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The English who were at Saint Germains never spoke of the Irish but as a people of dastards and traitors, The French were so much exasperated against the unfortunate nation, that Irish merchants, who had been many years settled at Paris, durst not walk the streets for fear of being insulted by the populace, So strong was the prejudice, that absurd stories were invented to explain the intrepidity with which the horse had fought.
"I like not the way Gawaine acted just now, when one brave knight was overturned by ten dastards. So let us go while they fight." The combat continued long, and then, as the knights seemed evenly matched, they ceased in amity, the stranger knight inviting Gawaine to spend the night at his lodge. As they rode thither he asked his host,
"You have defended yourself heroically," added he, "and we honor a brave enemy. The Emperor of Germany alone is the arbiter of your fate." "Allah will decide what that fate is to be," was the pious response of the Mussulman. The Elector of Bavaria has won his wager; but what cares a victorious hero for ducats or dastards like the Duke of Mantua? "Where is Eugene?" was his first inquiry.
Go south-east over the dales keeping Broadshield-fell square with thy right hand, and let thy wisdom, O Fox, lead thee to the Garth of the Romans, and so back to thy kindred with all tidings thou hast gathered for indeed they come a many of them. Give me to drink. "So he drank again, and said, 'The bearer of this token is called Hrosstyr of the River Goths. He hath that name among dastards.
Quoth Roger: "Ill hap and sorrow and the Hand of Fate and great Sorcery." "And dastards withal?" said Ralph. "Even so," said Roger, "yet mingled with valiant men. Over long is the tale to tell as now, so low as the sun is; so now ride we on with little fear of foemen.
Their success in the battle of Preston-Pans against General Cope had emboldened the Scots; at the end of December, 1745, Prince Charles Edward and his army had advanced as far as Derby. It was the fate of the Stuarts, whether heroes or dastards, to see their hopes blasted all at once, and to drag down in their fall their most zealous and devoted partisans.
He had not at first understood that Herne was supposed to be in the upper room; but as soon as he was made aware of the circumstance, he cried out "Ah, dastards! have you let him brave you thus? But I am glad of it. His capture is reserved for my own hand." "Do not expose yourself to this risk, my gracious liege," said Suffolk.
Meseemed, and yet doth, that it might be to thine avail to wake the Greywethers to-night; and never again mayst thou have a chance of the waking, as erst I said. I say I wish thee to have fulfilment of thy craving. Nor hast thou aught to fear of them, seeing that it is but dastards and fools that they undo.
Giacomo, who discreetly avoided quarrels, knew the weak side of his friend; and though in his heart he thought the Romans as good-for-nothing a set of turbulent dastards as all Italy might furnish, he merely picked a straw from his mantle, and said, in rather an impatient tone, "Humph! proceed! did the Emperor dismiss him?"
He rode up and down the field, carrying orders and striving to rally "the dastards," as he afterwards called the regular troops. He endeavored to bring up the artillery, but the men would not serve the guns, although to set an example he aimed and discharged one himself.
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