TIMOTHY

Now you talk of the Spittle, I must say in very deed I have been in the Spittle. But if you should think John, that I would be there to commit, deal, or to speak more profanely, to venture in the way of all flesh, you do wrong me being a brother of the faith. Upon so good security John, isle fit me to deliver it. Here John, accept my duty to my Master, I must tell you John, I would not have trusted you John, without so sufficient a discharge. Though my master be my master, yet you have stur'd my stomach. For all your fore-long too and from, by yea and nay, isle follow you. Oh God for thy mercy, M. John, M. John. My good friend, now what must become of me? Is there no difference made betwixt the faithful and the unfaithful. I must confess I owe my M. 500. li. How I came so, it is not fit to lay the sins of our flesh open to every eye, & you know the saying, 'Tis bade to do evil, but worse to boast of it: yet he above knows that sometime as soon as I have come from Bowe-church, I have gone to a Baudie-house. (your knavery. Not to commit in very deed good friend, but only to see fashions or to recreate & stir up our drowsy appetites. I hope you think The Labourer is worthy of his hire: we will stay here at the Tavern, and Quick I will content thee, to carry a letter to my master, wherein I will make him a resti tution of his 500. li. by repentance, and show him the way that my frail nature hath run into. It will not be amiss if you buy and hourglasse. Oh M. Hobson, As ever you have been a poor men friend, Continue still so, Insult not over thy Fortune's, A Debtor of your worships. By yea and nay, M. Hobson 'tis no untruth, I was bound for France, landed in France, dispatched some secret business for a sister in France, and from her have french tokens to deliver to the sister hood, whom I shall first encounter in England. Verily it was, and it stood chiefly between two woe men: & as you know women love to have their business dipatch't. You gravely may better consider of that then I can dis course, but withal I pray you think he is a wild youth: there are Taverns in France, yet I do not think John Gresham is gi ven to frequent them, & yet I must remember you, he is a youth, and youth may be drawn to expenses, England's on this side France, on it, the Sea betwixt him and his Master, but I do not think him guilty, yet I could say. By yea, and by nay sir without Parable, I am no tell tale, I have seen him in company with Madonna such a one, or such a one, it becomes not flesh and blood to reveal: your wor ship knows he is in France, the Sea betwixt him and you, and what a young youth in that case is proone unto: your gravity is wise, I'll not say so much as I saw him drinking with a French Lady, or Lass in a Tavern, because your gravity is wise, but if I had, it had been less then perhaps you imagine on such a wild youth, as he no question doos deserve. Do you hear John, you know the Chapmans word in London, I'll trust you but no further then I see you, you have the hundred pound John, but for that you have wronged us that love to be edified, I will go with you to my Master, and see the more ney delivered. I care not by yea, and nay, isle go by yea and nay, I will. I must tell you John and I know it, you have not fed of the spiritual food, but edified by faith and suffered the tares of the wild affections to be burned. I have known them John of our Church, have been burned for other sins before thy years. You come to me John for a hundred pound, I thank my spiritual maker I have the charge of many hundreds of his now John: I hope John you fear God. (too. Arrest me, thou servant to Satan: at whose suit?