You had best, methinks, be off before Sir Walter and his heavily-armed men are here.

The forest, large as it is, will scarce hold you both, and methinks you had best shift your quarters to Langholm Chase until the storm has passed." "To Langholm be it, then," said Cnut, "though I love not the place.

Sir John of Wortham is a worse neighbor by far than the earl.

Against the latter we bear no malice, he is a good knight and a fair lord; and could he free himself of the Norman notions that the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the water, all belong to Normans, and that we Saxons have no share in them, I should have no quarrel with him.

He grinds not his neighbors, he is content with a fair tithe of the produce, and as between man and man is a fair judge without favor.