Yet, thanks to our good chancellor, I am not wholly unlettered.

I have read Ockham, Bradwardine, and other of the schoolmen, together with the learned Duns Scotus and the book of the holy Aquinas." "But of the things of this world, what have you gathered from your reading?
From this high window you may catch a glimpse over the wooden point and the smoke of Bucklershard of the mouth of the Exe, and the shining sea.

Now, I pray you Alleyne, if a man were to take a ship and spread sail across yonder waters, where might he hope to arrive ?" The youth pondered, and drew a plan amongst the rushes with the point of his staff.

"Holy father," said he, "he would come upon those parts of France which are held by the King's Majesty.

But if he trended to the south he might reach Spain and the Barbary States.