See Shakespeare's Henry V for a description of the latter.].

Now, see you not in which of these states a cavalier of fortune holds the highest rank, and must come to the highest honour ?" "I think I understand you, fair uncle," answered the nephew; "but, in my mind, honour cannot be won where there is no risk.

Sure, this is--I pray pardon me--an easy and almost slothful life, to mount guard round an elderly man whom no one thinks of harming, to spend summer day and winter night up in yonder battlements, and shut up all the while in iron cages, for fear you should desert your posts--uncle, uncle, it is but a hawk upon his perch, who is never carried out to the fields!" "Now, by Saint Martin of Tours, the boy has some spirit! a right touch of the Lesly in him; much like myself, though always with a little more folly in it.

Hark ye, youth--Long live the King of France!--scarce a day but there is some commission in hand, by which some of his followers may win both coin and credit.

Think not that the bravest and most dangerous deeds are done by daylight.