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Updated: June 27, 2025
There is an old, fat portrait of Gervoyse Holles, in a buff-coat, a coarse, hoggish, yet manly man. The painter is unknown; but I honor him, and Gervoyse Holles too, for one was willing to be truly rendered, and the other dared to do it.
When fully equipped, both Saxon and my father agreed that I had all that was requisite for a well-appointed soldier. Saxon had purchased a buff-coat, a steel cap, and a pair of jack-boots, so that with the rapier and pistols which my father had presented him with, he was ready to take the field at any time.
Here his intended prisoner walked gravely up to the officer's nose, to his great amazement. "You have been indeed somewhat late, bailie," said he, "and I am greatly obligated to your buff-coat, and to the time you took to put it on.
And with my buff-coat, and a heap of dried leaves, I made him fairly easy, reserving my cloak to wrap about Mistress Delia's fair neck and shoulders. But against this at first she protested. "For how are you to manage?" she ask'd.
He came near to having none, for at that first discharge a pistol-ball split his jack and lodged in his buff-coat over his heart, while another came between his arm and his side, drawing blood a little from both; while a third and worse went into his horse between the fore shoulders.
'It is the first time that I have seen Sir Ralph Lingard's face, said he, 'but I saw his back at Preston fight. Ah, lad, proud as he looks, if he did but see old Noll coming in through the door he would not think it beneath him to climb out through the window! The clank of steel or the sight of a buff-coat would always serve to stir up the old Roundhead bitterness in my father's breast.
The rest of his dress was a loose buff-coat, which had once been lined with silk and adorned with embroidery, but which seemed much stained with travel, and damaged with cuts, received probably in battle. It covered a corslet, which had once been of polished steel, fairly gilded, but was now somewhat injured with rust.
No time now to mope in the chimney-corner! Where is your buff-coat and broadsword, man? Take the true side once in your life, and mend past mistakes. The King is all lenity, man all royal nature and mercy. I will get your full pardon." "What means all this?" said Bridgenorth "Is all well with you all well at Martindale Castle, Sir Geoffrey?"
Then said Walter: "Now will I cut thee the brogues from the skirt of my buff-coat, which shall be well meet for such work; and meanwhile shalt thou tell me thy tale." "Thou art kind," she said; "but be kinder yet, and abide my tale till we have done our day's work.
His dress, which was a buff-coat embroidered, had a half-military character, but exhibited nothing of the sordid negligence which distinguished that of Lindesay.
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