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Going on cautiously through the darkness, for the moon was veiled behind some clouds, the brothers presently saw, lying just outside a shut-up house, a long still form wrapped in a winding sheet, put out ready for one of the many carts that passed up the street on the way to the great pits in Bunhill and Finsbury Fields. Whether the corpse was that of a man or a woman the boys could not tell.
The King heard him through with attention and quoth he: "Meseems I have heard of this same Robin Hood, and his men, and also seen somewhat of their prowess. Did not these same outlaws shoot in a royal Tourney at Finsbury field?" "They did, Your Majesty, under a royal amnesty." In this speech the Sheriff erred, for the King asked quickly, "How came they last to the Fair at Nottingham by stealth?"
And how is it proved that a member for Lambeth or Finsbury will be under a more servile awe of his constituents than a member for Leicester, or a member for Leicestershire, or a member for the University of Oxford?
This will no doubt be called violence and a force laid on the three estates; and yet that appears by no means to have been the case; for Sir Thomas More, partial as he was against Richard, says, "that to be sure of all enemies, he sent for five thousand men out of the north against his coronation, which came up evil apparelled and worse harnessed, in rusty harnesse, neither defensable nor scoured to the sale, which mustured in Finsbury field, to the great disdain of all lookers on."
This slang word usually means a milksop, but here it is equivalent to 'a butterfly', 'a weathercock' a man of changeable disposition. A rare use. p. 193 Finsbury Hero, Finsbury Fields, which Pepys thought 'very pleasant', had been kept open for the citizens to practise archery.
Finsbury is indeed an acquisition," he remarked to himself; and as he entered the little parlour, where the table was already laid for breakfast, the cordiality of his greeting would have befitted an acquaintanceship already old. "I am delighted to see you, sir" these were his expressions "and I trust you have slept well." "I am delighted to hear it," said the drawing-master warmly.
"Delighted, dear boy.... One of the first principles, next to profiting by the admirable example I set you, is to make the fellows in your own line trust you. Now, if this boy had taken on with me, I could have got a bunch of the sparklers on my mere say-so, from old Morganthau up on Finsbury Pavement.
A tandem urged to its last speed, an act of something closely bordering on brigandage at the ticket office, and a spasm of running, had brought them on the platform just as the engine uttered its departing snort. There was but one carriage easily within their reach; and they had sprung into it, and the leader and elder already had his feet upon the floor, when he observed Mr. Finsbury.
And what do you propose to do? 'I am going to Waterloo, said Pitman, 'in disguise. 'All by your little self? enquired the lawyer. 'Well, I hope you think it safe. Mind and send me word from the police cells. 'O, Mr Finsbury, I had ventured to hope perhaps you might be induced to to make one of us, faltered Pitman. 'Disguise myself on Sunday? cried Michael.
Now the King had gone that day to Finsbury Field, where the tourney was soon to be held, in order to look over the lists and see some of his picked men whom he expected to win against all comers. So much had he boasted of these men, that the Queen had secretly resolved to win a wager of him.
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