In these days, however, the distinctions of master and servant are less broad than before, and in the field we shall be companions rather than master and follower.

So, if you like to cast in your fortunes with mine, here is my hand on it.

You have already proved your friendship to me as well as your quickness and courage, and believe me, you will not find me or my father ungrateful.

But for you, I should now be in the cells, and your old master in no slight danger of finding himself in prison, to say nothing of the upset of the negotiations for which I came to London.
Therefore, you have deserved well, not only of me, but of the king, and the adventure may not turn out so badly as it has begun.

We had best strike south, and go round by Tunbridge, and thence keeping west, into Berkshire, and so to Oxford.