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"A'll no deny," and our critic turned aside to general reflections, "that Mactavish said mony bonnie and affeckin' things frae time tae time, like the glimpses o' the hills ye get when the mist rolls awa, and he cam nearer the hert than the feck o' oor preachers; but certes yon confusion is mair than us low country fouk cud stand.
Lucas, since his one unlucky outburst, had said never a word but stood looking on with a ruefulness of visage that it warmed the cockles of my heart to see. Certes, he was in no very pleasant corner, this dear M. Paul. His mistress had heard his own lips describe his plot against the St. Quentins; there was no possibility of lying himself clear of it.
An hard adventure is before us, the which we must bear boldly through. We ride a-wooing into a far and a strange land, and have need of rich apparel." "Now sit, dear brother," said the king's child, "and tell me plainly who the women are that ye would woo in other kings' lands." They wearied not, certes, among the women. Of kind glances and soft looks there was no stint.
Then said the gentlewoman: Percivale, wot ye what I am? Certes, said he, nay, to my witting.
Certes, fair nephew, said she, your mother is dead, for after your departing from her she took such a sorrow that anon, after she was confessed, she died. Now, God have mercy on her soul, said Sir Percivale, it sore forthinketh me; but all we must change the life. Now, fair aunt, tell me what is the knight? I deem it be he that bare the red arms on Whitsunday.
Soon they bade pour out for the guests good wine. Certes, heroes might never be better purveyed than they. Rudeger's daughter was gazed upon with loving glances, so fair she was. Forsooth many a good knight caressed her in his mind. And well did she deserve this, so high she was of mood. The knights thought what they would, but it might not come to pass.
While his hands were being bound, the poor wretch begged piteously that "the skull might be taken from him." "Humph!" said the alderman. "Certes I had not ordered such a thing to be put on mortal man. Yet being there, I will not lift voice nor finger to doff it. Methinks it fits thee truly, thou bloody dog. 'Tis thy ensign, and hangs well above a heart so foul as thine."
"One that helm-fire well can wield Rode off from my well-fenced field, Helm-stalk stole away from me Saddle-fair, the swift to see; Certes, more great deeds this Frey Yet shall do in such-like way As this was done; I deem him then Most overbold and rash of men."
He hath scarce gone thereinto or ever he hath overtaken the Damsel of the Car, that made full great joy of him. "Sir," saith she, "Bald was I the first time I saw you; now may you see that I have my hair." "Certes, yea!" saith Perceval, "And, as methinketh, hair passing beautiful."
Certes of all estates our merchants do least alter their attire, and therefore are most to be commended; for albeit that which they wear be very fine and costly, yet in form and colour it representeth a great piece of the ancient gravity appertaining to citizens and burgesses, albeit the younger sort of their wives, both in attire and costly housekeeping, cannot tell when and how to make an end, as being women indeed in whom all kind of curiosity is to be found and seen, and in far greater measure than in women of higher calling.
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