cried Dick . `` Ay , by the mass , Sir Daniel ! '' returned the knight . `` Would ye shoot upon your guardian , rogue ? But here is this '' -- And there he broke off , and pointing to Matcham , asked : `` How call ye him , Dick ? '' `` Nay , '' said Dick , `` I call him Master Matcham . Know ye him not ? He said ye knew him ! '' `` Ay , '' replied Sir Daniel , `` I know the lad ; '' and he chuckled . `` But he has fainted ; and , by my sooth , he might have had less to faint for ! Hey , Dick ? Did I put the fear of death upon you ? '' `` Indeed , Sir Daniel , ye did that , '' said Dick , and sighed again at the mere recollection . `` Nay , sir , saving your respect , I had as lief ` a ' met the devil in person ; and to speak truth , I am yet all a-quake . But what made ye , sir , in such a guise ? '' Sir Daniel 's brow grew suddenly black with anger . `` What made I ? '' he said . `` Ye do well to mind me of it ! What ?
I skulked for my poor life in my own wood of Tunstall , XXXXX .
Ay Daniel Dick Matcham Sir a-quake brow lief mass sooth