The Character of a Prison .

A Prison is a graue to bury men aliue , and a place wherein a man for halfe a yeares imprisonment may learne more lawe , then he can at Westminster for a hundred pound .

It is a Microcosmos , a little world of woe , it is a mappe of misery , it is a place that will learne a young man more villany if he be apt to take it in one halfe yeare , them he can learne at twenty dycing howses , Bowling allyes , Brothelhouses , or Ordinaryes , and an old man more pollicie , then if he had bin Pupil to Machiauill .

It is a place that hath more diseases perdominant in it , then the pest-house in the plague tyme , and it stinckes more then the Lord Mayors dogge-house or paris-garden in August .

It is a little common wealth , although little wealth be common there , it is a desart where desert lyes hoodwinckt it is a famous Citty wherein are all trades , for here lyes the Alchymist that can rather make ex auro non aurum , then ex non auro aurum .

It is as intricate a place as Rosamunds Labyrinth , and is as full of blind Meanders ; and crooked turnings that it is vnpossible to find the way out except he be directed by a siluer clue , and can neuer ouercome Minotaure without a goulden ball to worke his owne safety .

It is as Innes of Court , for heerin Lawyers inhabit , that haue crochets to free other men yet all their quirks & quiddities cannot infranchise them .

It is the Doctors Commons where skilfull Physitians frequent , who like Aesculapius can cure other mens diseases , yet cannot Quintessence out of all their Vegetalls and Mineralls a Balsamum , or Elixir to make a soueraigne plaister to heale the surfet the mace hath giuen them .

It is the Chyrurgions hall where many rare artists liue , that can search other mens wounds yet cannot heale the wound the Searieant hath giuen them .

It is your Bankrupts banqueting house , where he sits feasting with the sweete meates borrowed from other mens tables , hauing a voluntary disposition neuer to repay them againe .

It is your Prodigalls ( vltimum refugium ) wherein he may see himselfe as in a glasse what his excesse hath brought him to , and least that he should surfet , comes hither to Phisicke himselfe with moderate dyet , and least that his bed of downe should breed too many diseases , comes hither to chang his bed where he is scarse able to lye downe .

It is a Purgatory which doth afflict a man with more miseries then euer he reaped pleasures .

It is a pilgrimage to extenuate sin● and absolue offences : for heere be Seminaries and Masse — Priests which doe take downe the pride of their flesh more , then a voyage to the holy Land or a hayre shirt in Lent .

It is an exile which doth banish a man from all contentments , wherein his accounts doe so terrify him , that it makes a man grow desperate .

To conclude what is it not ? in a word it is the very Idea of all misery and torments , it conuerts ioy into sorrow , riches into pouerty , ease into discontentments , and further , Of all the ill that may be thought , Imagind or be writ : In prison here a man shall find , Which will his owne heart split .

Of Prisoners .

I Could wish that every one that comes to prison should not be dismayed , but cary it out brauely & with resolution , & to consider that no misery in this world is endlesse . After stormes calms wil arise , & though sorrow be over night yet ioy will come in the morning , & to say as Caesar did to the Pilott that carried him when he was afraid , ( quoth he ) thou cariest Caesar : So every generous minde ought to be arm'd with resolution to meete all stormes of adversitie , Omnis homo Miser . and to consider that man was borne to misery , and therefore naturall to him .

But thou wilt peradventure say the name of a Prisoner is loathsome to thee , is it because thou art cooped vnder locke and key ? Is it because thou feelest wants ? Is it because thou art barred of freedome ? Is it because thy freinds looke strangely on thee or forsake thee ? Is it because thou art disgraced and holden in scorne ? Is it because thou lodgest hardly and peradventure with an ill bed-fellow : Yet let not all these dismay thee , for hadst thou the whole Countrey to walke in , yet thy soule is still imprisoned in thy corrupted body . Let not want discourage thee , for thy redeemer suffered hunger & cold to fulfil thy wants . Let not want of freedome trouble thee , thy Sauiour was fettered and manackled to infranchise thee . Let not the coy lookes of thy freinds dismay thee , thy Lord was scorned of all men to bring thee into favour . Let not disgraces molest thee , the King of Kings was most disgraced to honour thee , let not thy lodging or forced chamber fellowes afflict thee , the Pilot of thy safety was lodged in a manger and made a companion for theeues . But looke into thy owne bosome & learne but a short rule yet very difficult viz: ( Nosce te ipsum ) and thou shalt find it is not imprisonment that afflicts thee , nosee tuipsum . but the evill which is in thy selfe , makes thee so distastfull , for hadst thou all things at will , yet still thou wouldst wish for more . The greatest Monarch liues not without some discontentment , Nemo vinit contentus . and comfort thy selfe that one day thou shalt be infranchised and goe to that place and mansion house which is prepared for thee , where all scores shall be payd , all cares banished , and all teares wiped away .

