`` Ay , '' said Matcham , `` they have found my flight , and now I am unhorsed ! '' and he became pale as death . `` Nay , what cheer ! '' returned Dick . `` Y ' have a long start , and we are near the ferry . And it is I , methinks , that am unhorsed . '' `` Alack , I shall be taken ! '' cried the fugitive . `` Dick , kind Dick , beseech ye help me but a little ! '' `` Why , now , what aileth thee ? '' said Dick . `` Methinks I help you very patently . But my heart is sorry for so spiritless a fellow ! And see ye here , John Matcham -- sith John Matcham is your name -- I , Richard Shelton , tide what betideth , come what may , will see you safe in Holywood . The saints so do to me again if I default you . Come , pick me up a good heart , Sir White-face . The way betters here ; spur me the horse . Go faster ! faster ! Nay , mind not for me ; I can run like a deer . ''
So , with the horse trotting hard , and XXXXX running easily alongside , they crossed the remainder of the fen , and came out upon the banks of the river by the ferryman 's hut .
Ay Dick Holywood Matcham Methinks Shelton White-face aileth betideth betters