10 A.M.
`` Yet I will go now , '' said I ; `` I bid thee good-night , or rather good-morrow . '' Therewith I half rose up ; but as I did so the will to depart left me as though I had never had it , and I sat down again , and heard the voice of John Ball , at first as one speaking from far away , but little by little growing nearer and more familiar to me , and as if once more it were coming from the man himself whom I had got to know . -LSB- 2 -RSB- Forestaller , one who buys up goods when they are cheap , and so raises the price for his own benefit ; forestalls the due and real demand . Regrater , one who both buys and sells in the same market , or within five miles thereof ; buys , say a ton of cheese at 10 A.M. and sells it at 5 P.M. a penny a pound dearer without moving from his chair . The word `` monopolist '' will cover both species of thief . He said : `` Many strange things hast thou told me that I could not understand ; yea , some my wit so failed to compass , that I can not so much as ask thee questions concerning them ; but of some matters would I ask thee , and I must hasten , for in very sooth the night is worn old and grey . Whereas thou sayest that in the days to come , when there shall be no labouring men who are not thralls after their new fashion , that their lords shall be many and very many , it seemeth to me that these same lords , if they be many , shall hardly be rich , or but very few of them , since they must verily feed and clothe and house their thralls , so that that which they take from them , since it will have to be dealt out amongst many , will not be enough to make many rich ; since out of one man ye may get but one man 's work ; and pinch him never so sorely , still as aforesaid ye may not pinch him so sorely as not to feed him .