I looked at the poppy which I still held in my hand, and bethought me of Will Green, and said: "Lo, how the light is spreading: now must I get me back to Will Green's house as I promised." "Go, then," said he, "if thou wilt.

Yet meseems before long he shall come to us; and then mayst thou sleep among the trees on the green grass till the sun is high, for the host shall not be on foot very early; and sweet it is to sleep in shadow by the sun in the full morning when one has been awake and troubled through the night-tide." "Yet I will go now," said I; "I bid thee good-night, or rather good-morrow." Therewith I half rose up; but as I did so the will to depart left me as though I had never had it, and I sat down again, and heard the voice of John Ball, at first as one speaking from far away, but little by little growing nearer and more familiar to me, and as if once more it were coming from the man himself whom I had got to know.
[2] Forestaller, one who buys up goods when they are cheap, and so raises the price for his own benefit; forestalls the due and real demand.

Regrater, one who both buys and sells in the same market, or within five miles thereof; buys, say a ton of cheese at 10 A.M.

and sells it at 5 P.M.a penny a pound dearer without moving from his chair.

The word "monopolist" will cover both species of thief..