nitiue sentence of death shall march out of my wel meaning lips,
they haue but lately suckt milke, and shall they so sodainly change
theyr food and seeke after bloud?

Oh but, quoth he, a mans friend is his friend, fill the other pint
Tapster, what sayd the king, did hee beleeue it when hee heard it, I
pray thee say, I sweare to thee by my nobility, none in the worlde shall
euer be made priuie, that I receiued anie light of this matter from
thee.

That firme affiance, quoth I, had I in you before, or else I would neuer
haue gone so farre ouer the shooes, to plucke you out of the mire. Not
to make many wordes (since you will needs know) the king saies flatly,
you are a miser & a snudge, and he neuer hopt better of you. Nay then
(quoth he) questionlesse some planet that loues not syder hath conspired
against me. Moreouer, which is worse, the king hath vowed to giue
_Turwin_ one hot breakfast, onely with the bungs that hee will plucke
out of your barrells. I cannot staie at this time to reporte each
circumstance that passed, but the only counsell that my long cherished
kinde inclination can possibly contriue, is now in your olde daies to be
liberall, such victuals or prouisions as you haue, presently distribute
it frankly amongst poore souldiers, I would let them burst their bellies
with syder, and bathe in it, before I would runne into my Princes ill
opinion for a whole sea of it. The hunter pursuing the beauer for his
stones, hee bites them off, and leaues them behinde for him to gather
vp, whereby he liues quiet. If greedie hunters and hungry teltales
pursue you, it is for a little pelfe which you haue, cast it behind you,
neglect it, let them haue it, lest it breed a further inconuenience.
Credit my aduice, you shall finde it propheticall, and thus I haue
discharged the parte of a poore friend. With some few like phrases of
ceremonie, your honors suppliant, & so forth, and farewel my good youth,
I thanke thee and will remember thee, we parted. But the next daie I
thinke we had a dole of syder, syder in boules, in scuppets, in helmets,
& to conclude, if a man would haue fild his bootes full, there hee
might haue had it, prouant thrust it selfe into poore souldiers pockets
whether they would or no. We made fiue peals of shot into the towne
together, of nothing but spiggots and faussets of discarded emptie
barrels: euerie vnderfoote soildiour had a distenanted tunne, as
_Diogenes_ had his tub to sleepe in, I my selfe got