Thereon Mistress _Fraunces_ and I went, under Shadow of Evening, to _Tomkins'_ Wife. She was in strong Fits, with sundry poor Women about her; and, leaving Mistress _Fraunces_ to add to their tender Ministrations, I went on to _Newgate_, if haply Master _Hewet's_ Name might still serve me to have Access to my poor Friend. Directly I saw him I knew, by the mild steady Light in his Eye, that his Courage was safe! "_Ned_," quod he, "I was given over a little While unto Darkness, just to let me feel that the Strength within me was none of mine; but now, my Friend hath come back to me, and I rejoice in his Light! Soon we shall be eternally together; and oh! how much we shall have to tell and to hear. Little will it matter, then, whether my Ashes were scattered to the four Winds, or collected in a stone Jug like a _Roman's_. Direct poor _Dinah_ to the seventy-seventh Psalm; I know it will comfort her. Dear Master _Hewet_ will keep her from Want; and she will presently retire to her Friends in the Country. So, thou seest, I have no Fear for Temporalities! Look! she hath made me this long white Shirt to wear to-morrow; my Wedding-garment, I call it. Tell her every Stitch she set in it evidenced her Faith, as every Blow wherewith _Abraham_ clave the Fagots whereon to offer his Son, proved his. And a lighter Sacrifice is exacted of her, for she hath not to slay me, only to resign me. And now, good speed, good _Ned_.... Don't be at _Smithfield_ to-morrow, only stand by the Way as I go along ... thou hast risked too much for me already." In Sooth I ne'er thought twice of the Risk; but I doubted whether what he could bear to _feel_, I could bear to _see_. I stood over-against the Door as he came forth; our Eyes met; and in a Tone that had Somewhat of Musicalness in it that searched and sank into the very Heart, he sayth, "The Night is far spent, Lad! the Day is at Hand!" Those Token-words drew me irresistibly after him. I felt no Fear, no Horror just then; only that our two Souls clave together, and that mine must keep near his till 'twas caught up. So I kept a little in advance, and eyed him now and then, that he might just see I stood by him; and I think it gave him Pleasure, for I once heard him say, "The Presence of a Friend, that cleaveth to us unto Death, how good is it!"