"
"Hast room for them, Master Silas?"
"Yea," quoth Master Silas, "and would make room for fifty, to let
the fellow swing at his ease."
SIR THOMAS.
"Hast room, Master Ephraim?"
"'T is done, most worshipful!" said I. The learned knight did not
recollect that I could put fifty furlongs in a needle's eye, give me
pen fine enough.
But far be it from me to vaunt of my penmanship, although there be
those who do malign it, even in my own township and parish; yet they
never have unperched me from my calling, and have had hard work to
take an idle wench or two from under me on Saturday nights.
I memorize thus much, not out of any malice or any soreness about
me, but that those of my kindred into whose hands it please God
these papers do fall hereafter, may bear up stoutly in such straits;
and if they be good at the cudgel, that they, looking first at their
man, do give it him heartily and unsparingly, keeping within law.
Sir Thomas, having overlooked what we had written, and meditated a
while thereupon, said unto Joseph, -
"It appeareth by thy testimony that there was a huge and desperate
gang of them afoot. Revengeful dogs! it is difficult to deal with
them.
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