Eviot!" The page entered.
"Is the mediciner gone forth ?" "Yes, so please your knighthood." "Alone or accompanied ?" "Bonthron spoke apart with him, and followed him almost immediately--by your lordship's command, as I understood him." "Lackaday, yes! he goes to seek some medicaments; he will return anon.
If he be intoxicated, see he comes not near my chamber, and permit him not to enter into converse with any one.

He raves when drink has touched his brain.

He was a rare fellow before a Southron bill laid his brain pan bare; but since that time he talks gibberish whenever the cup has crossed his lips.

Said the leech aught to you, Eviot ?" "Nothing, save to reiterate his commands that your honour be not disturbed." "Which thou must surely obey," said the knight.

"I feel the summons to rest, of which I have been deprived since this unhappy wound.