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Updated: June 21, 2025
"They are kept in leash by a varlet stationed behind yon yew-tree hedge, who only awaits my signal to let them slip; and by my faith it is time he had it."
"Now, O my King, take these regal garments back, and give poor Tom, thy servant, his shreds and remnants again." The Lord Protector spoke up "Let the small varlet be stripped and flung into the Tower." But the new King, the true King, said "I will not have it so. But for him I had not got my crown again none shall lay a hand upon him to harm him.
Sir Ewain attended him to court, where they dismounted in front of the palace; the king and queen advanced to meet them; each took Sir Ewain by a hand, and seated him on a couch, while the varlet stood in their presence on the rushes that strewed the floor. All gazed with pleasure, and the queen prayed that God might make him noble, for he possessed as much beauty as was possible for man to have.
"Yes, and he has turned out an excellent servant. It was a fortunate day, for me, when I insisted on taking him in spite of your warning. He is a merry varlet, and yet knows when to joke, and when to hold his peace. He is an excellent forager " "Ah! That I warrant he is," Maitre Bertram put in; " And can cook a dinner or a supper with any man in the army.
Mother was not as careful as she might have been at that time, and lost me a pretty wife. Good! Things are turning out well to-day. We will rout Gadarn, find his daughter and this so-called lad, and then I shall have two wives instead of one." The robber chief had just come to this satisfactory conclusion, when another scout arrived. "How now, varlet? Do you bring good news?"
The two champions met together in the onset, but the prince struck his adversary so cunningly with the lance, that the laces of his buckler were broken, and the shield fell from his body. When the varlet saw this he rejoiced greatly, for he knew that the eyes of his friend were upon him. He pressed his quarrel right fiercely, and tumbling his foe from the saddle, seized his horse by the bridle.
And Grice the valorous would have taken him off with a fresh, sleep-dispelling bellow had it not been that he heard himself summoned in a voice that brooked no delay. "Open, varlet of a watchman, or by Saint Bride I will have you swinging in half an hour from the bars of your own portcullis. I who speak am Sholto MacKim, captain of the Earl's guard.
In short but, Jimmy, go on and roll up the blankets." "But why can't it, and what do you know about it? Tell me," he demanded with sudden inspiration, "is yon varlet a suitor, too, for yon heartless jade?" "I decline to answer, Jimmy. Don't let's get into too deep water. Go on and get your bundles ready." "You're a fine pirate, ain't you, Black Bart!" he broke out.
Bertram and Julian hardly entered into their mother's feelings on this point; but Edred looked up eagerly, and it was plain that he understood the feelings which prompted the words, for he said in a low voice: "Methinks thou art right, gentle mother; albeit I did sorely long to give the varlet a lesson to teach him better. But perchance it was well I was not nigh enough.
The Emperor asked of him what they did in the city; and the varlet said that they were making exceeding good cheer of eating and drinking and taking their ease, and that no work had they done therein these fifteen days. "And wherefore is that?" said the Emperor. "Wherefore, Sir! Wot ye not well thereof?" "Nay, forsooth," said the Emperor, "but tell me wherefore."
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