"I think thee not as fine as thou thinkest thyself.

By the way, thou art like to have knocks enough where thou goest, I hear, for news is come that the Spaniards mean to land on Irish shore, and strike at us from that quarter." This was great news to me; and on every hand I heard it repeated, till, at nightfall, there was something near a panic in London, and orders were given for all troops possible to set out forthwith.

Therefore, Tom Price, though his company still wanted a few of its number, bade us be within call and ready spurred at daybreak.
The road from London to Chester was full of straggling companies of soldiers, hastened forward like us by the alarm of the Spanish attack on Ireland.

We, being mounted, distanced most of them.

And so eager were the country folk along the march to see our backs, that, had we been minded to tarry long in any place, we should have soon outworn our welcome.
I saw little of Tom Price during the early part of our march.