Are we not all from Adam's loins, all with flesh and blood, and with the same mouth that must needs have food and drink?
Where all this difference then between the ermine cloak and the leathern tunic, if what they cover is the same ?" "Aye, Jenkin," said another, "our foeman is under the stole and the vestment as much as under the helmet and plate of proof.

We have as much to fear from the tonsure as from the hauberk.

Strike at the noble and the priest shrieks, strike at priest and the noble lays his hand upon glaive.

They are twin thieves who live upon our labor." "It would take a clever man to live upon thy labor, Hugh," remarked one of the foresters, "seeing that the half of thy time is spent in swilling mead at the 'Pied Merlin.'" "Better that than stealing the deer that thou art placed to guard, like some folk I know." "If you dare open that swine's mouth against me," shouted the woodman, "I'll crop your ears for you before the hangman has the doing of it, thou long-jawed lackbrain." "Nay, gentles, gentles!" cried Dame Eliza, in a singsong heedless voice, which showed that such bickerings were nightly things among her guests.
"No brawling or brabbling, gentles! Take heed to the good name of the house." "Besides, if it comes to the cropping of ears, there are other folk who may say their say," quoth the third laborer.

"We are all freemen, and I trow that a yeoman's cudgel is as good as a forester's knife.