It always vexed him to think how Witta 's ship had come and gone without his knowledge . When the wind ceased and ships anchored , to the wharf 's edge he would go and , leaning on his sword among the stinking fish , would call to the mariners for their news from France . His other eye he kept landward for word of Henry 's war against the Barons . ` Many brought him news -- jongleurs , harpers , pedlars , sutlers , priests and the like ; and , though he was secret enough in small things , yet , if their news misliked him , then , regarding neither time nor place nor people , he would curse our King Henry for a fool or a babe . I have heard him cry aloud by the fishing boats : `` If I were King of England I would do thus and thus '' ; and when I rode out to see that the warning-beacons were laid and dry , he hath often called to me from the shot-window : `` Look to it , Richard ! Do not copy our blind King , but see with thine own eyes and feel with thine own hands . '' I do not think he knew any sort of fear . And so we lived at Pevensey , in the little chamber above the Hall . ` One foul night came word that a messenger of the King waited below . We were chilled after a long riding in the fog towards Bexlei , which is an easy place for ships to land . De Aquila sent word the man might either eat with us or wait till we had fed . Anon Jehan , at the stair-head , cried that he had called for horse , and was gone . `` Pest on him ! '' said De Aquila . `` I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends . Left he no word ? '' ' `` None , '' said Jehan , `` except '' -- he had been with De Aquila at Santlache -- `` except he said that if an old dog could not learn new tricks it was time to sweep out the kennel . '' ' `` Oho ! '' said De Aquila , rubbing his nose , `` to whom did he say that ? '' ' `` To his beard , chiefly , but some to his horse 's flank as he was girthing up .
I followed him out , '' said XXXXX the Crab . '
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