But this is the letter which I am to take; and since the platter is clean it is time that we trussed up and were afoot.

You come with me, mon gros Jean; and as to you, little one, where did you say that you journeyed ?" "To Minstead." "Ah, yes.

I know this forest country well, though I was born myself in the Hundred of Easebourne, in the Rape of Chichester, hard by the village of Midhurst.

Yet I have not a word to say against the Hampton men, for there are no better comrades or truer archers in the whole Company than some who learned to loose the string in these very parts.
We shall travel round with you to Minstead lad, seeing that it is little out of our way." "I am ready," said Alleyne, right pleased at the thought of such company upon the road.
"So am not I.I must store my plunder at this inn, since the hostess is an honest woman.

Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.