But she, I mean Catharine Glover, is contracted, and presently to be wedded, to Henry the armourer, a craftsman unequalled for skill, and a man at arms yet unmatched in the barrace.

To follow out this intrigue would do a good fellow too much wrong." "Your Highness will not expect me to be very solicitous of Henry Smith's interest," said Ramorny, looking at his wounded arm.
"By St.Andrew with his shored cross, this disaster of thine is too much harped upon, John Ramorny! Others are content with putting a finger into every man's pie, but thou must thrust in thy whole gory hand.

It is done, and cannot be undone; let it be forgotten." "Nay, my lord, you allude to it more frequently than I," answered the knight--"in derision, it is true; while I--but I can be silent on the subject if I cannot forget it." "Well, then, I tell thee that I have scruple about this intrigue.

Dost thou remember, when we went in a frolic to hear Father Clement preach, or rather to see this fair heretic, that he spoke as touchingly as a minstrel about the rich man taking away the poor man's only ewe lamb ?" "A great matter, indeed," answered Sir John, "that this churl's wife's eldest son should be fathered by the Prince of Scotland! How many earls would covet the like fate for their fair countesses?
and how many that have had such good luck sleep not a grain the worse for it ?" "And if I might presume to speak," said the mediciner, "the ancient laws of Scotland assigned such a privilege to every feudal lord over his female vassals, though lack of spirit and love of money hath made many exchange it for gold." "I require no argument to urge me to be kind to a pretty woman; but this Catharine has been ever cold to me," said the Prince.
"Nay, my lord," said Ramorny, "if, young, handsome, and a prince, you know not how to make yourself acceptable to a fine woman, it is not for me to say more." "And if it were not far too great audacity in me to speak again, I would say," quoth the leech, "that all Perth knows that the Gow Chrom never was the maiden's choice, but fairly forced upon her by her father.

I know for certain that she refused him repeatedly." "Nay, if thou canst assure us of that, the case is much altered," said Rothsay.