that I neuer gate anything trulye. His Ladie amazed to heare that aunſwere, would not yet beleeue it at the firſt, but ſaide: What for ſhame, how can you euer ſpeake this with truth! being reputed here the beſt Gentleman in this citie: and there is none in all this realme I dare well ſaye that would once dare to ſuſpect you for a theefe. Out a theefe, one of your worſhip and credit? nay nay, I will neuer beleeue it. Therefore I pray you without ceremonie, tell mee truly that I have aſked you, or elſe I cannot be in quiet. The knight anſwered hir and fayd: You think it perauenture a wonder that I haue tolde you: but liſten yet and you ſhall heare more. Euen from my cradell in maner I alwaies had delight to ſteale and filch, and it liked me a life to be amongſt theues that my fingers might euer be walking, ſo ſweete was the craft vnto me. And a Mate amongſt them there was that loued me ſo well, that he taught mee only a ſingular tricke, and ſo rare a ſecret as neuer yet was hearde. And wote ye what it was? a fewe wordes coniurations which I made to the Beames of the Moone, and I ranne ſodenly to embrace them, going vpon them qucklye into euery part where they ſhone. Sometime I came downe vpon them from a high windowe, another time
