"I did not feel quite sure, before, whether I was glad or sorry that my expulsion was put off, for I always thought that it would come to that some day; but now that I learn for what service Hotspur intends me, I feel as if I could shout for joy.
"Get me a flagon of beer, good Alwyn.

I have drunk but water for the last twenty-four hours, and was in too great haste, to learn what was before me, even to pay a visit to brother Anselm, the cellarer, who is a stanch friend of mine.
"And do I go as a man-at-arms, Master Oswald?
For, as your mission is clearly of a private character, disguise may be needful." "No, Roger, you will go in your own capacity, as a monk, journeying on a mission from the abbot to the head of some religious community, near Dunbar.

I doubt not that Lord Percy will obtain a letter from the abbot, and though it may be that there will be no need to deliver it, still it may help us on the way.

As you are going with me, I shall attire myself as a young lay servitor of the convent." "I would that it had been otherwise," the monk said, with a sigh.

"I should have travelled far more lightly, in the heaviest mail harness, than in this monk's robe.