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Should he ever ask your opinion it must be, "Keep the weather-gauge and board!" 'I must to sleep, said I, laying aside my pipe. 'I should be on the road by daybreak. 'Nay, I prythee, complete your kindness by letting me have a glimpse of your respected parent, the Roundhead. ''Tis but a few lines, I answered. 'He was ever short of speech. But if they interest you, you shall hear them.
"Prythee, take your guitar and sing to us, were it but to change the conversation," cried Hyacinth; and De Malfort took up his guitar and began, in the sweetest of tenors, "Go, lovely rose." He had all her ladyship's visitors, chiefly feminine, round him before he had finished the first verse. That gift of song, that exquisite touch upon the Spanish guitar, were irresistible.
'Your strong opinions, friend, said Sir Gervas quietly, 'are borne out doubtless by your full knowledge of the subject. How often, prythee, have you been in these playhouses which you are so ready to decry?
"I come from Banbury," answered the Tinker. "Alas!" quoth Robin, "I hear there is sad news this merry morn." "Ha! Is it indeed so?" cried the Tinker eagerly. "Prythee tell it speedily, for I am a tinker by trade, as thou seest, and as I am in my trade I am greedy for news, even as a priest is greedy for farthings."
"Here, worthy sir," answered the first of the bearers, laying a great package down in the corner. "Number two seven ells of red Turkey cloth and nine ells of cloth of gold. Put it down by the other. Good dame, I prythee give each of these men a bottrine of wine or a jack of ale. Three a full piece of white Genoan velvet with twelve ells of purple silk. Thou rascal, there is dirt on the hem!
"Now," quoth Robin, "I do feel myself another man, and would fain enjoy something pleasant before going farther upon our journey. I do bethink me, Will, that thou didst use to have a pretty voice, and one that tuned sweetly upon a song. Prythee, give us one ere we journey farther." "Truly, I do not mind turning a tune," answered Will Scarlet, "but I would not sing alone."
"No; excuse me," he answered with a little shyness, the rarest of phenomena in his spiritual atmosphere; "I could not read it aloud. But do not let it bore you if " He did not finish his sentence, and Hester was already busy with his manuscript. Here is the song: If thou lov'st I dare not ask thee, Lest thou say, "Not thee;" Prythee, then, in coldness mask thee, That it may be me.
"Little John," said he, "Little John, mine own dear friend, and him I love better than all others in the world, mark, I prythee, where this arrow lodges, and there let my grave be digged. Lay me with my face toward the East, Little John, and see that my resting place be kept green, and that my weary bones be not disturbed." As he finished speaking, he raised himself of a sudden and sat upright.
"Prythee at least, my lord," he is reported to have said on one of these occasions, "let my chaplain attend me in his Irish mantle, that so your English rabble may be directed from my uncouth figure and laugh at him."
"A plain leg of mutton, my Lucy, I prythee get ready at three; Have it tender, and smoking, and juicy, And what better meat can there be?" says Gray, quoting my favourite poet. 'But the cook is ill; and you know that horrible Pattypan the pastrycook's 'Silence, Frau! says Gray, in a deep tragedy voice. 'I will have the ordering of this repast. Do all things as I bid thee.
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