Then they arose , and with many an ache , for they were weary with constraint , clambered through the ruins , and recrossed the ditch upon the rafter . Matcham had picked up the windac and went first , Dick following stiffly , with his cross-bow on his arm . `` And now , '' said Matcham , `` forth to Holywood . '' `` To Holywood ! '' cried Dick , `` when good fellows stand shot ? Not I ! I would see you hanged first , Jack ! '' `` Ye would leave me , would ye ? '' Matcham asked . `` Ay , by my sooth ! '' returned Dick . `` An I be not in time to warn these lads , I will go die with them . What ! would ye have me leave my own men that I have lived among . I trow not ! Give me my windac . '' But there was nothing further from Matcham 's mind . `` Dick , '' he said , `` ye sware before the saints that ye would see me safe to Holywood . Would ye be forsworn ? Would you desert me -- a perjurer ? ''
`` Nay , I sware for the best , '' returned XXXXX .
Ay Dick Holywood Jack Matcham cross-bow first perjurer sooth windac