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I'll be with thee in the morning ere thou partest, if kings, queens, and cardinals roar themselves hoarse for the Quipsome." With this promise Hal Randall bestowed his still dulled and half- stunned nephew carefully on the pallet provided by the care of the purveyors.
She hath a supper laying out for you, and on the way we'll speak of what ye are to do, my poor lads." "I'd forgotten that," said Stephen. "So had not I," returned his uncle; "I fear me I cannot aid you to preferment as you expected. None know Quipsome Hal by any name but that of Harry Merryman, and it were not well that ye should come in there as akin to the poor fool."
It allows her to take the measure of her opportunity and assures her of her superiority. So, with a gay and quipsome wave of the hand, in which Ralph was conscious of some faint resemblance to her grandmother, she called to him: "Come down and help us to catch some trout for supper."
"Assuredly," was the answer; "none hath better wit than Quipsome Hal, when he chooseth to be in earnest. In very deed, as I have heard Sir Thomas More say, it needeth a wise man to be fool to my Lord of York." "The sweet and bitter fool Will presently appear, The one in motley here The other found out there."
They gave a hint to my Lord of York's steward, and he came down and declared that the Archbishop required Quipsome Hal, and would of his grace send a purse of nobles to the Fire-eater, wherewith he was to be off on the spot without more ado, or he might find it the worse for him, and they, together with mine host's good wife, took care that the rogue did not carry away Perronel with him, as he was like to have done.
Would his Grace vouchsafe to come on to the privy chamber where the dinner was spread? At the same moment Quipsome Hal sprang forward, exclaiming, "How now, brother and namesake? Wherefore this coil? Hath cloth of gold wearied yet of cloth of frieze? Is she willing to own her right to this?" as he held out his bauble. "Holla, old Blister! art thou there?" said the King, good- humouredly.
"D'ye think a pair of green caterpillars like you can't be marked unless indeed the gardener crushes you for blighting his roses." Wherewith the jester quitted the scene, walking on his hands, with his legs in the air. "Is he to be trusted?" asked Tibble of the comptroller. "Assuredly," was the answer; "none hath better wit than Quipsome Hal, when he chooseth to be in earnest.
"Ha! ha!" shouted Fulford, "whom have we here? The Cardinal's fool a masquing! Treat us to a caper, quipsome sir?" "I'm more like to treat you to the gyves," returned Randall. "Away with you! The watch are at hand. Were it not for my wife's sake, they should bear you off to the city jail; the Emperor should know how you fill your ranks." It was quite true.
They gave a hint to my Lord of York's steward and he came down and declared that the Archbishop required Quipsome Hal, and would of his grace send a purse of nobles to the Fire-eater, wherewith he was to be off on the spot without more ado, or he might find it the worse for him, and they, together with mine host's good wife, took care that the rogue did not carry away Perronel with him, as he was like to have done.
There was a roar of laughter at the gibe, as indeed there was at whatever was uttered by the man whose profession was to make mirth. "Thou likest thy food well enough thyself, quipsome one," muttered Ralf. "Hast found one who doth not, Ralf?
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