“I warrant him, both lent and stolen.”

Sir Thomas.

“Peace and silence! Now, Joseph Carnaby, do thou depose on particulars.”

Joseph Carnaby.

“May it please your worship! I was returning from Hampton upon Allhallowmas eve, between the hours of ten and eleven at night, in company with Master Euseby Treen; and when we came to the bottom of Mickle Meadow, we heard several men in discourse. I plucked Euseby Treen by the doublet, and whispered in his ear, ‘Euseby! Euseby! let us slink along in the shadow of the elms and willows.’”

Euseby Treen.

Willows and elm-trees were the words.”

William Shakspeare.

“See, your worship! what discordances! They cannot agree in their own story.”

Sir Silas.