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The sponsor replied, that he was considering what would be the most suitable gift for him to present to his god-child, and that he had finally decided. "I'll give him," said he, "a dozen good latten spoons, and thou shalt translate them." This was a play upon the word Latin.
Then he stooped for his boots. "I must be riding, sir," he said. Mr. Audrey raised his hand to the latten bell that stood beside him on the table. "I will take Anthony to his horse," said Robin suddenly, for a thought had come to him. "Then good-night, sir," said Anthony, as he drew on his second boot and stood up. The sky was all ablaze with stars now as they came out into the court.
So she told him, "Hereby, within this mile, is his castle, and by it on the left hand is a ford for horses to drink of, and over that ford there groweth a fair tree, and on that tree hang many shields that good knights wielded aforetime, that are now prisoners; and on the tree hangeth a basin of copper and latten, and if thou strike upon that basin thou shalt hear tidings."
Aboute that Islande do the cattle masters dwelle, and are muche giuen to hunting, and those that be occupied with tilthe of the grounde haue also mines of gold. Herodotus writeth that thethiopians named Macrobij, do more estieme latten then thei do golde whiche thei put to nothyng that thei compt of any price.
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