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The golden rethoryke is good refeccion And to the reader ryght consolation. Rhetoric and style, to Hawes and his contemporaries, mean the same thing. Both have to do, in Hawes's own language, with choosing aromatic words, dulcet speech, sweetness, delight; they are redolent of incense; they gleam like carbuncles in the darkness; they are painted in hard gold.
Who knows not how, in the "Lytell Geste of Robin Hood," they shot at "pluck-buffet," the king among them, disguised as an abbot; and every man who missed the rose-garland, "his tackle he should tyne"; "And bere a buffet on his head, Iwys ryght all bare, And all that fell on Robyn's lote, He smote them wonder sair. "Till Robyn fayled of the garlonde, Three fyngers and mair."
He turned to the companion who sat drinking with him, a tall, bony half-caste, her black eyes dancing in a head that quivered from an ague acquired in Illinois. "'E's all ryght, is Paddy," said the voice from Houndsditch. He pointed a thumb that was a certificate of villainy in the direction of the stage. "Sure," said the coloured lady, whose ancestry rambled back away Alabama.
The first church was seriously damaged by a thunderbolt five days after its consecration, and the original plan was much elaborated in the rebuilding "So gret lytnynge was the vyfte yer, so that al to nogt The rof of the chyrch of Salesbury it broute, Ryght evene vyfte day that he yhalwed was." Of the castle not so much is known.
To this may be added the letter of one of the Paston family who was in Margaret's train. "John Paston the younger to Margaret Paston: "To my ryght reverend and worchepfull Modyr Margaret Paston dwelling at Caster, be thys delyveryed in hast.
"Ryght reverend and my most tender and kynd Moodre, I recommende me to youw.
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