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"Wilt thou then leave me? canst thou go from me, To woo the fair that love the gaudy day? Yet, e'en among those joys, thou'lt find that she, Who dwells in darkness, loves thee more than they. For these poor hands, and these unpractised eyes, And this poor heart is thine without disguise.
"Now verily," laughed Elizabeth, "if it be floors that thou dost desire, we have acres to spare thou shalt have thy pick of the lot. Come, we are ill used to begging people to be favored thou'lt stay?" Nick shook his head. "Ma foi!" exclaimed the Queen, "it is a queer fancy makes a face at such a pleasant dwelling! What is it sticks in thy throat?" Nick stood silent. What was there to say?
A blessing on thy honest heart, Lovelace! thou'lt say; for thou art for providing for every body! He gives an account of the serious part of their conversation, with no great variation from the Lady's account of it: and when he comes to that part of it, where he bids her remember, that reformation cannot be a sudden thing, he asks his friend: Is not this fair play? Is it not dealing ingenuously?
"My back is my bread, O my gracious liege! if it go idle, I starve. An' thou cease from study mine office is gone thou'lt need no whipping-boy. Do not turn me away!" Tom was touched with this pathetic distress. He said, with a right royal burst of generosity "Discomfort thyself no further, lad. Thine office shall be permanent in thee and thy line for ever."
The thief, when he doth steal, thinks he doth gain; Yet then the greatest loss he doth sustain. Come, thief, tell me thy gains, but do not falter. When summ'd, what comes it to more than the halter? Perhaps, thou'lt say, The halter I defy; So thou may'st say, yet by the halter die. Thou'lt say, Then there's an end; no, pr'ythee, hold, He was no friend of thine that thee so told.
"Not now then, but hereafter, thou'lt be my fellow-traveller, Sah- luma? ... 'twill be a joyous time when we, set free of present hindrance, may journey through a myriad glorious scenes together, sharing such new and mutual gladness that perchance we scarce shall miss the splendor of Al-Kyris left behind!
"Count Robert," said William Longsword, "we shall be presently where thou'lt not dare to come nigh the tail of my horse." There came a message from the king ordering his brother to wait for him; but Robert made no account of it." I have already put the Saracens to flight," said he, "and I will wait for none to complete their defeat; "and he rushed forward into Mansourah.
Thou'lt never be good for naught i' th' world, and as long as thou lives thou'll never play the big fiddle. Get away, lad, get away!" So he shut the door softly i' my face. 'Nobody never made Jesse my master, but it seemed to me he was about right, and I went away into the town and knocked up against a recruiting sergeant. The old tales o' th' chapel folk came buzzin' into my head.
Whenever thy mortal race is run. White and forgiven, Thou'lt enter heaven, And pass, unchallenged, the Golden Gate, Where welcoming spirits watch and wait To hail thy coming with sweet accord To the Holy City of God the Lord! The effect of the last eight-line chorus sung by thousands of voices, was marvellous.
Neither of them suspected her knowledge of French which enabled her to follow most of what was said in the lingua franca they employed. Fenzileh drew close to him. "Thou'lt not relinquish her, eh?" she asked, and he was sure she sneered. "Be not so confident. Thou'lt be forced to it, my friend if not to me, why then, to Asad. He is coming for her, himself, in person."
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