'Let us go to our provost,' said I.'He is a gentleman himself, and ought to come between the burgh and the nobles in all matters." "Hush, neighbours--hush; be wary what you say or do," said a thin meagre figure of a man, whose diminutive person seemed still more reduced in size, and more assimilated to a shadow, by his efforts to assume an extreme degree of humility, and make himself, to suit his argument, look meaner yet, and yet more insignificant, than nature had made him.
"Pardon me," said he; "I am but a poor pottingar.

Nevertheless, I have been bred in Paris, and learned my humanities and my cursus medendi as well as some that call themselves learned leeches.

Methinks I can tent this wound, and treat it with emollients.

Here is our friend Simon Glover, who is, as you all know, a man of worship.

Think you he would not be the most willing of us all to pursue harsh courses here, since his family honour is so nearly concerned?
And since he blenches away from the charge against these same revellers, consider if he may not have some good reason more than he cares to utter for letting the matter sleep.