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Updated: June 6, 2025
'Lord, save Thy people! 'Mercy, Lord, mercy! 'Be with us this day! 'Receive our souls, O merciful Father! Saxon lay across the waggon with his eyes glinting like diamonds and his petronel presented at the full length of his rigid arm. Following his example we all took aim as steadily as possible at the first rank of the enemy.
"Alvaro Nunes had still five charges for his arquebus, and I as many for my hand petronel. . . . When they heard the thunder of the powder they cast aside their weapons and crawled to us on their knees, taking us for gods. . . . And bearing in mind all that the shipwrecked Castilian we had found at Cabo Tormentoso had told us of the mine of precious stones, we hastened to propitiate them in every way. . . . The gauds we had brought, gay beads, bright kerchiefs, and the like with these we won our way to their goodwill.
Lord, lord! and how does my knight? Touchstone. Fie, with more modesty. Ger. Modesty! why, I am no citizen now. Modesty! am I not to be married? You're best to keep me modest, now I am to be a lady. Sir Petronel. Boldness is a good fashion and court-like. Ger. Aye, in, a country lady I hope it is, as I shall be. And how chance ye came no sooner, knight? Sir Pet.
"You have yet to render an account of all the wrongs you have done me, but meantime you shall not pass unpunished." And as he spoke, he snatched the petronel from Fogg, and with the but-end dealt him a tremendous blow on the head, felling him to the ground.
"We will take the field ourself," she said; "warn the city warn Lothian and Fife saddle our Spanish barb, and bid French Paris see our petronel be charged! Better to die at the head of our brave Scotsmen, like our grandfather at Flodden, than of a broken heart, like our ill-starred father!"
They were well matched, for both were powerful men, both expert in the use of their weapons, and the combat might have been protracted and of doubtful issue but for the irresistible fury of Nicholas, who assaulted his adversary with such vigour and determination that he speedily drove him against the wall, where the latter made an attempt to seize a petronel hanging beside him, but his purpose being divined, he received a thrust through the arm, and, dropping his blade, lay at the squire's mercy.
A lady of quality, in allusion to the gallantries of a reigning prince, being told, 'I suppose it will be your turn next? said, 'No, I hope not; for you know it is impossible to refuse! 'Gertrude. For the passion of patience, look if Sir Petronel approach. That sweet, that fine, that delicate, that for love's sake, tell me if he come.
Her father had been killed by a bursting petronel a few years before, and had left his only child to the charge of his friend and comrade-in-arms. "Heigh-ho!" said Marie, with a half-suppressed yawn, "will this fog never lift? Who would have thought, after the glorious moon of last night that we should have such a day as this on the morrow?"
Ever and anon would come the faint crack of caliver or petronel from her high poop, and the thunder of her stern-chase guns.
Enraged at her interference, and smarting from the application of the whip, Blackadder drew a petronel from his girdle, and levelled it at her head; but, ere he could discharge it, the weapon was stricken from his grasp, and a second blow on the head from the but-end of the whip felled him from his horse.
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