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TWo Gentlemen walking abroad to take the aire, they espied an old Usurer a neighbour of theirs discending from a steepe mountain. When they approacht neare him, one of them askt him where he had beene, to whom he answered, that he had beene on the top of
that hill to breath himselfe. The other ask't him why hee came downe? Why said the Usurer would you haue had mee stay there still? I marry would I, re∣plied the other for thou wilt never come so neare heauen a∣againe I will warrant thee.