'"
SIR THOMAS.
"This, not being delivered unto us from the pulpit by the preacher
himself, we may look into. Sensible man! shrewd reasoner! What a
stroke against deer-stealers! how full of truth and ruth! Excellent
discourse!"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"The last part was the best."
SIR THOMAS.
"I always find it so. The softest of the cheesecake is left in the
platter when the crust is eaten. He kept the best bit for the last,
then? He pushed it under the salt, eh? He told thee--"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Exactly so."
SIR THOMAS.
"What was it?"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
"'Ye shall not kill.'
SIR THOMAS.
"How I did he run in a circle like a hare? One of his mettle should
break cover and off across the country like a fox or hart."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"'And yet ye kill time when ye can, and are uneasy when ye cannot.'"
Whereupon did Sir Thomas say, aside unto himself, but within my
hearing, -
"Faith and troth! he must have had a head in at the window here one
day or other."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"'This sin cryeth unto the Lord.'
SIR THOMAS.
"He was wrong there. It is not one of those that cry; mortal sins
cry. Surely he could not have fallen into such an error! it must be
thine; thou misunderstoodest him.
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