`` Nay , by the rood ! '' he cried , `` what poor dogs are these ? Here be some as crooked as a bow , and some as lean as a spear . Friends , ye shall ride in the front of the battle ; I can spare you , friends . Mark me this old villain on the piebald ! A two-year mutton riding on a hog would look more soldierly ! Ha ! Clipsby , are ye there , old rat ? Y ' are a man I could lose with a good heart ; ye shall go in front of all , with a bull 's eye painted on your jack , to be the better butt for archery ; sirrah , ye shall show me the way . '' `` I will show you any way , Sir Daniel , but the way to change sides , '' returned Clipsby , sturdily . Sir Daniel laughed a guffaw . `` Why , well said ! '' he cried . `` Hast a shrewd tongue in thy mouth , go to ! I will forgive you for that merry word . Selden , see them fed , both man and brute . '' The knight re-entered the inn . `` Now , friend Dick , '' he said , `` fall to . Here is good ale and bacon . Eat , while that I read . ''
Sir XXXXX opened the packet , and as he read his brow darkened .
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