Varlets and Catch-poles arrest thee , fret not at it , if law haue power to whet an axe , she must pick out a hang-man to strike the mace , this doeth but onely put thee in remembrance of that arrest which shal Summon thee to appeare at the Imperiall Court of heauen .

Thy accounts are many and great which are against thee , Redde rationem . yea some of you come to a tormenting execution , greeue not at this , it doth but teach thee that thy accounts must be brought against thee , to draw thee to a reckoning to make thee to knowe that thou owest a reckoning to heauen as well as man , and Iustice will execute her power not to driue thee to despaire , but to a mendment .

Further I perswade my selfe their are many prisoners whose resolution are so noble , and resolute that before they would yeeld to the threats of an insulting creditour , they would cherefully thrust their nekes into the yoake of aduerfity , if no more veines herein were cut but their owne , but here is none so poore which dyes in prison but the last gap doth cracke the heart-strings of a wife , Parentes et Liberi sunt chari . children , father , mother , friends or allies , therefore art thou bound to take pitty of thy selfe , and to hang out the flag of truce to thy bloudy-minded Creditor , and seeke or ransome to pay all so that thou maist escape with life , though it be vpon some ignoble tearmes , and much losse to thee , if none of these respects , yet for thy Countries sake , to whom thou art a Traytor if thou giue thy selfe to thine enimies hand when vpon parley thy peace may be made . Come forth of Prison , and dye not there , that thou maiest honour thy King , and do seruice to thy countrey , and pay thy dets so farre as thou art able , decause the greatest debt that euer thou didst owe was paid for thee .

Prisoners of another nature .

SOme there be which haue gotten other mens goods and soe lye here to defraud them , these of all men deserue no pitty , or compassion , which tie their owne hands , and make themselues gally slaues onely to weare golden setters , how canst thou say thy prayers , and expect a blessing should be poured on thee , that so willingly errest from the type of a iust man which is ( Suum cuique attribuere ) I will not speake much of thee , Fac alijs fieri quod velis ipse tibi . because it must be all gall . In a word the gallowes on which the poore theefe hangeth is most fit for thee , he robbeth one man , thou whole families , he is a felon to man onely , thou art a felon to God and man , if he kill , he doth it sodainly and but one , when thou with a lingring ●eath destroyest father , mother , children , and peraduenture many Orphants left to their charge . Diuiti●… faciunt homines potentiores non . meli ores . But looke to it that although thou compound for two shillings or three shillings in the pound , the ouerplus which thou so ill hast got will bring thy soule into such debt that the remainder will not pay the interest to saue the forfaiture of thy soule to the Diuell , which will damne thee and thy angells , with him and his angells , and thy issue or allies which shall inioy them shall neuer prosper with them .

The Character of a Prisoner .

A Prisoner is an impatient patient lingrin● vnder the rough hands of a cruell physition , Bona male parta , male di●abuntur . his creditour hauing cast his water knowes his disease , and hath power to cure him , but takes more pleasure to kill him . He is like Tantalus , who hath freedome running by his dore , yet cannot enioy the least benefit thereof , his greatest griefe is that his credit was so good , and now no better his land is drawne within the compasse of a sheepes skin and his owne hand the fortification that bars him of entrance , he is fortunes tossing-ball , an obiect that would make mirth melancholly , to his friends an abiect , and a subiect of nine dayes wonder in euery Barbers shoppe , and a mouth-full of pitty ( that he had no better fortune ) to Midwiues , and talkeatiue gossips , and all the content that this transitory life can giue him seemes but to flout him , in respect the restraint of liberty barres the true vse . To his familiars he is like a plague , whom they dare scarse come nigh for feare of infection , he is a monument ruined by those which raised him , he speads the day with a hei mihi , vae miserum , & the night with a Nulla dolor estmedicabilis herbâ : & to conclud A Prisoner is a woefull man , Opprest with griefe of mind . And tell his miseries , no man can : Which he is sure to finde .

