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"Why, mine host, thy counsel shall not be cast away," replied

Tressilian; "however, Ionce

passed my word to that effect But lend me, I pray, some of thy counsel

This Foster, who or what is he, and why makes he such , "I can add but little to what you heard last

night He was one of Queen Mary's Papists, and now he is one of Queen

Elizabeth's Protestants; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon;

and now he lives as master of the Manor-house Above all, he was

poor, and is rich Folk talk of private aparth to serve the Queen, God bless her!

Some men think he found a treasure in the orchard, some that he sold

himself to the devil for treasure, and some say that he cheated the

abbot out of the church plate, which was hidden in the old Manor-house

at the Reformation Rich, however, he is, and God and his conscience,

with the devil perhaps besides, only kno he ca off intercourse with all that are of the place,

as if he had either soe secret to keep, or held himself to be

made of another clay than we are I think it likely my kinsman and he

will quarrel, if Mike thrust his acquaintance on him; and I am sorry

that you,in ain answered hireat caution,