
most
delicate
vitailes
of
the
world
,
his
Chamber
hang'd
with
cloth
of
gold
,
that
hee
were
entertained
with
all
sort
of
Musicke
,
visited
by
his
parents
and
friends
,
all
this
,
nor
all
that
could
be
desired
more
could
bring
him
any
kinde
of
comfort
.
On
the
contrary
he
should
have
lesse
,
because
that
all
things
availe
nothing
but
to
awaken
his
appetite
and
make
him
desire
that
which
others
enjoy
,
and
to
which
he
cannot
attaine
.
Whenceproceedeth
the
increasing
of
his
want
(
of
libertie
)
and
consequently
his
paine
.
The
harshnesse
and
force
of
depriving
(
of
libertie
)
may
be
easily
,
known
by
its
contrarie
,
this
being
infallible
that
the
depriving
of
one
thing
shall
be
by
so
much
evill
as
the
possession
of
it
shall
be
good
.
And
libertie
being
the
most
precious
Iewell
of
the
soule
,
and
the
greatest
perfection
,
which
the
vnbounded
Author
of
this
,
hath
engrafted
in
the
reasonable
creature
;
it
is
certaine
that
the
depriving
thereof
shall
be
the
most
crosse
and
vnsufferable
of
all
others
.
That
libertie
is
that
which
guideth
and
directe●h
mans
actions
to
diverse
ends
,
without
enforcing
them
and
with
pleasure
,
choosing
,
and
commanding
,
experience
teacheth
this
,
in
which
the
supreme
work-master
would
distinguish
man
from
other
living
creatures
,
whose
end
obtaineth
by
a
naturall
instinct
,
which
leadeth
them
,
as
by
a
bridle
,
to
the
appetite
and
delight
in
it
,
and
that
it
is
so
powerfull
,
and
maketh
man
so
absolute
,
that
his
vnderstanding
having
proposed
the
good
,
the
perfect
,
the
honest
and
the
delectable
,
he
may
resolve
with
himselfe
to
love
it
or
not
to
love
it
at
all
,
sith
that
none
but
God
may
aske
a
reason
of
this
so
absolute
commandement
,
Naturall
Philosophie
telleth
it
.
Whence
and
from
many
other
reasons
,
which
I
could
bring
,
it
is
clearely
perceived
that
there
is
not
any
thing
in
the
world
,
to
which
the
essentiall
paine
of
Hell
can
more
properly
be
compared
,
than
to
the
depriving
of
libertie
,
seeing
it
bringeth
man
to
such
extremitie
,
that
he
abhorreth
himselfe
,
his
being
,
his
ranke
,
and
his
estate
.
He
knoweth
well
this
truth
which
I
write
,
who
hath
sometimes
beene
in
prison
,
laded
with
chaines
and
with
irons
,
subject
to
the
rage
of
that
terrible
abode
,
cursing
(
though
Noble
and
well
borne
)
his
being
,
his
condition
and
Noblenesse
,
grieving
to
be
that
which
he
is
,
and
wishing
to
be
a
great
deale
meaner
.
In
midst
of
which
despaire
hee
envieth
the
peaceable
condition
and
tranquillity
,
of
the
Commons
,
and
could
wish
to
have
beene
borne
of
the
most
base
dregs
of
the
people
.
He
curseth
his
actions
and
his
studies
,
the
points
of
honour
which
his
parents
taught
him
,
the
vnderstanding
which
he
hath
,
thinking
with
himselfe
,
that
if
he
were
a
privat
man
,
he
should
not
at
all
see
himselfe
in
so
miserable
and
so
extreame
a
perplexitie
,
and
that
this
would
not
be
litle
enough
for
him
,
if
despaire
left
him
amongst
the
folke
of
that
same
sort
and
nature
:
but
it
goeth
on
refining
and
consuming
him
in
the
fire
of
impatience
,
in
such
sort
,
that
it
draweth
him
out
of
his
reasonable
being
,
and
bringeth
him
to
that
of
a
brute
beast
,
and
to
the
most
base
and
infinite
kindes
of
them
,
that
groaning
for
libertie
,
he
envieth
the
bird
that
flieth
,
the
Dog
that
barketh
,
the
Pismire
that
travelleth
,
and
desireth
to
be
one
of
them
.
And
the
venome
of
this
fierce
beast
stayeth
not
there
,
for
tying
harder
the
cords
of
a
poore
prisoner
,
it
draweth
him
out
of
the
ranke
and
file
of
living
creatures
,
making
him
desire
to
be
a
tree
,
an
image
or
a
stone
,
bringing
him
to
nothing
,
and
making
him
bewaile
that
ever
hee
was
borne
in
the
world
.
By
which
it
is
clearely
seene
that
the
want
of
liberty
making
so
unhappy
a
change
in
man
,
as
to
throw
him
headlong
from
the
highest
&
most
perfect
of
his
inclination
and
appetite
,
to
the
basest
and
lowest
,
and
from
the
image
and
likenesse
of
God
,
to
nothing
;
this
is
the
most
strong
and
most
rigorous
paine
that
can
be
imagined
,
and
that
which
truely
doth
better
represent
the
essential
paine
of
Hell
.
To
the
accidentall
paine
doe
correspond
the
innumerable
afflictions
and
calamities
,
which
follow
the
depriving
of
libertie
,
amongst
which
are
the
stinke
of
the
prison
,
the
disorderly
frame
of
the
buildings
,
the
defamed
companie
,
the
continuall
and
huge
lewd
voices
,
the
diversitie
of
nations
,
the
differing
humors
,
the
shame
,
the
persecution
,
the
difgrace
,
the
mocquerie
,
the
crueltie
,
the
blowes
,
the
torments
,
the
poverty
and
the
miseries
without
number
,
which
are
suffered
in
prison
,
of
the
which
,
and
of
other
depriving
of
libertie
the
lively
patterne
of
Hell
is
framed
and
composed
.
As
touching
the
executioners
and
officers
,
no
man
will
deny
but
that
all
the
earth
is
full
of
incarnat
Divells
,
more
obstinate
and
more
accursed
in
their
kinde
than
those
of
Hell
,
the
most
part
of
them
being
fallen
,
as
Lucifer
and
his
followers
,
from
the
Heaven
of
honour
.
I
will
say
that
for
the
deserving
,
and
sinnes
which
they
have
committed
,
the
Angell
Saint
Michael
,
who
is
the
Iustice
,
hath
drawne
them
from
the
fellowship
and
dwelling
of
the
good
,
and
they
seeing
themselves
beaten
downe
and
dishonoured
,
have
taken
vpon
them
the
office
of
Divels
,
to
avenge
themselves
of
the
poore
innocent
soules
,
running
day
&
night
thorow
the
streets
,
markets
and
publike
places
of
the
Citie
,
smelling
out
and
searching
for
people
to
lay
them
in
prison
.
And
these
are
they
who
commonly
are
called
Sergeants
,
who
drag
a
poore
man
to
prison
with
such
rage
and
tyrannie
,
as
these
in
the
perpetuall
Hell
could
not
utter
more
.
And
if
we
be
able
to
find
any
difference
betweene
them
,
it
is
this
,
that
the
Divells
of
Hell
fly
from
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
;
but
those
of
the
prison
love
,
reverence
and
adore
that
happy
signe
,
in
such
sort
,
that
hee
who
would
deale
well
with
them
,
and
somewhat
turne
their
rigour
into
a
litle
pitie
,
it
is
necessarie
that
hee
have
alwayes
the
Crosse
in
his
hands
,
for
at
what
time
hee
shall
leave
it
,
they
will
torment
him
ten
times
more
than
his
sinne
can
deserve
:
but
they
having
met
with
him
,
they
say
a
Pater
noster
for
the
soule
which
they
take
,
untill
they
come
to
da
nobis
bodie
,
and
they
goe
not
at
all
any
further
.
These
Divells
are
those
who
walke
commonly
through
the
streetes
,
and
places
of
the
Citie
,
seeking
for
soules
in
the
most
secret
corners
,
the
multitude
and
trade
of
whom
is
so
great
,
that
I
doe
n●●
thinke
there
are
more
Legions
of
Divels
in
Hell
,
than
there
be
Sergeants
in
the
Common-wealth
.
Amongst
them
there
be
some
that
goe
on
horsebacke
,
who
have
charge
to
travell
into
the
Countrey
,
unto
places
farre
remote
from
the
Citie
,
and
to
bring
men
into
prison
from
places
most
solitarie
and
quiet
.
These
,
for
that
they
being
of
a
more
haughtie
nature
than
the
others
,
we
may
call
Orientalls
from
the
Region
of
fire
,
and
these
are
called
Archers
or
Messengers
,
the
Legion
or
companie
of
whom
hath
for
their
Chieftaine
or
Captaine
a
great
Divell
whom
they
call
Provest
.
There
are
other
Divels
in
this
Hell
,
the
i●feriors
of
the
aforenamed
,
who
goe
ordinarily
by
tens
or
twenties
in
a
companie
,
disguised
and
masked
,
to
spie
if
they
can
catch
one
poore
soule
by
treacherie
,
they
are
so
cowardly
so
effeminate
and
dastardly
,
that
they
meete
sometimes
to
the
number
of
fortie
and
all
to
take
one
man
,
and
yet
they
dare
not
adventure
to
take
him
their selves
alone
,
without
the
assistance
and
aide
of
a
Divell
with
a
long
gown
,
who
vsually
accompanieth
them
.
They
goe
alwayes
atter'd
,
torne
and
naked
,
and
this
is
the
lowest
and
most
infinite
Legion
of
all
as
the
Hob-goblins
vnder
ground
,
whom
the
people
have
beene
accustomed
to
call
Apparitors
.
Every
Legion
of
these
Divells
have
an
infinite
number
of
halfe-divells
who
goe
disguised
and
covered
through
the
Citie
,
There
be
other
Divels
,
who
are
esteemed
more
noble
and
more
courteous
,
whose
office
is
to
repeale
penalties
,
commissions
,
requests
,
to
baile
a
soule
,
and
to
take
the
burthen
on
themselves
,
answering
for
it
every
time
that
the
Iudge
asketh
for
it
.
And
though
it
be
in
their
keeping
,
they
give
it
alwayes
time
and
place
to
solicite
its
owne
affaires
,
to
visite
its
Iudges
,
and
to
pleade
its
cause
,
vsing
with
it
some
pitie
and
friendship
.
Finally
they
have
a
nature
mingled
with
goodnesse
and
malice
,
and
they
are
betweene
Divels
and
Angels
,
whom
by
reason
of
the
familiaritie
which
they
have
with
man
,
wee
may
call
them
Airie
Divells
;
and
these
the
common
people
call
doore-keepers
.
All
these
aforesaid
divels
,
&
others
whom
I
leave
to
mention
for
avoiding
prolixitie
,
are
found
in
the
world
,
every
one
of
whom
goeth
severall
waies
,
leading
soules
into
the
Hell
of
prison
,
&
all
of
them
,
after
the
manner
of
evil
spirits
are
divided
into
divers
Legions
and
troopes
.
Yet
notwithstanding
they
torment
not
the
soules
because
they
enter
not
into
Hell
themselves
,
onely
they
deliver
them
to
Lucifers
Lievetenant
the
Iayler
,
&
returne
incontinent
vnto
their
walke
;
for
to
give
up
their
account
to
their
Captaine
,
of
the
tentations
which
they
have
practized
that
day
,
and
of
the
number
of
soules
which
they
have
carried
that
day
to
prison
,
every
one
of
them
reckoning
up
the
inventions
&
wiles
which
he
hath
practized
in
his
hellish
Office
.
There
be
also
other
divells
which
never
go
out
of
the
prison
,
nor
have
any
other
imployment
,
but
to
torment
the
poore
soules
which
enter
in
thither
.
And
those
are
so
tyrannous
,
so
cruel
&
so
wicked
,
that
they
satisfie
not
their
inraged
hunger
but
by
sucking
the
bloud
,
&
the
life
of
the
poore
captive
that
fals
among
their
hands
:
albeit
they
suffer
him
to
breath
so
long
;
while
they
have
emptied
his
purse
.
And
these
be
the
under
porters
&
servants
of
the
Iayler
,
who
,
as
a
President
of
that
dreadfull
dwelling
,
receives
the
prisonner
from
the
hands
of
the
Sergeant
and
writes
in
his
booke
the
day
of
his
entring
,
his
accusation
,
his
name
and
the
name
of
that
Divell
that
hath
taken
him
.
These
shut-up
Divells
have
no
power
nor
authoritie
to
torment
a
soule
which
the
others
do
bring
in
,
nor
these
others
to
take
them
,
but
by
the
command
of
Iustice
declared
by
some
honourable
Officer
,
who
with
reason
and
truth
by
a
signed
writing
chargeth
these
uncleane
spirits
to
take
such
a
soule
.
As
for
the
rest
it
may
well
be
proved
that
every
Sergeant
hath
power
to
leade
a
man
to
prison
,
even
so
as
every
Divell
may
beare
a
soule
to
Hell
,
seeing
that
there
ordinarily
entreth
thither
an
infinite
number
of
prisoners
,
and
every
one
imprisoned
by
his
severall
Iudge
:
some
answer
before
a
Iudge
with
a
long
gown
,
others
before
one
with
a
short
gown
,
without
reckoning
,
many
other
officers
of
Iustice
,
who
as
good
Angels
have
authoritie
and
power
to
exercise
it
,
who
have
their
appointed
and
praticular
Divels
,
who
execute
their
commandment
and
will
.
As
touching
the
diversitie
of
the
lodgings
and
places
of
their
abode
,
the
curious
shall
see
many
differing
in
the
prison
,
every
one
fitted
for
the
prisoners
delight
.
For
hee
who
is
not
criminall
,
and
who
is
Noble
is
usually
lodged
in
the
lightsomest
chambers
and
neatest
contrived
:
but
understand
that
the
Noblenesse
of
a
prison
consisteth
in
a
good
purse
.
Those
that
be
of
a
meaner
qualitie
&
deserving
are
fitted
in
certain
darke
&
black
chambers
,
where
smoke
and
cinders
continually
bearesway
.
The
prison
hath
yet
this
property
of
Hel
,
to
take
in
all
sort
of
sinners
&
criminals
,
being
usually
peopled
,
and
full
of
Theeves
,
Russians
,
Cut-purses
,
Panders
,
Whoores
,
Murtherers
,
Perjured
men
,
Bankrupts
,
Cheaters
,
Usurers
,
&
Sorcerers
,
in
as
great
varietie
as
the
living
creatures
that
entered
into
Noahs
Arke
,
so
that
entry
is
not
denied
nor
the
gate
shut
against
any
.
Of
this
remarkeable
variety
the
confused
multitude
of
a
prison
is
composed
with
a
thousand
other
circumstances
which
accompanie
it
,
which
because
it
is
altogether
disorderly
&
without
bounds
I
shal
not
be
able
to
reduce
it
to
one
terme
or
name
,
nor
to
give
it
a
definition
which
Universally
comprehendeth
all
the
miseries
of
this
dreadfull
dwelling
,
if
the
curious
Reader
will
not
be
contented
with
the
Analogie
and
proportion
which
it
hath
with
the
perpetuall
Hell
.
The
which
being
supposed
as
a
thing
most
proper
to
a
prison
,
we
shall
be
able
to
describe
it
by
its
properties
&
by
experience
,
saying
,
that
a
prison
is
no
other
thing
but
a
land
of
calamitie
▪
a
dwelling
of
darkenes
,
a
habitation
of
miserie
or
an
eternall
horrour
inhabited
without
any
kind
of
order
.
It
is
a
confused
Chaos
without
any
dis●inction
,
it
is
a
bottomles
pit
of
violence
which
hath
nothing
that
is
in
its
own
center
,
it
is
a
tower
of
Babylon
where
all
speake
and
none
heare
,
it
is
a
medley
against
nature
,
in
which
is
seene
the
peace
and
agreement
of
two
contraries
,
mingling
the
Noble
with
the
infamous
,
the
rich
with
the
poore
,
the
civill
with
the
criminall
,
the
sinner
with
the
just
,
it
is
a
communaltie
with
agreement
;
one
whole
by
accident
,
a
composition
without
parts
,
a
Religion
without
orders
or
Lawes
,
and
a
body
without
a
head
.
The
prison
is
the
grave
of
Noblenesse
,
the
banishment
of
courtes●e
,
the
poyson
of
honour
,
the
center
of
infamie
,
the
quintessence
of
disparagement
;
the
hell
of
good
wits
,
the
〈◊〉
of
pretences
,
the
paradise
of
cousenage
,
the
martyrdome
of
innocence
,
the
cloude
of
truth
,
the
treasure
of
despaire
the
fining-pot
of
friendship
,
the
wakener
of
rage
,
the
baite
of
impatience
,
the
mine
of
treasons
,
a
den
of
Foxes
,
the
refuge
of
vengeance
:
the
punishment
of
force
,
and
the
headsman
of
life
.
There
he
that
yesterday
was
great
,
to
day
is
meane
;
hee
that
was
happy
in
the
City
,
now
starveth
there
;
he
that
was
richly
clad
,
is
starke
naked
,
he
that
commanded
,
obeyeth
;
he
that
had
his
court
full
of
caroches
and
rich
saddles
,
findeth
not
now
one
more
to
visite
him
.
There
civilitie
is
turned
into
insolence
,
courage
to
subtiltie
▪
●●amelesse
outfacing
into
vertue
,
blasphemie
into
valour
,
flattery
into
eloquence
lyes
to
truth
,
silence
to
noise
modestie
to
boldnesse
,
knowledge
to
ignorance
,
and
order
to
confusion
:
And
to
end
the
miserie
of
that
unluckie
place
:
I
conclude
in
saying
that
it
is
a
forrest
full
of
wilde
beasts
,
in
which
the
one
teareth
the
other
,
eating
his
heart
and
drinking
his
bloud
,
so
that
no
scruple
of
conscience
,
feare
of
God
,
suspition
of
love
,
compassion
or
other
respect
whatsoever
which
can
have
any
shadow
of
vertue
or
of
goodnesse
is
able
to
hinder
them
.
There
one
weepeth
and
another
singeth
,
one
prayeth
and
another
blasphemeth
,
one
sleepeth
,
another
wal●●eth
,
one
goeth
out
,
another
commeth
in
,
one
is
condemned
,
another
absolved
,
one
payeth
,
another
demandeth
,
and
finally
one
shall
hardly
finde
two
of
one
exercise
and
will
.
One
will
be
eating
in
a
corner
,
another
will
pisse
behind
him
:
and
in
the
middle
of
them
another
shall
pull
off
his
shirt
and
strip
himselfe
starke
naked
.
Every
one
is
imployed
in
his
particular
exercise
,
they
not
having
any
other
houre
or
time
appointed
for
that
save
their
will
,
which
being
disordered
,
free
in
its
actions
,
produceth
them
without
any
let
or
shame
.
In
that
which
concerneth
the
sustenance
of
life
,
there
is
no
order
kept
there
among
them
,
because
that
hunger
is
their
appetite
,
their
time
of
meales
alwayes
,
their
table
the
bare
board
,
their
sawce
the
nastinesse
and
filthy
stinke
,
and
their
musicke
sneesing
and
belchings
.
The
hangings
of
their
chambers
are
all
mourning
,
with
some
borders
of
spiders-cloth
(
cobwebs
)
,
their
seates
the
ground
or
some
stone
greased
with
two
inches
of
fat
Bacon
.
The
Dishes
where
they
eate
are
alwayes
enemies
to
cleanlinesse
,
to
serve
for
a
pot-lid
and
other
vses
more
base
,
and
for
spoones
they
are
served
with
five
fingers
spotted
like
Iasper
,
and
having
their
nailes
of
a
huge
length
.
As
for
their
drinke
,
the
industrie
of
man
teacheth
them
to
make
a
pit
in
the
top
of
their
Hat
,
and
to
drinke
in
it
more
grease
than
wine
.
And
if
peradventure
there
be
found
among
them
a
pot
or
kettle
,
it
shall
be
,
according
to
the
order
and
custome
of
the
prison
,
batter'd
without
a
handle
,
nor
without
vernish
,
and
hath
past
the
first
yeare
of
apprentiship
,
and
hath
beene
vsed
in
the
most
base
offices
,
serving
for
a
pisse-pot
,
for
a
Flagon
,
for
a
vineger
bottle
,
for
an
oile-pot
and
a
bason
.
As
for
napkins
,
they
take
their
skirts
,
or
the
outside
of
their
breeches
,
and
for
a
table-cloth
the
wrongside
of
a
poore
old
cloake
,
threed-bare
and
fuller
of
Beasts
than
that
linnen
cloth
which
S.
Peter
saw
in
Da●ascus
.
In
their
garments
they
keepe
a
great
uniformitie
,
going
all
of
them
clothed
after
the
manner
of
Lent
,
and
with
S.
Austins
habite
,
but
so
tatter'd
and
pucker'd
,
and
so
fitted
to
the
passions
and
necessities
of
their
bodies
,
so
that
without
breaking
their
cod-piece
point
they
want
not
a
perpetuall
loosenesse
to
satisfie
their
flux
of
the
belly
.
They
live
Apostollically
,
without
scrip
without
staffe
and
without
shooes
,
having
nothing
superfluous
nor
double
:
contrariwise
there
is
so
great
simplicitie
that
they
cover
all
their
body
with
one
only
shirt
,
whereof
many
times
they
have
no
more
save
the
sleeves
,
and
they
never
leave
it
off
till
it
can
go
alone
of
its
owne
accord
.
If
Momu●
should
come
into
the
prison
he
could
finde
nothing
to
reprove
them
for
,
because
one
may
see
them
to
the
very
intralls
.
The
combe
,
tooth-pickers
,
brush
,
handkerchiefe
,
looking-glasse
,
sope-balls
are
banisht
from
this
place
:
of
which
povertie
groweth
so
great
an
abundance
that
in
their
head
,
beard
,
stomack
&
flanck●s
a
camell
might
be
hidden
.
We
cannot
say
that
there
is
any
kinde
of
vices
in
the
prison
,
because
that
idlenesse
the
mother
of
them
hath
no
entrie
there
,
because
they
are
all
carefull
and
watchfull
to
search
for
that
which
is
necessarie
for
life
:
and
their
overplus
time
they
spend
in
exercising
themselves
on
diverse
instruments
of
Musicke
having
the
itch
for
the
Mistresse
of
that
vertue
.
They
have
also
their
appointed
houres
for
the
military
Art
,
in
the
which
they
fight
with
their
bodily
enemies
,
whence
they
retire
evermore
with
the
victorie
,
bearing
continually
for
triumph
&
trophees
the
bloud
on
their
nailes
.
They
live
in
Evangelicall
hope
never
troubling
themselves
with
the
care
of
that
which
they
should
eate
or
drinke
to
morrow
.
Their
ordinarie
comfort
is
the
faith
and
hope
which
they
have
to
come
out
of
prison
one
day
,
and
put
an
end
to
their
miseries
.
With
this
comfort
they
live
,
ever
dying
,
putting
cataracts
and
deceiveable
imaginations
before
the
eyes
of
their
reason
.
And
if
by
chance
the
time
of
their
imprisonment
endeth
,
and
Iustice
giveth
assent
that
some
one
of
them
goe
forth
,
then
the
Divell
is
so
carefull
and
so
watchfull
troubling
and
quelling
his
libertie
,
that
it
seemeth
to
him
there
are
no
gates
through
which
hee
can
get
out
.
One
withholds
him
asking
a
debt
thirtie
yeares
old
,
another
the
succession
of
one
of
his
grandfathers
,
and
another
sheweth
a
band
more
ancient
than
the
deluge
.
And
when
his
diligence
and
meanes
have
delivered
him
from
his
enemies
without
,
these
within
doores
begin
to
thunder
out
another
song
,
for
one
demandeth
of
him
five
shillings
which
he
lent
him
eleven
months
ago
,
another
that
should
pay
for
a
pot
which
he
brake
to
him
,
another
draweth
forth
a
bill
of
reckoning
,
asking
him
for
ten
eggs
and
a
sallet
which
he
paid
for
him
.
This
man
demandeth
that
he
should
pay
him
the
good-morrow's
which
he
hath
given
him
,
another
the
good
nights
,
one
askes
his
Cap
,
another
his
Doublet
,
another
his
Shooes
and
all
lay
hold
upon
him
.