Of Creditors .

A Creditor hath two payre of hands on of flesh and blood , & that nature gaue him ; another of Iron & that the law giues him : but the one is more predominant then the other , for mercy guids the one , & mammon the other . But if he once consider what he goeth about to doe , and that it is the image of God whom he goeth about to deface and oppresse with miseries , Deus fecit hominem secundum imaginem suam . & calamities then the softnes of the one doth so operate , that it meets with the hardnes of the other , which neuer comes to passe but when grace & mercy kiles Law & Iustice , but such dayes are seldome set downe in our Calenders , neither will it serue this Iland , but perswade my selfe that for a strange meridian is that Almanack calculated in which they are found .

I by mine owne experience ( though little , yet too much to learne it heere ) haue knowne of my owne knowledg a hundred creditors which haue laid their debtors in irons as relentles as themselues , and of those hundred , if I should add a hundred more , I thinke I should nominate but one onely , and only on of a mercifull breast , who did not onely greiue to see his debtor opprest with misery , but also layd money out of his purse to free him , he shot a second arrow to finde the first and suppose he shot both away , doe you thinke his quiuer was the emptier ? No , he scattered a handfull of corne & reaped a bushell , he receiued treble interest , he gained by this new securitie , & such as would not faile him at the day ; God became his debtor , and paid him more then his accompt came to .

Thou that art a Creditor wilt not beleeue this : Ironia . doe not . But in stead of this mans weeping make thy debtor melt into teares , and in stead of his lamentation reioyce hee is in thy hands to vse him cruelly , and flatter thy selfe in saying thou hast no reason to loose so much by him , and I will haue his body , or in perswading thy selfe that his friends will not let him lye for such a debt , and that thou wilt not forgiue him , but nolens volens will be satisfied , or else he shall starue and rot : Homo homini lupus . o thou wicked man , thou neuer dost consider what teares thy Sauiour shed to free thee , and when thou wast giuen vp to the prison of hell by the hands of thy cruell creditour the Divel to be cruelly tormented , yet Christ paid all thy scoares with his pretious bloud , and how canst thou lye downe on thy pillow to pray to God to forgiue thee a million of debts , nay they run into infinitum , which will not forgiue thy brother one debt . And when all thy friends would not redeeme thee thy Sauiour freed thee , how canst thou doe these things with a safe conscience ? Dost thou not sleepe on the pillow of thy owne damnation , thy prayers turne into cursings , and thou dost but mock him that thou prayest vnto .

Consider what a great scoare thou art to pay , what an accompt thou art to make , and how thou shalt not escape if thou vse such cruelty till thou hast paide the vtmost farthing , thou that art a cruell murtherer whom the reuenge and wronges of a wife , children , parents , and orphants will like the bloud of Abell call to heauen for vengeance on thee and thy posterity : doe but consider of this , and then thou wilt be afraid to torment thy brother . But imitate the Romaines who builded a temple for the reliefe of those which were fallen into decay & pouerty , then find a prison to starue them in , and follow Titus Vespacian who hauing omitted but one day to doe Iustice caused that day to be put forth of the calender . So that day when thou shalt haue but a thought of tormenting thy poore brother ▪ doe but looke into thy owne consience and it will make thee repent that euer thou hast liued such a day wherein thou hast plaid the tyrant in thy heart . The rockes haue yeelded reliefe to men opprest , but you more harder then they , are the cause of their misery . Be thou as great a tyrant ouer thy poore debtor as Nero was , as cruell as Phalaris , as inhumane as Lycaon , & in the end thou doest with thes get a staffe to breake thy owne head , and lay a snare which thou thy selfe shalt fall into , which though thy owne person escape , yet thy posterity shal be sure to feele the punishment .

Thou that vauntest , and wilt make dice of thy debters bones , be these the words of a man ? no , of a monster ? no , but a diuell , nay worse then a diuill , a thing not worthy name , for these words thou art as infamous , as the Iewes hatefull for casting of dice for the Lords garments , that garment was but a senceles thing but thou casts dice for a peece of thy redeemers body .

