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The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay

CHAPTER II
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HOW THE FAIR JEHANE BESTOWED HERSELF Betimes is best for an ugly business; your man of spirit will always rush what he loathes but yet must do.

Count Richard of Poictou, having made up his mind and confessed himself overnight, must leave with the first cock of the morning, yet must take the sacrament.

Before it was grey in the east he did so, fully armed in mail, with his red surcoat of leopards upon him, his sword girt, his spurs strapped on.

Outside the chapel in the weeping mirk a squire held his shield, another his helm, a groom walked his horse.

Milo the Abbot was celebrant, a snuffling boy served; the Count knelt before the housel-cloth haloed by the light of two thin candles.


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