`` We are in the plaguiest pass , thanks , before all things , to thy swinishness of yestereven . When ye saw me here , so strangely seated where I have neither right nor interest , what a murrain I could ye not smell harm and get ye gone from evil ? '' `` Nay , '' returned Lawless , `` I thought ye had heard from Ellis , and were here on duty . '' `` Ellis ! '' echoed Dick . `` Is Ellis , then , returned ? `` For sure , '' replied the outlaw . `` He came last night , and belted me sore for being in wine -- so there ye are avenged , my master . A furious man is Ellis Duckworth ! He hath ridden me hot-spur from Craven to prevent this marriage ; and , Master Dick , ye know the way of him -- do so he will ! '' `` Nay , then , '' returned Dick , with composure , `` you and I , my poor brother , are dead men ; for I sit here a prisoner upon suspicion , and my neck was to answer for this very marriage that he purposeth to mar. . I had a fair choice , by the rood ! to lose my sweetheart or else lose my life ! Well , the cast is thrown -- it is to be my life . '' `` By the mass , '' cried Lawless , half arising , `` I am gone ! '' But Dick had his hand at once upon his shoulder . `` Friend Lawless , sit ye still , '' he said . `` An ye have eyes , look yonder at the corner by the chancel arch ; see ye not that , even upon the motion of your rising , yon armed men are up and ready to intercept you ? Yield ye , friend . Ye were bold aboard ship , when ye thought to die a sea-death ; be bold again , now that y ' are to die presently upon the gallows . ''
`` Master XXXXX , '' gasped Lawless , `` the thing hath come upon me somewhat of the suddenest .
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