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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
"Sir, if these men could deceive your worship for a moment, they
might deceive me for ever. I could not guess what their story aimed
at, except my ruin. I am inclined to lean for once toward the
opinion of Master Silas, and to believe it was really the stolen
buck on which this William (if indeed there is any truth at all in
the story) was sitting."
SIR THOMAS.
"What more hast thou for me that is not enigma or parable?"
JOSEPH CARNABY.
"I did not see the carcass, man's or beast's, may it please your
worship, and I have recited and can recite that only which I saw and
heard. After the words of lugging out and breaking it, knives were
drawn accordingly. It was no time to loiter or linger. We crope
back under the shadow of the alders and hazels on the high bank that
bordereth Mickle Meadow, and, making straight for the public road,
hastened homeward."
SIR THOMAS.
"Hearing this deposition, dost thou affirm the like upon thy oath,
Master Euseby Treen, or dost thou vary in aught essential?"
EUSEBY TREEN.
"Upon my oath I do depose and affirm the like, and truly the
identical same; and I will never more vary upon aught essential.
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