"But wilt thou not give me another twelvemonth to pay my debt ?" "Not another day," said the Prior sternly.
"And is this all thou wilt do for me ?" asked the Knight.
"Now, out upon thee, false knight!" cried the Prior, bursting forth in anger.

"Either pay thy debt as I have said, or release thy land and get thee gone from out my hall." Then Sir Richard arose to his feet.

"Thou false, lying priest!" said he in so stern a voice that the man of law shrunk affrighted, "I am no false knight, as thou knowest full well, but have even held my place in the press and the tourney.

Hast thou so little courtesy that thou wouldst see a true knight kneel for all this time, or see him come into thy hall and never offer him meat or drink ?" Then quoth the man of law in a trembling voice, "This is surely an ill way to talk of matters appertaining to business; let us be mild in speech.

What wilt thou pay this knight, Sir Prior, to give thee release of his land ?" "I would have given him two hundred pounds," quoth the Prior, "but since he hath spoken so vilely to my teeth, not one groat over one hundred pounds will he get." "Hadst thou offered me a thousand pounds, false prior," said the Knight, "thou wouldst not have got an inch of my land." Then turning to where his men-at-arms stood near the door, he called, "Come hither," and beckoned with his finger; whereupon the tallest of them all came forward and handed him a long leathern bag.