He had gone to bed, and had our cart come to take him off to Tyburn, he could scarcely have shown himself more alarmed.

However, he was a good man, and owed much to Master Walgrave.

So, after praying for strength, he took us all in and bade us lie as we could till morning, when he would make better provision.

His own chamber he gave to my mistress and her little ones, while Prosper and he and I lay on the hard floor of the kitchen.

Many were the religious exercises in which he led us before he let us sleep; and even when they were done, he fell on me, and drew from me a full and penitent account of my journey to Oxford and my follies there, for the which he called me many hard names, and bade me take shame to myself, and pray God I might not one day become a knave as well as a fool.