Heed me now.' 'Fair sire,' says Richard, 'observe that I have knelt to you.

I am not here for any other reason, and least of all to try conclusions of the voice.

I have come out of my lands with my company to give you obedience.

Be sure that they, on their part, will pay you proper honour (as I do) if you will let them.' 'You come from lands I have given you, as Henry came, as Geoffrey came, to defy me,' said the old man, trembling in his chair.

'What is your obedience worth when I have measured theirs: Henry's obedience! Geoffrey's obedience! Pish, man, what words you use.' He got up and stamped about the tent like an irritable dwarf, crook-legged and long-armed, pricked, maddened at every point.