At this time of year ? Stark madness , '' said he . `` Take me from Pevensey to fisk and flyte through fern and forest , and in three days Robert 's keels would be lying on Pevensey mud with ten thousand men ! Who would stop them -- Fulke ? '' ` The horns blew without , and anon Fulke cried the King 's Summons at the great door , that De Aquila with all men and horse should join the King 's camp at Salisbury . ' `` How did I tell you ? '' said De Aquila . `` There are twenty Barons ` twixt here and Salisbury could give King Henry good land service , but he has been worked upon by Fulke to send South and call me -- me ! -- off the Gate of England , when his enemies stand about to batter it in . See that Fulke 's men lie in the big south barn , '' said he . `` Give them drink , and when Fulke has eaten we will drink in my chamber . The Great Hall is too cold for old bones . '' ` As soon as he was off-horse Fulke went to the chapel with Gilbert to give thanks for his safe coming , and when he had eaten -- he was a fat man , and rolled his eyes greedily at our good roast Sussex wheatears -- we led him to the little upper chamber , whither Gilbert had already gone with the Manor-roll . I remember when Fulke heard the tide blow and whistle in the shaft he leaped back , and his long down-turned stirrup-shoes caught in the rushes and he stumbled , so that Jehan behind him found it easy to knock his head against the wall . ' ` Did you know it was going to happen ? ' said Dan . ` Assuredly , ' said Sir Richard , with a sweet smile . ' I put my foot on his sword and plucked away his dagger , but he knew not whether it was day or night for awhile . He lay rolling his eyes and bubbling with his mouth , and Jehan roped him like a calf . He was cased all in that newfangled armour which we call lizard-mail .
Not rings like my hauberk here ' -- Sir XXXXX tapped his chest -- but little pieces of dagger-proof steel overlapping on stout leather .
England Fulke Henry Pevensey Richard flyte lizard-mail stirrup-shoes twixt wheatears