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"Well, when the master-player threw his glove into Master Stubbes's face, the Chief Constable seized him for contempt of Stratford Council, and held him for trial. At that some cried 'Shame! and some 'Hurrah! but the rest of the players fled out of town in the night, lest their baggage be taken by the law and they be fined."
"Ah!" said Carew, "times have changed since then, boy, when thou couldst have a man's head off for calling thee a name or I would have yon Master Bailiff Stubbes's head off short behind the ears and Sir Thomas Lucy's too!" he added, with a sudden flash of anger, gritting his teeth and clenching his hand upon his poniard. "But, Nicholas, hast anything to eat?" "Nothing at all, sir."
And at that the master-player threw his glove into Master Stubbes's face, and called Sir Thomas a stupid old bell-wether, and Stratford burgesses silly sheep for following wherever he chose to jump." "And so they be," sneered Hal Saddler. "How?" cried Robin, hotly. "My father is a burgess. Dost thou call him a sheep, Hal Saddler?"
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