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"Pasques dieu! and a gallant custom it is," said the elder stranger. "You seem a fine young springald, and at the right age to prosper, whether among men or women. What say you? I am a merchant, and want a lad to assist in my traffic; I suppose you are too much a gentleman to assist in such mechanical drudgery?"
And then, on arriving where the king sat on his horse, "Here he is, Hal, such as he is come humbly to crave thy gracious pardon for hitting the mark no better! He'll mend his ways, good my lord, if your grace will pardon him this time." "Ay, marry, and that will I," said the king. "The springald bids fair to be King of Shoreditch by the time the other fellow abdicates. How old art thou, my lad?"
"What speak you to us of one good shot, father?" said Sir Piercie; "I would advise you that such no more maketh a shooter, than doth one swallow make a summer I have seen this springald of whom you speak, and if his hand can send forth his shafts as boldly as his tongue doth utter presumptuous speeches, I will own him as good an archer as Robin Hood."
"Blessings on thee, fair wench, for that, yet seest thou, 'tis the other springald who is in the greater peril, and he is closer to thy father and to thee." "He fled, when Stephen made in to the rescue of my father," said Dennet. "The saints grant we may so work with the King that he may spare them both," ejaculated Randall.
Here thou hast no place. He shook his head like a man in a daze and was gone. 'Art too patient with the springald, the King said. He thundered 'Body of God! again when he saw Throckmorton once more fall to his knees. 'Sire, he said and for the first time he faltered in his level tones 'a very great treason has come to my ken this day!
"He is the best marksman of all the crossbow companies and it was he who brought down the Constable de Bourbon at Brignais, I fear that your man will come by little honor with him." "Yet I have seen Johnston shoot these twenty years, and I will not flinch from it. How say you, old war-hound, will you not have a flight shot or two with this springald?" "Tut, tut, Aylward," said the old bowman.
"Yes! What do you want?" The man looked the lad up and down, rolled one of his eyes, which looked something like that of a lobster, and then winked the lid over the inflated orb, and said: "Gentlemen on an ambassage don't read their despatches to every springald they see by the roadside.
"Stop!" cried Sir Robert fiercely. "Let no man stir if he value his skin. I know what you would do, and that I'll do myself when I have corrected this springald here. Now, boy," he roared, "your sword!" "Now, Master Leoni," whispered the boy between his teeth, as he rapidly placed himself on guard and made a feint at the burly captain's chest.
"Hallo, young springald!" he cried, in a blustering manner. "Why don't you jump up and salute your officer?" "Because I can't see him," cried the lad sharply. "What? And you carry a toasting-iron, like a rat's tail, by your side. Here, who made this cursed road, where it ought to have been a ladder?" "I don't know," said Ralph angrily. "Who are you? What do you want?
This mighty horseman was carried by his steed as lightly as the young springald by his Andalusian hackney. "'Twas well done of thee, Philibert," said he of the proof-armor, "to ride forth so far to welcome thy cousin and companion in arms." "Companion in battledore and shuttlecock, Romane de Clos-Vougeot!" replied the younger Cavalier.
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