And
when
he
escapeth
this
importunate
swarm
of
Bees
,
these
tunes
begin
to
deafe
his
eares
;
the
Iayler
demands
of
him
the
rights
of
the
prison
,
his
entrance
,
his
going
forth
,
and
the
time
that
he
hath
tarried
there
,
for
his
sleeping
,
his
talking
,
his
eating
,
his
sneesing
and
his
coughing
,
and
all
the
time
that
he
hath
lived
within
there
,
making
more
scores
in
his
booke
than
an
Astrologer
on
the
erecting
of
an
Horoscope
.
And
when
he
hath
given
him
that
which
he
demands
of
him
without
reason
,
he
askes
his
gloves
,
his
Iayle
fees
,
his
slippers
,
his
old
shooes
and
a
coife
for
the
maide-servant
.
The
Dog
askes
him
to
pay
for
his
watching
and
barking
that
he
hath
kept
for
him
while
he
slept
,
the
Cat
for
the
paines
she
hath
taken
to
cleare
his
chamber
from
Mice
and
Rats
,
one
pulls
him
on
this
side
and
another
on
that
,
and
all
catch
hold
of
him
like
briers
,
while
they
have
left
him
dry
,
pluckt
bare
,
throng'd
and
as
naked
as
his
mother
bare
him
.
This
in
briefe
termes
,
is
the
miserable
practise
of
thi●●
living
patterne
of
Hell
,
with
all
its
circumstances
,
in
every
one
of
which
there
〈◊〉
matter
enough
to
make
〈◊〉
long
and
profound
discourse
▪
That
the
Reader
may
be●
thinke
himselfe
hereof
,
that
being
affrighted
at
the
hardnesse
thereof
,
he
may
avoide
the
dangerous
inconveniences
which
are
presented
every
day
to
a
man
as
long
as
he
is
at
libertie
:
for
if
he
fall
once
into
the
Divels
hands
,
and
beforced
to
passe
through
the
wicket
of
Hell
,
though
his
cause
were
his
protector
,
he
should
waite
for
S.
Michael
;
and
if
Iustice
were
his
protector
,
he
should
ever
remaine
burnt
with
the
marke
of
Hell
,
into
which
who
so
once
entereth
,
hee
leaueth
the
best
thing
that
he
hath
amongst
Pluto's
hands
.
And
albeit
that
hee
enter
there
fuller
and
richer
than
the
Queene
of
Saba
when
she
came
to
see
King
Salomon
,
he
shall
come
forth
more
lanke
,
more
drie
and
more
feeble
than
the
seven
kine
that
Pharaoh
saw
in
his
dreames
.
CHAP.
II.
Of
a
pleasant
discourse
whic●
the
Author
had
in
Prison
with
a
famous
Theife
.
TO
the
end
that
none
be
deceived
with
this
proverbe
which
▪
most
men
hold
for
a
Maxime
,
when
they
say
,
That
all
noveltie
is
well
pleasing
;
because
that
albeit
Logicke
should
not
condemne
this
proposition
as
false
,
experience
would
discover
its
deceit
:
for
I
doe
not
thinke
that
there
is
any
one
in
the
world
that
hath
found
the
prison
pleasant
,
even
at
the
first
time
that
he
entred
therein
.
I
may
say
of
my selfe
,
that
when
I
was
there
,
though
it
was
new
to
me
I
found
not
any
thing
that
I
liked
;
on
the
contrarie
,
the
pleasure
which
novelties
bring
with
them
was
turned
into
notable
admiration
and
extreame
paine
,
seeing
that
which
willingly
I
would
not
have
seene
,
and
talking
of
that
which
lea●●
pleased
me
.
I
spent
the
first
dayes
even
as
all
those
,
who
enter
into
that
place
have
beene
accustomed
to
passe
them
,
which
is
to
con●ider
the
lodgings
,
to
be
vexed
at
the
companie
,
and
to
shun
the
familiar
conversing
with
the
prisoners
.
And
I
might
have
past
all
the
time
of
my
imprisonment
in
such
like
employment
,
if
it
had
lien
in
my
power
to
do
it
,
because
that
the
companie
invited
me
not
to
acquaint
my selfe
.
But
the
necessitie
being
accompanied
with
exceeding
great
curiositie
which
prisoners
have
,
when
any
one
entereth
newly
into
prison
,
tied
me
to
frame
my selfe
to
the
usuall
fashion
of
these
people
,
from
whom
I
had
a
sufficent
report
of
the
subjects
and
qualities
of
that
habitation
,
without
other
paines-taking
than
to
give
them
the
hearing
,
because
that
by
it
a
discreete
man
shall
know
moe
sins
in
foure
dayes
than
a
Confessor
in
a
hundreth
yeares
.
In
the
conclusion
with
a
faire
shew
and
some
pieces
that
I
had
in
my
purse
I
purchased
the
good
will
of
all
the
rable
,
in
such
sort
,
that
there
was
not
any
man
of
what
ranke
soever
who
did
not
esteem
much
of
me
,
&
participated
not
with
me
the
most
inward
of
his
conscience
.
But
the
continu●ll
companie
of
this
tedious●
conversation
troubled
me
,
in
such
sort
that
I
was
not
mine
owne
,
nor
had
I
the
libertie
to
spend
one
quarter
of
an
houre
by
my selfe
alone
.
So
lessayed
by
a
thousand
meanes
to
ridde
my selfe
from
the
head-strong
importunities
of
those
undiscreet
people
,
but
it
was
not
possible
for
me
to
free
my selfe
,
without
taking
the
office
that
I
had
got
over
them
.
Wherefore
I
was
desirous
to
trie
,
if
in
this
martyrdome
,
seeing
I
deserved
no
such
thing
,
I
could
finde
some
pleasure
to
divert
my
minde
and
entertaine
them
.
So
continuing
my
no
lesse
accustomed
than
troublesome
occupation
,
sitting
one
day
upon
a
bench
which
was
in
the
Chappell
of
the
prison
,
in
the
companie
of
three
or
foure
of
these
gallants
,
hearing
some
difficulties
,
whereof
they
were
come
to
consult
with
mee
upon
the
ten
Commandements
,
I
heard
the
Echo
of
a
sorrowfull
voyce
,
which
called
me
pitifully
.
All
the
standers
by
were
amazed
;
one
of
them
ranne
to
be
informed
of
this
vnlooked-for
newes
,
but
the
speedy
hast
of
him
,
which
sought
for
me
,
prevented
the
curiositie
of
him
who
was
gone
out
to
know
the
newes
;
for
●carsty
had
we
heard
the
voyce
,
when
after
it
,
entred
at
the
doore
one
of
my
religious
followers
(
held
in
great
esteeme
amongst
those
people
who
were
none
of
the
holiest
)
with
his
colour
changed
,
his
virage
bathed
with
teares
,
without
a
Hat
,
his
〈◊〉
crossed
,
sighing
and
be
serching
with
great
〈◊〉
the
companie
,
that
they
would
let
him
be
alone
with
me
,
amplifying
his
request
by
the
〈◊〉
of
th●se
,
as
the
pricipall
〈◊〉
of
mishap
.
They
departed
the
place
,
and
he
seeing
himselfe
alone
and
with
freedome
to
discover
his
thoughts
to
me
,
without
any
other
preface
,
preamble
,
advertisement
or
courtesie
,
he
said
to
me
.
Sir
,
to
day
is
my
feast
day
,
and
they
have
made
me
a
gift
of
a
clarke
of
a
harbour
,
with
a
Cardinalls
Hat
:
what
remedie
shall
I
be
able
to
finde
for
so
great
a
mischiefe
.
Verily
this
darke
speech
of
his
words
,
together
with
the
manner
of
telling
it
,
held
mee
somewhat
in
doubt
,
because
I
knew
not
how
to
comment
upon
so
vncouth
a
language
followed
with
so
many
fights
and
groanes
.
Neverthelesse
making
〈…〉
these
words
and
already
guessing
that
which
it
might
be
,
I
beleeved
that
he
had
got
this
hat
at
some
pot
of
wine
and
that
out
of
the
abundance
thereof
this
noble
dignitie
had
climed
up
to
the
head
.
So
smiling
I
said
to
him
:
My
friend
,
the
Post
that
hath
brought
you
this
newes
,
is
he
of
a
douzen
or
of
twentie
?
It
is
not
of
twelue
,
nor
offoure
,
unhappy
man
that
I
am
!
answered
he
,
for
I
am
not
drunke
,
nor
ever
was
I
in
all
my
lifetime
,
and
would
to
God
that
all
the
world
were
so
retired
in
this
action
as
I
am
:
but
as
the
Proverbe
saith
,
some
have
the
name
,
the
others
have
the
eff●ct
.
And
you
doe
not
well
to
make
a
poore
unhappie
wretch
that
askes
your
counsell
in
his
extreame
affliction
.
His
answer
to
the
purpose
redoubled
my
astonishment
,
and
not
being
able
to
hit
at
that
which
this
might
meane
,
I
said
to
him
somewhat
in
anger
;
Make
an
end
then
to
relate
to
me
the
cause
of
your
paine
,
and
hold
me
no
more
in
doubt
with
your
darke
speeches
or
ridles
.
Now
I
know
,
Sir
,
said
he
,
that
yee
have
not
studied
Martiall
tearmes
,
nor
you
vnderstand
not
as
yet
Galunatias
his
stile
,
so
it
will
be
hard
for
you
to
vnderstand
the
comming
together
of
two
solide
bodies
with
the
perspective
of
red
flowers
in
a
white
field
.
From
this
second
answer
I
fully
resolved
that
hee
was
not
drunke
,
but
foolish
,
and
as
to
such
a
one
,
I
agreed
with
him
to
all
that
he
said
,
although
I
vnderstood
him
never
a
whit
.
And
taking
the
subject
to
reason
with
him
upon
the
same
reasons
,
I
asked
him
,
who
made
him
a
Cardinall
and
why
?
To
which
he
answered
me
thus
.
You
should
understand
that
some
officers
of
the
three
and
of
the
five
of
Topo
&
Tango
vpon
the
Seventh
and
the
Goe
met
me
one
Sunday
at
midnight
and
finding
me
with
the
〈◊〉
de
bastons
the
lot
would
that
they
should
run
a
hazard
,
CHAP.
III.
To
whom
the
Theefe
relateth
the
Noblenesse
and
Excellencie
of
Theft
.
THe
good
Andrew
(
for
so
hee
was
called
)
was
not
at
all
slothfull
to
be
at
the
place
appointed
,
nor
to
declare
to
me
the
Historie
which
I
had
requested
with
so
great
a
desire
:
for
halfe
an
houre
before
that
,
which
wee
had
appointed
,
I
found
that
hee
waited
for
me
with
extreame
impatience
and
so
great
,
that
almost
without
saluting
me
,
hee
began
to
relate
his
Historie
,
saying
.
Know
,
Sir
,
that
if
from
the
time
of
your
birth
ye
should
have
gone
searching
through
all
the
Universities
of
the
world
for
some
one
,
who
with
more
ground
,
experience
&
le●rning
then
I
could
informe
you
of
that
which
yee
desire
to
know
,
it
were
impossible
to
finde
him
:
seeing
that
in
this
which
toucheth
(
and
let
this
be
spoken
without
vanitie
)
the
understanding
of
the
riddles
of
Mercurie
Trismegstus
,
and
other
darke
Philosophers
,
and
to
be
,
as
they
say
,
of
the
right
haire
and
feathers
,
I
will
not
yeelde
it
to
any
man
in
the
world
.
With
this
and
other
secrets
reserved
to
my
own
onely
discretion
I
have
found
out
the
Philosophers
stone
and
the
true
Elixar
of
life
,
with
which
I
turne
poyson
into
medicine
,
the
course
cloth
into
cloth
of
gold
,
and
hunger
into
fulnesse
and
satietie
more
than
sufficient
,
without
putting
any
thing
to
it
of
my
goods
,
save
the
turning
of
a
hand
.
I
doe
not
deale
as
a
thousand
other
ignorant
people
of
our
daies
,
who
being
blinded
by
the
gainfull
end
which
the
practise
of
the
great
Philosophers-stone
promiseth
them
doe
adventure
rashly
to
spend
all
to
finde
nothing
,
&
to
vndoe
a
hundred
thousand
essences
to
finde
one
fifth
both
vncertaine
and
false
,
whose
excesse
and
curiositie
have
none
other
end
but
infamie
,
miscrie
and
povertie
,
and
finally
a
shamefull
death
:
for
as
much
as
those
who
have
consum'd
their
owne
goods
and
the
goods
of
their
friends
,
to
search
for
that
which
they
have
not
found
,
utter
their
rage
with
strokes
of
hammers
upon
the
seven
mettals
,
which
are
the
cause
of
their
overthrow
.
And
which
is
worse
,
with
all
the
tryalls
and
vnhappie
ends
of
Alcumists
,
there
is
not
any
man
to
whom
curiositie
will
not
awaken
the
appetite
,
and
provoke
the
will
every
time
that
he
heareth
any
man
talke
of
this
arte
.
Mine
is
not
of
this
kinde
,
and
therefore
lesse
subject
to
the
fancies
and
idle
imaginations
of
Gebor
Arnaut
,
Raymond
Lully
and
other
great
Advancers
of
the
arte
,
whose
knowledge
consisteth
in
not
to
be
understood
;
it
is
easie
,
plaine
and
without
any
mixture
Neverthelesse
he
who
he●
will
that
shall
exercise
it
,
it
is
necessarie
that
hee
be
wise
,
prudent
and
well
advised
,
because
that
wanting
or
failing
in
one
whatsoever
it
be
of
these
things
,
a
man
shall
easily
lose
in
an
instant
all
that
he
hath
gained
in
all
his
life
.
This
noble
art
also
hath
not
Aristotles
principles
,
because
that
as
well
he
as
all
others
that
follow
him
,
imagined
that
nothing
could
be
made
of
nothing
:
this
being
true
that
in
this
our
Art
,
all
things
are
made
of
nothing
;
and
if
we
may
attribute
any
principle
of
them
which
he
propoundeth
in
his
Physicks
,
it
is
the
pri●ation
only
▪
seeing
that
from
it
alone
we
come
to
the
possession
of
infinit
wealth
.
As
●or
our
tooles
,
I
confesse
there
are
some
,
forasmuch
as
there
is
no
trade
that
can
be
without
them
,
but
neverthelesse
they
are
so
easie
&
so
cheape
,
that
we
well
nigh
make
them
our selves
,
after
they
are
made
,
they
last
time
out
of
minde
.
The
ground
then
to
busie
one
of
our
trade
,
is
onely
the
good
courage
and
sound
disposition
of
his
body
and
limmes
,
and
with
this
alone
a
man
becommeth
his
crafts-master
,
without
any
other
ornament
—
And
doe
no●
think
that
this
Art
,
having
so
poore
a
beginning
as
nothing
,
is
shamful
or
infamous
,
for
it
is
the
most
noble
,
the
absolute
and
the
most
priviledged
of
all
those
that
are
in
the
world
,
so
farre
forth
that
acknowledgeth
nor
respecteth
neither
King
nor
knave
,
nor
careth
it
for
all
the
Monarchs
of
the
earth
,
nor
for
the
Ecclesiastike
power
,
nor
for
the
Secular
:
but
rather
all
pay
tribute
and
travels
for
him
.
Its
fields
are
fruitfull
in
drie
grounds
,
it
gathers
the
fruit
without
sowing
,
it
hath
no
traffique
with
any
,
and
demands
of
all
,
it
lendeth
to
no
body
,
and
all
are
indebted
to
it
,
its
harvests
grow
without
raine
,
and
there
is
not
any
thing
whereof
it
taketh
not
the
tithes
.
There
commeth
not
any
fleete
from
the
Indies
,
nor
great
ship
from
the
Levant
,
wherof
of
it
not
make
shew
to
be
partner
,
there
is
not
a
Guine
Marchant
,
that
is
not
its
debtor
,
and
finally
,
it
catcheth
up
all
.
And
which
ought
to
be
most
valued
in
this
pretious
Art
,
is
the
great
ease
with
which
it
is
exercised
,
in
which
it
exceeds
all
other
Arts
,
that
are
till
these
our
times
found
out
in
the
world
,
the
end
of
which
is
contrary
to
that
of
this
,
because
that
is
perfected
in
the
doing
,
this
in
undoing
,
and
to
undoe
being
more
easie
than
to
doe
(
as
the
Philosopher
saith
)
doubtlesse
it
is
●ut
that
our
Art
is
easier
than
all
others
whose
end
is
obtained
with
great
paines
,
travells
and
difficulties
.
Honest
Andrew
had
proceeded
further
in
the
praises
and
excellencie
of
his
trade
,
if
I
had
not
broke
him
off
with
an
extreame
impatience
,
the
titles
of
honour
and
noblenesse
which
hee
gave
it
seeming
to
me
altogether
improper
,
as
well
for
that
it
is
of
it selfe
imfamous
,
as
for
the
innumerable
dangers
which
usually
happen
to
them
,
who
undertake
such
like
traffiques
:
wherefore
I
said
to
him
;
I
do
not
know
,
Andrew
,
how
nor
by
what
reason
you
your selfe
reckon
up
to
me
these
Arts
so
noble
,
so
easie
and
so
profitable
,
seeing
that
you
have
related
to
me
the
perilous
extremities
in
which
you
have
beene
,
which
your
povertie
and
calamity
assure
me
to
be
of
little
profit
&
of
great
misery
which
is
therein
,
that
makes
mee
to
marvel
very
much
at
your
persevering
in
your
unhappy
trade
,
ere
you
were
made
wise
by
the
experiences
past
.
You
have
reason
(
he
answered
)
and
I
confesse
that
many
hazards
and
disgraces
light
upon
vs
,
but
one
Oxe
eateth
more
than
a
hundred
Larks
,
I
will
say
that
one
good
encounter
shoulders
out
many
disgraces
,
which
have
not
in
so
great
number
as
you
thinke
,
and
though
they
were
,
it
is
not
possible
for
vs
to
give
over
this
trade
but
by
death
,
because
this
Art
hath
I
cannot
tell
what
with
it
,
that
it
is
like
one
sicke
of
the
Dropsie
,
who
the
more
he
drinks
the
more
he
thirsts
,
and
of
one
onely
act
there
becommeth
a
habite
,
qui
difficilè
removetur
a
subjecto
,
which
is
hardly
removed
from
the
subject
.
And
I
know
wel
that
you
wil
like
my
doctrine
well
,
being
so
learned
a
man
as
you
are
,
seeing
they
are
accustomed
to
dispute
among
the
Philosophers
if
this
maxime
of
Aristotle
(
who
saith
Expluribus
actibus
generatur
habitus
,
of
many
actions
is
begot
a
habit
)
be
Universally
true
.
And
some
say
that
of
one
only
action
a
habit
may
be
bred
,
which
should
be
understood
of
morall
actions
,
and
those
of
worser
sort
:
I
will
affirme
that
to
breede
a
continuall
custome
in
sinning
,
one
only
action
is
sufficient
:
but
to
doe
well
,
there
is
need
of
many
.
The
reason
is
cleere
,
for
that
the
will
of
man
being
disposed
to
sinne
,
because
it
is
called
fomes
peccati
,
the
fewell
of
sinne
,
and
for
the
miseries
drawen
upon
it
in
its
conception
,
one
action
alone
leaveth
in
it
a
certaine
inward
disposition
with
which
it
becommeth
easie
,
and
disposed
to
like
actions
;
but
the
desire
being
so
marred
,
corrupt
and
ill
disposed
to
receive
vertue
,
there
needeth
not
only
one
vertuous
action
,
but
many
,
if
any
disposition
or
custome
of
doing
well
should
remaine
after
it
.
By
which
you
may
judge
that
albeit
a
thousand
disgraces
fall
upon
us
it
were
almost
impossible
for
us
to
forsake
our
trade
,
nor
change
our
life
,
having
already
turned
it
into
a
nature
,
and
if
this
should
be
done
,
it
should
be
needfull
to
make
the
world
a
new
againe
,
more
or
lesse
all
wooll
is
haire
,
we
are
all
of
us
of
one
brothers
hood
,
no
man
is
content
with
his
state
,
he
that
hath
most
desireth
more
,
that
which
costeth
little
agreeth
best
with
us
,
and
all
(
as
the
Proverbe
goeth
)
like
well
.
But
mishap
be
to
that
infortunat
man
who
payeth
for
all
;
for
as
the
Proverb
saith
,
the
Gallowes
are
for
all
such
,
we
rubbe
all
men
,
and
for
those
sinnes
some
are
hang'd
,
others
are
rich
▪
Happy
are
they
who
robbe
Hippocrates-like
,
I
will
speake
as
the
Physitians
;
whose
faults
the
earth
covereth
,
so
that
no
man
is
able
to
accuse
them
,
nor
aske
restitution
of
his
life
,
and
of
the
money
which
they
have
publickly
rob'd
and
in
the
view
of
all
the
world
.
And
though
some
of
these
be
spirituall
men
,
others
temporall
,
notwithstanding
all
meete
in
the
same
way
,
and
shoote
at
one
marke
:
for
there
be
also
horseleeches
which
sucke
the
world
sweetly
,
and
wring
their
necke
,
with
a
sad
dumpish
countenance
,
and
a
faire
shew
colour
their
ambitious
designes
with
godly
words
.
And
for
them
,
it
is
said
in
the
Proverbe
,
the
Divell
is
behinde
the
Crosse.
There
are
others
also
,
who
though
they
wring
not
the
necke
,
nor
speake
so
much
of
God
,
apply
neverthelesse
the
jurisdiction
of
their
offices
in
favour
of
him
that
giveth
them
most
;
who
being
lap
't
in
long
wide
gownes
making
them
to
bee
respected
there
is
not
a
man
that
dare
to
give
them
a
word
,
nor
shew
by
any
signe
the
evil
satisfaction
that
they
have
by
them
:
but
the
wretched
person
that
neither
hath
God
in
his
mouth
,
nor
barke
wherwith
to
hide
himselfe
,
if
he
be
not
very
wise
&
prudent
all
the
persecutions
of
the
world
hang
about
him
at
once
,
all
men
spit
in
his
face
,
and
he
is
the
marke
of
all
the
abuses
in
the
world
:
wherfore
blame
not
our
Art
before
you
understand
it
;
for
you
should
so
offend
all
the
world
&
perhaps
your selfe
,
sith
no
man
liveth
without
f●ult
.
How
much
more
if
you
knew
what
sweetnesse
thereis
to
gather
the
fruit
where
one
hath
not
planted
,
and
to
find
the
in
gathering
in
his
garner
&
in
his
cellar
,
himself
having
neither
fielde
nor
vineyard
,
you
would
even
licke
your
fingers
at
it
.
Is
this
a
smal
matter
I
pray
you
,
that
a
man
riseth
in
the
morning
not
having
penny
nor
farthing
,
nor
knowing
yet
whence
to
have
it
for
to
nourish
his
family
,
and
yet
ere
night
he
is
worth
a
hundred
crownes
,
&
knoweth
not
whence
they
came
?
Is
this
a
small
matter
in
greatest
sloth
and
necessitie
to
finde
apparell
cut
and
slasht
without
paying
either
for
stuffe
or
making
?
Is
there
any
such
Noblenesse
in
the
world
,
as
to
be
a
Gentleman
without
rents
,
and
to
have
other
mens
goods
so
his
own
,
as
that
hee
may
dispose
of
them
at
his
will
,
without
costing
him
any
more
but
to
take
them
?
Doe
you
thinke
it
a
small
matter
to
be
a
Marchant
without
a
stocke
,
to
gaine
two
hundreth
for
nothing
,
without
crossing
the
seas
,
going
to
faire
or
market
,
not
caring
if
the
Marchant
turne
banque-rupt
,
if
the
yeare
be
barren
or
plentiful
,
if
wares
be
deare
or
cheape
?
And
if
ye
will
take
our
trade
by
way
of
reputation
or
credit
,
doth
it
seeme
a
small
thing
to
you
,
to
finde
one
who
will
insure
us
our
life
,
whatsoever
wee
doe
,
and
to
have
at
our
becke
some
Iudges
,
who
save
us
from
the
lash
from
the
Gallies
,
from
torture
&
from
the
Gallowes
only
with
a
single
&
wel-assured
promise
to
satisfie
them
with
the
gaine
of
our
next
theft
?
And
that
they
do
this
not
only
for
us
,
but
for
our
friends
,
kindred
and
acquaintance
?
Abuse
not
your selfe
,
and
acknowledge
that
there
is
no
life
more
assured
in
this
world
than
ours
,
for
instead
of
one
displeasure
that
wee
have
,
there
are
infinite
pleasures
and
contentments
to
be
enjoyed
.
And
〈…〉
much
for
my
profession
and
trade
.