Thou takest with one clap of a Varlets hand , from the Courtier his honour , from the Lawyer his tongue , from the Merchant the seas , from the Cittizen his credit , from the Scholler his preferment , from the husband man the earth it selfe ( and from all men as much as thou maist ) the brightnes and warmth of the sunne of heauen , in a word if nothing will make thy stony heart relent , thou in being cruell to thy debtor , art worse then the hang man , hee before hee strikes begs pardon , thou takest a pride to condemne where thou maist saue .

But it may bee thy estate is sicke , thy credit much ingaged , and to saue thy selfe thou art forced to doe this . In so doing thou dost well , if another weare thy coate and thou goest colde thou maist pluck it from his shoulders . If thou art hungry and another keepeth thy meate , thou maist take it off his table ; if he be able to cure thy wound , which for his sake thou hast made , thou hast reason to seeke thy remedy , but if he which hath borrowed thy coate , hath worne it out , and hath not a ragge to couer him with , wilt thou trample vpon his naked body ? If with the Iew of Malta in stead of coyne thou requirest a pound of flesh next to thy debtors heart , wilt thou cut him in peeces ? If thy debtor offer thee his bed he lyes in , his chamber hee sleepes in , his dish hee drinkes in , nay all that he hath , so that he leaues himselfe , wife and children as naked as they came into the world , wilt thou for all this suffer him to lye in prison ? If thou be mercifull to thy debtor that cannot pay thee , alas what is it ? No more then if thou shouldst lift vp the head of a sick man vpon his pillow to ease him , he may recouer and doe as much for thee ; in prison pouerty is made beggery , and so thereby thou dost not onely vndoe thy debtor , but loose all , therefore bee mercifull and pittifull , and thou shalt not loose thy rewarde .

Lycurgus being askt why he made no law for parracides , Particides . he answered because he thought there were none so vnnaturall : so if I should haue studied all the dayes of my life , and that my yeares should be doubled , I should neuer haue Imagined either to haue inuented , or to haue bin an eye-witnesse of such vnnaturallnes as is heere exemplary , as the sonne who being bound for his father , to free himselfe hath layd his father vp in close prison , and heere hath detayned him seauen yeares neuer yeelding to any composition , but his poore father liues at his mercilesse mercie , and againe the father suffers his sonne to be imprisoned for his owne debt at his owne suit , surely a thing so abhorde , that I tremble to write it , and none can reade it without blushing . What will this world come to , when the Mammon of this world shall set father against sonne , sonne against father , and make them more mercilesse then Tygers , and more vnnaturall then beasts : for a beast forsakes not his owne , but man respecteth gold before his friend , & the father , coyne before the sonne of his body , flesh of his flesh . And the sonne the God of this world before his father , which gaue him life , and beeing whom he ought to cherish , and vndergoe all troubles to ease him . But looke to it , both fathers and children , least in a moment the iust iudgment of God fall vppon you , and damne them and your gold together , louing it better then those whom you ought to cherish , and the one to be but a thing of the basest esteeme in respect of the other . Ex paucis dictis plurima in●endere potes . I could exemplifie it with historyes as well forraine as domestique but that it is not my purpose , for Ex paucis plurima concipit ingenium .

The Character of a Creditor .

A Creditor is a man whose estate is wrapped vp in sheepe-skins , his rising growes by his debtors fall , his credit relyes vpon his debtors performance , and the death of a young gallants father is more pleasing to him than fasting dayes to a Vsurer , or death to a Broker , hee growes rich onely by putting forth commodities , which mediately conuerts ▪ to discommodities , hee will not put out money for tenne in the hundred , for vsury is hatefull to him , but hee loues extortion and makes that his summum bonum , for he will marchandize with you , whereby hee will gaine sixty in a hundred , hee is your Cities honest man , which is , to speake the truth , more than a knaue , for a knaue that is crafty needs no broker , but hee cannot liue without one . He is a man composed of all loue , and protesting kindnesse to pleasure the occasions of his gallant debtor , with his much affirmation of his respect , how willing he is to doe his worship a pleasure , whereby the chiefe ayme of his pleasure is to haue a footing vppon some capitall messuage , or else to be fingring some petty Lordshippe , or m mannor , who hauing no sooner glutted himselfe with the rich banquet of his debtors deere cost , but immediately to physick himselfe he is at the charge of a faire hackney Coach with three most absolute lades to draw him ( whither hee most willingly is drawne ) with his curious wife , and two or three of his owne conditioned neighbours , Similis simili gaudet . to see this goodly purchase , who prepare themselues some fortnight before hand , and prune themselues vp in their Peacocks feathers like the puppets in a Lord Maior his pageant , and for this his great act he is admired at amongst his neighbours as the Owle in the day time amongst other birds , and esteemed of with as much respect as that captaine Pigmi was , which was commander in that bloudy warres against the terrible black Crowes .

