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Moniplies was not many steps from the door, when a person, whom, lost in his reflections on gaming, ordinaries, and the manners of the age, he had not observed, and who had been as negligent on his part, ran full against him; and, when Richie desired to know whether he meant "ony incivility," replied by a curse on Scotland, and all that belonged to it.
"My liege," answered Richie Moniplies, "the owner of these monies places them at your Majesty's command, free of all pledge or usage as long as it is your royal pleasure, providing your Majesty will condescend to show some favour to the noble Lord Glenvarloch, presently prisoner in your royal Tower of London."
Yet, as the young and high-born nobleman embarked to go to the presence of his prince, under the patronage of one whose best, or most distinguished qualification, was his being an eminent member of the Goldsmiths' Incorporation, he felt a little surprised, if not abashed, at his own situation; and Richie Moniplies, as he stepped over the gangway to take his place forward in the boat, could not help muttering, "It was a changed day betwixt Master Heriot and his honest father in the Kraemes; but, doubtless, there was a difference between clinking on gold and silver, and clattering upon pewter."
"Weel, weel, as ye list," said Richie Moniplies; "but I am mickle beholden to ye baith and I am not a hair the less like to bear it in mind that I say but little about it just now. Gude-night to you, my kind countryman." So saying, he thrust out of the sleeve of his ragged doublet a long bony hand and arm, on which the muscles rose like whip- cord.
I know not how it is, Master Moniplies," continued he, as his countenance brightened up, and while, in his turn, he filled the cups, "but I feel my heart something lighter since I have thought of this matter." "Thus it is to have counsellors, Master Jenkin," said Richie; "and truly I hope to hear you say that your heart is as light as a lavrock's, and that before you are many days aulder.
"What string of impertinence is this?" said his master. "Every word as true as e'er John Knox spoke," said Richie; "here's the bit double of the Sifflication." "Troth did I not," answered Moniplies. "I thought to have given my lord's first, as was reason gude; and besides that, it wad have redd the gate for my ain little bill.
The domestics, a numerous family both of clerks and servants, including Moniplies, attended, with great gravity, and were accommodated with benches. The household were all seated, and, externally at least, composed to devout attention, when a low knock was heard at the door of the apartment; Mrs. Judith looked anxiously at her brother, as if desiring to know his pleasure.
"What do I ken about that?" said Moniplies; "they go about roaring and seeking whom they may devour doubtless, they like the food that they rage so much about and, my lord, they say," added Moniplies, drawing up still closer to his master's side, "they say that Master Heriot has one spirit in his house already."
The king, too, somewhat sensible of the indecorum, rose up, wiped his eyes, and calling, "Todlowrie, come out o' your den," he produced from behind the arras the length of Richie Moniplies, still laughing with as unrestrained mirth as ever did gossip at a country christening.
"Under your patience, my lord," said Moniplies, "you are pleased to say that, because I crushed a quart with that jolly boy Jenkin, as they call the 'prentice boy, and that was out of mere acknowledgment for his former kindness I own that I, moreover, sung the good old song of Elsie Marley, so as they never heard it chanted in their lives "
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