`` Some one holdeth it , '' suggested Joanna . `` Not so , '' said Dick ; `` for were a man strong as ten , he must still yield a little . But this resisteth like dead rock . There is a weight upon the trap . Here is no issue ; and , by my sooth , good Jack , we are here as fairly prisoners as though the gyves were on our ankle bones . Sit ye then down , and let us talk . After a while we shall return , when perchance they shall be less carefully upon their guard ; and , who knoweth ? we may break out and stand a chance . But , in my poor opinion , we are as good as shent . '' `` Dick ! '' she cried , `` alas the day that ever ye should have seen me ! For like a most unhappy and unthankful maid , it is I have led you hither . '' `` What cheer ! '' returned Dick . `` It was all written , and that which is written , willy nilly , cometh still to pass . But tell me a little what manner of a maid ye are , and how ye came into Sir Daniel 's hands ; that will do better than to bemoan yourself , whether for your sake or mine . '' `` I am an orphan , like yourself , of father and mother , '' said Joanna ; `` and for my great misfortune , Dick , and hitherto for yours , I am a rich marriage . My Lord Foxham had me to ward ; yet it appears Sir Daniel bought the marriage of me from the king , and a right dear price he paid for it . So here was I , poor babe , with two great and rich men fighting which should marry me , and I still at nurse ! Well , then the world changed , and there was a new chancellor , and Sir Daniel bought the warding of me over the Lord Foxham 's head .
And then the world changed again , and Lord Foxham bought my marriage over Sir XXXXX 's ; and from then to now it went on ill betwixt the two of them .
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