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Fortunately neither Hugh nor Dick understood these and other such sayings which Sir Geoffrey repeated to them afterward and therefore walked on with their host unconcerned. Once, however, Grey Dick nudged his master and whispered in his ear: "Be glad, our man is here. It is he who mocks us to those popinjays. Nay, turn not to look; you will see plenty of his sweet face presently."
"There, honest Tom; we are well rid of the chattering magpies screaming peacocks were the better word, or painted popinjays. Now to business; for I must keep a steady head and quiet hours today. Are you anything of a swordsman, my friend?" "I was accounted a good enough fighter in my own village," answered Tom; "but everything here is so different.
This region is not everywhere fruitful, yet it has a sufficiency of corn and cattle, although scarce of wood. They have plenty of birds of the same kind with those at Calicut, but the popinjays or parrots are more beautiful. It produces sandal-wood and tin; likewise elephants, horses, sheep, kine, pardalles or leopards, buffaloes, peacocks, and many other beasts and birds.
"Tonnish females," as the magazine of fashion called the higher class of popinjays, would have stared with contempt at both Faith and Dolly Darling in their simple walking-dress that day. Dowdies would have been the name for them, or frumps, or frights, or country gawks, because their attire was not statuesque or classic, as it should have been, which means that they were not half naked.
More kindly she looked on him than she yet had looked. She leaned across the table. By reaching out his arms he could have caught her lovely face between his hands. Her eyes were merry. Her lips smiled. Greatly tempted was the Knight to agree that, saving himself, and Humphry of Camforth, of whom the less said the better, none save Court popinjays had loved her.
Foolish king's thanes, turned into King Popinjays by pagans, and left to play at government on such terms, are not pleasant or profitable objects in such times as these of one thousand years since or indeed in any times, for the matter of that.
'May God defend the right! cried the council solemnly, and separated, leaving the King with Grey to make the final dispositions for the attack. 'These popinjays of the Court are ready enough to wave their rapiers and shout when there are four good miles between them and the foe, said Saxon, as we made our way through the crowd.
This fine country, which is called Cormos or Ormus , abounds in streams of water, and plantations of date palms, and there are abundance of birds of various kinds, particularly of popinjays, which are not like those of Europe.
His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank of virtues. "Such were the beauty and vivacity of his eyes," says his privy councillor, Tassis, "that with a single glance he made all hearts his own," yet, nevertheless, the predestined victim secretly felt himself the object of a marksman who had no time for painted popinjays, but who rarely missed his aim.
But worst of all to know that because he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he had no heart no heart that he could offer where he laid it; but there it must lie, and be trodden on in silence, while rakish-looking popinjays But this reflection stopped him, for it was too bitter to be thought out, and fetched down his quivering hand upon his axe.
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