Woe betide any that
resembles thee in any part of him!"
Whereunto Sir Silas added, -
"We will dog him, and worry him, and haunt him, and bedevil him; and
if ever he hear a comfortable word, it shall be in a language very
different from his own."
"As different as thine is from a Christian's," said the youth.
"Boy! thou art slow of apprehension," said Sir Thomas, with much
gravity; and taking up the cue, did rejoin, -
"Master Silas would impress upon thy ductile and tender mind the
danger of evil doing; that we, in other words that justice is
resolved to follow him up, even beyond his country, where he shall
hear nothing better than the Italian or the Spanish, or the black
language, or the language of Turk or Troubadour, or Tartar or
Mongol. And, forsooth, for this gentle and indirect reproof, a
gentleman in priest's orders is told by a stripling that he lacketh
Christianity! Who then shall give it?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Who, indeed? when the founder of the feast leaveth an invited guest
so empty! Yea, sir, the guest was invited, and the board was
spread. The fruits that lay upon it be there still, and fresh as
ever; and the bread of life in those capacious canisters is
unconsumed and unbroken,"
SIR SILAS (aside).
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