“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.