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"'Sdeath, villain!" said the Duke, once more laying his hand on his poniard-hilt, "thou hast me again at advantage. I know not why I forbear to poniard you where you stand!" "I might fall, my Lord Duke," said Christian, slightly colouring, and putting his right hand into his bosom, "though not, I think, unavenged for I have not put my person into this peril altogether without means of defence.
"What?" cried Nick. "As sure as shooting, they did!" said Robin; "and when Sir Thomas's gentry yeomen would have seen to it what? Why, my Lord Admiral's master-player clapped his hand to his poniard-hilt, and dared them come and take it if they could." "To Sir Thomas Lucy's men?" exclaimed Nick, aghast. "Ay, to their teeth!
But Carew scowled and showed his teeth, and clenched his poniard-hilt so fiercely that the commoners fell away and let them down. Nick's eyes were hungry for the printers' stalls where ballad-sheets were sold for a penny, and where the books were piled along the shelves until he wondered if all London were turned printer.
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