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"Bend-the-Bow," answered Dickson, "thou art a civil fellow; and although it is something hard to be constrained to give an account of one's friends, because they chance to quarter in one's own house for a night or two, yet I must submit to the times, and make no vain opposition.
"If such be the case," answered Bend-the-Bow, "we may sufficiently do our duty by sending yourself, with the first grey light of dawn, to the castle, and letting your son remain in bed, which I warrant is the fittest place for him, until we shall receive Sir John de Walton's commands whether he is to be brought onward or not."
"And thou art he whom we called Diccon Bend-the-Bow?" said Isaac; "I thought ever I knew the accent of thy voice." "I am Bend-the-Bow," said the Captain, "and Locksley, and have a good name besides all these." "But thou art mistaken, good Bend-the-Bow, concerning that same vaulted apartment.
"Content am I," said the archer; "and first, methinks, I would just, in order to show that we know what belongs to such a case, ask the stripling a few questions, as how long he has been ill, by what physicians he has been attended, when he was cured, and how his cure is certified, &e." "True, brother," said Bend-the-Bow.
"Nay, but, good Diccon Bend-the-Bow" said Isaac, endeavouring to interpose. "Good Jew good beast good earthworm!" said the yeoman, losing patience; "an thou dost go on to put thy filthy lucre in the balance with thy daughter's life and honour, by Heaven, I will strip thee of every maravedi thou hast in the world, before three days are out!" Isaac shrunk together, and was silent.
Ho! pages and yeomen William, Anthony, Bend-the-bow, and Greenleaf seize the traitor, and bind him with your bow-strings and dog-leashes bind him, I say, until the blood start from beneath his nails!" "Here is a goodly summons!" said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh. "Were I as sure of being answered by twenty men I could name, there would be small doubt of the upshot of this day."
The younger stranger is his son, a lad recovering from the English disorder, which has been raging far and wide in Westmoreland and Cumberland." "Tell me," said Bend-the-Bow, "this same Bertram, was he not about a year since in the service of some noble lady in our own country?" "I have heard so," answered Dickson.
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