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"Credit me, fairest lady," said the knight, "that such is the cunning of our English courtiers, of the hodiernal strain, that, as they have infinitely refined upon the plain and rusticial discourse of our fathers, which, as I may say, more beseemed the mouths of country roisterers in a May-game than that of courtly gallants in a galliard, so I hold it ineffably and unutterably impossible, that those who may succeed us in that garden of wit and courtesy shall alter or amend it.
It was too much for the galliard merchant, and he swooned. Now, this is why Signor Carbuccia concluded that he was damned, which appears to have been precipitate.
"I would he had been a precisian instead of a galliard, and I should have had better heart to aid thy revenge. And such revenge! revenge on a smith in the quarrel of a pitiful manufacturer of rotten cheverons! Pah! And yet it shall be taken in full. Thou hast commenced it, I warrant me, by thine own manoeuvres." "In a small degree only," said the apothecary.
Like a stone from a catapult Galliard flew over its head and rolled down the few remaining yards of the slope into a very lake of slimy water at the bottom. Down this same hill, some twenty minutes later, came Kenneth Stewart with infinite precaution. He was in haste a haste more desperate far than even Crispin's.
Gregory offered no comment upon this; through what he had done for Kenneth they were under a debt to Galliard, and whilst he was a fugitive from the Parliament's justice it would ill become Gregory to hasten his departure.
That evening, in the galliard, many an admiring eye turned to Sibyll, and many a young gallant, recalling the earl's words, sighed to win her grace. There had been a time when such honour and such homage would have, indeed, been welcome; but now ONE saw them not, and they were valueless.
But though he thus laughed it off, it was evident he was displeased, and he muttered to his confidential friend, Lord Mordaunt, "I see through it all: this is a concerted scheme to bring this aspiring galliard forward; but he shall receive a lesson for his presumption he shall not easily forget, while, at the same time, those who make use of him for their own purposes shall be taught the risk they incur in daring to oppose me.
And this the Tavern Knight then set himself to do. Sir Crispin walked from the window by which he had been standing, to the rough bed, and flung himself full length upon it. The only chair that dismal room contained was occupied by Kenneth. Galliard heaved a sigh of physical satisfaction. "Fore George, I knew not I was so tired," he murmured.
On being again urged to say which way she desired to be conducted, she again looked down, and said she could not tell. "Come come," said Henry, "I understand all that: I have been a galliard a reveller in my day, but it's best to be plain.
"I heard of it, lad, in London," quoth he, a leer upon his sallow face "the story of how a fire-eater named Galliard befriended you, trussed a parson and a trooper, and dragged you out of jail a short hour before hanging-time." Kenneth flushed. He felt the sneer in Joseph's, words like a stab.
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