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Updated: May 24, 2025
When Sir Launcelot came nigh to this lodge there started suddenly out from it a great churl, above seven feet high, who bore in his hand a huge club, shod with iron and with great spikes of iron at the top.
The first wet day that came brought the Churl of the Townland of Mischance. He rode on a bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse. He carried an ash-plant in his hand to flog the horse and to strike at the dogs that crossed his way. He had blue lips, eyes looking crossways and eyebrows like a furze bush. He had a bag before him filled with boiled pigs' feet.
"Then there is this: if a man be slain we reckon all equally dear, English and Dane, at eight half marks of pure gold, except the churl who dwells on gavel land and their leisings, they are also equally dear at two hundred shillings. And if a king's thane be accused of manslaughter, if he desire to clear himself, let him do so before twelve king's thanes.
"False Norman churl!" said Gwenwyn, swinging around his head a mace of prodigious weight, and already clottered with blood, "thy iron headpiece shall ill protect thy lying tongue, with which I will this day feed the ravens." Raymond made no farther answer, but pushed his horse towards the Prince, who advanced to meet him with equal readiness.
'Away from me thou smellest of the kitchen, knave! Pah! thy clothes are foul with grease and tallow! Dost thou think to ride with me? 'Lady, said Beaumains, and he spoke full gently, 'my clothes may be smirched, but my arm, I trust, is as strong to defend you as any that is wrapped in silk. 'Out upon thee, saucy churl! she cried.
He changed colour slightly; and for some minutes the courtly smile and ready greeting with which he had hitherto delighted every guest, gave way to a moody abstraction. "Why stands yon strange man so mute and motionless?" whispered he to Nina. "He speaks to none he approaches us not a churl, a churl! he must be seen to." "Doubtless, some German or English barbarian," answered Nina.
"To make my tale short this wretched hag this Margaret Murdockson, was the wife of a favourite servant of my father she had been my nurse her husband was dead she resided in a cottage near this place she had a daughter who grew up, and was then a beautiful but very giddy girl; her mother endeavoured to promote her marriage with an old and wealthy churl in the neighbourhood the girl saw me frequently She was familiar with me, as our connection seemed to permit and I in a word, I wronged her cruelly It was not so bad as your sister's business, but it was sufficiently villanous her folly should have been her protection.
And it was their doing, not his, for the king would have gone to the church and there warned my people. But as it chanced there were no men in sight when the king hid, for all were gathered to the thane's house. And I asked that thane if they sent no warning message and he said they had done so by a certain churl whom they met. But our folk never had it.
DUNOIS. I am not such a base, degenerate churl As love's dominion rudely to assail. I am her son, from her derive my name, And in her kingdom lies my heritage. The Prince of Orleans was my sire, and while No woman's heart was proof against his love, No hostile fortress could withstand his shock! Wilt thou, indeed, with honor name thyself The prince of love be bravest of the brave!
"Are we fit, sir?" asked I, in suspense. "I've written my verdict," he said snappily, looking at me as much as to say: "You aren't asked to converse. This isn't a conversazione"; but, when he caught my gaze, he seemed, to repent of his harshness, and answered gruffly: "Both perfect." "Oh, thanks, sir," said I. I could have kissed the old churl.
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