Whereby I went to my bed perplexed, and with a heavy heart, as one that was not yet conversant with the ways of women--nay, nor ever, in my secular life, have I understood what they would be at.
Happier had it been for my temporal life if I had been wiser in woman's ways.

But commonly, when we have learned a lesson, the lore comes too late.
Next day my master had business at the castle with a certain lord, and took me thither to help in carrying his wares.

This castle was a place that I loved well, it is so old, having first been builded when the Romans were lords of the land; and is so great and strong that our bishop's castle of St.Andrews seems but a cottage compared to it.

From the hill-top there is a wide prospect over the tower and the valley of the Vienne, which I liked to gaze upon.

My master, then, went in by the drawbridge, high above the moat, which is so deep that, I trow, no foeman could fill it up and cross it to assail the walls.