CHAP.
IIII.
To
him
the
Thiefe
relateth
the
life
and
death
of
his
Parents
and
the
first
disgrace
that
befell
him
.
AS
for
my
race
,
you
shall
know
that
I
am
a
man
borne
of
a
woman
,
in
a
town
of
this
world
,
whose
name
I
lost
in
a
sicknesse
which
I
had
in
the
yeare
sixe
hundred
and
foure
.
My
,
father
was
called
Peter
and
my
mother
Hope
,
people
,
though
meane
,
honorable
and
vertuous
,
of
good
reputation
and
praise-worthy
manners
.
And
as
for
the
goods
of
fortune
,
they
were
not
so
great
,
that
they
were
able
to
give
bribes
,
nor
marry
Orphans
out
of
their
meanes
,
nor
so
meane
,
that
they
obliged
themselves
to
aske
almes
,
nor
to
subject
themselves
to
any
man
,
but
they
were
people
that
knew
how
to
live
,
and
that
had
bread
to
eate
,
and
clothes
to
put
on
.
In
all
the
course
of
their
life
there
was
nothing
found
that
they
could
be
reproched
for
,
nor
whereof
they
could
be
reproved
,
because
they
heeded
no
other
thing
(
particularly
my
mother
)
but
to
keepe
their
honour
and
the
good
esteeme
which
they
had
gained
,
for
which
and
for
the
freedoome
and
faire
conditions
of
their
proceedings
and
conversation
,
all
the
world
honored
and
loved
them
.
But
as
vertue
is
ordinarily
envied
,
and
honest
people
persecuted
,
there
was
no
want
of
malicious
and
wicked
people
,
who
by
false
and
rash
calumnies
darkned
the
brightnesse
and
glistering
of
their
good
works
&
the
cleannes
of
their
life
.
They
were
accused
(
I
say
)
to
have
robbed
a
Church
,
to
have
spoiled
the
Vestrie
with
the
ornaments
and
chalices
,
and
which
is
worse
,
to
have
cut
off
S.
Bartholomews
hand
,
who
was
upon
an
Altar
,
which
they
said
was
of
silver
.
An
accusation
as
malicious
as
false
,
especially
,
for
my
mothers
part
,
whose
devotion
towards
the
Saints
was
so
great
,
that
when
she
went
to
Church
,
if
my
father
had
not
pull'd
her
out
by
the
haire
,
or
the
Sexton
had
not
shut
the
doore
against
her
,
there
was
no
meanes
to
make
her
come
out
of
the
Church
,
although
shee
had
beene
three
dayes
without
meate
,
and
her
devotion
was
so
knowne
to
all
the
people
,
that
she
never
came
forth
to
the
streete
,
but
a
thousand
folke
praied
her
to
say
some
Ave
Maria
for
women
with
child
,
sicke
and
other
afflicted
persons
,
having
all
of
them
great
faith
in
her
prayers
.
But
as
there
are
traitors
enough
to
condemne
a
just
man
,
and
in
this
age
innocency
serveth
to
no
purpose
,
if
it
be
not
favoured
,
for
so
much
as
the
Lawes
goe
as
it
pleaseth
Kings
,
it
came
to
passe
that
notwithstanding
the
reproaches
which
they
gave
in
against
the
witnesses
,
more
than
sufficient
to
refute
the
malice
of
the
accusers
,
and
to
manifest
the
innocencie
of
the
accused
,
they
condemned
them
to
die
,
and
together
with
them
a
brother
of
mine
,
and
my
mothers
Nephew
.
Verily
the
case
was
strange
and
scandalous
,
though
false
,
and
their
death
unjust
:
but
whatsoever
the
cause
I
doe
not
envie
them
the
profit
,
which
let
them
eate
with
their
bread
,
they
shall
not
goe
to
Rome
for
penance
,
for
there
is
a
God
in
the
world
that
seeth
all
things
,
and
seeing
he
punisheth
that
he
will
not
suffer
one
haire
of
the
just
to
perish
,
it
belongs
to
him
to
avenge
the
wrong
done
to
his
servants
,
for
so
I
may
call
them
,
yea
even
Martyrs
,
sith
they
constantly
,
suffered
death
for
the
love
of
God
,
they
being
accused
of
faults
which
they
had
not
committed
.
A
tricke
,
finally
that
they
being
poore
,
they
were
constrained
to
pay
with
their
life
,
that
which
they
were
not
able
with
their
goods
.
I
only
may
praise
my selfe
that
I
found
some
mercie
with
the
Iudges
,
in
consideration
of
my
young
yeares
,
and
of
the
small
experience
that
I
had
;
yet
the
favour
they
shewed
me
,
was
a
grace
with
sinne
:
because
Iustice
left
me
my
life
,
with
condition
that
I
shuld
be
the
executioner
of
these
Martyres
.
I
was
very
unwilling
and
did
all
I
could
,
not
to
commit
so
execrable
a
crime
as
that
is
,
to
take
away
their
lives
that
had
given
me
mine
:
but
it
was
impossible
to
excuse
me
,
but
by
losing
my
life
with
them
.
Wherefore
I
considering
that
another
would
doe
that
,
which
I
refused
,
and
of
the
other
side
the
perswasion
of
my
friends
who
with
a
great
charge
upon
my
conscience
,
counselled
me
to
doe
it
,
that
so
the
whole
kindred
of
my
parents
should
not
be
lost
,
and
that
there
should
remaine
some
one
in
the
world
who
might
pray
for
them
;
I
put
on
a
resolution
to
doe
that
which
for
any
other
respect
I
would
never
have
done
.
But
this
is
my
comfort
,
which
is
not
a
little
one
to
me
,
that
my
father
gave
me
his
blessing
at
the
houre
of
his
death
forgiving
me
all
that
I
could
have
committed
in
this
world
,
against
the
respect
and
reverence
,
which
I
owed
him
,
giving
me
also
some
wholesome
counsels
,
and
recommending
to
me
vertue
and
the
feare
of
God
,
above
all
that
I
should
ever
strive
to
be
like
my
parents
and
that
I
should
shew
my selfe
such
a
one
as
those
of
whom
I
was
descended
.
With
these
reasons
and
some
others
I
remained
greatly
comforted
,
and
resolved
to
end
my
prison
with
their
life
.
I
was
left
an
Orphan
,
young
,
alone
,
or
ill
accompanied
,
and
without
counsell
,
without
knowing
what
side
to
turne
me
to
,
for
to
maintaine
that
life
which
these
gentlemen
had
left
me
,
because
that
the
cockering
and
good
cheere
in
which
my
mother
had
bred
me
,
had
beene
the
especiall
cause
of
my
undoing
,
shee
suffering
me
to
live
idlely
and
lazily
.
Neverthelesse
I
seeing
that
the
memorie
of
the
good
past
brought
me
no
profit
,
and
that
if
I
should
live
and
eate
bread
it
ought
to
be
with
the
sweate
of
my
browes
,
I
determined
to
looke
out
for
a
master
whom
I
might
serve
,
or
some
handie-crafts-man
with
whom
I
might
learne
some
trade
,
which
was
all
in
vaine
,
because
that
the
accident
of
my
parents
being
in
fresh
memorie
,
and
their
infamie
yet
late
,
I
found
not
one
that
would
receive
me
into
his
house
,
nay
not
so
much
as
to
be
a
groome
of
his
stable
:
wherefore
I
was
forced
to
leave
the
countrey
,
and
to
goe
try
my
fortunes
in
a
strange
countrey
.
What
countrey
is
that
(
I
asked
him
then
)
in
which
your
parents
dwelt
,
because
if
I
be
not
deceived
in
the
discourse
of
your
relation
,
you
have
changed
its
right
name
as
also
its
surname
,
and
your
owne
?
Command
me
not
,
I
beseech
you
,
answered
he
,
to
breake
a
solemne
oath
which
we
of
our
profession
have
made
amongst
our selves
,
which
is
never
to
reveale
to
any
man
our
own●
countrey
,
nor
our
parent●
name
,
this
being
supposed
that
it
availeth
little
to
the
truth
of
my
history
to
know
it
,
and
though
it
seemeth
to
you
that
it
is
no
my
〈◊〉
to
conceale
it
,
beleeve
me
you
are
deceived
for
so
much
that
there
is
nothing
more
dangerous
in
our
Art
,
than
to
tell
a
mans
true
name
,
as
well
as
of
his
countrey
,
as
of
his
baptisme
,
seeing
that
as
you
know
,
albeit
we
be
fallen
a
thousand
times
into
the
hands
of
Iustice
,
and
that
we
be
as
many
times
convicted
of
some
crime
,
w●e
onely
changing
our
name
,
we
ever
make
it
appeare
that
this
is
the
first
time
that
we
have
beene
taken
,
and
the
first
crime
whereof
we
have
ever
bin
accused
,
and
no
man
knowing
the
name
of
our
parents
,
nor
of
our
countrey
they
cannot
be
informed
of
our
lives
&
manners
,
nor
our
parents
receive
any
shame
from
our
disgrace
seeing
that
as
you
may
oftentimes
haue
seene
,
when
they
condemne
a
man
the
first
words
of
his
sentence
say
;
such
a
one
,
of
such
a
place
,
the
son
of
such
a
man
&
such
a
woman
is
condemned
to
be
whipt
or
hanged
such
a
day
,
moneth
and
yeare
,
from
which
proceedeth
nothing
else
,
but
sorrow
to
him
that
dyeth
,
and
dishonour
to
his
parents
.
If
this
be
so
(
said
I
to
him
)
you
have
reason
to
hid
it
,
&
this
being
supposed
that
is
not
for
your
availe
to
tel
it
,
&
it
availeth
not
me
to
know
it
,
let
us
leave
it
,
and
follow
your
Historie
.
It
fell
out
then
(
said
hee
)
that
about
foure
leagues
from
the
place
of
my
birth
,
I
put
my selfe
apprentice
to
a
Shooemaker
,
it
seeming
to
mee
to
be
the
most
gainfull
of
all
trades
,
especially
in
France
,
where
all
those
that
walke
goe
at
it
were
post
,
even
as
if
Iustice
were
running
after
them
,
and
where
all
Shooe
themselves
against
nature
,
that
which
is
contained
being
greater
than
that
which
containeth
that
is
to
say
,
the
foot
greater
than
the
shooe
,
whence
it
falleth
out
that
the
shooes
last
a
very
short
while
.
I
opened
then
mine
eyes
thither
and
bend
my
minde
to
this
trade
for
that
beside
the
gaine
it
was
the
most
easie
.
But
as
from
my
infancie
my
parents
had
taught
me
to
rip
,
it
was
not
possible
for
me
so
suddenly
to
change
the
habite
which
I
had
already
,
turned
into
nature
,
and
so
sixe
weeks
past
ere
I
could
learne
to
set
one
right
stitch
.
From
this
ignorance
my
Master
tooke
occasion
to
disdaine
me
,
breaking
some
lasts
on
my
head
,
to
see
if
they
could
leave
some
impression
beside
the
continuall
abstinence
with
which
hee
punisht
me
,
some
of
his
friends
having
said
to
him
that
it
was
a
singular
remedie
—
and
quicken
my
wit
.
This
life
seemed
not
good
to
me
nor
to
bee
desired
,
wherefore
I
resolved
to
forsake
it
,
and
lay
out
for
another
more
peaceable
,
knowing
particularly
in
my selfe
some
motions
of
Noblenesse
,
which
inclined
me
to
things
higher
and
greater
than
to
make
shooes
,
wherefore
I
conclude
with
my selfe
to
search
all
meanes
possible
to
bring
me
into
the
house
of
some
man
of
qualitie
and
rich
,
being
assured
that
with
the
faire
conditions
and
readinesse
that
I
had
,
my
service
should
be
well-pleasing
to
my
Master
.
Verily
the
resolution
was
good
,
and
the
thoughts
honourable
and
noble
;
but
so
lame
,
maime
and
without
force
for
want
of
meanes
,
and
apparell
to
set
them
forward
seeing
that
it
is
most
certaine
,
that
if
with
my
hands
waxed
,
my
apron
and
other
markes
of
a
Shoomaker
I
should
have
presented
my selfe
at
the
gate
of
some
Knight
,
they
would
not
have
suffered
me
to
enter
This
difficultie
held
mee
some
few
dayes
in
perplexitie
without
knowing
how
to
enter
upon
my
enterprises
,
notwithstanding
making
a
vertue
of
necessitie
,
being
vexed
at
the
miserable
life
which
I
led
,
I
determined
to
draw
Physicke
out
of
the
disease
,
and
honie
from
the
Bees
stings
,
and
endeavouring
to
revenge
my selfe
on
the
Spanish
lether
and
all
shooe-makers
.
To
this
effect
there
came
a
notable
boldnesse
in
my
mind
,
yea
and
profitable
enough
and
sure
,
if
fortune
who
then
was
my
enemie
had
not
over-thrown
my
designes
and
my
inventions
,
I
considered
that
if
I
stole
any
thing
out
of
the
house
,
my
shift
should
have
beene
discovered
in
an
instant
,
and
I
as
a
stranger
and
friendlesse
,
beene
ill
dealt
withall
,
particularly
,
with
the
hatred
which
my
Master
bare
towards
me
,
&
the
harshnesse
with
which
they
are
wont
to
punish
houshold
thefts
in
France
.
So
rising
on
Fryday
morning
earely
than
I
had
been
accustomed
,
rubbing
my
hands
with
waxe
and
also
my
face
,
I
went
with
my
apron
girt
to
mee
,
and
my
hands
all
bedawbed
,
to
runne
through
all
the
shops
of
the
towne
,
especially
those
that
were
best
acquainted
with
my
Master
,
and
telling
to
every
one
that
were
in
the
shops
,
that
the
Gentleman
staid
at
my
Masters
for
a
paire
of
bootes
of
the
eights
,
to
put
them
on
incontinent
,
I
asked
for
one
boote
to
trie
if
it
would
fit
him
that
desired
them
.
None
made
any
difficultie
to
give
me
it
,
thinking
that
a
man
could
not
be
served
with
one
boote
alone
,
otherwise
the
most
part
of
the
shooe-makers
knew
me
,
and
these
who
had
never
seene
me
were
in
a
minute
so
well
satisfied
with
my
presence
,
that
if
the
first
finder
out
of
the
trade
had
come
,
they
could
not
have
given
him
more
credite
.
With
this
invention
I
went
almost
through
all
the
shops
of
the
towne
,
ever
heeding
to
aske
for
a
boote
of
the
same
size
,
and
last
that
the
first
was
of
:
And
the
invention
fell
out
so
to
the
purpose
,
and
with
so
great
ease
that
in
halfe
an
houres
space
,
I
gathered
me
then
two
hundred
bootes
all
of
one
size
,
and
of
one
fashion
,
which
having
tied
up
in
a
sacke
,
I
laid
them
on
my
shoulders
and
betooke
me
to
the
way
.
The
fact
lay
dead
without
suspition
almost
two
houres
,
but
seeing
that
I
came
not
backe
againe
,
nor
returned
the
boots
which
I
had
carried
away
,
nor
tooke
that
which
I
had
left
,
all
of
them
suspected
that
which
truely
fell
out
.
And
so
this
time
being
past
,
moe
than
a
hundred
apprentices
were
at
the
doore
where
I
dwelt
,
every
one
asking
for
his
boote
,
which
my
Master
and
some
few
of
his
neighbours
,
who
loved
mee
not
very
well
,
seeing
they
told
the
Iustice
,
who
dividing
themselves
through
the
three
gates
of
the
Citie
,
met
mee
not
very
farre
from
one
of
them
,
because
the
weight
of
my
burthen
suffered
me
not
to
get
out
of
sight
as
I
could
have
wisht
.
They
brought
me
backe
to
the
towne
,
and
proceeding
against
mee
for
the
fact
yet
hot
and
fresh
in
minde
,
they
condemned
me
to
walke
foure
houres
through
the
accustomed
streets
(
that
is
to
be
scourged
)
with
three
yeares
banishment
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
the
first
Theefe
that
was
in
the
world
and
whence
theft
had
its
beginning
.
ALthough
this
noble
Art
had
no
other
excellency
but
the
antiquitie
of
its
beginning
and
the
Noblenesse
of
the
first
finder
out
thereof
,
it
might
suffice
to
the
end
that
every
good
wit
should
approve
it
for
to
be
the
most
Noble
of
all
those
which
are
practized
at
this
day
in
the
world
,
the
first
inventour
thereof
was
one
of
the
fairest
Angells
that
was
,
whose
beautie
,
dignitie
and
greatnesse
was
so
extolled
and
high
,
that
the
most
curious
of
his
perfection
found
no
other
title
more
proper
to
exalt
him
than
that
of
the
Morning
Starre
,
Governour
of
the
dawning
of
the
day
,
the
Sun's
Ambassadour
.
This
then
was
the
first
Thiefe
that
was
in
the
world
,
or
before
the
world
,
if
it
be
true
that
the
Angells
were
created
before
time
,
who
overcome
by
an
ambitio●s
desire
,
adventured
rashly
to
robbe
God
of
his
glorie
.
But
hee
was
degraded
because
Iustice
tooke
him
in
the
fact
,
and
seazing
upon
all
the
goods
that
hee
had
,
condemned
him
to
perpetuall
prison
,
and
together
with
him
all
his
associats
.
The
second
Thiefe
that
ever
was
in
the
world
was
our
first
father
Adam
,
as
bold
as
the
Angell
,
yet
not
so
blame-worthie
for
being
not
so
malicious
in
his
sin
,
and
of
lesse
knowledge
,
albeit
I
cannot
be
perswaded
that
hee
was
ignorant
of
the
obedience
,
which
he
owed
to
his
Creator
,
having
knowledge
infused
in
him
.
Neverthelesse
overcome
by
the
importunate
reasons
of
his
wife
,
and
tormented
with
an
ambitious
curiositie
hee
was
desirous
to
steale
the
knowledge
and
wisedome
of
God
.
But
it
fell
out
as
badly
to
him
as
to
the
Angell
,
so
that
his
fleeing
and
hiding
himselfe
served
him
to
no
purpose
,
for
the
Iudge
having
asked
him
,
and
he
not
being
able
to
deny
the
fact
,
for
that
he
was
taken
in
the
fault
,
his
state
of
innocencie
and
originall
justice
was
taken
away
,
he
and
all
his
race
remaining
condemned
to
spend
their
life
with
sweate
,
travell
and
mishaps
,
and
his
wife
to
bring
forth
her
children
with
sorrow
.
And
if
you
aske
mee
why
God
did
not
equally
punish
these
two
theeves
,
being
guiltie
of
treason
,
and
having
attempted
one
and
the
same
kinde
of
theft
which
is
the
divine
perfection
.
It
was
to
this
purpose
that
I
have
heard
spoken
by
a
great
doctour
and
Preacher
of
the
Church
;
because
if
God
had
punisht
man
with
the
same
rigour
that
hee
punisht
the
Angell
withall
,
he
had
destroied
an
intire
nature
,
seing
that
all
men
sinned
in
Adam
&
so
the
world
had
remained
imperfect
.
But
in
punishing
the
Angell
,
this
inconvenience
followed
not
,
because
many
other
Angels
remained
in
heaven
,
and
all
the
nature
of
Angels
sinned
not
,
and
this
is
the
cause
why
God
was
not
so
severe
to
man
as
to
the
Angels
:
but
you
shal
better
learn
this
curiositie
from
some
other
,
who
knoweth
it
better
than
I
do
.
It
is
sufficient
that
those
aforesaid
Theeves
were
the
first
that
brought
theft
into
credit
in
the
world
.
And
wee
cannot
say
,
that
povertie
and
necessitie
stirred
them
vp
to
steale
,
because
the
first
was
the
noblest
and
mightiest
of
all
the
Angells
,
and
the
second
was
the
first
of
all
men
,
King
of
the
living
creatures
,
and
absolute
Lord
of
the
earth
.
From
thence
is
brought
in
the
deceite
which
to
the
day
,
this
world
seeth
,
beleeving
that
poverty
was
the
finder
out
of
theft
,
seeing
it
is
riches
and
prosperitie
,
because
the
love
&
desire
of
honour
and
riches
groweth
so
much
the
more
as
it
is
increased
,
as
a
Poet
saith
very
well
.
Ambition
being
an
unsatiable
fire
,
in
which
how
much
more
wood
is
laid
,
so
much
the
more
it
is
inflamed
,
and
a
Dropsie
,
in
which
the
more
one
drinketh
,
the
more
hee
thirsteth
.
Even
so
in
those
great
theeves
,
the
great
riches
and
prosperitie
which
they
had
,
was
the
cause
of
their
unruly
appetite
,
and
unsatiable
ambition
,
for
that
they
desiring
that
which
they
had
not
,
they
could
not
attempt
any
other
theft
▪
but
the
glorie
and
wisedome
of
God
,
seeing
they
possessed
all
the
rest
.
Whence
you
shall
understand
,
that
to
steale
and
robbe
is
in
a
sort
naturall
to
man
,
and
that
it
goeth
by
inheritance
,
and
propagation
in
all
the
linage
of
men
,
and
not
by
cunning
.
For
if
it
be
true
that
we
all
are
partakers
of
Adams
sinne
,
his
sin
being
nothing
else
but
to
robbe
God
of
his
knowledge
,
it
is
evident
,
that
there
is
in
vs
an
inclination
,
disposition
and
naturall
desire
to
robbe
and
steale
.
From
Adam
this
profession
was
extended
to
all
his
posteritie
,
being
alwayes
kept
on
foote
amongst
the
most
noble
and
best
qualified
of
all
his
children
.
So
Cain
,
as
jealous
of
this
originall
vertue
,
would
needs
steale
from
his
brother
Abel
the
grace
and
particular
favour
with
which
God
received
his
oblations
and
sacrifices
.
Iacob
cunningly
rob'd
the
blessing
from
his
brother
Esau
,
and
it
went
well
with
him
.
David
the
wife
of
Vriah
.
Achab
though
himselfe
a
rich
King
stole
Naboths
Vineyard
.
And
finally
Nimrod
by
theft
subdued
all
the
Inhabitants
of
Assyria
.
And
if
leaving
these
and
other
Theeves
almost
innumerable
,
which
holy
writing
relate
unto
us
,
wee
take
the
examples
that
humane
histories
rehearse
unto
us
,
we
shall
see
that
this
singular
Art
hath
beene
alwayes
preserved
among
the
Nobilitie
,
sith
Paris
stole
Helen
,
ravisht
before
that
by
Theseus
;
The
same
Theseus
stole
Ariadne
,
and
Iason
Medea
.
The
Lacedemonians
,
of
whose
policie
and
good
government
Plutarch
maketh
honorable
mention
had
this
laudable
and
vertuous
custome
of
stealing
,
and
hee
that
was
most
cunning
and
subtile
in
that
Art
,
was
in
greatest
account
and
estimation
amongst
them
.
The
very
mothers
taught
their
children
,
while
they
were
but
little
ones
,
to
steale
,
holding
it
for
an
infallible
point
of
policie
,
that
they
could
never
be
good
and
brave
souldiers
,
if
they
had
not
beene
cunning
and
well
experienced
theeves
.
I
will
not
tarrie
now
to
tell
the
name
and
reputation
which
Vircat
got
himselfe
by
his
thefts
,
nor
the
renowne
which
Crocota
deserved
by
them
in
the
time
of
Augustus
Caesar
,
for
I
should
never
have
done
.
CHAP.
VI.
The
theefe
followeth
his
historie
proving
that
all
men
of
what
qualitie
so
ever
are
Theeves
.
THis
Noble
profession
of
stealing
hath
evermore
(
as
I
have
said
)
beene
held
in
high
esteeme
amongst
the
greatest
and
best
qualified
men
of
the
world
:
but
as
there
is
no
kinde
of
vertue
nor
noblenesse
,
which
is
not
envied
by
the
vulgar
,
it
became
in
time
so
ordinarie
&
common
that
there
was
not
so
very
a
Butcher
or
Porter
who
would
not
imitate
the
Nobilitie
in
their
thefts
.
Whence
and
from
the
little
discretion
and
exceeding
great
boldnesse
that
then
was
amongst
people
,
it
was
one
time
so
disdained
and
disliked
that
those
who
did
openly
follow
it
,
were
punished
with
shamefull
paines
and
accounted
infamous
.
But
as
all
things
of
the
world
have
their
contrary
weights
;
time
would
needs
finde
a
remedie
for
this
abuse
,
seeking
meanes
to
steale
without
punishment
,
and
so
disguised
,
that
not
only
theft
seemed
not
vice
,
but
was
esteemed
a
rare
and
singular
vertue
.
