I tell you , '' he went on , with a sudden chuckle , `` I swear by the mass I believe Hugh Ferryman took you for a maid . '' `` Nay , never ! '' cried the other , colouring high . `` A ' did , though , for a wager ! '' Dick exclaimed . `` Small blame to him . Ye look liker maid than man ; and I tell you more -- y ' are a strange-looking rogue for a boy ; but for a hussy , Jack , ye would be right fair -- ye would . Ye would be well favoured for a wench . '' `` Well , '' said Matcham , `` ye know right well that I am none . '' `` Nay , I know that ; I do but jest , '' said Dick . `` Ye 'll be a man before your mother , Jack . What cheer , my bully ! Ye shall strike shrewd strokes . Now , which , I marvel , of you or me , shall be first knighted , Jack ? for knighted I shall be , or die for ` t. ` Sir Richard Shelton , Knight ' : it soundeth bravely . But ` Sir John Matcham ' soundeth not amiss . '' `` Prithee , Dick , stop till I drink , '' said the other , pausing where a little clear spring welled out of the slope into a gravelled basin no bigger than a pocket . `` And O , Dick , if I might come by anything to eat ! -- my very heart aches with hunger . '' `` Why , fool , did ye not eat at Kettley ? ''
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Dick Ferryman Jack Kettley Matcham Prithee Shelton first hussy wench