The Chronicle Historie
 
 823449Enter Nim, Pistoll, Bardolfe, Hostes and a Boy.  
 824450Host. I prethy 
sweete heart, let me bring thee 
so farre as 
( Stanes.  
 824.2453Bar. Well 
sir 
Iohn is gone. God be with him.
  832454Host. I, he is in 
Arthors bo
som, if euer any were:
  834455He went away as if it were a cry
sombd childe,
  835456Betweene twelue and one,
  457Iu
st at turning of the tide: 
  835.1458His no
se was as 
sharpe as a pen:
  836459For when I 
saw him fumble with the 
sheetes,
  837460And talk of 
floures, and 
smile vpō his 
fingers ends
  838461I knew there was no way but one.
  839462How now 
sir 
Iohn quoth I?
  841463And he cryed three times, God, God, God,
  464Now I to comfort him, bad him not think of God,
  842465I hope there was no 
such need.
  844466Then he bad me put more cloathes at his feete:
  845467And I felt to them, and they were as cold as any 
stone:
  846468And to his knees, and they were as cold as any 
stone.
  847469And 
so vpward, and vpward, and all was as cold as any 
stone.
  848470Nim. They 
say he cride out on Sack.
  851473Host. No that he did not.
  852474Boy. Yes that he did: and he 
sed they were diuels incarnat.
  854475Host. Indeed carnation was a colour he neuer loued.
  854.1476Nom. Well he did cry out on women.
  858477Host. Indeed he did in 
some 
sort handle women,
  859478But then he was rumaticke, and talkt of the whore of
( Babylon.  
 861480Boy. Ho
stes do you remember he 
saw a Flea 
stand
  862481Vpon 
Bardolfes No
se, and 
sed it was a black 
soule
  Bar.