"Not hear him! A body might have heard him at Barford or
Sherbourne."
SIR THOMAS.
"Why didst not name him? Canst not answer me?"
JOSEPH CARNABY.
"HE doubted whether punt were punt; I doubted whether owlet were
owlet, after Lucifer was away from the roll-call.
"We say, SPEAK THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL; but shaming him is one
thing, your honour, and facing him another! I have heard owlets,
but never owlet like him."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
"The Lord be praised! All, at last, a-running to my rescue.
"Owlet, indeed! Your worship may have remembered in an ancient
book--indeed, what book is so ancient that your worship doth not
remember it?--a book printed by Doctor Faustus--"
SIR THOMAS.
"Before he dealt with the devil?"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
"Not long before, it being the very book that made the devil think
it worth his while to deal with him."
SIR THOMAS.
"What chapter thereof wouldst thou recall unto my recollection?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"That concerning owls, with the grim print afore it.
"Doctor Faustus, the wise doctor, who knew other than owls and
owlets, knew the tempter in that form. Faustus was not your man for
fancies and figments; and he tells us that, to his certain
knowledge, it was verily an owl's face that whispered so much
mischief in the ear of our first parent.
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