`` Y ' are speedy , but not sly . Ye would blunder me headforemost into John Amend-All 's camp . I thank you both for your good courage ; but , in sooth , it may not be . '' Then Hatch offered himself , and he also was refused . `` I want you here , good Bennet ; y ' are my right hand , indeed , '' returned the knight ; and then several coming forward in a group , Sir Daniel at length selected one and gave him the letter . `` Now , '' he said , `` upon your good speed and better discretion we do all depend . Bring me a good answer back , and before three weeks , I will have purged my forest of these vagabonds that brave us to our faces . But mark it well , Throgmorton : the matter is not easy . Ye must steal forth under night , and go like a fox ; and how ye are to cross Till I know not , neither by the bridge nor ferry . '' `` I can swim , '' returned Throgmorton . `` I will come soundly , fear not . '' `` Well , friend , get ye to the buttery , '' replied Sir Daniel . `` Ye shall swim first of all in nut-brown ale . '' And with that he turned back into the hall . `` Sir Daniel hath a wise tongue , '' said Hatch , aside , to Dick . `` See , now , where many a lesser man had glossed the matter over , he speaketh it out plainly to his company . Here is a danger , ' a saith , and here difficulty ; and jesteth in the very saying . Nay , by Saint Barbary , he is a born captain ! Not a man but he is some deal heartened up ! See how they fall again to work . ''
This praise of Sir XXXXX put a thought in the lad 's head .
Amend-All Bennet Daniel Dick Hatch Throgmorton fall first jesteth night