To
this
end
many
brave
spirits
invented
the
diversitie
of
Offices
and
charges
which
to
this
day
are
exercised
in
the
world
,
ev●ry
one
of
which
serveth
〈◊〉
a
maske
or
cloake
to
mak●
his
harvest
and
inrich
himselfe
with
another
ma●
goods
.
And
to
the
end
tha●
you
may
not
judge
my
word
rash
,
nor
my
proposition
to●
bold
,
runne
,
I
pray
you
,
ove●
all
states
that
are
in
the
Common-wealth
,
and
you
shall
finde
that
wee
all
are
the
children
of
Adam
.
For
I
thus
argue
.
That
man
that
hath
an
Office
of
a
thousand
Crownes
of
rent
,
without
any
other
living
,
pension
or
patrimonie
,
&
holds
a
house
for
which
hee
payes
eight
hundreth
Crownes
a
yeare
,
keepes
a
horse
&
two
Pages
and
a
footeman
,
his
wife
and
two
waiting
Gentlewomen
,
his
children
and
a
Master
to
●ach
them
,
who
to
keepe
●ll
this
traine
hath
neede
●f
more
then
a
thousand
crownes
every
yeare
,
yet
notwithstanding
with
all
this
charge
he
is
found
at
the
yeares
end
with
two
suites
of
apparell
,
free
from
debts
&
with
five
hundreth
crownes
of
gaine
,
and
yet
it
rained
no
more
on
his
field
than
on
other
mens
,
nor
hath
he
inherited
any
thing
of
any
of
his
parents
or
friends
.
Ergo
a
Theefe
.
A
Tailer
that
eats
more
than
it
cost
him
,
and
at
sixe
yeares
end
gives
ten
thousand
crownes
portion
in
marriage
with
his
daughter
,
never
medling
with
other
trade
save
his
needle
and
his
sheeres
.
Ergo
a
Theefe
.
A
Shooe-maker
that
keepes
six
prentices
in
his
shop
,
and
workes
but
foure
daies
〈◊〉
weeke
;
and
those
not
wholl●
at
three
yeares
end
that
tw●
tenements
builded
in
th●
fairest
streets
of
the
towne
every
one
of
which
〈◊〉
worth
two
him
three
hundreth
pounds
of
yearely
rent
,
without
any
other
stocke
,
but
that
of
his
leather
Ergo
a
Theefe
.
The
Cler●e
who
for
every
sheete
of
paper
that
he
writes
hath
but
a
shilling
,
and
who
writes
scarcely
,
sixe
moneths
of
the
whole
yeare
,
which
are
hardly
ended
but
hee
is
seene
to
have
his
Velvet
stooles
,
damaske
courtains
,
silke-hangings
,
and
other
rich
ornaments
,
which
never
came
to
him
by
heritage
.
Ergo
a
Theefe
.
Of
the
same
kinde
you
shal
find
in
all
Offices
giving
you
to
understand
,
that
〈◊〉
doe
not
speake
here
of
the
good
and
honest
,
but
of
the
●ewd
and
baser
sort
,
who
●linded
with
profit
and
gain
●reade
under
their
feete
the
●eare
of
God
,
the
love
of
their
neighbour
,
and
the
truth
of
their
own
conscience
(
who
force
the
poore
and
●eedy
to
take
sixe
pence
for
that
,
which
they
sell
in
their
shops
for
twelue
pence
)
&
it
is
,
I
say
,
of
those
by
whom
the
evills
,
that
I
have
mentioned
ought
to
be
understood
.
And
by
reason
that
the
great
attention
with
which
you
doe
harken
to
my
reasons
,
discovereth
the
desire
that
you
have
to
know
all
that
can
be
said
upon
this
subject
,
I
will
shew
briefly
the
invention
and
deceits
which
the
naughtie
Tradesmen
use
for
to
robbe
and
steale
.
The
Tailer
stealeth
asking
a
third
part
more
of
cloth
,
then
there
needeth
to
make
a
sute
of
:
and
when
he
that
putteth
it
out
to
making
,
presuming
to
be
wise
enough
for
the
Tailer
,
would
be
by
to
see
it
cut
,
he
vexeth
him
,
and
casts
a
mist
over
his
eyes
marking
foure
houres
along
the
peece
and
overthwart
,
and
when
hee
hath
at
last
dazeld
him
with
a
great
many
strokes
and
lines
with
his
chalke
,
hee
throweth
a
false
ply
under
the
sheeres
with
which
at
the
cutting
of
a
paire
of
breeches
one
breech
abideth
with
him
for
his
gain
,
besides
buttons
,
silke
,
lace
,
and
lynings
.
The
linnen
Weaver
stealeth
in
asking
more
yarne
than
the
web
hath
neede
of
,
laying
fiftie
ells
instead
of
five
and
fortie
and
with
the
remainder
of
many
broken
threeds
he
pincheth
out
the
length
,
which
makes
worth
to
him
the
eight
part
,
all
which
he
stealeth
.
The
Cordwainer
restoreth
with
his
teeth
that
which
hee
stealeth
with
his
—
biting
and
drawing
thinne
the
leather
,
so
that
of
one
paire
of
shooes
which
one
giveth
him
to
make
,
there
resteth
to
him
at
least
an
upper
lether
or
a
heele
for
a
third
.
And
if
the
lether
be
his
owne
,
he
sets
on
a
rotten
soale
with
rotten
threed
,
to
the
end
it
may
be
the
sooner
spoil'd
and
fall
off
,
which
I
thinke
but
stealing
.
The
Physitian
and
the
Chirurgion
both
steale
,
the
one
appointing
and
th'
other
applying
plasters
,
which
feed
the
disease
and
make
it
worse
to
the
end
that
the
time
of
the
cure
continning
long
,
the
fees
may
be
the
greater
and
the
more
.
The
Apothecarie
stealeth
with
a
quid
pro
quo
—
putting
in
one
drugge
for
another
,
and
taking
that
which
is
cheapest
,
not
considering
what
humour
should
be
purged
,
and
what
vertue
the
drugge
hath
which
he
applyeth
,
in
which
hee
stealeth
the
honour
and
reputation
of
the
Physitian
,
and
the
sick
persons
life
.
And
if
haply
any
call
for
an
oile
which
he
hath
not
,
he
wil
not
faile
to
give
of
that
which
hee
hath
for
oile
of
—
or
other
costly
oyle
which
any
shall
have
asked
them
,
that
they
may
not
lose
the
credit
of
their
shop
.
The
Marchant
stealeth
in
putting
out
his
money
upon
use
,
taking
more
than
the
statute
alloweth
,
and
writing
downe
in
his
booke
such
a
debt
,
which
,
it
may
be
,
shall
be
thrice
paid
,
The
Notary
stealeth
with
an
(
&c.
Et
coetera
)
a
whole
Lordship
,
and
if
there
be
a
question
of
any
criminall
processe
,
the
Scrivener
for
money
that
he
shall
take
of
a
forfeit
,
will
sell
the
soule
of
the
poore
innocent
.
The
Counsellour
&
the
Atturney
steale
selling
a
thousand
lies
to
the
poore
client
,
making
him
to
understand
,
that
he
shall
win
his
cause
,
albeit
they
see
cleerely
that
he
hath
no
right
at
all
;
and
many
times
it
falleth
out
that
the
Lawyer
agreeth
with
another
to
sell
the
parties
right
and
part
the
gaine
betweene
them
.
The
Iudge
stealeth
Iustice
from
this
man
,
having
pitie
on
him
,
who
by
some
bribe
shall
have
already
corrupted
him
,
wresting
violently
the
texts
of
Bartole
and
Baldus
for
his
own
profit
.
The
Drugster
and
other
Marchants
,
that
sell
by
weight
steale
,
putting
under
the
scale
a
very
thinne
plate
of
leade
,
where
they
put
that
which
they
would
weigh
,
with
which
they
shew
that
there
is
more
then
weight
,
albeit
there
be
many
ounces
,
and
when
they
doe
not
that
,
with
their
little
finger
they
touch
the
tongue
of
the
ballance
with
which
they
make
the
scale
sway
to
what
side
they
will
.
The
Vintner
stealeth
a
hundreth
thousand
wayes
,
mixing
and
blending
one
wine
with
another
,
beside
the
water
that
hee
putteth
amongst
it
,
and
when
his
wine
by
the
force
of
so
much
mingling
and
watering
hath
his
strength
,
hee
hangeth
amongst
the
lees
a
little
bagge
full
of
Cloves
,
Pepper
,
Ginger
and
other
spices
,
with
which
he
makes
it
still
seeme
to
be
good
.
The
Butcher
also
stealeth
blowing
up
his
meate
with
a
Cane
,
that
so
they
may
seeme
the
bigger
,
and
that
he
may
sell
them
at
a
deerer
rate
than
they
are
worth
.
The
Treasurer
stealeth
the
third
part
,
yea
the
halfe
of
a
pension
,
when
a
poore
needie
man
asketh
him
,
because
that
hee
,
who
should
receive
it
,
being
drown'd
in
debt
or
charged
with
some
vrgent
necessitie
,
denieth
not
to
give
the
halfe
,
nor
makes
he
any
conscience
to
demand
it
.
The
Marshall
stealeth
taking
a
poore
harmelesse
man
,
and
laying
him
in
hold
never
telling
him
for
what
,
and
at
the
end
of
three
or
foure
dayes
that
hee
keepeth
him
in
a
chaine
,
sends
a
Divell
of
those
that
belong
to
the
prison
,
to
tell
him
that
hee
is
accused
for
making
of
false
coine
,
and
that
there
are
ten
witnesses
who
have
given
evidence
against
him
:
but
that
for
the
respect
of
some
of
his
friends
,
hee
will
set
him
at
libertie
some
evening
,
if
he
will
give
him
a
hundreth
Crownes
to
give
content
to
the
witnesses
,
and
to
make
them
in
some
sort
to
hold
their
tongues
,
whereby
the
poore
wretch
being
sore
affrighted
,
selleth
all
to
the
shirt
on
his
backe
to
be
rid
of
so
great
affliction
.
The
Courtier
stealeth
the
report
of
a
favorite
,
ascribing
to
himselfe
that
which
another
receiveth
:
because
being
loaded
with
feathers
,
brussing
up
himselfe
,
poised
and
straighter
than
a
spindle
he
goeth
to
the
Court
,
and
hearing
,
at
the
gate
,
or
in
the
Court-yarde
where
the
Pages
waite
,
some
newes
,
hee
returneth
to
see
his
friends
,
and
gives
them
to
understand
,
that
the
King
drew
him
aside
,
speaking
secretly
to
him
two
houres
,
and
amongst
other
things
hee
told
the
newes
that
hee
brings
.
The
Perfumer
stealeth
mingling
the
perfumes
and
multiplying
the
Muske
with
a
Cowes
liver
r●sted
,
the
Amber-grees
with
sope
and
sand
,
and
the
Sivet
with
some
Butter
.
The
Priest
stealeth
,
saying
foure
Masses
instead
of
forty
for
which
hee
hath
bin
paid
beside
the
monie
that
he
receives
for
yearely
Masses
for
the
dead
,
Answers
and
other
duties
which
he
never
remembers
.
The
Religious
(
Monkes
and
Friers
)
steale
whole
patrimonies
,
assaulting
with
a
grave
countenance
and
a
wry
necke
a
poore
sicke
man
at
the
point
of
death
,
and
laying
before
him
a
mountaine
of
doubts
and
burthens
of
conscience
,
turning
and
stirring
them
up
to
pious
deeds
,
applying
to
their
own
Monasterie
all
that
which
he
was
bound
to
restore
,
without
ever
making
any
scruple
of
conscience
to
leave
halfe
a
dozen
of
Orphans
defeated
of
their
inheritance
,
and
the
sicke
mans
wife
to
live
upon
almes
.
The
Preacher
stealeth
,
picking
from
S.
Thomas
and
S.
Austin
the
best
of
their
workes
,
and
having
robbed
them
to
their
very
thoughts
,
selleth
in
the
Pulpit
their
doctrine
as
though
it
were
his
owne
making
himselfe
the
inventor
and
author
of
that
which
belongeth
not
unto
him
.
The
Blind
man
stealeth
the
halfe
of
every
song
that
he
singeth
,
because
that
having
received
money
from
him
that
biddeth
him
sing
,
and
it
seeming
to
him
that
he
is
gone
from
him
three
or
foure
paces
,
he
beginneth
againe
his
first
tune
,
and
asketh
a
new
that
some
body
would
make
him
sing
another
.
The
Begger
stealeth
telling
a
thousand
lyes
to
him
that
giveth
the
almes
,
saying
that
he
hath
bin
robbed
,
that
he
hath
beene
sicke
,
that
his
father
is
in
prison
,
and
coun●erfeiting
himself
lame
,
with
which
hee
pulleth
from
men
their
almes
.
Finally
,
all
doe
steale
,
and
every
handy-crafts
man
hath
his
own
invention
and
particular
subtiltie
to
this
effect
:
but
seeing
there
is
no
rule
so
generall
,
that
hath
not
its
exception
,
wee
may
exclude
from
the
number
of
Theeves
all
those
that
have
a
good
conscience
,
as
foote-men
,
Hostlers
,
Cookes
,
Sergeants
,
Iailers
,
Under-jaillers
,
Panders
,
Bawdes
,
Ruffians
and
Whores
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
difference
and
variety
of
Theeves
.
ALl
the
Theeves
aforesaid
are
called
discreete
,
because
that
every
one
in
his
place
striveth
to
cover
theft
the
best
hee
can
,
transforming
it
into
Nobilitie
and
vertue
,
and
this
manner
of
stealing
is
the
safest
and
most
secret
.
Of
these
there
is
as
great
varietie
and
difference
,
as
there
are
severall
Offices
in
the
Common-weale
,
yea
there
are
other
Theeves
who
steale
openly
and
without
maske
:
who
,
although
they
are
not
so
many
in
number
as
the
former
,
are
notwithstanding
moe
,
and
their
differences
are
as
many
as
there
are
inventions
to
steale
,
which
being
redacted
into
a
shorter
number
,
are
divided
into
Robbers
,
Staffadours
,
drawers
of
Wooll
,
Grunets
,
Apostles
Cigarets
,
Dacians
,
Mallets
Cut-purses
,
Satyrs
,
Devont
,
and
Governours
of
the
House
.
The
Robbers
steale
upon
the
high
wayes
and
solitarie
places
with
great
cruelty
and
tyrannie
,
because
that
seldome
doe
they
robbe
without
killing
,
fearing
to
be
discovered
and
followed
by
justice
.
The
meanes
&
slights
that
they
have
to
coine
to
their
purposes
are
diverse
for
sometimes
they
will
follow
a
man
fifteene
dayes
never
losing
the
sight
of
him
,
waiting
while
hee
goe
out
of
the
towne
.
And
the
better
to
over-reach
him
one
of
the
companie
goeth
disguised
in
a
Marchants-habit
,
a
guest
of
the
same
Inne
,
with
a
certaine
packe
of
old
cloth
,
or
some
other
invention
,
giving
to
understand
that
he
is
a
strange
country
Marchant
,
and
feareth
to
travell
alone
.
With
this
lye
he
falleth
into
discourse
with
the
poore
Marchant
or
passenger
craftily
getting
out
of
him
,
that
which
hee
desireth
to
know
,
&
learning
whence
he
is
,
whether
he
goeth
,
what
Marchandise
he
carrieth
,
or
what
businesse
he
goeth
,
about
,
and
when
he
is
to
be
gone
,
whereof
giving
notice
to
his
companions
,
they
lye
in
waite
for
him
at
some
place
most
convenient
for
their
purpose
.
O●hers
make
themselues
lurking
holes
behinde
some
bushes
,
growne
up
to
the
thicknesse
of
a
wood
,
and
when
they
perceive
a
far
off
,
or
by
some
spie
,
a
passenger
,
they
lay
in
the
middle
of
the
way
a
purse
made
fast
,
some
shew
of
money
,
or
a
little
budget
,
that
in
the
meane
time
while
he
alighteth
and
staieth
to
take
it
up
,
they
may
come
timely
enough
to
take
from
him
that
he
carrieth
.
Others
being
hid
in
the
most
secret
places
of
the
high
way
,
send
one
of
their
companie
in
Carriers
clothes
,
who
seeing
the
Passenger
approach
stayes
to
looke
on
him
,
and
making
shew
to
know
him
and
to
have
some
letters
for
him
,
&
holding
him
in
talke
,
bufieth
him
in
such
fashion
,
that
the
others
have
the
time
and
meanes
to
surround
him
.
Others
lying
somewhat
out
of
the
way
,
faigne
a
lamentable
and
pitifull
voyce
,
with
which
they
tye
the
passenger
to
stay
,
and
to
goe
see
what
it
is
,
and
while
he
that
makes
this
moane
deceitfully
declareth
his
griefe
,
the
ambush
leapeth
out
that
strippeth
him
to
his
shirt
.
Your
Staffadours
are
a
second
sort
of
robbers
,
little
differing
from
the
former
,
though
more
courteous
,
and
not
so
bloudy
;
those
goe
calmely
into
the
house
of
some
Marchant
,
and
not
finding
him
there
,
seeke
for
him
at
great
leasure
,
at
the
Exchange
,
in
the
fields
,
at
Church
,
and
in
the
middle
of
a
thousand
people
,
drawes
neere
to
him
softly
talking
in
his
eare
,
making
as
though
hee
would
communicate
to
him
some-busines
of
great
importance
,
and
shewing
him
a
Dagger
,
saith
,
this
Dagger
demandeth
a
hundreth
crownes
,
brought
to
such
a
place
,
such
a
day
,
and
if
you
doe
it
not
,
you
shall
die
for
it
.
The
poore
Marchant
sore
affrighted
by
such
words
dareth
not
to
misse
,
for
feare
to
be
killed
.
The
Wooll-drawers
take
their
name
from
the
theft
they
practise
,
which
is
to
snatch
cloakes
in
the
night
,
and
these
have
no
other
cu●ning
save
the
occasion
:
they
goe
ever
by
threes
or
foure●
betweene
nine
or
ten
a
cloc●
at
night
,
and
if
they
do
finde
a
fit
opportunitie
they
let
〈◊〉
not
slip
.
Most
commonly
they
come
forth
to
snatch
cloakes
in
the
darkest
and
rainest
nights
,
and
to
them
places
which
they
see
is
most
quiet
and
most
out
of
the
way
,
at
least
upon
the
one
side
,
to
the
end
that
the
neighbours
may
not
come
forth
(
at
the
outcryes
and
noise
which
the
robbed
are
commonly
wont
to
make
)
and
take
them
.
These
same
are
accustomed
sometimes
to
go
in
Lackeyes
clothes
to
come
in
to
some
Maske
or
feast
,
making
shew
to
looke
for
their
Masters
,
and
with
this
liberty
,
they
meete
with
●
heape
of
cloakes
,
that
the
Gentlemen
use
to
leave
in
the
Hall
,
being
sure
that
nobody
will
meddle
with
them
they
in
the
view
of
all
in
the
place
,
nimbly
take
up
two
or
three
on
their
shoulders
,
and
get
them
gone
with
them
,
saluting
all
those
whom
they
meete
,
with
Cap
in
hand
.
The
Grumets
take
their
name
from
the
likenesse
that
they
have
to
those
young
boyes
in
ships
,
who
clime
up
with
great
nimblenesse
,
by
the
tacklings
to
the
top
of
the
Mast
;
and
the
sailers
call
them
Cats
or
Grumets
.
Those
that
beare
this
name
steale
by
night
,
climing
up
lightly
,
by
a
ladder
of
ropes
,
at
the
end
of
which
they
have
two
little
hookes
o●
iron
,
to
the
end
that
throwing
them
up
to
the
window
;
it
may
catch
hold
there
and
they
easily
get
up
and
empty
the
house
.
These
runne
about
the
City
and
the
Cou●try
,
stealing
not
onely
gold
and
silver
,
but
also
Wheate
,
Rye
,
Barley
,
Oates
,
and
finally
all
that
ever
they
doe
finde
,
and
when
they
have
plaid
their
prize
,
they
cunningly
tye
a
line
made
fast
to
the
point
of
the
little
hookes
,
which
,
after
they
are
come
downe
,
they
drawing
,
the
two
hookes
are
raised
and
the
ladder
falleth
,
without
ever
leaving
any
print
or
marke
of
the
theft
.
The
Apostles
take
their
name
from
S.
Peter
,
because
that
even
as
hee
beares
the
keyes
of
Heaven
,
so
also
they
ordinarily
carry
a
picklocke
or
vniversall
key
with
which
they
open
all
manner
of
doores
,
and
because
of
too
much
noise
,
that
the
locke
may
not
rattle
,
and
awaken
the
people
a
sleep
,
they
put
in
a
plate
of
leade
with
which
they
breake
it
in
peeces
,
so
that
they
who
lie
neerest
can
perceive
nothing
.
Those
whom
they
call
Cigarets
,
have
for
their
particular
office
to
haunt
Churches
feasts
and
publique
assemblies
,
at
which
they
cut
off
the
halfe
of
a
cloake
,
cassock
sleeves
,
halfe
a
gowne
,
the
quarter
of
a
jumpe
and
finally
whatsoever
they
finde
,
for
of
all
these
they
make
money
.
The
Devout
are
Church-theeves
,
because
there
are
no
Easters
,
Pardons
,
nor
Iubilie
which
they
visite
not
:
they
are
continually
on
their
knees
in
the
Monasteries
,
having
their
beades
in
their
hands
,
to
cloake
their
knavery
,
waiting
their
time
,
either
under
some
Altar
,
or
behinde
some
table
,
on
the
eeve
of
some
solemne
feast
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
get
out
by
night
.
—
and
to
spoile
the
image
of
all
the
ornaments
about
them
.
In
this
sort
of
theft
they
do
moreover
adventure
into
the
Monasteries
of
the
Religious
as
well
as
into
other
Churches
,
because
that
as
they
charitable
,
and
feare
to
be
accounted
disorderly
,
they
seldome
put
a
theefe
into
the
hands
of
justice
,
and
for
all
the
mischiefe
that
hee
commits
a
man
getteth
out
of
their
hands
,
chastised
with
one
onely
discipline
all
about
the
Cloisters
by
a
procession
of
Monks
who
charge
him
,
after
his
amendment
,
to
feare
God
.
The
Satyrs
are
men
living
wilde
in
the
fields
,
that
keepe
their
holds
and
dwelling
in
the
Countrey
and
forsaken
places
,
stealing
horses
,
kine
,
sheepe
and
all
kinde
of
cattle
which
by
occasion
come
in
their
walke
.
The
Dacians
are
cruell
,
mercilesse
people
,
held
in
our
common-weales
in
lesse
account
than
th'
other
theeves
:
these
steale
children
of
three
or
foure
yeares
old
,
and
breaking
their
armes
and
legges
lame
and
disfigure
them
,
that
they
may
afterwards
sell
them
to
Beggers
,
Blinde
folkes
and
other
vagabonds
.
The
Overseers
of
the
house
have
this
name
from
the
particular
care
that
they
have
to
looke
out
for
provision
of
bread
,
meate
,
and
other
vi●tualls
to
feede
their
companions
,
and
as
there
is
not
any
thing
in
the
world
that
a
man
loveth
better
than
to
eate
and
drinke
,
the
inventions
and
meanes
that
theeves
have
,
are
so
severall
and
so
exquisite
that
it
is
impossible
to
●ell
them
all
.
Some
are
accustomed
three
or
foure
to
meete
in
the
twilight
at
night
and
taking
a
bottle
of
five
or
sixe
pottles
with
a
fourth
part
of
water
in
it
,
they
goe
to
a
Taverne
bidding
them
fill
the
bottle
with
the
wine
in
the
house
,
and
having
agreed
for
the
price
,
the
poore
Vintner
beginneth
to
measure
while
it
be
almost
full
,
then
they
make
shew
of
a
desire
to
taste
it
,
if
it
be
the
wine
that
they
bought
at
the
beginning
,
and
scarcely
have
they
tasted
it
when
bending
their
browes
,
casting
up
their
eyes
and
wrying
their
nose
they
cry
out
at
the
wretched
Vintner
,
saying
that
he
is
a
theefe
and
a
deceiver
,
who
hath
changed
them
their
wine
.
The
poore
fellow
seeing
that
his
oathes
and
curses
availe
nothing
,
is
content
to
take
his
wine
again
and
to
take
out
the
bottle
the
measures
that
hee
had
put
in
,
by
which
meanes
they
have
a
fourth
part
left
so
well
seasoned
that
it
may
passe
for
wine
of
sixe
pence
a
quart
.
