Rince Pytcher is he that will drinke out his thrift at the ale or wine, and be oft times dronke. This is a licoryce knaue that will swill his Maisters drink, and brybe his meate that is kept for him.

Diuilliſh it is to deſtroy a cittie, but more then diuilliſhe, to euert citties, to betraye countreies, to cause ſeruaunts to kyll their maiſters, parentes theyr children, children their parentes, wiues their huſbandes, and to turne all things topſy turuy, and yet it doth ſo, as ſhalbe declared.

Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace: speedy goers, and strong abiders: triumphers both in Camps and Courts.

[…]and fare at all tymes as harde as poor Mopos Cut did with his maiſters countreyman in Shorditch, till, by the force of his hinder heeles, he vtterly vndid two milch maydens, that had ſet vp a ſhoppe of Ale-drapery.

It’s a mad world my Maisters. And a merry world my Mistrisses.

D'ye think I am to be John Tamson's man, and maistered by women a' the days o' my life ?

Thus Reason said: but she came, Reason vanished; Her eyes so maistering me, that such objection Seem'd but to spoile the foode of thoughts long famishēd;

And now hath wrong so maistered the right, That they liue best, that on wrongs offall light,

Guyon's good behavior, in contrast, seems always precarious— in Acrasia's garden, he suffered no delight To sink into his sense, nor mind affect, But passed forth, and looked still forward right, Bridling his will, and maistering his might.

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