9/30 I'll to the Abbey, where perchance the fox has gone to earth. Five golden crowns to the man who nets the slimy traitor." Now every one, burning with zeal to show their loyalty and to win the crowns, scattered on the search, so that presently the three "witches," Thomas Bolle, Mother Matilda, and the nuns, were left standing almost alone and staring at each other and the dead and wounded men who lay about. Henceforth I'll walk till I am carried. Keep it, Thomas, as a gift; it is bought and paid for. |