`` Look you , my good father , '' said Sir Daniel , `` if y ' are for piety , I say no more ; ye begin late , that is all . But if y ' are in any sense bent upon wisdom , hear me . This lad beginneth to irk me like a wasp . I have a need for him , for I would sell his marriage . But I tell you , in all plainness , if that he continue to weary me , he shall go join his father . I give orders now to change him to the chamber above the chapel . If that ye can swear your innocency with a good , solid oath and an assured countenance , it is well ; the lad will be at peace a little , and I will spare him . If that ye stammer or blench , or anyways boggle at the swearing , he will not believe you ; and by the mass , he shall die . There is for your thinking on . '' `` The chamber above the chapel ! '' gasped the priest . `` That same , '' replied the knight . `` So if ye desire to save him , save him ; and if ye desire not , prithee , go to , and let me be at peace ! For an I had been a hasty man , I would already have put my sword through you , for your intolerable cowardice and folly . Have ye chosen ? Say ! '' `` I have chosen , '' said the priest . `` Heaven pardon me , I will do evil for good . I will swear for the lad 's sake . '' `` So is it best ! ''
said Sir XXXXX .
Daniel Sir beginneth innocency orders plainness prithee sense swearing wasp