By our faith the Countess understands the gentle science weel.

She cared not to soil her dainty gloves by rewarding her hawk with a _soppa_, as his Excellency Giustiniano would term it, of the bustard's heart, bluid, and brains.
But wha hae ye gotten wi' ye ?" he added, for the first time noticing Jocelyn.
"A young gentleman in whom I am much interested, and whom I would crave permission to present to your Majesty," replied De Gondomar.
"Saul of our body, Count, the permission is readily granted," replied James, evidently much pleased with the young man's appearance.

"Ye shall bring him to us in the privy-chamber before we gang to supper, and moreover ye shall hae full licence to advance what you please in his behoof.

He is a weel-grown, weel-favoured laddie, almost as much sae as our ain dear dog Steenie; but we wad say to him, in the words of the Roman bard, 'O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori!' Gude pairts are better than gude looks; not that the latter are to be undervalued, but baith should exist in the same person.

We shall soon discover whether the young man hath been weel nurtured, and if all correspond we shall not refuse him the light of our countenance." "I tender your Majesty thanks for the favour you have conferred upon him," replied De Gondomar.
"But ye have not yet tauld us the youth's name, Count ?" said the King.
"Your Majesty, I trust, will not think I make a mystery where none is needed, if I say that my protege claims your gracious permission to preserve, for the moment, his incognito," De Gondomar replied.