uch water ouer the city,
as my braine hath welled forth gushing streames of sorow. I haue wept so
immoderatly and lauishly, that I thought verily my palat had bin turned
to pissing conduit in London. My eies haue bin dronk, outragiously
dronke, with giuing but ordinary entercourse through their sea-circled
Hands to my distilling dreariment What shal I saie? that which malice
hath sayde is the meere ouerthrow & murder of your daies. Change not
your colour, none can slander a cleere conscience to it selfe, receiue
all your fraught of misfortune in at once.

It is buzzed in the kings head that you are a secret friend to the
enemy, & vnder pretence of getting a license to furnish the campe with
syder and such like prouant, you haue furnisht the enemy, and in emptie
barrells sent letters of discouerie, and come innumerable, I might well
haue left here, for by this time his white liuer had mixt it selfe
with the white of his eie, & both were turned vpwardes, as if they had
offered themselues a fayre white for death to shoote at. The troth was,
I was verie loth mine hoste and I should parte to heauen with dry lips,
wherefore the best meanes that I could imagine to wake him out of his
traunce, was to crie loude in his eare, hough host, whats to pay, will
no man looke to the reckning heere and in plaine veritie, it tooke
expected effect, for with the noise he started and bustled, like a man
that had beene scard with fyre out of his sleepe, and ranne hastily
to his Tapster, and all to belaboured him about the eares, for letting
Gentlemen call so long and not looke in to them. Presently he remembred
himselfe, and had like to haue fallen into his memento againe, But that
I met him halfe waies, and askt his Lordship what he meant to slip
his necke out of the coller so sodainly, and being reuiued, strike his
tapster so rashly.

Oh, quoth he, I am bought & solde for doing my Country such good seruice
as I haue done. They are afraid of mee, because my good deedes haue
brought me into such estimation with the communalty, I see, I see it is
not for the lambe to liue with the wolfe.

The world is well amended, thought I, with your Sidership, such another
fortie yeeres nappe together as _Epemenides_ had, would make you a
perfect wise man. Answere me, quoth he, my wise young _Wilton_, is it
true that I am thus vnderhand dead and buried by these bad tongues?

Nay, quoth I, you shall pardon me, for I haue spoken too much alreadie,
no defi