Ma foi! you have not seen a drove of Nithsdale raiders on their Galloway nags, or you would not speak of loving them.

I would as soon take Beelzebub himself to my arms.

I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him." Alleyne scarce saw his way to argue in the face of so decided an opinion on the part of a high dignitary of the Church.

"You have borne arms against the Scots, then ?" he asked.
"Why, man, I first loosed string in battle when I was but a lad, younger by two years than you, at Neville's Cross, under the Lord Mowbray.
Later, I served under the Warden of Berwick, that very John Copeland of whom our friend spake, the same who held the King of Scots to ransom.

Ma foi! it is rough soldiering, and a good school for one who would learn to be hardy and war-wise." "I have heard that the Scots are good men of war," said Hordle John.
"For axemen and for spearmen I have not seen their match," the archer answered.