To keep it, with the greatest pertinacity.

Pour but a secret in him, and ’twould glue him

Like rosin, on a well-cork’d bottle’s snout;

Had twenty devils come with cork-screws to him,

They never could have screw’d the secret out.

Now, when Sir Thomas, in the dark, alone,

Had kill’d a Friar, weighing twenty stone,

Whose carcass must be hid, before the dawn,

Judging he might as hopelessly desire

To move a Convent as the Friar,