Taking his leave with friends two months before,

With drinking healths, and shaking by the hand,

As he had travail'd to some new-found-land.

Well: taking horse with very much ado,

London he leaveth for a day or two:

And as he rideth, meets upon the way

Such as (what haste soever) bid men stay.

"Sirrah! (says one) stand, and your purse deliver,

I am a taker, thou must be a giver."

Unto a wood hard by they hale him in,