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Updated: May 11, 2025
'See you, he said slowly, 'these tuckets that they blow from the gate signify that the new Queen cometh with a great state. He bit his under lip and looked at her meaningly. 'But a great state ensueth a great heaviness to the head of the State. Principis hymen, principium gravitatis.... 'Tis a small matter to me; you may make it a great one to your ladyship's light fortunes.
'There can no other lord find so many plates of parcel gilt. His level and cold voice penetrated through all the ascending din of voices, of knives, of tuckets of trumpets that announced the courses of meat and of the three men's songs that introduced the sweet jellies which only Privy Seal, it was said, could direct to be prepared.
And there, amid the sounding of tuckets and the clash of armoured soldiery and horses continually moving forth, Dick and Joan sat side by side, tenderly held hands, and looked, with ever growing affection, in each other's eyes. Thenceforth the dust and blood of that unruly epoch passed them by. They dwelt apart from alarms in the green forest where their love began.
At the same time, answering tuckets repeated and repeated Hatch's call. "Rally, rally!" cried Dick. "Rally upon me! Rally for your lives!" But his men afoot, scattered, taken in the hour when they had counted on an easy triumph began instead to give ground severally, and either stood wavering or dispersed into the thickets.
Ah, youth is very sweet, lad, and love true love is youth's fair paradise and body o' me, there sound our tuckets! See where Ivo formeth his main battle and yonder he posteth a goodly company to shut us up within the city. So must we wait a while until the battle joins thy noble father is wondrous wise in war O verily he hath seen, behold how he altereth his array! O wise Beltane!"
I well-nigh lost mine office, because one frosty morning Master Varney thought I smelled of aqua vitae; and this fellow can appear before him drunk as a wineskin, and yet meet no rebuke. But then he is a pestilent clever fellow withal, and no one can understand above one half of what he says." Now bid the steeple rock she comes, she comes! Speak for us, bells speak for us, shrill-tongued tuckets.
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