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"It seems to be the very home of them." "What have you to say, you clean-shaved galley-beggar?" cried the fiery dame, turning upon the archer. "Can I not speak with my own son but you must let your tongue clack? A soldier, quotha, and never a hair on his face. I have seen a better soldier with pap for food and swaddling clothes for harness."
"Verily," murmured the disconsolate Stokton, "run with the hare, quotha! that is, go with King Edward; but hunt with the hounds, that is, go with King Henry. Odds costards; it's not so easily done by a plain man not bred in the North. I'd best go home, and do nothing!"
"With the cardinal, quotha? And wherefore with him?" "I go to ask the life of Master Clarke. They say the cardinal is not bloodthirsty or cruel. I will prove that for mine own self. And if a victim must needs be had, I will offer myself in his place. "Yes, Arthur, I will. Seek not to stay me by fair words. Methinks I have had too much of such.
"Good-even?" said Master George; "why, you have not wished me good-day yet. Come, old friend, lay by these tablets, or you will crack the inner machinery of your skull, as our friend yonder has got the outer-case of his damaged. Good-night, quotha! I mean not to part with you so easily. I came to get my four hours' nunchion from you, man, besides a tune on the lute from my god-daughter, Mrs.
Yet when, this morning at daybreak, the quartermaster called to inquire how many cattle I would have killed for roasting, I turned over in bed, and answered composedly, "Ten, and keep three to be fatted." Fatted, quotha! Not one of the beasts at present appears to possess an ounce of superfluous flesh. Never were seen such lean kine.
"Well, then, it is not altogether so foolish a business, considering what a mess of womankind have been about it Dressings, quotha? and who is to dress my wig? But I suppose Jenny will undertake" continued the old bachelor, looking at himself in the glass "to make it somewhat decent. And now let us set to breakfast with what appetite we may.
Moreover, I lie here, by this water, to learn, by root-of-heart, a lesson which my master teaches me to call Peace, or Contentment." Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: "Learning, quotha!" said he; "I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!"
"The Slough of Despond, quotha!" cried Stagman; "a certain man, called in the vulgar tongue a Contractor, undertakes to fill it up, and to lay a double line of rails, with sidings, across it in a fortnight." "Truly, we live in strange times, neighbour," said Scrapegrace. "But then the HILL OF DIFFICULTY?"
We may conceive Mr. Worldly Wiseman accosting such an one, and the conversation that should thereupon ensue: "How now, young fellow, what dost thou here?" "Truly, sir, I take mine ease." "Nay, but thus also I follow after Learning, by your leave." "Learning, quotha! After what fashion, I pray thee? Is it mathematics?" "No, to be sure." "Is it metaphysics?" "Nor that." "Is it some language?"
"Well, then, it is not altogether so foolish a business, considering what a mess of womankind have been about it Dressings, quotha? and who is to dress my wig? But I suppose Jenny will undertake" continued the old bachelor, looking at himself in the glass "to make it somewhat decent. And now let us set to breakfast with what appetite we may.
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