Other
whiles
they
goe
five
or
sixe
in
companie
to
the
Taverne
with
two
great
pots
so
like
th'
one
to
the
other
,
that
very
hardly
can
there
any
difference
be
perceived
betweene
them
;
they
carry
th'
one
emptie
and
the
other
full
of
water
under
his
cloak
,
and
biddes
them
fill
the
emptie
one
with
the
best
wine
that
they
have
,
never
taking
care
for
the
price
,
and
it
being
full
,
the
one
of
them
takes
it
under
his
cloake
,
and
the
other
staies
reckoning
with
the
Vintner
,
holding
his
purse
in
his
hand
and
making
shew
to
pay
him
:
being
upon
these
termes
,
the
others
come
in
,
and
aske
alowd
whether
or
no
they
shall
suppe
there
,
which
the
Vintner
seeing
,
allured
presently
by
the
gaine
that
hee
shall
make
if
they
suppe
at
his
house
,
perswades
them
to
stay
,
and
they
take
his
counsell
determining
to
goe
to
the
Cookes
to
buy
some
joynt
for
supper
,
and
to
call
backe
the
rest
of
their
comerads
,
leaving
the
pot
full
of
water
to
the
Vintner
,
that
he
may
keepe
it
in
the
meane
while
till
they
come
backe
,
with
which
he
remaineth
contented
and
well
assured
,
thinking
hith
himselfe
,
that
though
they
never
returne
,
the
pot
notwithstanding
shall
remaine
with
him
for
his
gaines
.
As
for
the
provision
of
flesh
,
poulterie
and
other
things
they
have
a
thousand
inventions
,
whereof
I
will
tell
you
one
only
which
hapned
long
agoe
to
one
of
my
copsemates
.
It
was
,
if
I
rightly
remember
,
on
a
holy
Saturdayes
market
,
in
which
they
sold
great
store
of
Hennes
,
Partridges
,
Rabbets
,
Pullets
and
other
things
against
the
feastivall
day
.
Three
of
the
company
went
out
to
seeke
for
provision
,
dividing
themselves
every
one
to
his
owne
walke
,
the
two
met
with
a
Countrey-Clown
loaded
with
Capons
and
Partridges
,
which
were
in
the
market
;
one
of
them
drew
neare
to
buy
up
all
that
he
had
,
&
cheapning
a
quarter
of
an
houre
with
the
Clowne
,
agreed
to
give
him
ten
Nobles
for
all
his
ware
,
giving
it
to
his
fellow
to
carry
it
home
,
and
he
stayed
behinde
with
his
hand
in
his
pocket
,
making
as
if
he
would
pay
him
.
He
searcheth
both
the
sides
,
of
his
hose
,
drawing
out
first
a
great
purse
,
next
a
little
one
,
afterwards
a
hand-kercher
tyed
in
knots
with
some
papers
folded
up
,
with
which
he
inchanted
the
Clown
,
and
gave
his
companion
time
and
leasure
enough
to
get
him
out
of
sight
,
and
at
last
not
finding
in
all
his
budgets
the
whole
summe
,
he
bids
the
Clowne
follow
him
and
he
should
pay
him
.
The
Clown
was
content
,
and
beginneth
to
follow
him
with
diligence
,
and
almost
on
the
trot
,
because
that
as
my
Companion
had
an
intention
,
to
get
out
of
sight
crossing
the
streets
and
lanes
he
walk't
a-pace
with
posting
speede
.
But
seeing
himselfe
so
closely
followed
by
the
Clown
he
went
into
the
Cloister
of
the
Austin
Friers
,
where
there
were
some
Friers
confessing
folkes
,
and
having
made
a
devout
prayer
,
hee
turned
himselfe
towards
the
Clown
,
saying
to
him
,
My
friend
,
the
provision
that
you
have
sold
me
is
for
this
House
,
and
that
Father
,
who
is
there
a
confessing
is
the
Proctour
,
I
will
goe
tell
him
that
he
must
pay
you
;
and
speaking
thus
,
he
comes
to
one
of
the
Confessors
with
the
Clown
after
him
,
and
turning
a
little
aside
hee
put
sixe
pence
into
his
hand
,
and
whispers
him
in
the
eare
saying
,
Father
,
this
country
man
is
one
of
my
acquaintance
,
and
commeth
hither
to
be
confest
,
he
lives
sixe
miles
hence
,
and
he
must
of
necessitie
goe
backe
to
his
house
this
evening
,
I
beseech
you
to
do
me
the
favour
to
confesse
him
out
of
hand
and
let
him
goe
.
The
good
Father
obliged
by
the
almes
given
aforehand
,
promist
him
,
that
when
hee
had
ended
the
penitents
confession
whom
he
had
at
his
feete
,
hee
should
dispatch
him
presently
.
With
this
answer
,
he
called
to
the
Clown
,
and
said
to
him
,
friend
,
the
Father
will
dispatch
you
by
and
by
,
when
he
hath
made
an
end
of
confessing
this
man
,
to
which
the
Father
added
goe
,
not
hence
,
I
will
give
you
content
presently
.
With
these
words
my
companion
par●ed
from
them
,
and
the
Country-man
staid
,
reckoning
on
his
singers
the
money
that
hee
should
lay
out
on
shooes
,
hat
and
other
trifles
which
hee
minded
to
buy
as
well
for
himselfe
,
as
for
his
familie
out
of
his
Poultry
money
.
The
penitent
makes
an
end
of
his
confession
,
and
the
father
makes
a
signe
to
the
Clown
to
draw
neere
;
the
Clown
was
not
in
so
trembling
a
perplexitie
,
with
so
great
hast
as
those
who
come
to
confession
,
which
the
good
father
was
much
offended
at
,
it
seeming
to
him
that
he
had
little
devotion
and
lesse
humility
to
be
confest
.
The
Clown
stood
bolt
upright
,
looking
heedfully
upon
the
Confessor
,
to
see
if
he
should
put
his
hand
in
his
pocket
,
and
the
Confessor
look't
upon
the
Clown
in
like
manner
,
astonisht
to
see
him
stand
with
so
little
devotion
.
Notwithstanding
excusing
him
because
of
simplicitie
which
is
ordinarie
to
these
Country
people
,
hee
biddes
him
,
kneele
.
The
Clowne
at
the
beginning
made
some
resistance
,
thinking
it
to
be
an
extraordinarie
ceremonie
for
one
to
kneele
to
receive
money
,
neverthelesse
at
last
he
did
it
though
grumbling
.
The
father
bids
him
make
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
,
and
say
his
confession
,
whereat
the
Clown
lost
all
patience
,
beleeving
the
Confessor
to
be
out
of
his
wits
,
and
standing
up
beginneth
to
mumble
within
his
teeth
and
to
sweare
with
great
obstinacie
.
This
assured
the
Confessor
that
the
Clown
was
possest
with
a
Devill
,
and
having
made
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
beginneth
to
conjure
him
,
putting
S.
Austins
girdle
about
his
head
,
and
saying
some
devout
prayers
,
with
which
the
Clowne
went
out
of
his
wits
,
taking
the
good
Father
by
the
surplis
and
casting
him
down
upon
the
ground
,
demanding
aloud
mony
for
his
poultry
.
The
father
supposing
that
hee
had
all
the
fiends
of
Hell
together
upon
him
,
beginneth
to
say
,
the
Letanie
with
a
weake
and
affrighted
voyce
,
and
to
commend
himselfe
to
all
the
Saints
in
the
Almanacke
,
praying
them
to
aid
him
.
At
the
clamour
and
noise
,
the
whole
Convent
began
to
be
troubled
,
all
the
Monkes
comming
out
in
procession
with
the
Crosse
and
the
Candlestickes
,
casting
holy
water
on
every
side
,
and
beleeving
that
there
was
a
Legion
of
Devils
in
the
Church
.
They
came
thither
where
the
Confessour
was
at
debate
with
the
Clown
,
who
still
was
asking
money
,
for
his
Poultry
,
&
the
Prior
having
asked
the
Confessour
concerning
this
accident
&
having
also
heard
the
Clownes
reason
,
the
justice
of
them
both
was
discover'd
with
my
Companions
wicked
deede
.
In
the
endsome
devout
persons
who
were
in
the
Church
,
paid
the
Clown
his
monies
who
went
backe
contented
unto
his
house
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
The
Theefe
continueth
the
differences
among
Theeves
with
three
disgraces
that
befell
him
.
THe
Cut-purses
are
the
commonest
Theeves
of
our
Common-weale
,
who
have
an
endlesse
deale
of
meanes
and
wayes
to
steale
.
All
their
studie
consisteth
in
thrusting
their
hand
in
the
pocket
of
whom
they
approach
,
and
cunningly
to
draw
his
Purse
from
him
(
he
not
perceiving
it
)
with
all
that
hee
hath
in
it
.
These
haunt
the
Churches
,
Sermons
,
Faires
,
Assemblies
&
publicke
meetings
,
that
they
may
worke
their
feate
in
the
throng
,
he
that
takes
the
purse
gives
it
presently
to
another
that
is
by
him
,
that
if
he
should
be
taken
with
his
hand
in
his
pocket
,
he
might
prove
them
lyars
and
cleare
himselfe
before
all
the
world
.
I
will
tell
you
a
wittie
tricke
which
I
once
plotted
,
though
it
fell
out
but
badly
by
me
,
seeing
that
the
heedfulnesse
,
with
which
you
hearken
to
me
,
makes
me
know
that
you
are
not
wearie
to
heare
me
.
The
last
yeere
there
came
to
London
a
Marchant
of
Italie
,
rich
,
courteous
and
of
good
carriage
,
who
being
in
rouled
by
our
spies
I
tooke
the
charge
upon
me
to
deale
with
him
.
I
rose
that
day
betimes
in
the
morning
,
lest
I
should
lose
the
occasion
,
and
after
I
had
dog'd
him
through
many
streets
,
Lanes
and
Churches
(
for
he
was
verily
a
good
Christian
)
wee
came
to
a
crowd
of
Marchants
wont
to
be
kept
in
the
Exchange
about
eleven
a
clock
,
seeing
him
alone
,
I
came
to
him
,
talking
to
him
of
a
bargaine
very
profitable
&
certaine
,
which
made
him
open
his
eyes
,
and
listen
heedfully
to
my
reasons
.
Then
seeing
him
thus
fitted
to
my
inventions
,
I
winded
him
gently
into
a
Maze
of
difficulties
,
in
such
sort
,
that
I
never
ceast
to
declare
to
him
the
businesse
,
nor
he
to
learne
the
circumstances
.
My
Camerade
then
drew
neare
making
shew
as
if
he
knew
me
not
;
and
to
be
desirous
to
interpret
the
traffick
for
him
which
I
had
propounded
,
whereupon
the
Marchant
began
to
take
no
more
heede
to
me
,
and
I
to
thinke
evermore
of
him
.
I
put
secretly
my
fingers
in
his
pocket
to
try
the
depth
and
breadth
thereof
,
&
perceived
that
it
and
its
Masters
little
care
gave
me
free
liberty
to
put
in
all
my
hand
.
I
did
so
and
at
the
first
essay
,
I
drew
his
purse
,
at
the
second
a
silver
Watch
,
which
he
carried
tied
to
a
small
gold-chaine
,
with
which
I
might
have
bin
content
if
stealing
could
be
limited
.
I
was
resolved
to
try
the
third
time
,
to
see
if
I
could
draw
thence
a
Holland
hankercher
,
which
before
he
had
shewed
edged
with
curious
bonelace
,
but
I
could
not
be
so
nimble
to
draw
it
,
nor
my
Companion
to
hold
him
in
talke
,
but
he
felt
me
,
and
running
to
save
his
pocket
with
his
hand
he
could
not
misse
but
meete
with
mine
,
wherewith
being
vext
and
suspitious
,
he
presently
knew
that
he
had
lost
his
purse
and
his
Watch
,
and
not
finding
them
he
tooke
me
by
the
necke
,
crying
A
theefe
A
theefe
.
I
foreseeing
the
evill
that
might
befall
mee
(
for
Astrologie
is
very
necessary
for
a
Theefe
)
had
given
the
purse
and
Watch
from
underneath
my
cloake
to
my
companion
,
as
soone
as
ever
I
had
drawne
it
,
who
was
but
only
two
steps
from
me
:
Wherefore
with
the
assurance
that
I
had
,
that
he
would
finde
about
me
that
which
he
sought
,
I
scorned
all
he
said
,
giving
him
the
lie
a
thousand
times
.
The
Marchant
holding
me
fast
by
the
coller
,
with
a
loude
voyce
calling
for
his
purse
,
in
such
sort
that
he
made
all
upon
the
place
to
gather
together
.
But
my
Camerade
seeing
that
my
honor
runne
a
great
hazard
,
if
the
businesse
should
be
proved
amongst
so
many
people
,
secretly
calls
a
crier
who
was
at
a
corner
of
the
place
,
whom
he
made
cry
,
If
any
one
had
lost
a
purse
and
a
silver
Watch
,
that
he
should
come
to
him
,
&
give
true
tokens
therof
,
he
would
restore
them
,
and
withall
departed
the
place
.
Hardly
was
the
sound
of
the
first
cry
heard
but
my
good
Italian
let
me
goe
,
intreating
me
with
great
humilitie
to
forgive
him
the
rash
judgement
conceived
of
me
,
which
I
did
at
the
request
of
the
companie
,
and
presently
got
me
out
of
sight
.
He
went
as
nimble
as
a
Roe
to
seeke
for
the
cryer
,
and
having
found
him
he
gave
the
true
tokens
of
his
losse
,
but
he
that
had
bid
him
doe
it
could
not
be
found
any
more
;
and
so
I
escaped
this
dangerous
accident
.
The
Duendes
a
Larins
so
called
for
the
likenesse
that
they
have
with
the
spirits
of
this
name
,
begin
to
walke
through
the
towne
in
the
evening
,
and
finding
some
doore
open
,
they
enter
softly
,
hiding
themselves
in
the
Cellar
,
in
the
stable
,
or
in
some
other
dark
secret
place
,
to
the
end
they
may
throw
out
at
windowes
all
that
is
in
the
house
,
when
those
within
are
fast
a-sleepe
.
I
adventured
once
to
play
such
a
pranke
,
and
turne
my selfe
in
an
Angell
of
darkenesse
,
but
I
was
deceived
.
It
fell
out
then
,
that
one
night
on
the
Eeve
of
a
high
holy-day
I
went
to
seeke
my
fortune
,
my
mishap
made
me
meete
with
a
doore
halfe
open
,
into
which
thrusting
my
head
I
saw
that
all
my
body
might
enter
,
I
went
up
a
paire
of
staires
to
a
great
Chamber
well
furnisht
and
fitted
,
and
thinking
that
it
was
a
safe
course
for
me
to
hide
my selfe
under
a
bed
,
while
these
of
the
house
were
gone
to
rest
,
I
did
so
.
After
foure
houres
that
I
had
laien
all
along
on
the
flower
,
I
heard
a
noyse
of
folks
,
comming
up
suddenly
into
the
Chamber
,
you
neede
not
aske
if
I
was
heedfull
to
see
who
they
were
,
and
by
and
by
with
the
light
of
a
Candle
I
saw
the
feete
of
two
footmen
and
one
maide
laying
the
cloth
with
great
diligence
,
and
were
making
of
a
fire
,
because
the
Master
of
the
house
was
to
suppe
there
.
The
table
furnish't
with
sundry
dishes
of
meate
,
foure
or
five
sate
downe
,
besides
the
children
that
were
in
the
house
.
I
was
then
so
affrighted
and
confounded
,
that
I
thinke
verily
if
the
noise
of
their
voyces
and
the
great
number
of
children
had
not
hindred
them
,
they
might
have
heard
plainely
the
beating
of
my
joynts
,
because
my
buttockes
beate
so
hard
one
against
the
other
,
that
I
thinke
the
noise
might
have
bin
heard
halfe
a
mile
off
.
By
mischance
there
was
a
little
dogge
,
that
runne
about
gnawing
the
bones
that
fell
from
the
table
,
and
one
of
the
children
having
thrown
him
a
bone
,
a
Cat
that
watch't
under
the
table
was
more
nimble
to
catch
it
with
which
she
run
away
to
hide
her
under
the
bed
,
the
dog
grinning
and
pressing
to
take
the
bone
from
her
,
but
the
Cat
could
so
well
use
her
clawes
and
defend
her
prize
,
that
having
given
the
Dog
on
the
nose
two
or
three
blowes
with
her
paw
,
there
began
so
great
a
skirmish
,
and
there
was
such
a
hurly
burly
between
them
,
that
one
of
the
waiters
tooke
a
great
fire-shouell
that
was
in
the
〈◊〉
him
.
ney
and
cast
it
so
furiously
under
the
bed
,
that
if
,
as
it
gave
me
over
the
nose
with
the
broad
side
,
it
had
lighted
on
me
with
the
end
,
it
had
kill'd
me
out-right
.
The
blow
was
so
great
,
that
I
was
above
halfe
an
houre
ere
I
could
come
to
my selfe
,
but
it
made
the
Cat
come
out
like
a
thunder
from
under
the
bed
,
and
the
Dog
staied
grinning
and
barking
with
such
a
fury
that
neither
fawning
nor
threatning
of
mine
could
quiet
him
,
wherat
the
waiters
at
table
were
so
vext
that
they
began
to
chase
him
out
,
throwing
fire-brands
at
him
,
which
made
him
come
out
from
under
the
bed
,
and
leave
me
there
in
the
pangs
of
death
.
The
Dogges
noise
was
done
,
and
there
began
another
in
my
guts
,
so
violent
,
that
to
stay
the
sudden
rumbling
of
a
flux
in
my
belly
,
which
the
apprehension
and
feare
had
moved
I
was
constrained
to
sneeze
thrice
,
&
with
the
force
of
my
sneezing
to
wrong
my
breeches
by
the
liberty
of
that
unjust
violence
.
These
two
noises
met
together
,
and
making
one
of
two
,
increast
so
much
the
force
,
that
it
made
all
at
table
rise
,
and
take
off
the
Candles
,
to
see
what
was
this
novelty
.
They
pulled
me
out
,
but
I
could
give
no
reason
that
could
be
heard
,
nor
humble
suing
that
could
be
admitted
,
so
I
remained
subject
to
the
rigour
of
their
vengeance
,
they
stript
me
starke
naked
and
binding
me
hand
and
foote
,
they
began
to
scorch
me
with
a
lighted
Torch
not
without
loud
laughing
,
and
after
they
had
satisfied
their
furious
passion
,
they
put
me
in
the
hands
of
Iustice
,
out
of
whose
power
I
escaped
signed
and
sealed
.
The
Mallettes
are
a
sort
of
theeves
who
hazard
themselves
upon
great
perills
and
inconveniences
,
for
they
are
made
up
in
a
bale
,
basket
or
dry
fat
,
faining
that
it
is
certaine
Marchandise
sent
over
,
which
they
make
some
one
or
other
of
their
friends
in
Marchants
apparell
carrie
from
one
house
to
another
,
that
when
night
commeth
and
every
one
being
fast
a
sleepe
,
he
cutteth
the
cloth
with
a
knife
,
hee
breaketh
forth
to
empty
the
house
.
I
was
one
of
those
when
the
fourth
disgrace
befell
me
,
because
a
friend
of
mine
having
counterfeited
to
have
foure
bales
to
be
laid
by
night
in
a
rich
goldsmithes
house
,
counsel'd
me
to
be
pack't
up
in
one
of
them
,
covering
the
sides
thereof
with
cloth
and
webs
of
fustian
.
The
goldsmith
made
no
difficultie
to
receive
them
,
forsomuch
as
he
had
not
them
i●
keeping
but
a
little
while
,
and
that
he
thought
,
if
the
owner
in
the
meane
time
should
happen
to
die
,
some
one
of
them
might
fall
to
his
share
,
so
he
made
them
to
be
laid
in
his
backe-shop
,
whereby
I
was
well
assured
to
worke
my
feate
.
I
waited
while
night
with
such
desires
as
that
plot
deserved
,
which
notwithstanding
fell
out
to
my
disgrace
;
for
three
or
foure
prentises
meeting
that
night
in
the
house
,
of
intention
to
tarrie
there
upon
occasion
of
the
bales
,
resolving
to
lay
them
together
,
and
lye
upon
them
.
After
supper
,
every
one
withdrew
himselfe
.
The
prentises
fitting
the
unhappy
bed
,
or
to
say
rather
,
the
bale
,
in
which
I
was
in
the
middle
of
the
others
,
on
which
they
began
to
sleepe
so
soundly
,
that
one
might
have
drawne
them
a
mile
and
never
awakened
them
.
I
being
impatient
of
the
exceeding
great
weight
that
I
felt
,
not
daring
to
stirre
my selfe
more
then
I
had
bin
dead
;
and
on
the
other
part
the
little
breath
that
I
had
,
being
choaked
,
I
began
to
stirre
my selfe
a
little
,
and
seeing
the
unmoveable
weight
of
that
which
was
on
me
;
I
certainly
beleeved
that
they
had
layd
a
bale
upon
me
;
with
which
imagination
,
and
the
extreme
anguish
that
I
suffred
,
I
drew
a
sharpe
knife
,
and
thrusting
it
up
,
I
made
a
great
hole
in
the
tillet
of
the
bale
,
and
a
huge
deepe
wound
in
the
buttocks
of
him
that
lay
upon
me
.
Hee
rose
like
a
thunder
raising
his
voyce
to
the
heavens
,
calling
for
neighbours
helpe
and
the
Iustices
aide
,
thinking
that
some
one
of
his
companions
would
have
kill'd
him
.
The
confused
noise
of
all
the
neighbours
,
and
the
alarum
was
so
great
,
that
ere
the
Master
of
the
house
had
lighted
a
candle
,
the
Iustice
beating
open
the
doore
came
in
,
and
finde
the
poore
wounded
fellow
in
his
shirt
bleed
and
faint
,
and
the
other
vexed
and
confounded
,
takes
the
deposition
of
him
that
was
wounded
never
taking
notice
of
the
bale
,
nor
comming
neere
it
,
thinking
that
it
was
not
needful
to
know
the
place
where
hee
was
hurt
.
But
the
goldsmith
,
who
attentively
hearkened
to
the
Iustice
,
and
beheld
the
circumstances
of
the
fact
,
seeing
the
poore-hurt
fellow
all
bloudie
,
supposed
that
the
bales
and
the
cloth
in
them
might
be
bloudy
and
spoil'd
and
he
bound
to
pay
them
,
and
with
this
unquietnesse
he
came
neere
to
looke
on
the
bale
,
and
seeing
it
cut
thrust
in
his
fingers
to
trie
if
nothing
was
spoil'd
,
and
he
mist
not
to
finde
my
bearde
.
I
could
very
well
have
bitten
him
if
I
had
thought
it
had
bin
the
best
of
my
play
,
but
I
lay
quiet
,
thinking
that
he
would
never
guesse
what
it
was
.
He
held
the
torch
nigher
to
the
hole
,
and
stooping
to
see
that
he
had
touch't
,
the
waxe
began
to
melt
and
drop
upon
my
face
,
which
forced
me
to
remove
a
little
,
and
him
to
marre
all
,
crying
aloud
.
Theeves
,
Theeves
.
The
Iudge
came
neere
,
who
was
yet
making
one
write
the
deposition
of
the
hurt
man
,
and
opening
the
bale
,
they
found
one
within
it
.
They
carried
me
to
prison
,
whence
I
came
out
at
the
seventh
day
after
at
a
cartes
taile
well
accompanied
,
beside
other
favours
that
they
did
me
,
whereof
the
greatest
was
to
condemne
me
to
the
gallies
.
All
the
aforesaid
Theeves
have
ordinarily
their
spies
at
Exchanges
,
Faires
and
common
Markets
,
viewing
all
that
goe
and
come
,
and
learning
what
money
they
carrie
,
how
much
,
and
in
what
sort
,
where
they
leave
it
,
and
in
what
hands
,
to
give
notice
thereof
to
the
companie
.
