"
SIR THOMAS.
"Fought about it!"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"As your honour recollects. Not but on other occasions he would
have fought no less bravely for the queen."
SIR THOMAS.
"We must get thee through, were it only for thy memory,--the most
precious gift among the mental powers that Providence hath bestowed
upon us. I had half forgotten the thing myself. Thou mayest, in
time, take thy satchel for London, and aid good old Master
Holingshed.
"We must clear thee, Will! I am slow to surmise that there is blood
upon thy hands!"
His worship's choler had all gone down again; and he sat as cool and
comfortable as a man sitteth to be shaved. Then called he on Euseby
Treen, and said, -
"Euseby Treen! tell us whether thou observedst anything unnoticed or
unsaid by the last witness."
EUSEBY TREEN.
"One thing only, sir!
"When they had passed the water an owlet hooted after them; and
methought, if they had any fear of God before their eyes they would
have turned back, he cried so lustily."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Sir, I cannot forbear to take the owlet out of your mouth. He
knocks them all on the head like so many mice. Likely story! One
fellow hears him cry lustily, the other doth not hear him at all!"
JOSEPH CARNABY.
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