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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Ha! it burneth well see, see how it spreads!" "And there again in the east," said Cnut, "Oho! Jenkyn is busy look, master!" "Aye, and Roger too!" said Beltane, grim-lipped, "our ring of fire is well-nigh complete it lacketh but for us and Ulf to work, then!" Came the sound of flint meeting steel a sound that spread along the ranks that lay unseen beyond Prat and Cnut.
"Aye, master, and look'ee now my signal shall be three owl-hoots, master, look'ee!" So saying, Jenkyn turned, his sixty at his heels, and swung away until they were lost to sight in the woods to the east.
"Master!" cried Tall Orson of a sudden, "O master, us do be clean men and goodly fighters as us did promise thee time 'gone i' the Hollow, master, ye'll mind us as did promise so to be I and Jenkyn as be my comrade?" "Aye, master!" cried Jenkyn o' the Ford, "aye, look'ee, we ha' kept our word to thee as we did promise, look'ee master! So now, speak word to us master, look'ee!"
"My lord, 'twas found by the man Jenkyn snoring within the green, together with a mule a sorry beast! a capon partly devoured, a pasty well spiced! and a wine-skin empty, alas! But for who it is, and whence it cometh "
This may refer to that noble band of eminent men who, in 1675, preached the morning exercises against Popery; among others were Owen, Manton, Baxter, Doolittle, Jenkyn, Poole, and many others.
Then forth stepped Jenkyn o' the Ford with tall Orson, which last spake with voice uplift: "Master," quoth he, "us do love gold but fighting men us do be, and if 'steel' says you 'steel' says we!" "Aye," nodded Jenkyn, "so look'ee master, here stands I wi' Orson my comrade look'ee, for witness that to-day we be better men than these growlers."
"Alack, lord," growled Ulf, "yonder is he where they lie so thick, and slain, methinks, yet will I bring him off " "Aye, lord," cried Tall Orson, great tears furrowing the grime of his cheeks, "and little Prat do be killed and lusty Cnut do be killed wi' him and my good comrade Jenkyn do lie smitten to death O there do be none of us left, methinks, lord!"
And behold! beside each man's couch was a bowl wherein roses bloomed. "Master," quoth Tall Orson, "us do be glad to see thee in especial me and Jenkyn that I did save the carcase of and as do be a liar as do say my roses do be a-fading, master, and as his roses do bloom fairer than my roses and "
But here once again came a hoarse and angry roar with the sound of desperate struggling amid the leaves hard by, whence came Jenkyn and Orson with divers others, dragging a strange, hairy, dwarf-like creature, great and shaggy of head and with the arms and shoulders of a giant; smirched was he in blood from a great wound above the brow and his rich habit was mired and torn.
And see you, my son, I have a secret of a certain broth whereof these lentils and these sweet herbs do so tickle their palates that to satisfy them is a hard matter more especially Orson and Jenkyn who being nigh cured of their hurts do eat like four men and vaunt my cooking full-mouthed, insomuch that I must needs grow heedful of vain pride."
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