>>14361286Soytan first encounter'd Nate whilst he did scatter pestiferous papers about the public place where she did wander; she, with a chiding voice, bade him surcease his clamour, to the which he answer'd with scurvy and provoking terms, calling her by names that modesty forbids to speak. Yet, despite this rough beginning, which seem'd a merry war betwixt them, time hath brought them to a peace. For he, poor wretch, hath few friends in this wide world to waste the time withal, save for his kin, and sits often alone; belike his fellow Chud is mew'd up in his closet, penning some strange manifesto or gazing upon wanton pictures,.
In time, she deliver'd him her favor, and they held discourse through a glass perspective, wherein they might behold each other's visage though far removed. It fortuned that she found he dwelt near her, as a neighbour to her house. Now, upon the heavy week-days when school demands his hour, they speak but through the air; but when the holidays come, he repairs to her house to play at tray-trip and behold dumb shows and pageants,. She cherishes a secret hope, yet hid like a worm i' the bud, that when he is come to ripe years he shall make her house his home for ever; but this thought she keeps in the book and volume of her brain, unspoke,.