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❧ The Speakers names of thys Dialogue. Ciuis & Puer.
Well ouer taken in the name of God my good fellow: Whether art thou now going thus al alone?
Forsooth good maister, I am a Straunger hereabouts, and ve∣ry willing I am to go to London.
To go to London (alas) what wouldst thou do there?
Here in the countrey, they say it is a good∣ly famous Town, and very gladly I would see it, if I knew the way thyther.
How da∣rest thou go abroade now, the world is so hard, on this order? the Constables and other Offy∣cers as thou goest, will apprehende and haue thee before some Iustice for a Rogue.
I trust they will not doe so, for I neuer dwelte with Mayster nor Dame.
Notwithstan∣ding yet, the Lawes of this Realme are verye straightly looked vpon now a dayes, concer∣ning such matters, especially if they haue not a Pasport from whence they come.
It is e∣uen so, for in the countrey wheras I did dwell, they looke very straightly vnto those that are suspected persons, and haue them vnto some Iustice, and they bee not onely punished with imprisonmente, but with whipping and bur∣ning in the eare.
It is a thing chiefest to be loked to, for if they doe not, they ought in all