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Come, trust me; I can be cautious when time requires it no man ever saw me drink when an alert was expected and not one poor pint of wine will I taste until I have managed this matter for thee. Bid me give him three inches of my dudgeon-dagger, and I will do it much more willingly than present him with thy packet." "Go to," replied Everard, "this is beyond our bargain.
Yes, my friends, every species of this unhappy weapon, framed for all evil and for no good, is comprehended under this deadly denunciation, whether it be a stillet, which we have borrowed from the treacherous Italian, or a dirk, which is borne by the savage Highlandman, or a whinger, which is carried by our own Border thieves and cut-throats, or a dudgeon-dagger, all are alike engines invented by the devil himself, for ready implements of deadly wrath, sudden to execute, and difficult to be parried.
Long afterwards, when Harold the Dauntless entered the castle, the seven shields still hung where Adolf had placed them, each blazoned with its coat of arms: "A wolf North Wales had on his armour coat, And Rhys of Powis-land a couchant stag; Strath Clwyd's strange emblem was a stranded boat; Donald of Galloway's a trotting nag; A corn-sheaf gilt was fertile Lodon's brag; A dudgeon-dagger was by Dunmail worn; Northumbrian Adolf gave a sea-beat crag; Surmounted by a cross, such signs were borne Upon these antique shields, all wasted now and worn."
Come, Frank, thou art a scholar; construe me that same fellow, with his blue cap with a cock's feather in it, to show he's of gentle blood, God wot his grey eyes, his yellow hair, his sword with a ton of iron in the handle his grey thread-bare cloak his step like a Frenchman his look like a Spaniard a book at his girdle, and a broad dudgeon-dagger on the other side, to show him half-pedant, half-bully.
A belt round his waist served at once to sustain the broad-sword which we have already mentioned, and to hold five or six arrows and bird-bolts, which were stuck into it on the right side, along with a large knife hilted with buck-horn, or, as it was then called, a dudgeon-dagger.
The lads were both much burned by the sun, their hands were anything but clean, and their long nails were edged with black; one had a dudgeon-dagger by his side; the other a knife with a yellow handle.
Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and just force open his teeth with the haft of thy dudgeon-dagger." "Hold, hold he is conformable," said Tomalin; "see, see, he signs for the goblet give him room, boys! OOP SEY ES, quoth the Dutchman down it goes like lamb's-wool! Nay, they are true topers when once they begin your Turk never coughs in his cup, or stints in his liquoring."
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