I met him myself on St.Valentine's Day, shortly after the affray between the townsfolk and the followers of Douglas.

Yes, I met him sneaking through the lanes and bye passages with a common minstrel wench, with her messan and her viol on his one arm and her buxom self hanging upon the other.
What thinks your honour?
Is not this a trim squire, to cross a prince's love with the fairest girl in Perth, strike off the hand of a knight and baron, and become gentleman usher to a strolling glee woman, all in the course of the same four and twenty hours ?" "Marry, I think the better of him that he has so much of a gentleman's humour, clown though he be," said Ramorny.

"I would he had been a precisian instead of a galliard, and I should have had better heart to aid thy revenge.

And such revenge!--revenge on a smith--in the quarrel of a pitiful manufacturer of rotten cheverons! Pah! And yet it shall be taken in full.

Thou hast commenced it, I warrant me, by thine own manoeuvres." "In a small degree only," said the apothecary.