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Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs. For the rest, I know a little of the making of covers, the cutting of precious stones, and the fashioning of instruments." "A goodly list, truly," cried the superior with a smile. "What clerk of Cambrig or of Oxenford could say as much?
'Ouvre, he cried, 'ouvre, or some such word, making signs for me to open the gate; and then 'Merci, as though he were adrad of me. And you talk of an English king?" "I do not marvel at it," cried the Cambrig scholar, speaking in the high drawling voice which was common among his class. "It is not a tongue for men of sweet birth and delicate upbringing.
This youth is a scholar from Cambrig, where men are wont to be blown out by a little knowledge, and lose the use of their hands in learning the laws of the Romans. But I must away to lay down the beds. So may the saints keep you and prosper you in your undertaking!"
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