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If you reply, as regards Bacon, "his genius divined the Costards and Audreys, the Doll Tearsheets and tapsters, and drawers, and Bardolphs, and carters, from a hint or two, a glance," I answer that Will had much better sources for THEM in his own experience of life, and had conventional poetic sources for his courtiers of whom, in the quick, he saw quite as much as Moliere did of his Marquis.
"Verily," murmured the disconsolate Stokton, "run with the hare, quotha! that is, go with King Edward; but hunt with the hounds, that is, go with King Henry. Odds costards; it's not so easily done by a plain man not bred in the North. I'd best go home, and do nothing!"
Thus, in the baskets, and quivering in the hopper of the mill, she saw specimens of mixed dates, including the mellow countenances of streaked-jacks, codlins, costards, stubbards, ratheripes, and other well-known friends of her ravenous youth. Grace watched the head-man with interest. The slightest sigh escaped her.
"Verily," murmured the disconsolate Stokton, "run with the hare, quotha! that is, go with King Edward; but hunt with the hounds, that is, go with King Henry. Odds costards; it's not so easily done by a plain man not bred in the North. I'd best go home, and do nothing!"
"Leave him still, ye fools," whispered Long Allen to his mates; "by Saint Christopher, you will make our Dickon go beside himself, and we shall have his dagger presently fly at our costards. Leave him alone; in less than a minute he will sleep like a dormouse."
Aha! a lad like you may come to great things!" "I am much bounden to you, Master Stokton," returned Alwyn, somewhat abstractedly; "but what's your will?" "My will! hum, I say, Nicholas, what's your advice? Quite right not to go to blows. Odds costards! that mayor is a very tiger! But don't you think it would be wiser not to join this procession?
Aha! a lad like you may come to great things!" "I am much bounden to you, Master Stokton," returned Alwyn, somewhat abstractedly; "but what's your will?" "My will! hum, I say, Nicholas, what's your advice? Quite right not to go to blows. Odds costards! that mayor is a very tiger! But don't you think it would be wiser not to join this procession?
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