Sir Thomas.
“There be nigh upon three miles betwixt this house and Stratford bridge-end.”
William Shakspeare.
“I dropt a mile in my pride and exultation, God forgive me! I would not conceal my fault.”
Sir Thomas.
“Wonderful! that a preacher so learned as to preach before majesty in the chapel-royal should not have caught thee tripping over a whole lawful mile,—a good third of the distance between my house and the cross-roads. This is incomprehensible in a scholar.”
William Shakspeare.
“God willed that he should become my teacher, and in the bowels of his mercy hid my shame.”
Sir Thomas.
“How camest thou into the converse of such eminent and ghostly men?”