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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER XII
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Since the law will not give us redress, and put them down, we must take the law into our own hands.

They shall have Club Law." "Ay, ay--'Prentices' law--Club law!" chorussed the others.
"Sir Giles will make a Star-Chamber matter of it.

He will have us up before the Council," laughed the goldsmith's 'prentice.
"He will buy a monopoly of cudgels to deprive us of their use," cried a bowyer.
"We will bestow that patent upon him gratis," quoth Dick, making his staff whistle round his head.
"The prisoner!--gentlemen 'prentices--do not forget him!" cried Cyprien, who, with two other serving-men and the cook, had joined the assailing party.

"Madame Bonaventure implores you to effect his rescue." "And so we will, my jovial Gascon," replied Dick.

"Come, Sir Giles! are we to have the young gentleman from you by force or free-will ?" "You shall have him in neither way, sirrah," the knight rejoined.


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