Here I lay helpless as in a swoon.

When I came to, it was with a great trampling on the decks above and the washing of waves below, and I made that the ship was moving--but where I knew not.
After a little space the hatch was lifted from where I lay, the choke-pear taken from my mouth; but not the bandage from mine eyes, so I could see nought around me.

But I heard a strange voice say: "What coil is this?
This is my Lord's cloak in sooth, but not my Lord that lieth in it! Who is this fellow ?" At which I did naturally discover the great misprise of those varlets who had taken me for my dear Lord, whom I now damned in my heart for changing of the cloaks! Howbeit, when I had fetched my breath with difficulty, being well nigh spent by reason of the gag, I replyed that I was John Longbowe, my Lord's true yeoman, as good a man as any, as they should presently discover when they set me ashore.

That I knew-- "Softly, friend," said the Voice, "thou knowest too much for the good of England and too little for thine own needs.

Thou shalt be sent where thou mayest forget the one and improve thy knowledge of the other." Then as if turning to those about him, for I could not see by reason of the blindfold, he next said: "Take him on your voyage, and see that he escape not till ye are quit of England." And with that they clapt to the hatch again, and I heard him cast off from the ship's side.