Who are you that make this tumult at my gates?
Another turbulent Englishman, I'll be bound." "Ay, sir, an Englishman called Sir Hugh de Cressi, and his companion, Richard the Archer, whom these rogues have tried to rob and murder, messengers from his Grace King Edward." Now Sir Geoffrey changed his tone.
"Your pardon if I spoke roughly, Sir Hugh, but we poor Envoys have to do with many rufflers from our own land.

Enter, I pray you.

My servants will see to your gear and horses.

But first, what is the trouble between you and these fellows ?" Hugh told him briefly.
"Ah!" he said, "a common trick with foreigners.

Well for you that night had not fallen, since otherwise they might have rowed you up some back waterway and there done you to death.