I will avise you, Madame, to remember large expenses and beware of them, and in likewise my master your husband; it is well done ye remember him of them, for divers considerations, as ye know both right well.

And our blessed Lord be your comforter and help in all your good work.
Amen.'[20] A month later he hears that William Stonor has been ill and writes to sympathize with Dame Elizabeth: 'And if I could do anything here that might be to his pleasure and yours, I would I knew it and it should be done withouten fail.

Truly your discomfort is not my comfort, God knoweth it.

Nevertheless your ladyship must cause him to be merry and of glad cheer, and to put away all fantasies and unthrifty thoughts, that comes no good of, but only hurtful.

A man may hurt himself by riotous means; it is good to beware.'[21] [Footnote L: Greek wine.] Meanwhile what of little Katherine Riche?
She recurs over and over in Thomas Betson's letters.