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The Black Arrow

PROLOGUE--JOHN AMEND-ALL
19/32

There was Simon Malmesbury, too.

How think ye, Bennet ?" "What think ye, sir," returned Hatch, "of Ellis Duckworth ?" "Nay, Bennet, never.

Nay, not he," said the priest.

"There cometh never any rising, Bennet, from below--so all judicious chroniclers concord in their opinion; but rebellion travelleth ever downward from above; and when Dick, Tom, and Harry take them to their bills, look ever narrowly to see what lord is profited thereby.

Now, Sir Daniel, having once more joined him to the Queen's party, is in ill odour with the Yorkist lords.
Thence, Bennet, comes the blow--by what procuring, I yet seek; but therein lies the nerve of this discomfiture." "An't please you, Sir Oliver," said Bennet, "the axles are so hot in this country that I have long been smelling fire.


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