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Among the crowd are those who have bartered, for ease, and wealth, and empty titles born of the king's breath their ancient Udal rights, their Bonder privileges; others have sunk their proud hearts to bear the yoke of the stronger hand, yet gaze with yearning looks on the misty horizon that opens between the hills. A dark speck mars that shadowy line. Thought follows across the space.
His face lit up with a debonnaire and pleasant smile. The lady's eyes turned upon the girl, forbidding and suspicious; she remained motionless, even her lips did not move. Cromwell said that this was a Katharine of the Howards, and one fit to aid her Ladyship and Magister Udal with their erudite commentary of Plautus his works. The man at the reading desk looked round and then back at his book.
'I was brought up in the Latin tongue or ever I had the English, she answered. 'I had a good master, one that spoke the learned language always. 'Aye, Nicholas Udal, Cromwell said. 'You know all men in the land, she said, with fear and surprise. 'I had him to master for the Lady Mary, since he is well disposed. ''Tis an arrant knave tho' the best of pedagogues, she answered.
It stood on the site, and was formed partly of such materials as time had left of an old castle of the earls or ancient Udal lords of Shetland, and had been very much increased in size, and ornamented, as well as rendered a more commodious habitation by the present owner, Sir Marcus Wardhill.
The old man said querulously, 'Here's a wantipole without ten crowns would marry a wench with three beds and seven hundred florins! Udal laughed. 'Call her to bring me meat and drink, he said. 'Large words ill fill an empty stomach. The younger John went negligently to the great Flemish press. He opened the face and revealed on its dark shelves a patty of cold fish and a black jack.
For instance, Nicholas Udal, in the ingenious letter in Ralph Roister Doister, which is either loving or insulting according to the position of a few commas or periods, must have meant to enforce the doctrine of Chaucer's couplet: "He that pointeth ill, A good sentence may oft spill."
He was a fair, bearded youth with blue eyes, riding a restless colt that embroiled itself and plunged amongst the mules' legs. The young man leaned forward in the saddle and craned to avoid a clothes chest. The magister called to him: 'Ho, Longstaffe! and having caught his pleased eyes: 'Ecce quis sto in arce plenitatis. Veni atque bibe! Magister sum. Udal sum. Longstaffe ave.
Udal stood perfectly still, looking at nothing, his thin brown hand clasped round his thin brown chin. 'But, above all, Throckmorton had concluded, 'show ye no papers to Kat Howard. For it is very certain that she will have no falsehoods employed to bring down Privy Seal, though she hate him as the Assyrian cockatrice hateth the symbol of the Cross.
Watching the door that closed upon her, Viridus said, with a negligent amusement: 'That fool Udal hath set it all about that your lordship designed her for the recreation of his Highness. 'Why, Cromwell answered, with his motionless smile of contempt for his fellow men, 'it is well to offer bribes to fools and threats to knaves.
That day Udal had seen this Culpepper alone, without any servants, dressed in uncostly green, and dragging at the bridle of a mule, on which sat a doxy dressed in ancient and ragged furs. So did men fall in these difficult days. 'How came he in London town? the Norroy King-at-Arms asked. 'Nay, I stayed not to ask him, Udal answered. He sighed a little.
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