And
herein
there
is
such
diligence
,
and
so
great
care
,
that
there
commeth
not
any
stranger
to
the
towne
,
but
in
a
quarter
of
an
houre
after
he
is
registred
in
our
booke
with
all
his
qualities
:
to
wit
,
whence
becommeth
whither
hee
goeth
,
and
what
is
his
trafficke
:
and
if
there
be
any
negligence
herein
,
the
spies
that
have
these
places
of
the
Citie
in
their
charge
,
lose
the
profit
and
gaine
that
should
come
to
them
that
day
,
out
of
the
common
purse
,
beside
a
shamefull
reproofe
which
our
Captaine
giveth
them
in
presence
of
all
the
other
Theeves
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Wherein
the
Theefe
relateth
his
wittie
diligence
to
free
himselfe
out
of
the
Gallies
of
Marseiles
.
YOu
may
thinke
,
I
had
no
great
maw
to
that
journey
▪
which
these
Gentlemen
commanded
me
towards
Marseils
,
sith
there
could
be
no
pleasure
in
that
which
is
done
upon
constraint
.
Neverthelesse
I
obeyed
with
great
resolution
,
hoping
that
fortune
would
offer
some
good
occasion
to
set
me
at
libertie
:
so
all
my
studie
and
care
was
onely
to
finde
out
the
means
to
attaine
to
this
end
.
And
having
tried
many
which
came
to
no
effect
,
he
practized
one
which
might
have
hapned
well
,
if
fortune
had
bin
content
with
my
past
troubles
,
and
had
not
made
mee
fall
any
more
in
the
try
all
thereof
.
The
invention
then
was
on
this
wise
.
The
Captaine
of
the
Gallie
,
where
I
was
slave
,
being
exceedingly
in
love
with
a
Lady
of
good
ranke
,
and
she
in
no
wise
loving
him
,
hee
tried
all
meanes
(
though
impossible
)
to
bring
her
to
his
bow
,
and
as
is
usuall
with
Lovers
to
be
the
more
inflamed
when
they
finde
their
beloved
hard
to
be
won
,
the
Ladies
extreme
coldnesse
was
burning
coales
to
the
Captaine
,
in
such
sort
that
he
never
enjoyed
rest
but
when
he
was
talking
of
his
love
.
I
having
got
knowledge
by
the
report
of
a
slave
that
went
daily
to
my
Masters
house
,
there
to
carrie
water
,
wood
,
and
other
necessaries
,
determined
to
try
my
fortune
,
and
not
lose
the
occasion
.
So
I
spake
him
kindly
,
promising
him
that
if
he
would
faithfully
ayde
me
,
that
he
might
hope
assuredly
for
his
liberty
,
whereof
I
would
as
well
make
him
certaine
as
of
mine
own
.
The
good
Antony
,
(
for
so
the
slave
was
called
,
)
put
so
much
trust
in
my
words
,
hearing
me
speake
of
libertie
which
I
had
promist
him
,
that
waited
but
for
the
houre
to
be
employed
in
that
which
I
did
intreate
him
,
and
he
thought
there
was
not
time
enough
;
hoping
with
great
impatience
,
that
I
should
declare
to
him
that
which
he
was
to
doe
for
me
:
who
seeing
him
so
well
minded
on
my
behalfe
,
and
otherwise
sillie
,
faithfull
and
true
,
I
shewed
him
my
resolution
,
recommending
to
him
secrecie
,
and
wisedome
above
all
things
.
I
said
thus
unto
him
,
My
friend
Antony
,
know
that
it
is
long
since
I
have
desired
to
impart
a
secret
to
thee
,
which
I
will
tell
thee
of
:
but
as
all
things
require
wisedome
,
patience
,
and
the
occasion
,
I
have
not
done
till
now
;
because
I
thought
it
not
fitting
till
now
to
do
it
:
as
also
,
because
not
being
so
satisfied
(
as
I
am
this
present
)
of
thy
goodnesse
,
seeing
,
as
the
Proverb
saith
,
one
should
eate
a
bushell
of
salt
with
his
friend
ere
he
trust
him
.
Thou
knowest
well
our
Masters
love
with
this
Lady
that
dwelleth
by
the
great
Church
,
and
how
much
he
is
out
of
kelter
for
her
,
yet
never
having
received
one
favour
of
her
,
after
so
long
time
spent
in
her
service
,
and
so
many
Duckets
spent
in
vaine
for
love
of
her
.
Now
if
I
should
finde
a
meane
and
assured
invention
,
to
make
him
without
the
spending
of
one
shilling
,
or
troubling
her
doores
enjoy
his
pleasure
,
what
reckoning
would
the
Captain
make
of
this
service
,
and
what
reward
would
he
give
him
who
should
bestow
on
him
that
which
he
so
earnestly
desireth
?
Verily
(
answered
Antonie
)
I
hold
for
certaine
that
he
would
turne
foole
at
his
contentment
,
and
not
only
would
he
give
thee
thy
libertie
,
but
also
to
all
those
for
whom
thou
shalt
aske
.
Go
to
friend
,
said
I
,
if
thou
hast
any
particular
acquaintance
with
some
one
of
them
who
are
most
familiar
and
best
liked
in
the
Captaines
house
,
thou
must
acquaint
him
with
this
businesse
,
that
he
may
tell
him
,
and
assure
him
that
I
will
doubtlesse
doe
that
I
promise
,
and
I
counsell
thee
that
it
be
not
delayed
.
The
content
which
Antony
received
was
so
great
,
that
without
bidding
me
farewell
,
nor
answering
me
one
word
,
he
went
from
me
like
a
lightning
,
intreating
a
souldier
o●
the
Gallie
,
that
he
would
bring
him
into
the
Captaines
house
,
to
talke
with
him
of
a
matter
of
great
importance
.
He
was
there
,
and
could
give
order
for
my
businesse
,
that
halfe
an
houre
after
,
the
Governour
of
the
house
came
to
the
Master
of
the
Gallie
,
charging
him
to
send
me
with
a
souldier
to
the
Captaine
,
because
he
would
see
me
.
The
quicke
effect
which
Antonies
diligence
wrought
,
gave
me
extreme
great
contentment
,
and
made
me
hope
that
so
good
a
beginning
would
bring
my
designes
to
a
happie
end
.
Finally
,
I
was
at
my
Captaines
house
,
tattard
,
torne
,
and
naked
,
and
with
a
great
chaine
tyed
to
my
foote
.
He
comming
to
meete
me
,
as
if
I
had
bin
a
man
of
great
ranke
,
and
lay●ng
his
hand
upon
my
shaven
head
,
began
to
talke
kindly
to
me
,
asking
me
what
country-man
I
was
,
what
was
my
name
,
and
why
I
was
condemned
to
the
Gallies
.
And
I
having
answered
him
in
a
dissembling
manner
,
and
lying
the
best
I
could
,
he
drew
me
aside
,
to
a
corner
of
the
Chamber
,
asking
if
that
which
Antony
had
promist
him
,
was
certaine
,
Sir
,
answered
I
him
,
I
know
not
what
he
hath
said
,
nor
what
promise
he
hath
made
,
yet
I
will
tell
you
,
that
if
he
hath
spoken
according
to
that
which
I
told
him
,
all
is
true
,
without
failing
one
tittle
.
Sir
,
I
told
him
,
that
if
you
would
promise
to
release
me
out
of
this
distresse
which
I
indure
,
and
to
give
me
my
libertie
freely
and
wholly
,
I
should
make
you
injoy
the
love
which
you
desire
with
so
great
passion
and
which
so
torments
you
,
I
promise
you
moreover
and
assure
you
,
that
making
this
condition
with
you
,
if
I
performe
not
my
promise
you
shall
my
head
cut
off
,
or
throw
me
into
the
sea
.
Thou
bindest
thy selfe
greatly
(
said
he
with
a
smiling
countenance
,
alreadie
desirous
to
see
the
effect
of
my
promise
)
but
if
thou
art
a
man
of
so
great
knowledge
and
skill
,
that
thou
canst
doe
this
for
me
,
this
Gallie
wherin
thou
art
shall
be
thy
fortune
,
for
I
shall
not
onely
be
content
to
give
thee
thy
libertie
but
I
will
make
thee
one
of
my
houshold
servants
,
and
the
best
respected
of
them
all
.
But
tell
me
,
after
what
manner
canst
thou
doe
it
?
Sir
,
you
shall
know
(
said
I
)
that
I
was
bred
with
a
great
Astrologer
,
who
under
pretence
to
cast
Horoscops
and
Nativities
dissembled
his
Magicke
with
so
great
craft
,
that
there
was
not
any
one
in
the
world
that
suspected
him
.
He
made
use
of
me
in
some
of
magicall
experiences
,
supposing
because
I
was
young
and
of
a
dull
wit
I
would
understand
nothing
of
the
secrets
of
his
Art
.
But
he
was
deceived
there
,
because
though
I
seemed
foolish
and
ignorant
,
yet
I
had
an
eye
on
all
his
tryalls
,
and
I
studied
them
so
well
,
that
many
love
secrets
stucke
in
my
memorie
,
●mongst
which
I
have
one
most
certaine
and
approved
,
with
which
if
a
woman
were
harder
then
the
Adamant
,
I
will
make
her
softer
then
the
waxe
.
In
such
sort
that
the
secret
which
I
propound
to
you
is
Magicall
,
not
naturall
,
and
it
is
requisite
to
have
some
haires
of
the
party
beloved
,
to
put
it
in
execution
;
with
which
,
and
with
some
Ceremonies
that
must
be
performed
,
the
Gentlewomans
heart
will
be
so
set
on
fire
,
that
she
shall
take
no
rest
,
but
when
she
is
with
or
thinketh
of
her
beloved
.
Notwithstanding
this
must
be
done
in
the
night
,
at
the
waxing
of
the
Moone
,
and
in
the
fields
,
there
being
but
only
three
in
the
companie
,
and
these
stout
and
resolute
,
that
cannot
be
dismaied
nor
frighted
,
fall
out
what
may
,
or
whatsoever
they
see
.
If
,
saith
the
Captaine
,
that
to
further
the
businesse
there
needeth
no
other
thing
but
a
good
heart
,
we
shall
easily
have
our
desire
,
for
though
all
Hell
should
stand
before
me
,
it
were
notable
to
make
me
give
backe
so
much
as
one
step
,
nor
once
to
change
my
colour
,
or
countenance
:
and
for
the
haires
that
thou
hast
mentioned
,
I
will
give
thee
as
much
as
thou
shalt
desire
.
I
know
Sir
,
(
answered
I
)
by
your
face
that
your
naturall
inclination
is
very
fit
for
Magicke
,
and
if
you
had
studied
it
,
you
would
worke
wonders
by
it
.
So
now
seeing
the
time
favoureth
us
,
and
that
you
have
the
Ladies
haire
,
let
us
not
suffer
this
waxing
of
the
Moone
to
passe
with
bringing
our
businesse
to
passe
.
You
may
goe
out
on
horsebacke
,
and
he
also
that
shall
accompanie
you
,
as
for
me
,
though
ill
bestead
with
the
weight
of
this
chaine
,
I
will
not
forbeare
to
goe
a
foote
.
All
shall
be
in
readinesse
(
saith
the
Captaine
)
against
thursday
night
,
&
sith
experience
hath
made
thee
Master
in
this
Art
,
prepare
thee
well
and
studie
that
which
thou
oughtest
to
doe
,
to
the
end
that
our
designe
may
not
be
lost
by
negligence
or
little
care
;
and
for
the
present
get
thee
backe
to
the
Gallie
;
for
I
will
send
to
thee
by
the
governour
of
my
house
who
shall
be
the
●hird
of
our
companie
,
a
faithfull
man
,
couragious
&
valiant
,
and
if
there
neede
any
thing
to
this
purpose
,
thou
maist
in
the
meane
time
provide
thee
,
for
I
will
take
order
that
all
be
paid
that
thou
shalt
buy
.
With
this
good
answer
I
parted
from
my
Master
more
joyfull
and
merrie
then
the
flourishing
Spring
seeing
my
businesse
thrive
so
well
at
so
good
a
passe
,
and
being
returned
to
the
Gallie
I
found
my
good
Antony
,
who
waited
for
me
with
great
impatience
to
know
what
I
had
bargain'd
with
the
Captaine
,
and
upon
what
termes
my
affaires
stood
,
to
whom
I
related
all
that
we
had
agreed
upon
,
and
the
kindnesse
that
he
received
me
withall
in
accepting
my
promise
,
assuring
him
that
when
I
was
in
favour
,
the
next
thing
I
asked
should
be
his
libertie
.
Hardly
had
I
begun
my
discourse
,
but
I
perceiued
the
Governour
of
the
Captaines
house
entring
the
Gallie
,
his
visage
inflamed
,
his
eyes
staring
and
dansing
,
and
he
running
,
as
he
had
quickesilver
in
his
heeles
,
asked
where
I
was
,
and
having
perceived
me
,
and
drawne
me
aside
,
he
said
to
me
,
I
am
Governour
of
the
house
to
the
Captaine
of
this
Gallie
,
who
hath
commanded
me
to
come
hither
,
and
to
know
of
thee
all
that
shall
be
necessarie
for
the
businesse
that
you
talked
of
,
dispose
and
appoint
at
thy
pleasure
,
for
I
have
money
for
all
,
and
because
that
I
may
offer
thee
something
in
my
own
behalfe
,
take
this
crown
of
gold
which
I
give
thee
as
a
token
of
that
friendship
which
shall
be
between
us
,
and
I
assure
thee
that
thou
shalt
have
a
good
friend
of
me
at
the
Captains
hands
.
But
as
reason
would
thou
must
answer
me
with
mutuall
acknowledgment
,
in
doing
some
thing
for
me
.
You
shall
binde
me
much
Sir
,
(
I
answered
him
then
very
humbly
,
)
having
disparaged
your selfe
so
much
in
regard
of
him
,
who
is
so
farre
unequall
:
consider
in
what
my
weakenesse
and
my
povertie
can
serve
you
;
for
I
will
performe
it
with
all
my
soule
.
I
will
not
,
saith
the
Governor
,
that
thou
hazard
thy
soule
,
because
it
is
Gods
,
but
I
would
faine
intreat
thee
,
that
with
thy
fecrets
and
thy
skill
thou
wouldst
helpe
me
to
purchase
the
favour
of
a
Gentlewoman
of
good
ranke
whom
I
have
loved
now
these
five
yeares
,
and
because
I
am
of
somewhat
a
meaner
condition
then
she
there
is
no
meane
to
make
her
heare
me
,
and
if
it
were
possible
to
give
two
blowes
with
one
stone
it
would
be
be
an
extreme
great
contentment
to
me
,
&
thou
shouldst
binde
me
to
thee
,
not
only
as
a
friend
,
but
as
a
slave
.
Now
the
Moone
is
waxing
,
and
the
time
very
fit
,
so
that
I
thinke
there
is
no
neede
to
make
any
more
ceremonies
for
my
mistresse
than
for
the
Captaines
,
and
if
you
must
have
of
her
haire
,
see
here
are
some
,
for
it
is
above
a
yeare
that
I
carried
them
about
me
,
keeping
them
as
reliques
.
And
drawing
a
paper
out
of
his
pocket
put
one
of
her
locks
into
my
hand
.
I
who
desired
no
other
thing
but
that
the
third
of
our
companie
should
be
also
so
besotted
,
that
the
businesse
might
fall
out
well
,
I
was
in
a
manner
beside
my selfe
with
contentment
,
which
I
could
not
hide
nor
dissemble
without
shewing
some
signes
in
my
countenance
of
being
troubled
,
by
which
he
tooke
occasion
to
aske
me
what
it
was
that
troubled
me
.
To
whom
I
answer'd
,
Sir
,
I
feare
that
if
the
Captaine
should
know
that
I
doe
any
thing
for
you
he
would
be
vexed
with
me
,
and
I
should
lose
this
good
opportunitie
in
which
lyeth
no
lesse
then
my
libertie
;
this
consideration
is
that
which
troubleth
me
,
not
want
of
desire
to
serve
you
.
And
who
will
tell
it
him
,
saith
he
then
?
The
Divell
,
answered
I
,
that
never
sleepes
,
but
happen
what
may
,
I
am
resolved
to
serve
you
,
though
I
should
lose
the
Captaines
good-will
,
seeing
it
is
the
first
thing
that
you
have
commanded
me
.
As
for
that
which
concernes
the
Captains
busines
&
yours
,
you
must
buy
a
new
sacke
,
a
small
corde
,
and
another
bigge
one
of
Hempe
,
foure
ells
long
,
a
new
knife
,
a
chaine
and
a
brush
,
and
these
you
shall
buy
without
making
any
price
,
that
is
to
say
,
that
you
shall
give
for
them
whatsoever
the
Marchant
shall
aske
without
beating
of
the
price
:
and
assure
your selfe
,
that
within
a
seven-night
,
you
shall
enjoy
your
love
with
great
liberty
.
Thou
givest
me
greater
content
with
this
answer
,
saith
the
Governour
of
the
house
,
than
if
the
King
had
given
me
a
pension
of
a
thousand
crownes
a
yeare
,
doe
that
which
thou
promisest
,
&
thou
shall
see
what
I
will
doe
for
thee
.
And
embracing
me
kindly
he
went
away
full
of
hope
and
joy
,
leaving
me
the
most
contented
man
of
the
world
,
seeing
that
if
in
this
prison
I
had
sought
an
occason
which
might
have
fallen
out
better
for
my
ease
,
it
had
bin
impossible
for
me
to
finde
it
,
for
as
well
my
Captaine
as
the
Governour
of
the
house
were
so
blinded
besotted
and
fool'd
,
that
if
I
should
have
call'd
the
day
night
they
would
have
beleeved
it
.
On
the
contrarie
my
heart
throb'd
a
thousand
waies
,
considering
into
what
a
maze
I
should
thrust
my selfe
,
if
the
businesse
succeeded
not
,
neverthelesse
I
made
a
vertue
of
necessitie
,
using
that
remedie
which
is
ordinarie
with
these
that
are
in
any
extremity
,
which
is
boldnesse
and
resolution
.
With
this
good
courage
I
waited
for
the
Thursday
,
which
came
more
joyfull
and
fairer
then
the
Spring
,
though
it
was
slow
,
because
of
the
desire
they
had
to
injoy
their
Mistresses
,
and
mine
to
get
out
of
the
harbour
by
the
cheating
trickes
that
I
put
upon
them
,
it
seem'd
to
us
the
longest
day
of
all
the
yeare
.
Every
time
the
clocke
struck
,
they
despaired
,
fearing
to
misse
the
telling
of
the
houres
,
as
these
do
who
hope
for
a
thing
that
they
earnestly
desire
;
and
after
this
care
they
were
in
anextacie
considering
what
they
would
do
in
the
possession
of
their
loves
,
as
if
they
had
alreadie
verily
past
the
night
and
overcome
the
difficulty
.
This
doubting
and
hammering
of
theirs
served
me
well
to
my
purpose
,
that
they
might
not
perceive
the
gulleries
that
I
put
upon
them
,
and
the
smoake
that
I
sold
them
.
Whereby
I
finde
that
those
who
paint
Love
blinde
,
have
great
good
reason
for
them
,
because
that
,
if
they
not
bin
so
,
they
would
have
perceived
all
my
promises
to
be
nothing
but
winde
,
and
that
the
meanes
which
I
propounded
to
them
were
for
no
other
end
but
to
gull
.
them
.
CHAP.
X.
In
which
he
proceedeth
to
relate
his
invention
,
begun
with
some
discourses
of
Love
,
between
the
Governour
of
the
house
and
this
Gallie-slave
.
THe
night
being
come
which
be
a
day
for
me
,
inlightning
the
heaven
with
infinite
numbers
of
starres
so
bright
and
resplendent
,
that
they
dazeled
the
light
of
the
day
,
and
filled
my
soule
with
joy
:
when
my
honest
Governour
enters
the
Gallie
,
brave
,
Gallant
and
clothed
with
the
best
apparell
that
he
had
,
because
that
amongst
other
directions
that
I
had
given
as
well
to
him
as
to
his
Master
,
the
chiefe
was
that
they
should
be
fine
&
brave
,
as
being
a
thing
most
requisite
and
necessarie
for
Magick
skill
;
and
having
saluted
me
with
close
embracements
he
said
to
me
,
friend
,
that
thou
maist
know
that
I
can
doe
what
I
will
at
the
Captaines
hands
,
and
that
I
want
not
goodwill
to
help
thee
,
thou
shalt
know
that
through
my
intreatie
he
gives
thee
leave
to
leave
off
thy
chaine
for
this
night
,
and
it
may
be
,
for
ever
,
that
thou
maist
walke
with
greater
libertie
,
and
performe
thy
businesse
and
what
is
〈…〉
though
the
Captaine
〈◊〉
●ome
difficultie
,
I
dea●t
so
earnestly
that
I
obtained
this
favour
in
earnest
of
that
which
I
desire
to
do
〈…〉
.
I
who
then
was
more
knavish
and
more
dissembled
then
foolish
,
fell
into
some
suspition
imagining
that
this
liberalitie
offered
ere
it
was
desired
,
was
fained
,
and
but
only
to
try
me
,
wherfore
I
answered
him
,
Sir
I
thanke
you
for
the
care
you
have
had
of
me
obtaining
of
my
Master
that
he
will
take
off
my
chaine
,
a
favour
which
I
would
kindly
accept
,
if
it
were
possible
,
but
it
is
not
,
because
I
must
not
change
the
estate
that
I
〈◊〉
in
,
nor
one
point
of
that
which
is
of
my
estate
;
it
being
necessarie
that
he
,
who
shall
make
this
tryall
,
must
make
in
the
same
estate
&
apparell
that
he
is
accustomed
to
weare
:
and
so
I
may
not
goe
but
in
mine
owne
clothes
〈◊〉
with
the
chaine
because
otherwise
we
shall
do
nothing
.
The
Governour
was
not
a
little
contented
with
my
answer
,
being
assured
that
there
was
in
me
no
kinde
of
deceite
nor
malice
,
but
the
pure
and
simple
truth
,
&
pittying
me
beleeved
assuredly
,
that
there
was
more
passion
in
my
words
then
Iustice
,
he
embraced
me
the
second
time
saying
,
friend
,
God
who
is
wont
to
give
the
salve
according
to
the
wound
,
hath
brought
thee
to
this
Gallie
,
that
by
it
thou
mightst
come
to
the
knowledge
of
my
Master
,
and
enjoy
the
speciall
favours
which
thou
shouldst
promise
to
thy selfe
from
his
liberalitie
,
if
the
businesse
fall
out
well
.
How
well
?
answered
I
him
,
hath
the
Captaine
any
suspition
that
I
would
deceive
him
?
No
by
the
world
answer'd
the
Governour
,
seeing
that
though
thou
wouldst
doe
it
,
thou
couldst
not
:
but
it
is
the
great
desire
that
we
both
have
to
soften
the
hardnesse
of
these
she-Tygers
,
and
to
turne
them
to
our
love
,
that
makes
us
thinke
that
impossible
which
is
easie
for
thee
to
doe
,
and
this
is
usuall
amongst
Lovers
.
I
never
was
one
,
(
answer'd
I
,
and
though
I
should
be
more
in
love
then
was
●arcissus
,
I
should
never
purswade
my selfe
that
day
were
night
,
that
〈…〉
,
and
other
fantasticall
imaginations
,
that
haunt
Lovers
,
which
rather
may
be
called
follies
and
idle
thoughts
then
love
passions
.
It
well
appeareth
that
his
darts
have
not
strucke
thee
,
saith
the
Governour
,
for
if
thou
hadst
tried
them
,
thou
wouldst
not
have
spoken
with
so
great
freedome
and
so
little
trouble
.
Know
friend
,
that
Physitians
ranke
this
disease
amongst
Melancholi●e
passions
,
into
which
the
diseased
falleth
,
beleeving
that
which
is
not
,
and
framing
a
thousand
phantasies
and
visions
which
have
no
other
ground
but
their
perverse
and
corrupt
imagination
,
which
workes
the
same
effect
in
Lovers
,
giving
them
an
impression
of
jealouse
,
to
an
other
of
disdaine
,
to
an
other
of
favour
,
making
a
mountaine
of
nothing
,
all
which
is
bred
of
a
burning
desire
which
they
have
to
possesse
that
which
they
love
.
But
to
be
willing
to
perswade
this
unto
him
who
hath
not
tried
it
,
is
to
desire
to
draw
water
with
a
sive
,
and
to
weight
the
earth
,
I
am
no
Doctor
,
Master
Governour
,
I
answer'd
him
,
nor
yet
Batcehler
,
because
being
left
yong
,
friendlesse
and
poore
,
I
lived
also
without
knowledge
,
having
only
foure
words
of
Latin
.
