And here I drink to mine old comrades, and the saints be with them! Arouse all together, me, enfants, under pain of my displeasure.

To Sir Claude Latour and the White Company!" "Sir Claude Latour and the White Company!" shouted the travellers, draining off their goblets.
"Well quaffed, mes braves! It is for me to fill your cups again, since you have drained them to my dear lads of the white jerkin.

Hola! mon ange, bring wine and ale.

How runs the old stave ?-- We'll drink all together To the gray goose feather And the land where the gray goose flew." He roared out the catch in a harsh, unmusical voice, and ended with a shout of laughter.

"I trust that I am a better bowman than a minstrel," said he.
"Methinks I have some remembrance of the lilt," remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings, "Hoping that it will give thee no offence, most holy sir"-- with a vicious snap at Alleyne--"and with the kind permit of the company, I will even venture upon it." Many a time in the after days Alleyne Edricson seemed to see that scene, for all that so many which were stranger and more stirring were soon to crowd upon him.