A Creditor may further be said to bee either , homo , monstrum , or demon . A man when he casts his debtor into Prison with a determination to seeke his owne , not to ruin him , and if he bee not able to pay all , to take what he can spare , and giue him day for the rest , and so release him : this man is ( homo homini Deus ) that as he doth punish , so he doth preserue .

A Monster when he hath not onely extended his substance but casts him in Prison , and is as deafe as an adder to heare of releafe till he haue paid him the vtmost farthing .

A Diuell when hee hath ruined him doth reioyce to see him fall , and in stead of coyne will haue his carkasse , but to finde a creditor both Homo et Angelus , that will release his prisoner when he is not able to pay him , and that will consider that vltra posse non est esse . Such a one is Rara auis in terris , &c.

Some creditors are pittifull , And mercy still will show : And some as flint will harder be , Which many debters know .

Of choyce of company in Prison .

WOuldst thou learne to dispute well , be an excellent Sophister , wouldst thou dispute of forraine affaires , and be an excellent linguist , I counsell thee to trauel ? Wouldst thou be of a pleasing and affectionate behauiour ? Frequent the Court. Wouldst thou diue into the secret villanies of man ? Lye in prison . Via perieu losa .

Take heed when thou entrest into this wildernesse of wilde beasts , what path thou takest , some guide is necessary , or else vnawares , thou wilt with the Roman Emperours Steward fall into a pit , where cruell deuouring are intrapped , which will ruine thee .

Societie is the string at which the life of man hangeth without which is no musicke , two in this maske is but a vnion , Adam had his Eue , and euery sonne of Adam hath his brother whom he loues .

No Chariot runs with one wheele , two makes it steady , a third is superfluous , foure too cumbersome , thou must choose one and but one , who walkes alone is lame .

Men of all conditions are forced into prison , as all riuers runne into the sea , therefore it is good to be familiar with all , acquainted with few , and if with any eandem cantilenam cano , but with one , make triall what the vessell will hold before thou powre thy selfe into him , and bee wary what thou sayest or doest , for thou shalt haue the eies of enuy , not of reproofe which will looke vpon thee , to malice thee if thou doest well , and if thou deny to follow them in their humors , or to daunce after their owne pipe , thou shalt be more emulated then the boy was of the two Ladies when hee preferred Venus before in giuing her the golden bal , and if by accident thou doest any thing amisse , as humanum est errare thou shalt bee more vilified , and with inueterate malice more prosecuted to disgrace thee , then the Pharisees did the Hugonites .

Be wary therefore of thy company , for to be a bowle for euery alley , and runne into euery company prooues thy minde to haue no bias .

Thy comming into prison is like a traueller comming into strange countries , and takes vp seuerall lodgings , hath many welcomes , but they are not to him , but to his money .

If thou wilt dwell with thy selfe be not giddy , but composed , for hee that is euery where is no where , therefore be wary whom thou selectest , for here bee of all sorts , for thou shalt as well finde a flattering Gnatho , as a dissembling Sinon , and if thou haue store of crownes , then thou shalt be sure to be humored and bee beloued with outward respects , and then they wil counsell and aduise thee with protestations of their loue , but looke to such , whose counsell to heare , and not imbrace will do hurt but may much improue thee , but if once taken it will operate as the apple which Valentine dutchesse of Orleans cast to the young Princes which once tasted , will so poyson thee with corruption that thou art vncurable .

Further heere be vaine glorious & talkatiue headed fooles , snch wil more trouble thee , then any action of debt which is laid one thee heere be common drunkards , which wil lie heauier one thee then an execution .

But if thou suffer a man to ly long in thy bosome , albeit his conditions be full of flawes , yet labour to peece and seame vp his vices , rather then to cast him off least that it call thy owne iudgment in question .

All men haue imperfections , humanum eum errare . and being in prison wee must not looke to haue them starres , this place is noe Orbe for such constellations .