Neverthelesse
by
the
use
of
reason
well
knowen
of
all
sciences
,
I
understood
the
smal
reason
that
Lovers
have
to
be
so
oft
troubled
upon
so
small
occasion
as
they
are
troubled
,
because
of
necessitie
their
affections
tend
to
two
points
,
to
wit
,
that
the
woman
must
be
good
or
evil
faithfull
or
disloyall
.
If
she
be
good
,
faithfull
&
answerable
to
your
affection
in
mutuall
love
,
it
is
a
great
follie
to
be
jealous
over
her
:
if
she
be
unfaithfull
and
known
for
such
a
one
,
there
needs
no
other
counsel
,
but
not
to
trust
her
nor
love
her
.
Whence
may
be
concluded
that
all
the
accidents
to
which
you
say
lovers
are
subject
,
are
the
overflowings
of
follie
,
and
wants
of
wit
,
it
being
a
notable
extravagancie
to
love
one
that
hateth
,
this
being
supposed
that
hatred
cannot
be
the
subject
of
love
,
nor
love
of
hatred
,
seeing
we
ordinarily
love
them
that
bind
us
thereto
by
their
love
.
If
it
went
by
experience
,
saith
the
Governor
thou
wilt
lose
thy
cause
,
because
usually
they
●ate
these
that
love
them
best
,
taking
the
fight
of
a
dying
man
for
the
occasion
of
their
hate
,
and
it
is
a
voice
in
them
now
a
dayes
turned
in●o
a
nature
,
to
shun
those
that
follow
them
,
and
to
abhorre
those
who
adore
them
,
as
the
Captaine
and
I
have
hitherto
made
a
long
and
unhappy
tryall
.
Thinke
not
so
Master
Governour
,
I
answer'd
,
that
you
have
made
a
good
conclusion
;
for
if
you
will
have
the
patience
to
●eare
me
,
I
will
make
you
see
clearely
in
what
your
arguments
faile
,
and
know
that
love
ceaseth
not
to
love
nor
hatred
to
hate
,
there
being
no
〈◊〉
of
nature
,
and
he
that
foster'd
you
in
this
philosophy
,
hath
fed
you
with
〈◊〉
milke
,
because
that
Lo●●
alone
not
being
accompanie●
with
other
circumstances
,
which
are
to
be
proportio●nable
and
reasonable
is
no●
all
the
motive
of
an
other
love
.
That
Princesse
of
noble
bloud
should
be
tyed
to
love
a
Porter
,
that
dieth
for
her
,
onely
because
he
adoreth
her
.
I
deny
your
proposition
,
she
is
no
wise
bound
to
doe
it
,
nor
her
well
to
affect
him
,
the
object
that
might
move
her
not
being
in
him
.
As
a
Prince
hateth
to
the
death
a
poore
damsell
,
because
she
depiseth
him
,
being
unwilling
to
give
consent
to
his
wanton
love
,
whence
it
may
be
gathered
that
neither
the
Porters
love
〈◊〉
in
any
case
tye
the
Prin●●sse
wil
,
nor
Damsels
scorne
●all
breed
hatred
in
the
●rinces
minde
.
Seeing
that
〈◊〉
love
is
found
the
good
,
〈◊〉
profit
and
pleasure
which
〈◊〉
the
hookes
with
which
〈◊〉
will
is
taken
,
then
it
is
〈◊〉
motive
of
love
,
and
the
●ady
shal
not
be
able
to
hate
●im
,
who
loveth
her
upon
●hese
conditions
,
but
therein
●eing
unequalitie
and
disho●our
,
she
may
do
it
.
You
shall
more
clearely
perceive
this
〈◊〉
hatred
,
because
when
a
man
dieth
for
a
Gentle-woman
,
&
she
hates
him
exceedingly
,
this
hate
is
not
that
which
inflames
his
love
,
but
the
account
she
makes
of
her
honour
&
the
feare
of
shame
if
she
should
consent
to
the
pleasure
of
him
that
loveth
her
,
which
consideration
makes
her
coole
and
backward
and
him
extreamely
passionate
.
Whence
it
is
concluded
,
that
the
woman
offendeth
not
in
hating
him
that
worships
her
,
nor
any
man
ought
to
hate
such
a
woman
that
disdaineth
him
.
This
thy
Philosophie
,
my
friend
,
answered
the
Governour
,
is
framed
of
moe
words
than
learning
,
and
I
could
refute
it
by
plaine
reasons
,
if
time
did
afford
't
is
leasure
,
but
the
houre
is
already
come
,
&
the
Captaine
will
looke
for
us
,
only
I
would
intreate
thee
to
be
mindfull
of
me
as
a
friend
,
making
thy
inchantment
of
equall
power
with
the
crueltie
of
the
Gentlewoman
of
whom
I
have
spoken
to
thee
.
Away
with
this
care
,
Sir
,
answerd
I
,
for
I
will
doe
it
in
such
sort
,
that
though
your
Mistresse
were
harder-hear●ed
&
more
frozen
then
the
Alpes
,
she
should
be
turned
into
a
Mountaine
of
fire
,
hotter
then
Mount
Aetna
of
Sicile
.
I
beleeve
so
,
said
the
Governour
,
but
I
cannot
chuse
but
wonder
why
thou
being
so
cunning
a
fellow
didst
not
enchant
the
Iudge
to
be
in
love
with
thee
and
not
have
condemned
thee
to
the
Gallies
.
If
this
secret
were
good
for
a
man
,
said
I
,
a
hundred
yeares
a
goe
I
had
bin
a
Duke
or
a
Governour
of
some
Province
,
if
I
had
not
bin
a
Monarch
.
It
is
not
good
but
for
women
,
because
he
that
first
found
it
out
,
gave
it
this
vertue
only
.
That
alone
sufficeth
me
,
saith
the
Governour
,
if
with
it
I
can
soften
that
ad●●mant
,
but
with
the
hope
that
thou
hast
given
me
,
I
hold
the
victorie
as
certaine
,
and
I
hinder
my selfe
that
I
doe
not
see
to
morrow
already
.
With
these
words
we
came
to
the
other
side
of
the
harbour
where
my
kinde
Captain
waited
for
us
with
great
impatience
and
unquietnesse
,
by
whom
I
was
very
well
received
,
&
he
asking
me
why
the
Governour
had
not
taken
off
my
chaine
,
as
he
had
charged
him
,
I
answered
him
the
same
things
,
which
I
had
before
answered
the
Governour
,
wherewith
he
was
exceeding
wel
contented
.
They
leapt
both
on
horse
backe
,
&
I
followed
them
at
leasure
,
because
of
the
waight
of
my
chaine
,
and
being
about
a
●●ague
from
Marselles
we
●●rived
at
the
place
appointed
.
They
lighted
down
,
and
●ying
their
horses
at
a
tree
,
we
with
drew
our selves
to
●●ther
to
the
place
where
our
●●yall
was
to
be
made
,
&
taking
them
with
some
necessary
ceremonies
,
and
telling
them
what
they
should
say
,
I
●●ade
a
Circle
on
the
ground
whispering
I
cannot
tell
what
strange
and
uncouth
words
,
and
turning
my selfe
often
,
sometimes
towards
the
East
,
sometimes
to
the
West
,
with
some
ceremonies
so
unusuall
,
that
they
made
the
Captaine
and
his
Governor
of
the
house
both
of
them
〈◊〉
and
fearefull
.
At
haffe
an
houres
end
after
that
I
had
gone
turning
about
like
a
foole
,
I
made
the
Captaine
goe
within
it
,
charging
him
to
say
after
me
,
who
was
so
obedient
and
so
forward
to
all
that
I
would
have
him
,
that
if
I
had
then
cut
off
his
mustaches
,
he
would
have
beleeved
that
it
was
needfull
for
the
inchantment
.
I
made
him
strip
himselfe
,
teaching
him
to
say
certaine
words
to
every
parcell
of
his
clothes
which
he
put
off
,
which
he
pronounced
so
exactly
that
he
lost
not
one
syllable
,
beleeving
that
if
he
had
missed
in
one
jote
he
should
have
marred
all
this
businesse
,
With
this
ceremonie
I
stript
him
to
his
shirt
,
he
never
making
any
shew
of
feare
no●
suspition
,
being
assured
that
he
was
safe
enough
by
the
presence
of
the
Governour
,
who
was
much
astonisht
to
〈◊〉
them
finish'd
,
it
seeming
to
him
that
there
should
neither
b●
time
enough
nor
inchant●ent
sufficient
for
himselfe
.
Pitty
so
moved
my
heart
that
I
could
not
take
off
his
shirt
,
●aving
compassion
of
his
in●●cencie
,
because
it
was
then
the
coldest
time
of
all
the
winter
,
and
either
through
●eare
or
cold
,
such
a
vehe●●●
quivering
and
shaking
●f
all
his
joynts
tooke
him
,
●ith
such
a
chattering
of
his
〈◊〉
,
that
the
noise
thereof
〈◊〉
Have
bin
heard
halfe
a
〈◊〉
from
the
place
.
I
〈◊〉
and
encouraged
him
,
with
the
shortnesse
and
quick
〈◊〉
of
the
inchantment
,
〈…〉
assured
possession
of
〈◊〉
love
,
injoyning
him
in
〈◊〉
meane
time
to
be
silent
,
〈◊〉
telling
him
that
if
he
spake
but
one
word
,
we
should
be
presently
in
lesse
then
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
all
of
us
in
Barbary
.
He
then
being
in
this
plight
,
that
is
to
to
say
,
naked
in
his
shirt
,
I
gave
him
a
knife
in
his
hand
,
commanding
him
to
make
some
stabs
towards
the
foure
quarters
of
the
world
,
at
every
one
uttering
some
words
,
&
〈◊〉
the
conclusion
I
made
him
goe
into
the
sacke
.
That
which
I
then
saw
with
mine
eyes
was
a
wonder
&
a
miracle
of
God
,
because
I
alwai●●
imagined
,
that
as
he
was
going
into
the
sacke
he
should
suspect
something
,
&
that
〈◊〉
mine
invention
should
〈…〉
nothing
:
but
a
little
〈…〉
not
more
obedient
〈…〉
●●ilde
than
he
was
,
〈◊〉
that
without
any
resistan●●
or
shew
of
mistrust
,
he
went
in
,
being
still
assured
by
the
presence
of
his
Governour
,
and
the
ignorance
he
had
of
his
loves
;
Which
was
good
for
me
;
for
if
he
had
known
that
the
Governour
was
to
be
inchanted
also
,
he
had
never
gone
into
the
sacke
.
Finally
having
packed
up
the
poore
Captain
,
I
laid
him
along
upon
the
ground
with
his
belly
upwards
,
tying
the
sacks
mouth
with
a
cord
that
was
by
me
,
&
speaking
sti●●
to
the
Governor
to
encourage
him
,
and
wishing
him
to
have
patience
a
quarter
of
an
houre
the
enchantment
was
to
last
.
So
having
left
him
in
this
ta●ing
,
the
Governour
and
I
went
aside
about
a
stones
cas●
who
said
to
me
in
an
exceeding
great
pelting
chafe
,
I
wil
lay
a
wager
that
thou
hast
forgotten
something
of
my
businesse
,
for
here
I
see
neither
sacke
nor
knife
for
me
,
as
for
the
Captaine
.
Here
is
no
need
of
a
sacke
,
said
I
,
because
your
Magicall
experiences
are
made
stronger
or
weaker
,
according
to
the
greater
or
lesser
cruelty
that
Gentle
women
have
:
and
the
Captaines
being
exceeding
disdainfull
,
I
have
made
the
enchantment
of
a
sacke
for
her
which
is
the
strongest
of
all
.
Oh!
brother
,
saith
the
Governor
,
what
is
this
that
thou
hast
done
?
mine
is
hard-hearted
,
disdainfull
a
Tyger
and
a
Lyonesse
:
for
the
Captaines
,
though
she
loves
him
not
,
notwithstanding
shewes
him
some
favour
,
and
if
it
goes
by
disdaine
,
we
neede
a
hundred
sackes
,
not
one
only
what
shall
we
doe
?
Be
quiet
Master
Governor
,
said
I
then
seeing
him
afflicted
,
for
there
is
a
remedy
for
all
but
deaths
for
that
which
is
not
in
one
threed
shall
be
in
a
hundred
.
I
will
make
with
the
haires
and
the
cords
a
hanke
which
shall
have
no
lesse
force
then
the
Captaines
sacke
,
and
for
as
much
as
your
Mistresse
is
so
cruel
as
you
say
,
I
wil
adde
thereto
a
small
matter
which
shall
make
her
,
that
she
shall
never
be
able
to
take
rest
while
she
see
you
.
It
is
that
which
I
looke
for
,
myfriend
,
answerd
hee
,
let
us
martyr
her
in
such
sort
,
that
my
love
may
torment
her
thoughts
&
her
memory
,
&
performe
my
businesse
quickly
,
before
my
Masters
be
ended
.
Speaking
thus
we
came
to
the
roo●e
of
a
tree
,
the
place
at
which
I
had
told
him
that
his
inchantment
should
be
made
,
and
in
an
instant
making
a
circle
,
&
●eaching
him
what
he
should
doe
,
I
made
him
goe
into
it
starke
naked
to
the
skin
,
because
I
had
neede
of
a
shirt
.
Having
him
there
in
this
fashion
,
I
tooke
his
Mistresse
haires
,
&
twisting
them
with
a
cord
I
made
a
big
roule
,
with
which
I
tyed
his
hands
to
the
stumpe
of
a
tree
,
shewing
him
the
mysterie
that
was
hid
in
every
ceremonie
,
&
I
would
faine
also
have
tied
his
feete
,
if
I
had
not
feared
that
hee
should
have
suspected
this
to
be
rather
the
fact
of
a
Robber
then
of
a
Magitian
,
but
as
his
hands
were
enough
for
my
purpose
I
would
do
no
more
.
Finally
having
made
than
〈…〉
bound
,
defended
from
the
sharpnes
of
the
cold
aire
with
the
onely
fire
of
Love
,
that
burned
in
their
heart
,
there
was
no
body
that
could
hinder
me
to
give
two
or
three
knocks
at
the
lock
of
my
chaine
with
a
hammer
that
I
carried
in
my
pocket
and
taking
their
horses
and
clothes
I
got
me
out
of
sight
&
,
being
armed
like
〈◊〉
S.
George
I
tooke
〈…〉
high
way
to
Lions
.
CHAP.
XI
.
In
which
the
Theefe
〈◊〉
the
disgrace
that
happen●d
to
him
,
about
a
〈◊〉
of
Pearle
.
WIth
the
victorie
of
this
dangerous
journey
,
I
tooke
the
high
way
towards
the
town
of
Lyons
,
joyfull
to
see
my self
free
,
&
the
owner
of
foure
and
twentie
double
pistolls
,
which
I
found
by
the
hazard
in
my
Masters
pockets
with
which
and
with
their
clothes
being
brave
&
gallant
I
went
into
the
towne
,
&
falling
in
love
with
as
many
brave
Dames
as
were
there
:
I
talked
of
love
to
all
that
I
met
with
,
and
receiving
particular
favours
of
some
,
because
my
presence
and
my
clothes
assured
them
that
I
was
a
man
of
some
great
house
and
of
good
ranke
.
True
it
is
that
to
keep
them
in
this
errour
,
and
to
hold
my selfe
in
the
good
account
with
which
I
had
be
gun
,
I
oftentimes
visited
the
Merchants
of
greatest
credit
,
telling
them
,
that
I
lookt
for
some
Merchandise
from
Venice
,
and
promising
to
deale
with
,
I
made
them
in
love
with
me
,
and
they
trusted
my
words
as
much
as
my
outside
and
my
honest
looks
did
deserue
.
By
which
&
by
counterfeit
noblenesse
,
some
Gentle
women
tooke
occasion
to
be
as
far
in
love
with
me
,
as
Thysbe
was
with
Piramus
,
to
whom
I
gave
correspondence
in
the
best
manner
,
●hough
I
understood
that
I
was
not
so
blinded
with
love
but
this
colour'd
goodwil
,
&
these
fained
sighs
tended
rather
for
my
monies
then
for
any
good
quality
or
beauty
,
of
mine
.
But
as
there
is
nothing
that
can
resist
the
kinde
allurements
by
which
a
woman
maketh
warre
against
him
,
whom
she
minded
to
deceive
I
suffered
my selfe
a
little
to
●e
carried
away
by
amorous
shewes
of
a
Gentle
woman
of
the
towne
,
merry
,
pleasant
&c
who
entertained
me
best
though
she
was
none
of
the
fairest
:
who
making
shew
that
she
was
taken
with
my
love
,
in
a
short
time
emptied
my
poore
purse
,
leaving
me
like
an
Image
wrapt
up
in
velvet
.
I
pressed
also
to
binde
her
by
allmeanes
possible
answerable
to
her
fained
affection
,
not
so
much
for
my
contentment
,
as
for
that
she
was
provided
with
fine
knackes
,
which
she
had
bin
accustomed
to
aske
of
any
new
lover
such
as
are
chaines
,
rings
bracelets
,
&
above
all
a
chain
of
Pearle
,
so
bigge
,
round
&
bright
,
that
at
the
very
sight
of
them
any
man
of
courage
would
desire
them
:
This
friendship
at
first
was
very
hot
,
&
had
a
prosperous
gale
of
winde
,
but
as
soone
as
she
perceived
the
weakenesse
of
my
purse
,
she
struck
the
sailes
of
her
good-will
,
&
began
to
looke
upon
me
with
a
crosse
&
sowre
countenance
,
an
accident
which
in
some
sort
put
me
in
doubt
,
&
made
me
distrust
that
I
should
never
work
my
seate
,
which
I
had
projected
at
the
beginning
of
her
loves
.
So
before
that
any
falling
out
or
vexing
should
rise
between
us
,
relying
upon
the
kinde
offers
which
a
little
before
she
had
made
me
,
making
me
understand
,
that
not
only
her
goods
,
but
also
her
very
life
shuld
be
sacrificed
to
my
friendship
;
I
requested
her
to
●awn
her
chain
or
her
Pearls
for
to
contribute
with
her
for
the
expences
of
the
kitchin
,
assuring
her
that
I
looked
for
two
thousand
Ducats
from
a
living
which
I
had
in
my
country
.
But
as
they
are
old
and
subtle
in
their
trade
so
they
are
also
in
their
distrust
,
and
so
she
excused
her selfe
,
saying
that
the
Pearles
and
the
chain
were
pawns
of
a
friend
of
hers
who
was
to
●ome
and
redeeme
them
the
〈◊〉
day
,
and
that
her
honor
should
be
greatly
endangered
if
she
had
them
not
in
readinesse
.
There
needed
no
small
〈◊〉
to
cover
the
annoy
which
that
crafty
answere
bred
me
,
●or
little
wit
to
turne
into
jest
such
a
plaine
denyall
.
So
without
making
any
shew
,
or
answering
one
word
to
that
purpose
,
I
fell
a
laughing
most
heartily
over
her
shoulders
,
saying
to
her
,
that
it
was
a
device
that
I
had
framed
to
try
her
good
will
and
to
see
if
she
would
indeede
confirme
that
which
she
had
promist
by
her
words
,
and
drawing
out
of
my
pocket
a
counterfeit
letter
of
Exchange
,
I
made
her
reade
it
that
she
migh●
see
the
power
that
was
given
me
to
take
up
eight
hundred
Ducats
from
a
rich
Marchant
of
Lyons
,
who●
she
knew
well
,
where
with
comming
to
her selfe
from
her
rugged
coynesse
,
shee
fell
againe
into
her
smiling
humour
,
giving
me
a
few
light
blowes
on
my
cheeke
,
calling
me
distrustfull
and
mocker
.
I
went
away
from
her
with
a
thousand
embracings
,
making
her
beleeve
,
that
I
was
going
to
receive
a
part
of
that
sum
,
and
God
knowes
what
my
heart
was
.
But
as
povertie
hath
ever
bin
the
mother
of
inventions
,
amongst
many
others
which
my
imagination
afforded
me
,
I
choosed
out
one
which
was
to
sell
my
〈◊〉
at
any
rate
whatsoe●er
,
being
content
only
to
●●ve
monie
to
live
upon
●ut
three
dayes
,
at
the
end
●f
which
I
minded
to
have
●
fling
at
her
Pearles
,
and
so
to
get
mee
out
of
the
way
▪
But
it
happened
quite
contrarie
to
me
;
I
went
to
catch
the
wooll
but
I
came
backe
fleec't
which
was
the
just
judgement
of
God
,
and
a
righteous
punishment
of
my
fault
.
For
though
the
Proverbe
saith
,
He
that
steales
from
a
Theefe
winneth
a
hundred
yeares
of
pardon
:
yet
the
theft
that
is
done
to
women
of
this
kinde
,
is
not
put
upon
this
account
.
But
it
should
be
rather
held
for
a
great
offence
,
because
that
for
the
monies
they
receive
they
sell
their
honor
and
reputation
which
ca●
not
be
redeem'd
withall
th●
treasures
of
the
world
.
〈◊〉
came
to
passe
then
,
that
〈◊〉
returning
in
the
evenin●
to
her
house
,
and
makin●
my
pockets
jingle
with
th●
money
that
I
had
receive●
for
my
horse
,
she
met
m●
with
embracings
,
so
smiling
and
kinde
,
that
with
her
fauning
and
flatteries
,
shee
made
me
almost
beleeve
,
that
th●
refusall
she
had
made
me
of
her
Pearles
,
had
beene
but
a
tryall
and
proofe
,
which
she
would
make
of
my
affection
.
Finally
order
was
given
for
making
supper
ready
,
with
which
and
the
tricks
that
I
minded
to
put
upon
her
,
at
the
comming
of
my
money
,
I
resolved
to
change
her
in
such
sort
,
that
her
first
sleepe
▪
I
should
●●e
the
commoditie
to
as●●lt
her
,
and
shee
never
to
●rceive
it
.
But
my
desires
〈◊〉
not
so
good
successe
as
●hought
,
because
that
such
●omen
know
more
then
〈◊〉
Devill
,
particularly
she
,
●ho
as
an
old
beaten
bel●●me
in
her
trade
,
there
●as
no
ambush
nor
deceit
,
which
shee
had
not
pried
●nto
.
So
the
more
I
urged
●er
to
drinke
,
so
much
the
more
shee
proved
coy
and
backeward
.
Supper
ended
with
all
the
joy
that
I
could
faine
,
and
the
hope
which
that
good
occasion
promist
〈◊〉
,
we
withdrawing
our selves
into
her
chamber
,
she
began
to
untire
her selfe
with
as
much
slownesse
as
it
had
beene
her
wedding
night
.
But
I
desirous
to
arrive
〈◊〉
the
haven
of
my
intent●●on
,
to
make
her
more
car●lesse
and
lesse
suspitious
〈◊〉
went
to
bed
first
,
fain●●
my selfe
unable
any
mo●●
to
withstand
sleepe
tha●
urged
me
so
eagerly
.
My
disgrace
was
such
,
that
shee
distrusting
the
summe
,
that
I
had
bragged
to
have
received
,
and
taking
occasion
by
my
dogges
sleepe
shee
would
search
my
pockets
to
trie
if
all
was
gold
that
glister'd
,
and
if
the
nuts
were
answerable
to
the
noise
.
But
finding
there
was
so
little
monie
that
it
would
scarcely
furnish
out
the
next
dayes
expence
,
she
began
to
be
vexed
and
to
have
an
ill
opinion
of
me
.
At
all
this
(
though
snorting
)
I
was
●ore
watchfull
and
more
a
●nting
then
a
Cat
when
〈◊〉
watches
a
Mouse
,
spying
〈◊〉
what
place
she
laid
her
●earles
,
that
I
might
fish
●●em
incontinent
when
●ee
was
fallen
asleepe
.
She
●ay
downe
sad
and
con●ounded
,
thinking
on
the
small
summe
of
mony
,
that
●hee
had
found
,
and
oft-times
sighing
.
Whereof
I
would
in
no
wise
aske
the
cause
,
as
knowing
it
well
enough
,
and
not
desirous
to
let
her
from
sleeping
which
I
so
much
desired
and
long'd
for
.
So
a
quarter
of
an
houre
after
,
which
was
the
time
that
in
my
conceit
,
shee
was
past
all
thinking
of
it
any
further
,
I
thought
of
mine
owne
designes
,
weighing
well
all
the
inconveniencies
whic●
might
fall
out
,
among●●
which
I
considered
the
suspition
,
conceived
by
her
to
be
most
difficult
,
it
seeming
to
me
that
she
would
not
sleepe
but
by
halfes
,
and
that
seeing
the
least
appearance
of
that
shee
imagined
,
shee
would
raise
the
house
with
her
cryes
,
and
put
all
the
neighbours
in
armes
.
