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"Why, Maude!" she said, "if our two weddings be one day, I shall have but an half-day's rejoical, and thou likewise! Nay, good maid! we will have each her full day, and a bonfire in the base court, and feasting, and dancing to boot. Both on one day, quotha! marry, but that were niggardly." So Maude was married on the Saturday previous to her mistress.
Tibble screwed up his mouth in an extraordinary smile as he said, "Relic quotha? yea, the soothest relic there be of the Lord and Master of us all." "Methought the true Cross was always displayed on the High Altar," said Ambrose, as all turned to a side aisle of the noble nave. "Rather say hidden," muttered Tibble. "Thou shalt have it displayed, young sir, but neither in wood nor gilded shrine.
The next morning Elsie awoke, as was her custom, when the very faintest hue of dawn streaked the horizon. A hen who has seen a hawk balancing his wings and cawing in mid-air over her downy family could not have awakened with her feathers, metaphorically speaking, in a more bristling state of caution. "Spirits in the gorge, quotha?" said she to herself, as she vigorously adjusted her dress.
That no one has the courage to denounce such women women who openly flaunt their immoralities in our midst is a bad sign of the times. Women are doing a great deal of mischief just now. Look at them fussing about Female Suffrage! Female Suffrage, quotha! Let them govern their homes properly, wisely, reasonably, and faithfully, and they will govern the nation!" "That's true!"
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!"
Giles, which is my patron saint, ne'er saw I a goodlier spread of shoulder nor such a proper length of arm to twirl an axe withal, and thy legs like me well hast the makings of a right lusty man-at-arms in thee, despite thy soft and peaceful look!" "Yet a lover of peace am I!" said Beltane, his head yet drooping. "Peace, quotha peace? Ha? by all the holy saints peace! A soft word! A woman's word!
'Marry, cried Calandrino, 'that were a fine country; but tell me, what is done with the capons that they boil for broth? Quoth Maso, 'The Basques eat them all. Then said Calandrino, 'Wast thou ever there? 'Was I ever there, quotha! replied Maso.
But all the spectators of this harrowing scene testified, by their expressions, sympathy and sorrow, one low-browed ruffian alone excepted. "Serves 'em right d n 'em!" said he, savagely. "Why don't they stay at home in their own country, and not come here to take the bread out of honest people's mouths?" Honest, quotha?
Coming here in their coaches, forsooth! coaches, quotha! as if they were people of quality! Ha! ha! A lot of kobolds, that's what they are, trust me for that, Miss. And if I had a drop of holy water here I'd soon show you what all those fine things of theirs would turn to. But if they come here, the little brutes, I'll bash the heads of them with this spade here."
The alderman advised Gerard against it. "The Church was harder upon sorcerers than was the corporation." "But, sir, I am innocent," said Gerard, between snarling and whining. "Oh, if you think you are innocent officer, go with him to the cure; but see he 'scape you not. Innocent, quotha?" They found the cure in his doublet repairing a wheelbarrow.
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