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Buxton; "and who the devil are you?" "See here, gentlemen," said Mr. Nichol, "what is the dispute? Here is an empty house, Mr. Buxton tells us; and Mr. Maxwell tells us the same. Well, then, let these honest fellows run through the empty house; it will not take ten minutes, and Mr. Buxton and his friend can take the air meanwhile. A-God's name, let us not dispute over a trifle."
Now I say thee soothly that the sundering lies heavy on me, for never shall I love woman as I have loved thee." Therewith fell King Florus to weep sorely, and the lady also. "Sir," said she, "a-God's mercy! And whither shall I go, and what shall I do?" "Dame, thou shalt do well, if it please God, for I will send thee back well and richly into thy country to thy kindred."
"Sir," said she, "by the good way, so please God." But in this forest were certain strong-thieves, who wasted the good way, and made the false way wide and side, and like unto the other, for to make pilgrims go astray. So Messire Thibault lighted down, and looked on the way, and found the false way bigger and wider than the good; so he said: "Come dame, a-God's name, this is it."
So much spake the carline by her words that the needle of nature stirred somewhat. The lady asked who the knight might be. "Who is it, lady? A-God's name! I may well name him. It is the lovely, the valiant, the hardy Sir Raoul, who is one of the mesney of thy father; the kindest heart men wot of."
"A-God's name," said he, "to a much valiant man, of much avail: to a knight of mine, who hath to name Thibault of Dontmart." "Ha," sir, said she, "if thy country were a kingdom, and should come to me all wholly, forsooth I should hold me right well wedded in him." "Daughter," said the Count, "blessed be thine heart, and the hour wherein thou wert born."
"With a good will," said the knight; "thou thyself shalt abide surety for me, and I swear to thee on my knighthood that I shall quit thee well." "A-God's name, sir!" quoth the chaplain, "I will be thy surety." Now turned the knight to amendment, and was all whole; and a year wore wherein he went not over sea.
But a-God's sake do my lady mother to come to me, for I have great longing to see her." The lord sent for his wife, and when she came into the chamber where was her daughter, and saw her and knew her, she swooned for joy, and might not speak a great while, and when she came out of her swooning none might believe the great joy that she made of her daughter.
If it is the same, then why, a-God's name, were the altars dragged down, and the screens burned, and the vestments and the images and the stoups and the pictures and the ornaments, all swept out? Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one? And for the last time, a-God's name, why is it death to say mass now, if it be all one?
"Sir knight," said the lady, "he shall take what heed thereof may please him but in the matter whereof I have spoken to thee, he hath neither courtesy nor reason." "Lady," said the knight, "so be it, a-God's name! And I will get me gone, with thy leave, to my lord the king, and will tell him what thou hast told me. And if thou wilt give me any word more, now tell it me."
Sir Raoul came his ways to the chamber and entered therein, and greeted the lady, but she greeted him not again, but said thus: "Sir Raoul, thou art nowise courteous. Whether wottest thou forsooth that it is well with me of thy coming? accursed be thou, villain knight!" But Sir Raoul said: "My lady, mercy, a-God's name! I am but dying for grief of thee. For God's sake have pity of me!"
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