And he told me what grief my disobedience had caused him and my mistress, and read me a long sermon on the sinfulness of my course.
"As to thy voyage," said he, "I hear there sails a ship from the pool for Rochelle to-morrow at dawn.

Make ready to start, therefore, and meanwhile I will write you your letters for my kinsfolk there." It seemed he would stay all day; and presently he sent me a message to a stationer on Ludgate Hill, which I must needs take, and so leave him and Ludar alone in the house.
While out, I got a great fright.

For the watch were abroad in search of the notable villain who had late escaped from her Majesty's Tower, and who was reported to have been seen lurking in the disguise of a carter, not many days since, near Newgate.

And it was said, I heard, that he had been seen even later than that--to wit, yesterday--at Smithfield, where he had suddenly left his cart and disappeared.

And some said it was known he had a confederate in the city, who was giving him shelter, and of whose name the watch had a pretty shrewd guess.