"This will give you manhood.

Thereafter, I will give you both a meal, and we shall all three on to Tunstall.

For, Dick," he continued, laying forth bread and meat upon the grass, "I will avow to you, in all good conscience, it irks me sorely to be safe between four walls.

Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down.

But I be not yet shent.