Half a dozen steps took them down this to the moorings of that boat, which fortunately had not been removed.
"Get in, Kenneth," Crispin commanded.

"There, I'll take the oars, and I'll keep under shelter of the bank lest those blunderers should bethink them of looking out of our prison window.

Oddswounds, Kenneth, I am hungry as a wolf, and as dry--ough, as dry as Dives when he begged for a sup of water.

Heaven send we come upon some good malignant homestead ere we go far, where a Christian may find a meal and a stoup of ale.

'Tis a miracle I had strength enough to crawl downstairs.