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He scrambled to his feet, and stood reeling, his face like death, when he tried to make after them. 'God! he said. 'Give me to drink. The young Poins mused under his breath because the man had neither sword nor dagger. Therefore it would be impossible to have sword play with him.
'Of a comfortable birth and girth thou art. Yet with thee around my neck I might not easily climb. 'Magister, she said, 'whilst thou climbest in London town thy wife will bide in Paris. 'Consider! he said. 'There is in London town a fair, large maid called Margot Poins. 'Is she more fair than I? she asked. 'I will swear she is. He tilted his stool forward.
Going back to the palace at Greenwich along with the magister, in the barge that was taking the heralds to the King's marriage with Anne of Cleves, the young Poins was importunate with Udal to advance him in his knowledge of the Italian tongue.
At the corner of the corridor Margot Poins, an immense blonde and gentle figure in Lutheran grey, stood back in the hangings. The Magister Udal leant over her, supporting himself with one hand against the wall above her head and one leg crossed beneath his gown. 'Come you into my room, Katharine said to the girl; and to the magister, 'Avoid, man of books.
The chronicles of that day contain accounts of many a mad prank which he played, as we have legends of a still earlier date of the lawless freaks of the wild Prince and Poins. Our people has never looked very unkindly on these frolics.
For the young Poins was set upon advancement, and Margot, buxom, substantial and honest-faced, stood before him and said: 'Here is your chance for advancement made ... if he could carry these missives very secretly. 'For, brother Poins, she said, 'thou knowest these great folks reward greatly and these things pass between folks very great.
By Poins' account, he was too drunk to stand, and had been carried ashore on the back of his Lincolnshire henchman. Therefore he might be lying in the streets of Greenwich and Greenwich was a small place. But different men carried their liquor so differently, and Culpepper might go ashore too drunk to stand and yet reach Hampton sober enow to be like a raging bear by eventide.
'Sir, the Lincolnshire man answered, 'you say 'tis a folly to make small holes in a pikehead. But for me 'tis the greatest of ornaments. Give you, it weakens the pikehead; but 'tis a gradely ornament. 'Ornaments be folly, the young Poins reiterated. 'Sir, the Lincolnshire man answered again, 'there is the goodliest folly that ever was.
But because the young Poins sat always silent with his eyes on the road to Ardres and slept being privileged because he was yeoman of the King's guard always in the little stone guard cell of the gateway at nights; because, in fact, the young man's whole faculties were set upon seeing that Thomas Culpepper did not pass unseen through the gate, it was four days before the gatewarden contrived to get himself asked why he would have spat in the dust or cast his hat on high.
'That is your maid, Margot Poins, the voice said. 'You had better bid her begone. This is a very evil gully; she will be strangled. Katharine called: 'Go and fetch some one to break down this door. The voice commented: 'In the City she will find none to enter this gully; it is a sanctuary of outlaws.
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