But
amongst
many
inventions
,
there
came
a
subtle
one
in
my
minde
,
and
most
fit
for
the
purpose
to
this
fact
,
which
was
,
not
to
hide
the
Pearles
in
any
part
of
my
clothes
,
but
to
swallow
them
one
and
one
,
being
assured
that
having
past
them
through
my
body
they
would
come
forth
more
cleere
and
bright
then
〈◊〉
before
,
and
that
in
this
●anner
though
all
came
to
〈◊〉
worst
,
the
Iustice
would
〈◊〉
mee
free
not
finding
〈◊〉
Pearles
about
mee
.
This
thought
,
in
my
opi●ion
seemed
admirable
good
,
and
thinking
that
she
was
asleepe
,
seeing
shee
●●ghed
no
more
,
nor
shewed
●ny
more
her
unquietnesse
.
I
rose
as
softly
,
as
was
possible
,
going
barefooted
and
at
leasure
to
the
place
,
where
she
had
left
her
Pearles
,
and
having
found
them
,
I
began
to
swallow
them
one
after
another
,
though
with
some
difficultie
,
I
being
narrow
throated
,
and
they
very
big
.
My
ill
lucke
was
that
while
I
was
,
about
to
swallow
the
last
,
it
stucke
in
my
weazand
so
unhappily
,
that
it
could
neither
goe
forewar●
nor
backeward
,
I
was
forced
to
cough
with
som●
violence
,
and
to
awake
h●●
with
my
coughing
,
shee
cal●●
upon
me
with
teares
and
●●stonisht
,
and
I
dissemblin●
the
best
I
could
the
hinderance
of
my
weazand
,
answered
her
that
I
was
seeking
for
the
Chamber-pot
wit●
which
shee
was
well
apai●
for
a
while
,
though
not
satisfied
with
my
answer
,
it
seeming
a
thing
unlikely
to
looke
on
the
cupboord
for
the
Chamber-pot
,
which
was
usually
set
under
the
bed
,
wherefore
casting
with
her selfe
the
meanes
to
satisfie
her
suspition
,
without
making
any
shew
of
distrust
,
shee
counterfeited
an
exceeding
fore
paine
in
her
bellie
●●ring
great
cries
,
and
cal●●g
to
her
two
maides
that
●re
in
the
house
for
light
,
●●d
some
warme
clothes
:
●●ee
held
in
her
dissembled
●●ine
for
the
space
of
halfe
〈◊〉
houre
,
supposing
that
●ould
be
enough
to
take
●●om
me
the
suspition
of
her
●unning
slights
.
About
the
●●d
of
which
,
shee
riseth
〈◊〉
bed
like
lightning
,
and
looking
round
about
the
●●me
with
a
lighted
candle
and
where
shee
had
left
her
Pearles
,
and
no
finding
them
,
without
speaking
ever
a
word
,
or
asking
any
other
●eason
then
what
her
imagination
perswaded
her
,
she
begunne
to
beate
her
face
with
her
fists
,
that
incontinent
shee
fill'd
her
mouth
with
bloud
,
uttering
after
that
loud
and
shrill
cry●●
that
in
lesse
then
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
above
two
hundred
people
were
assembled
,
and
amongst
them
the
Iustice
,
who
breaking
open
the
doores
of
the
house
,
came
up
furiously
,
finding
me
in
my
shirt
,
and
her
in
her
night
attyre
,
with
her
haire
about
her
eares
and
her
face
scratcht
,
calling
to
me
for
her
Pearles
most
furiously
.
The
Iudge
commands
that
every
one
should
hold
their
peace
,
that
hee
might
be
inform'd
of
the
fact
,
and
take
the
deposition
of
us
both
,
and
hee
having
begunne
with
me
,
I
gave
him
content
with
very
humble
words
,
so
that
neither
his
threatnings
nor
intreaties
could
draw
any
other
answere
from
me
.
Neverthelesse
the
Iudge
seeing
the
womans
vehement
complaints
and
bitter
teares
charged
that
my
clothes
should
be
search't
which
was
executed
with
such
care
and
diligence
,
that
hardly
a
moate
of
the
Sunne
could
have
beene
hid
in
them
,
and
they
not
finding
there
the
Pearles
all
of
them
with
one
accord
judged
mee
to
be
innocent
,
and
condemned
her
as
subtle
,
shamelesse
,
and
dissembled
.
She
seeing
then
that
they
all
spake
against
her
,
and
misregarded
her
complaints
,
cast
her selfe
downe
at
the
Iudges
feete
,
tearing
her
haire
,
and
rending
her
clothes
,
and
uttering
such
strong
cryes
,
that
the
Iudge
knew
not
what
to
thinke
,
nor
what
resolution
to
take
,
and
consulting
of
the
matter
with
those
he
brought
with
him
,
he
resolved
,
that
it
having
beene
verified
that
she
had
the
Pearles
when
she
went
to
bed
,
they
should
be
searched
for
,
in
all
the
most
secret
corners
of
the
Chamber
,
they
not
being
found
,
they
should
send
for
an
Apothecary
,
that
should
give
me
a
potion
mingled
strongly
with
Scammonie
,
to
the
end
that
if
I
had
swallowed
them
,
I
might
cast
cast
them
up
againe
.
The
Iudges
sentence
was
put
in
execution
,
and
having
done
their
diligence
proposed
about
the
Chamber
,
and
not
finding
the
Pearls
,
they
were
forced
to
come
to
the
last
remedy
,
which
was
the
Physicke
,
they
which
forced
me
to
take
in
full
health
without
the
Physitians
appointment
,
and
against
my
wil
,
&
though
I
did
all
that
was
possible
for
me
to
vomite
them
,
there
was
no
meane
to
make
me
doe
it
,
so
a
vehement
strife
being
awakened
in
my
guts
I
was
compelled
to
give
way
to
the
Pearles
,
and
to
tarry
my selfe
in
prison
,
enjoying
the
favours
which
these
Gentlemen
Iustices
are
wont
to
bestow
upon
those
that
fall
into
their
hands
.
CHAP.
XII
.
In
which
the
Thiefe
relateth
the
last
disgrace
that
befell
him
.
IT
was
about
sixe
a
clocke
at
night
,
when
my
Andrew
made
an
end
of
telling
me
his
disaster
about
the
Pearles
,
and
I
desiring
to
know
the
last
that
kept
him
then
in
prison
,
I
intreated
him
to
tell
mee
it
from
point
to
point
,
without
missing
any
thing
remarkeable
:
wherein
hee
being
willing
to
give
me
content
hee
answered
joyfully
in
this
manner
.
If
God
would
have
pleased
that
this
should
be
my
last
disgrace
,
and
if
it
had
beene
as
soone
ended
as
I
shall
end
the
discourse
thereof
I
should
have
thought
my selfe
happie
;
but
I
dare
not
trust
to
my
hard
lucke
,
because
that
it
being
accustomed
to
persecute
me
,
I
do
not
beleeve
that
it
will
ever
cease
to
use
mee
unkindly
with
new
torments
.
Know
then
that
the
Iustice
of
Lyons
having
condemned
me
in
two
hundred
lashes
of
the
whip
,
through
the
streets
accustomed
,
for
such
malefactours
,
and
marking
me
with
the
towne
marke
,
they
banisht
me
the
towne
with
shame
enough
,
allowing
me
but
three
daies
only
to
dispatch
my
businesse
and
goe
into
banishment
:
during
which
dayes
I
thought
upon
a
thousand
fantasticall
discourses
,
bethinking
my selfe
,
how
I
might
repaire
the
povertie
that
had
overtaken
me
after
so
great
abundance
.
And
after
I
had
bethought
my selfe
of
a
thousand
plots
,
never
a
one
of
which
pleased
me
,
the
Divell
put
one
in
my
head
,
which
was
the
trouble
that
I
now
am
in
.
I
bethought
my selfe
that
the
same
day
that
I
was
whip●
,
〈◊〉
famous
Theefe
came
after
me
,
whom
the
Iudge
had
condemned
to
the
same
paine
,
a
young
man
of
good
disposition
,
and
of
a
vigorous
courage
,
wittie
,
and
one
of
the
cunningest
Theeves
that
in
all
my
life
I
had
dealt
withall
,
but
unhappie
as
well
as
my selfe
.
I
acquainted
my selfe
with
him
to
trie
,
i●
betweene
two
wretched
Caitives
we
could
finde
some
comfort
in
so
great
a
mishap
,
and
communicating
one
with
tho'other
our
intent
and
thoughts
,
we
resolved
to
make
a
journey
together
to
Paris
.
But
before
wee
were
fully
resolved
of
all
things
fitting
for
the
voyage
,
we
had
a
consultation
about
our
povertie
,
and
infamie
,
descanting
upon
the
meanes
which
we
might
make
in
so
great
mishap
,
and
thinking
it
was
not
safe
for
us
to
embarke
our selves
in
so
great
a
citie
as
Paris
,
not
having
meanes
to
live
on
there
,
and
by
which
to
busie
our selves
,
at
least
while
wee
were
knowne
.
And
after
that
he
had
given
me
the
hearing
a
long
while
,
and
heedefully
heard
all
the
reasons
and
designes
which
I
propounded
,
he
said
,
Master
Lucas
(
for
that
was
the
name
which
I
had
at
Lions
)
the
inventions
that
you
shew
me
are
good
and
worthy
of
such
a
spirit
as
yours
:
but
they
bee
hard
and
difficult
questions
.
Wherefore
leaving
them
for
another
occasion
,
I
will
tell
you
one
,
which
if
it
fal
out
well
,
it
may
well
be
that
we
shall
get
out
of
this
miserie
.
This
is
that
we
may
use
diligence
to
finde
in
this
Citie
of
Lions
some
Marchant
that
hath
trade
and
correspondence
at
Paris
,
from
whom
wee
may
get
a
letter
directed
to
his
friend
,
and
having
found
him
,
you
shal
tell
him
secretly
,
that
you
will
make
up
some
packes
of
Marchandise
in
this
towne
to
be
transported
to
Flanders
with
some
mony
,
and
leave
all
at
Paris
in
the
hands
of
some
sure
man
,
that
it
might
be
kept
safe
,
while
you
go
to
Antwerp
,
where
you
shall
make
as
if
you
have
a
Cozen
germane
,
to
trie
the
price
,
and
how
your
Marchandise
may
be
past
off
;
and
that
having
never
beene
at
Paris
,
nor
made
any
acquaintance
to
whom
you
might
recommend
your
packes
,
you
shall
intreate
him
to
write
to
some
Merchant
of
his
friends
,
that
hee
may
keepe
them
for
you
.
For
so
much
,
I
suppose
,
hee
will
not
refuse
you
,
and
if
he
agreeth
to
it
,
let
me
alone
.
You
shall
see
how
I
will
rule
my
hands
?
If
that
be
all
that
hinders
you
,
said
I
,
I
will
finde
them
that
shall
give
me
a
thousand
letters
,
and
not
one
only
though
I
am
now
disgraced
,
and
with
infamie
yet
bleeding
,
I
would
have
you
to
know
,
that
there
was
moe
than
foure
that
will
doe
somewhat
for
me
,
and
that
this
is
true
you
shall
see
by
and
by
.
With
these
words
I
went
from
him
,
and
going
to
a
Marchants
house
of
my
acquaintance
,
asking
of
him
a
letter
,
after
the
forme
that
my
camerade
had
told
me
,
with
which
I
●eturned
exceeding
content
,
and
putting
it
into
his
hand
,
he
kissed
it
a
thousand
times
,
praising
my
diligence
and
credit
,
and
so
at
last
we
came
to
Paris
with
it
,
where
wee
being
retired
to
a
Chamber
of
the
suburbs
,
we
made
two
Packes
,
with
some
pieces
of
coorse
canvasse
,
the
rest
full
of
sundry
things
,
such
as
old
shooes
,
old
clothes
,
ragges
,
and
such
other
wares
,
and
my
Camerade
put
himselfe
in
the
third
,
wherein
I
packt
him
up
so
neately
and
handsomly
,
that
neither
his
Packe
nor
the
other
two
seemed
to
be
nothing
else
but
camlots
or
Fustians
.
Our
Packes
being
made
up
,
I
went
to
give
the
letter
to
the
Marchant
to
whom
it
was
directed
,
who
received
it
most
gladly
offering
me
all
his
house
.
After
this
wee
agreed
that
I
should
send
the
Packes
at
eight
a
clocke
at
night
,
to
save
the
custome
other
dues
to
be
paid
by
the
Marchants
,
amongst
which
entred
that
of
my
companion
,
if
not
full
of
camlots
,
yet
at
least
of
cords
,
ladder
,
hooke
,
file
,
lantern
,
knife
and
other
militarie
tooles
,
with
which
to
make
war
for
necessitie
,
and
robbe
the
Marchants
mony
.
He
then
being
entred
and
all
in
the
house
asleepe
,
because
it
was
past
eleven
a
clocke
he
slit
the
canvasse
with
a
knife
,
and
comming
out
hee
search't
all
the
corners
of
the
house
,
throwing
out
at
the
windowes
some
apparell
and
silke
gownes
with
that
seemed
to
him
to
be
of
the
least
,
which
I
gathering
up
in
the
streete
with
great
diligence
,
the
Divell
would
have
it
,
that
the
watch
in
the
meane
while
came
by
,
with
so
great
silence
and
dissimulation
,
that
they
gave
me
no
leasure
to
hide
our
bootie
,
which
I
was
gathering
up
,
nor
to
betake
my selfe
to
the
flight
.
And
as
there
was
no
great
neede
of
questioning
mee
for
to
know
my
cops-mates
,
sith
these
wares
could
not
fall
from
heaven
,
they
perceived
that
my
Camerade
was
above
,
whom
,
after
they
led
mee
to
the
prison
,
they
imprisoned
also
for
the
same
crime
.
He
went
out
a
fort
night
agoe
,
being
condemned
to
the
Gallies
for
ten
yeares
,
and
I
feare
not
much
lesse
,
if
the
mercie
and
bountie
of
the
Iudges
have
not
some
pitie
of
me
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
the
Statutes
and
Lawes
of
Theeves
.
BY
the
discourse
which
I
have
made
of
my
Historie
,
saith
honest
Andrew
,
I
have
noted
that
you
did
not
like
well
that
I
called
our
Company
a
Common-weale
,
it
seeming
to
you
that
wee
are
governed
only
by
the
desire
wee
have
to
steale
,
without
any
other
law
or
reason
,
which
is
clean
contrary
,
seeing
that
amongst
us
is
done
nothing
which
is
not
ruled
by
reason
laws
,
statuts
&
ordinances
,
punishing
those
that
otherwise
exercise
our
arte
.
We
have
in
the
first
place
a
captain
&
Superiour
,
all
sorts
of
whom
theevsobey
,
&
he
disposeth
of
their
thefts
which
they
shold
act
,
nāing
these
whoseeme
to
him
the
fittest
for
the
purpose
,
and
choosing
the
cunningest
&
wisest
of
the
company
for
the
most
difficult
&
dangerous
thefts
.
And
in
this
there
is
so
good
order
kept
,
that
there
is
no
man
amongst
us
that
forgetteth
one
only
point
of
his
duty
,
nor
that
passeth
the
bounds
of
his
commission
undertaking
that
which
is
in
another
mans
charge
nor
medling
with
greater
matters
than
his
capacity
can
compasse
.
And
know
this
that
it
is
the
most
essentiall
point
of
our
common
wealth
,
by
the
disorders
wherof
all
others
are
undone
This
captain
examineth
him
that
commeth
newly
unto
the
company
giving
him
three
months
of
novice
ship
,
to
try
his
courage
,
inclination
&
ability
,
in
which
time
,
he
propoundeth
to
him
some
witty
questions
as
be
these
;
to
hang
up
some
little
thing
without
ladder
,
pole
or
line
;
to
steale
a
mans
horse
as
he
is
riding
on
him
upon
the
way
;
To
snatch
a
way
a
Courtiers
band
amongst
a
hundred
people
,
&
many
other
things
of
this
kinde
.
And
having
known
his
inclination
&
capacity
,
This
Captaine
is
an
old
man
,
wise
,
well
experienced
&
finally
exempted
from
the
trade
,
as
being
one
who●●
force
and
nimblenesse
having
failed
for
the
practize
,
he
exerciseth
the
Theorie
with
us
teaching
us
the
method
and
precepts
of
stealing
.
To
which
end
he
makes
〈◊〉
meete
together
once
a
week●●
in
a
certaine
place
appointe●
for
the
purpose
,
where
h●●
bindeth
us
to
give
a
strict
a●●count
of
all
the
thefts
and
accidents
that
have
happened
●●erein
,
reproving
sharply
those
who
are
negli●ent
and
prove
vnprofitable
,
praysing
the
vigilant
and
●●btle
.
This
is
done
ordinarily
on
Saturday
night
,
on
which
day
he
appointeth
all
that
must
be
done
the
weeke
following
,
sharing
out
to
every
one
the
places
that
he
shold
keep
in
,
&
the
thefts
in
which
he
shuld
be
emploied
,
taking
of
them
all
a
strict
oath
of
faithfulnesse
,
&
punishing
the
offenders
,
the
first
time
abridging
him
of
that
part
of
the
theft
which
belongeth
to
him
,
the
second
depriving
him
of
the
place
of
sixe
moneths
,
and
if
he
be
incorrigible
and
stubborne
,
he
puts
him
into
the
hands
of
the
Marshall
.
If
hee
falls
in
a
fault
by
negligence
&
carelesnesse
,
〈◊〉
it
may
be
by
comming
to
〈◊〉
to
his
place
,
to
go
elsewhere
,
or
let
slip
some
occasion
i●●
not
laying
hold
of
it
,
he
is
deprived
of
a
weekes
benefit
,
〈◊〉
taking
from
him
the
office
of
a
Theefe
,
he
puts
him
in
the
office
of
a
Spie
,
or
of
a
watch-man
,
for
the
time
that
our
Councell
shall
appoint
.
Of
all
thefts
in
the
first
place
is
allotted
the
fifth
par●
to
him
,
that
spares
the
whi●●
to
us
,
banishment
,
the
Gallies
,
the
Gallowes
,
and
that
which
remaineth
of
the
tenths
for
pious
uses
,
which
are
,
to
succour
the
sicke
and
needie
of
our
companie
,
to●
release
prisoners
,
and
to
eas●●
the
disgraces
of
those
th●●
have
no
monie
.
We
receive
no
women
in
●●e
companie
,
unlesse
it
be
in
●se
of
great
necessitie
,
and
when
it
cannot
be
other●ise
,
because
by
nature
they
●●nnot
keepe
secrets
,
&
they
being
unable
to
eschew
this
inconvenience
we
are
bound
upon
great
paines
not
to
reveale
unto
them
,
how
,
from
whom
,
and
when
wee
have
stollen
.
●He
that
commits
the
theft
hath
equall
share
with
the
Captaine
for
paines
&
danger
that
hee
hath
put
himselfe
in
,
his
complices
have
the
third
part
,
and
the
Spies
the
fift
.
As
for
the
honour
and
respect
which
is
due
to
every
one
,
there
is
such
an
order
kept
,
that
no
wrong
is
done
to
any
one
of
the
companie
,
every
Officer
having
hi●
ranke
and
place
appointed
i●
all
our
meetings
,
assemblies
and
consultations
.
For
the
first
are
the
Robbers
,
Over
all
these
a
kinde
of
Theeves
bearesway
,
called
among
us
Liberalls
,
whose
office
is
to
undertake
some
strange
points
,
as
to
blacke
their
faces
with
inke
o●kennell
durt
,
to
hang
Garlands
of
hornes
at
mens
doores
,
libells
or
such
like
,
and
these
are
the
wittyest
of
all
the
company
,
and
those
who
as
it
were
indued
with
the
best
wit
and
invention
,
weigh
and
foreseeing
all
the
difficulties
that
can
happen
in
a
dangerous
case
.
None
of
the
companie
may
make
any
quarrell
,
noise
or
contention
with
another
,
about
any
matter
whatsoever
,
unlesse
it
be
fained
or
subtle
,
to
avoide
any
suspition
,
that
may
be
offered
.
We
may
not
eate
twice
two
of
us
together
in
one
and
the
same
Tavern
or
vi●ailling
house
,
except
it
be
once
in
the
fev'night
,
to
th'
end
that
if
any
thing
come
in
the
way
to
be
stollen
there
we
may
breede
no
suspition
among●●
them
that
should
●e●us
there
.
We
are
forbidden
also
〈◊〉
go
together
through
the
city
〈…〉
another
;
unlesse
it
be
to
fall
a
quarrelling
,
&
to
make
some
false
blowe
at
one
another
,
to
draw
people
together
,
that
upon
the
occasion
of
our
quarrell
the
Cutpurses
may
make
up
their
hand
.
Every
professor
of
the
companie
carrieth
his
badge
and
secret
marke
,
by
which
he
is
in
an
instant
known
of
us
all
,
understanding
by
this
order
,
how
many
there
are
of
an
office
in
every
streete
&
part
of
the
town
.
So
the
Robbers
be
are
alwaies
a
glove
handing
and
made
fast
by
one
finger
.
The
wooll
drawers
button
When
any
woman
of
the
companie
is
married
every
profession
gives
her
five
Crowns
to
augment
her
portion
,
keeping
neverthelesse
such
an
order
,
that
she
may
not
be
married
but
to
one
of
her
owne
trade
;
that
is
to
say
,
the
Daughter
of
a
Robber
with
a
man
of
the
same
vocation
or
calling
.
And
if
by
chance
some
Cut-purse
should
marrie
his
Daughter
with
a
Robber
,
Staffador
or
Grumet
,
hee
is
bound
to
give
him
a
hundred
crowns
in
portion
more
then
ordinarie
,
because
his
sonne
of
Law
is
of
greater
and
higher
Office
then
the
father
is
.
We
make
a
vow
of
patience
and
suffering
,
promising
to
be
couragious
and
constant
against
torture
,
though
we
be
seldome
put
to
it
,
because
(
as
I
have
told
you
)
all
that
is
salv'd
with
the
fifth
part
.
And
to
the
end
that
all
the
places
of
the
towne
may
be
sufficiently
provided
,
it
is
enacted
that
every
professour
that
shall
come
newly
to
a
place
,
should
put
there
some
marke
,
shewing
thereby
the
number
of
Theeves
which
are
in
that
part
:
so
the
first
that
commeth
layth
a
die
in
some
secret
corner
,
and
yet
well
known
to
those
of
the
companie
,
with
the
A●e
turned
upwards
;
The
second
that
commeth
,
turneth
the
die
to
the
deuse
point
,
the
third
to
the
trey
,
the
fourth
to
the
quarter
,
and
so
the
others
to
the
●ise
,
and
being
come
to
that
number
,
the
same
Office
stayeth
in
the
same
place
,
because
that
according
to
our
lawes
we
cannot
be
above
six
in
one
and
the
same
place
:
and
when
any
one
goeth
away
he
turnes
the
die
upon
the
number
of
theeves
that
remaine
,
in
such
sort
,
that
they
being
six
,
the
first
that
goeth
away
turnes
the
Die
to
the
cinque
poin●
the
second
to
the
quarter
the
third
to
the
trey
,
b●
which
number
he
that
i●
behinde
of
the
Theeves
i●
knowne
.
We
are
bound
to
nourish●
and
sustaine
all
the
creeples
,
blinde
,
sick
,
and
those
whom
their
extreame
old
age
excuseth
from
stealing
.
None
of
us
may
weare
cloake
,
hat
,
breeches
,
doublet
nor
any
thing
else
that
was
stollen
,
nor
sell
gold
,
silver
or
jewells
in
that
towne
where
they
were
stollen
,
under
paine
of
a
great
and
exemplarie
punishment
.
Wee
are
commanded
to
carry
alwayes
a
false
bea●d
in
our
pocket
,
with
plaisters
of
sundry
sorts
,
to
disguise
us
in
an
instant
when
occasion
shall
require
,
As
concerning
Religion
we
are
halfe
Christians
,
because
that
of
the
two
principall
commandments
of
God●
Law
we
keep
one
,
which
is
to
love
God
,
but
in
no
case
our
neighbour
because
we
take
from
him
that
he
hath
.
Next
we
receive
and
allow
of
the
two
parts
of
confession
(
because
now
and
then
we
confess
)
and
contrition
,
but
of
the
third
,
which
is
satisfaction
or
restitution
we
not
so
much
as
make
mention
or
Talk
.
FINIS
.