So, commending myself to your Honner's further favour, not forgetting the
inne, when your Honner shall so please, and good one offers; for plases
are no inherritanses now-a-days. And, I hope, your Honner will not think
me a dishonest man for sarving your Honner agenst my duty, as it may
look; but only as my conshence clears me.

Be pleased, howsomever, if it like your Honner, not to call me honest
Joseph, so often. For, althoff I think myself verry honnest, and all
that, yet I am touched a littel, for fear I should not do the quite right
thing: and too besides, your Honner has such a fesseshious way with you,
as that I hardly know whether you are in jest or earnest, when your
Honner calls me honnest so often.

I am a very plane man, and seldom have writ to such honourable gentlemen;
so you will be good enuff to pass by every thing, as I have often said,
and need not now say over again.

As to Mrs. Betty; I tho'te, indeed, she looked above me. But she comes
on vere well, natheless. I could like her better, iff she was better to
my young lady. But she has too much wit for so plane a man. Natheless,
if she was to angre me, althoff it is a shame to bete a woman, yet I
colde make shift to throe my hat at her, or so, your Honner.

But that same reseit, iff your Honner so please, to cure a shrewish wife.
It would more encurrege to wed, iff so be one know'd it before-hand, as
one may say. So likewise, if one knoed one could honnestly, as your
Honner says, and as of the handy-work of God, in one twelvemonth--

But, I shall grow impertinent to such a grate man.--And hereafter may do
for that, as she turnes out: for one mought be loth to part with her,