Let not thy companion be a miserable base minded fellow , for then nigardlinesse will hold her fingers one thy purse stringes , let him not be a Prodigall for then he will draw thee to riot , of adultery to lust , of swearers to damned oaths , Diuitiae faciunt homines potentiores non meliores . of pot companions to drunkennesse , acquaint thy selfe therefore not with the most , but best , not the best in cloths or money , but in vertue , if there be none such in prison then keepe company with thy selfe , Cum bonis bonus . and in thy chamber keepe company with Plutarke and Seneca , or rather Perkins and Greeneham , the one will teach thee to liue well , the other to dy well .

The good will teach thee good , Cum bonis bonus , cum malis malus . The bad will thee defame : The one to vertue thee will bring The other greife and shame .

The Character of Companions in Prison . Quot homines , tot sententiae .

All companies are not alike , neither is there a vnion in their dispositions . I will therefore touch but three kinds of persons which thou shalt be sure to find in prison . viz.

1 A Parasite . 2 A Iohn indifferent . 3 A true harted Titus .

The first loueth thee better for thy meanes then merit , thy substance then thy selfe , who will rippe open thy bosome to thy enemy , and when thy money begins to sinke , will fly from thee , and will be the first that will disgrace thee . Hee is like a whore who will no longer fawne , then thou wilt feede him . Hee is a trencher rascall , which will more hate thee when thou leauest to releeue him , then euer hee did seeme to loue thee .

The second is one that will flatter thee , and will neither absolutely loue thee nor hate thee , but when present will be with thee , when absent against thee , hee is hic et vbique , heere and euery where , and in very truth he is no where .

The last of these thou maist call the masculine sweete heart , on which may be resembled to truth whose bosome is allwaies bare , and hath a breast of Chistall , that thou maist looke through his body to his heart , he is one that will loue thee in aduersity , hee will respect thee in the kitchin as well as in the parlor , he will reuerence thee in the hole as well as in the maisters side hee will looke on thee in raggs as well as in robes , and will acknowledge thee in fetters as in a feather-bed , come stormes , come calmes , come tempests , come sun-shine , come what can come , he wil be thine and stick to thee therefore .

Be carefull that thou keepe alway , Verus ami , cus optimus thesaurus . A freind in time of neede : That will thee helpe without delay , If that thou stand in neede .

Of Visitants in Prison . Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes .

From a ruinous house euery man flies , they that are abroad ask euery day how thou doest , when in prison they protest they are sorrow for thy misfortunes , but neuer come to thee , such are idle passengers pressing about a Barbers shoppe , when a man is carried in wounded , who will peepe in and climbe about the windowes , but dare not enter into the shoppe , for feare they should fall into a swoond to see him drest , a Prisoner is as much beholding to such leape-frogge acquaintance as a man shaken with an ague to euery gossoping woman he meetes who will teach him a hundered medicines and not one worth taking .

But if thy abiility be such that thou workest thy liberty then thou shalt haue as many hands imbracing thee as Centimanus had , much wine with little loue bestowed vpon thee , with oaths infinite that they were comming forty times to see thee , but this or that occasion hindred them , when indeede they were afraide thou shouldest haue had occasion to vse them , & they had purposed to hath come this day , but they are happy that thy so much desired liberty haue preuented them , to such giue no credit , onely salute them with a Salue , and a Vale.

Others will come to thee with weeping and sighthing to cheere thee vp , but such are like Robin-redbrests that brings strawes in their charitable bills to couer the deade .

Others will promisse to lend thee money , but try them before thou haue occasion to vse them , which if they deny thee , when thou art at liberty be then vnto them as a shaddow . But true friends in a prison are like strawberries in a barren countrey , that one can hardly get a handfull in a whole yeare , nay they are like your roses heere in Christmas , a thousand to one if in an age , one bee found so in prison it is a great ods if of a thousand kinsmen , allies , and acquaintance I finde but one true freind .

Donec eris foelix multos numerabis amicos . Tempora si fuerint nubila , solus eris .

But if in this great dearth of freinds wherein wee liue , vnder what fortunate plannet may I iudge my selfe to be borne , and that the constellations of the starres haue much fauored me , that amongst all my flesh and blood I haue found one true Damon or faithfull Pylades , and amongst all my acquaintance haue found some faithfull , and more constant in their loue and respect to me in this place , then when I was at liberty they did make shew of , that I may truly say .

Of Visitants some faithfull are , When Prisoners them require : And to them nothing will deny , If that they them desire .