But as no one can regret the point at which they seem likely to arrive more than I do, so no man living can dread its consequences less.

It is even so, various artisans employed upon the articles have described the dresses prepared for Sir John Ramorny's mask as being exactly similar to those of the men by whom Oliver Proudfute was observed to be maltreated.

And one mechanic, being Wingfield the feather dresser, who saw the revellers when they had our fellow citizen within their hands, remarked that they wore the cinctures and coronals of painted feathers which he himself had made by the order of the Prince's master of horse.
"After the moment of his escape from these revellers, we lose all trace of Oliver' but we can prove that the maskers went to Sir John Ramorny's, where they were admitted, after some show of delay.

It is rumoured that thou, Henry Smith, sawest our unhappy fellow citizen after he had been in the hands of these revellers.

What is the truth of the matter ?" "He came to my house in the wynd," said Henry, "about half an hour before midnight; and I admitted him, something unwillingly, as he had been keeping carnival while I remained at home; and 'There is ill talk,' says the proverb, 'betwixt a full man and a fasting.'" "And in which plight seemed he when thou didst admit him ?" said the provost.
"He seemed," answered the smith, "out of breath, and talked repeatedly of having been endangered by revellers.