Un.  And hast thou been carefull of all those things I gave charge to be provided?

Tho.  There is a note of the particulars.

Un.  Tis very well done, Thomas.—­Let me see:  Imprimis—­

Tho.  The Captaine wonot faile to be w’ee, sir.  He was not at his lodging; and inquiring at the Horne tavern, I heard he had been there with two or three Cittizens that ow’d him mony.

Un.  That he owde mony to.

Tho.  Tis all one, I thinke, Sir; for when Captaines have not pay, the creditors may pay themselves.  Here they said he did mollifie the hart of the haberdashers and dranke himselfe a little mellowe ere they parted, which gave me some hope I might find him ere night at the Divell, where indeed I fetcht him out of the fire and gave him your Letter.

Un.  And the gold too?

Tho.  That was the first word he read; if you did not write it in text he could not have found it out so soone.  His eye was no sooner in the inside but his arme flew out with an open mouth and his very fingers cryed “give me the gold”! which presumeing to be weight he put in his hocas pocas, a little dormer under his right skirt; and so takeing his word to come downe and turning over your horse to him, with caution not to be drunk and forgett your worship, I tooke my leave and went about my Inventorie.

Un.  Theis things are very right, Thomas.  Let me see now the bookes of Martiall discipline.

Tho.  I bought up all that I found have relation to warr and fighting.

Un.  That was weldone.—­Item:  The Sword Salve.

Tho.  This I conceiv’d to have the vertue of Achilles speare:  if you bee hurt you need goe no further then the blade for a Surgeon.

Un.  The Buckler of Faith.

Tho.  You had the sword before, Sir.

Un.  A Booke of Mortification.

Tho.  I, Sir, that is a kind of killing which I thought very necessary for a Captaine.

Un.  Item:  the Gunpowder Treason and the Booke of Cannons.

Tho.  I wod not lett any shott scape mee.

Un. Shakespeares Workes.—­Why Shakespeares Workes?

Tho.  I had nothing for the pikemen before.

Un.  They are plays.

Tho.  Are not all your musterings in the Countrey so, Sir?  Pray, read on.

Un. Bellarmines Controversie in six tomes.

Tho.  That I took upon the Stationers word, who had been a pretty Schollar at Paules; for the word Bellarmine, he said, did comprehend warr, weapons and words of defiance.  Ill words provoke men to draw their sword, and fighting makes an end of the busines; and all this is controversy.  Pray, goe on, Sir.