What is, is, and a fig for priests; to-day to thee, to-morrow to me.
Addio!" And out he swung.
"There goes a most gallant rascal," said the lord deputy.
"And a most rascally gallant," said Zouch.

"The murder of his own page, of which I gave him a remembrancer, is among the least of his sins." "And now, Captain Raleigh," said Lord Grey, "as you have been so earnest in preaching this butchery, I have a right to ask none but you to practise it." Raleigh bit his lip, and replied by the "quip courteous--" "I am at least a man, my lord, who thinks it shame to allow others to do that which I dare not do myself." Lord Grey might probably have returned "the countercheck quarrelsome," had not Mackworth risen-- "And I, my lord, being in that matter at least one of Captain Raleigh's kidney, will just go with him to see that he takes no harm by being bold enough to carry out an ugly business, and serving these rascals as their countrymen served Mr.Oxenham." "I bid you good morning, then, gentlemen, though I cannot bid you God speed," said Lord Grey; and sitting down again, covered his face with his hands, and, to the astonishment of all bystanders, burst, say the chroniclers, into tears.
Amyas followed Raleigh out.

The latter was pale, but determined, and very wroth against the deputy.
"Does the man take me for a hangman," said he, "that he speaks to me thus?
But such is the way of the great.

If you neglect your duty, they haul you over the coals; if you do it, you must do it on your own responsibility.

Farewell, Amyas; you will not shrink from me as a butcher when I return ?" "God forbid! But how will you do it ?" "March one company in, and drive them forth, and let the other cut them down as they come out .-- Pah!" * * * * * It was done.