e was taken."
"Thus he spake unadvisedly in the presence of the young man, who at once
slipped down the stairs," it was to be feared, on no good errand. "Then I
said to him," Dalaber goes on, "alas, Master Garret, by this your
uncircumspect coming here and speaking so before the young man, you have
disclosed yourself and utterly undone me. I asked him why he was not in
Dorsetshire. He said he had gone a day's journey and a half; but he was so
fearful, his heart would none other but that he must needs return again
unto Oxford. With deep sighs and plenty of tears, he prayed me to help to
convey him away; and so he cast off his hood and gown wherein he came to
me, and desired me to give him a coat with sleeves, if I had any; and he
told me that he would go into Wales, and thence convey himself, if he
might, into Germany. Then I put on him a sleeved coat of mine. He would
also have had another manner of cap of me, but I had none but priestlike,
such as his own was.

"Then kneeled we both down together upon our knees, and lifting up our
hearts and hands to God our heavenly Father, desired him, with plenty of
tears, so to conduct and prosper him in his journey, that he might well
escape the danger of all his enemies, to the glory of His Holy Name, if His
good pleasure and will so were. And then we embraced and kissed the one the
other, the tears so abundantly flowing out from both our eyes, that we all
bewet both our faces, and scarcely for sorrow could we speak one to
another. And so he departed from me, apparelled in my coat, being committed
unto the tuition of our Almighty and merciful Father.

"When he was gone down the stairs from my chamber, I straightways did shut
my chamber door, and went into my study; and taking the New Testament in my
hands, kneeled down on my knees, and with many a deep sigh and salt tear, I
did, with much deliberation, read over the tenth chapter of St. Matthew's
Gospel,[512] praying that God would endue his tender and lately-born little
flock in Oxford with heavenly strength by his Holy Spirit; that quietly to
their own salvation, with all godly patience, they might bear Christ's
heavy cross, which I now saw was presently to be laid on their young and
weak backs, unable to bear so huge a burden without the greater help of his
Holy Spirit.

"This done, I laid aside my book safe, folded up Master Garret's gown and
hood, and so, having put on my short gown, and shut my doors, I went
towards Fride