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 And this may be some desperate rogue, Subornd to worke me mischiefe: As it Pleaseth God, if he come toward me, sure Ile stay his comming, be he but one man, What soere he be: I haue beene well acquainted with that face.

PowisWell met my honorable lord and friend.

CobhamYou are welcome sir, what ere you be, But of this sodaine sir, I do not know you.

PowisI am one that wisheth well vnto your honor, My name is Powes, an olde friend of yours.

CobhamMy honorable lord, and worthy friend, What makes your lordship thus alone in Kent, And thus disguised in this strange attire?

PowisMy Lord, an vnexpected accident, Hath at this time inforc'de me to these parts: And thus it hapt, not yet ful fiue dayes since, Now at the last Assise at Hereford, It chanst that the lord Herbert and my selfe, Mongst other things, discoursing at the table, To fall in speech about some certaine points Of Wickcliffes doctrine, gainst the papacie, And the religion catholique, maintaind Through the most part of Europe at this day. This wilfull teasty lord stucke not to say, That Wickcliffe was a knaue, a schismatike, His doctrine diuelish and hereticall, And what soere he was maintaind the same, was traitor both to God and to his country. Being moued at his peremptory speech, I told him, some maintained those opinions, Men, and truer subiects then lord Herbert was: And he replying in comparisons: Your name was vrgde, my lord, gainst his chalenge, To be a perfect fauourer of the trueth. And to be short, from words we fell to blowes, Our