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"Ay," answered the old woman, in the same style of bitter irony, "I know the wages of that service; a curse when the corslet is not sufficiently brightened, a blow when the girth is not tightly drawn, to be beaten because the hounds are at fault, to be reviled because the foray is unsuccessful, to stain his hands for the master's bidding in the blood alike of beast and of man, to be a butcher of harmless deer, a murderer and defacer of God's own image, not at his own pleasure, but at that of his lord, to live a brawling ruffian, and a common stabber exposed to heat, to cold, to want of food, to all the privations of an anchoret, not for the love of God, but for the service of Satan, to die by the gibbet, or in some obscure skirmish, to sleep out his brief life in carnal security, and to awake in the eternal fire, which is never quenched."
"Syth the realm of England was first a realm," said Hale, "was there never in it so great a robber and piller of the commonwealth read of nor heard of as is our king..... He is the most cruellest capital heretic, defacer and treader under foot of Christ and of his church, continually applying and minding to extinct the same; whose death, I beseech God, may be like to the death of the most wicked John, sometime king of this realm, or rather to be called a great tyran than a king; and that his death may be not much unlike to the end of that manqueller Richard, sometime usurper of this imperial realm.
The man of the present is a vulgar defacer of interesting monuments, whereas he of the past added to their interest, and prepared a pleasant little surprise for the archaeologist who might walk that way a few centuries later. Enough of the fortifications of Domme remains to show what a very strong place it was in the Middle Ages.
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