`` What think ye , sir , '' returned Hatch , `` of Ellis Duckworth ? '' `` Nay , Bennet , never . Nay , not he , '' said the priest . `` There cometh never any rising , Bennet , from below -- so all judicious chroniclers concord in their opinion ; but rebellion travelleth ever downward from above ; and when Dick , Tom , and Harry take them to their bills , look ever narrowly to see what lord is profited thereby . Now , Sir Daniel , having once more joined him to the Queen 's party , is in ill odour with the Yorkist lords . Thence , Bennet , comes the blow -- by what procuring , I yet seek ; but therein lies the nerve of this discomfiture . '' `` A n't please you , Sir Oliver , '' said Bennet , `` the axles are so hot in this country that I have long been smelling fire . So did this poor sinner , Appleyard . And , by your leave , men 's spirits are so foully inclined to all of us , that it needs neither York nor Lancaster to spur them on . Hear my plain thoughts : You , that are a clerk , and Sir Daniel , that sails on any wind , ye have taken many men 's goods , and beaten and hanged not a few . Y ' are called to count for this ; in the end , I wot not how , ye have ever the uppermost at law , and ye think all patched . But give me leave , Sir Oliver : the man that ye have dispossessed and beaten is but the angrier , and some day , when the black devil is by , he will up with his bow and clout me a yard of arrow through your inwards . '' `` Nay , Bennet , y ' are in the wrong . Bennet , ye should be glad to be corrected , '' said Sir Oliver . `` Y ' are a prater , Bennet , a talker , a babbler ; your mouth is wider than your two ears . Mend it , Bennet , mend it . '' `` Nay , I say no more . Have it as ye list , '' said the retainer . The priest now rose from the stool , and from the writing-case that hung about his neck took forth wax and a taper , and a flint and steel . With these he sealed up the chest and the cupboard with Sir Daniel 's arms , Hatch looking on disconsolate ; and then the whole party proceeded , somewhat timorously , to sally from the house and get to horse . ''
'T is time we were on the road , Sir Oliver , '' said XXXXX , as he held the priest 's stirrup while he mounted .
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