All these are fellows that will strike hard, and ask no question why--their hands are ever readier than their tongues, and their mouths are more made for drinking than speaking." Whitaker, apprised of the necessity of the case, asked if he should not warn Sir Jasper Cranbourne.
"Not a word to him, as you live," said the Knight; "this may be an outlawry, as they call it, for what I know; and therefore I will bring no lands or tenements into peril, saving mine own.

Sir Jasper hath had a troublesome time of it for many a year.

By my will, he shall sit quiet for the rest of's days.".