'Tis odds but some of them are wearied of their estate by this time." "Tush, Denys!" said Gerard; "why wilt thou, being good, still make thyself seem evil?
If thy wishing-cap be on, pray that we may meet the meanest she of all those wise virgins in the next world, and to that end let us reverence their holy dust in this one.

And then there is the church of the Maccabees, and the cauldron in which they and their mother Solomona were boiled by a wicked king for refusing to eat swine's flesh." "Oh, peremptory king! and pig-headed Maccabees! I had eaten bacon with my pork liever than change places at the fire with my meat." "What scurvy words are these?
it was their faith." "Nay, bridle thy choler, and tell me, are there nought but churches in this thy so vaunted city?
for I affect rather Sir Knight than Sir Priest." "Ay, marry, there is an university near a hundred years old; and there is a market-place, no fairer in the world, and at the four sides of it houses great as palaces; and there is a stupendous senate-house all covered with images, and at the head of them stands one of stout Herman Gryn, a soldier like thyself, lad." "Ay.

Tell me of him! what feat of arms earned him his niche ?" "A rare one.

He slew a lion in fair combat, with nought but his cloak and a short sword.

He thrust the cloak in the brute's mouth, and cut his spine in twain, and there is the man's effigy and eke the lion's to prove it.