Mee thought two women laid fast hold on my hands, and either of them drew mee to her selfe with all the strength shee had, and contended so earnestly for mee, that I was almost torne in pieces betweene them: sometimes the one would have the better hand, and get me almost wholly into her clutches: within a while after the other would seise upon me as surely, still scolding and brawling one against another, the one saying I was hers, and she would keep possession of mee, the other answering, it was a follie for her to lay claime to that she had nothing to do withall. Now indeed, the one of them was a homely sturdie dame, with her haire ill-favourdly drest up, and her hands overgrowne with a hard skinne, her garment was tuckt up about her, all full of lime and morter, for all the world such another as mine uncle when he was about his worke: the other was a well faced wench of comely proportion and handsomely attired: in the end they referred the matter to mee, which of them I would betake my selfe unto: and first that sturdy manly drudge begunne with mee in this manner. I, sweete boy, am that art of carving, to which you professed your selfe an apprentise yesterday, a trade familiar to you, and tyed to your house by succession: for your grandfather (delivering the name of my mothers father) was a carver and so were both your uncles, and by that meanes came to be men of note and reputation: if thou wilt therefore renounce the fopperies and idle vanities that this female would lead thee into (pointing to the other) and follow mee as one of my family, first thou shalt be maintained in a plentifull fashion, thou shalt continue good strength of body, keep thy self evermore free from envie, & never be forced to forsake thy friends and country, & betake thy self to a forrain soile, nor be commended by all men for words onely: disdaine not then the meannesse of my person, nor the basenesse of my apparell, for such beginnings had Phidias, that carved Jupiter, and Polycletus who made the Image of Juno, and the renowned Myron, and the admired Praxitiles, who now are honoured as if they were gods: and if it be thy fortune to become such another, thou must needs be famous among men of all degrees, thy father shall be held for a happy man, and thou shalt adde a great deale of glory to thy country.

This and much more was babled and blundred out by that art, and hudled one in the necke of another (because she would faine have wrought upon me,) which I cannot now call to minde, for the most is quite out of my remembrance. But as soone as shee had given over, the other begunne in this sort: