And you talk of an English king ?" "I do not marvel at it," cried the Cambrig scholar, speaking in the high drawling voice which was common among his class.

"It is not a tongue for men of sweet birth and delicate upbringing.

It is a foul, snorting, snarling manner of speech.

For myself, I swear by the learned Polycarp that I have most ease with Hebrew, and after that perchance with Arabian." "I will not hear a word said against old King Ned," cried Hordle John in a voice like a bull.

"What if he is fond of a bright eye and a saucy face.