The honest fellows were full of indignation and horror at the thought of men killing themselves to give sport to others.

They were used to hard knocks, and thought but little of their life, and would have betaken themselves to their bows and bills without hesitation in case of a quarrel.

But to fight in cold blood for amusement seemed to them very terrible.
Cuthbert would then have traveled on to Milan, at that time next to Rome the richest city in Europe, but he longed to be back in England, and was the more anxious as he knew that King Richard would be passing through great dangers, and he hoped to meet him at the court of Saxony.

His money, too, was fast running out, and he found that it would be beyond his slender means to extend his journey so far.

At Verona, then, they turned their back on the broad plains of Lombardy, and entered the valley of the Trent.
So far no observation whatever had been excited by the passage of the English knight.