Thereafter , I will give you both a meal , and we shall all three on to Tunstall . For , Dick , '' he continued , laying forth bread and meat upon the grass , `` I will avow to you , in all good conscience , it irks me sorely to be safe between four walls . Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard ; peril of life , jeopardy of land and livelihood , and to sum up , all these losels in the wood to hunt me down . But I be not yet shent . Some of my lads will pick me their way home . Hatch hath ten fellows ; Selden , he had six . Nay , we shall soon be strong again ; and if I can but buy my peace with my right fortunate and undeserving Lord of York , why , Dick , we 'll be a man again and go a-horseback ! '' And so saying , the knight filled himself a horn of canary , and pledged his ward in dumb show . `` Selden , '' Dick faltered -- `` Selden '' -- And he paused again . Sir Daniel put down the wine untasted . `` How ! '' he cried , in a changed voice . `` Selden ? Speak ! What of Selden ? '' Dick stammered forth the tale of the ambush and the massacre . The knight heard in silence ; but as he listened , his countenance became convulsed with rage and grief . `` Now here , '' he cried , `` on my right hand , I swear to avenge it ! If that I fail , if that I spill not ten men 's souls for each , may this hand wither from my body ! I broke this Duckworth like a rush ; I beggared him to his door ; I burned the thatch above his head ; I drove him from this country ; and now , cometh he back to beard me ?
Nay , but , XXXXX , this time it shall go bitter hard ! ''
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