The mission is one of importance, and if it fails from any fault of yours, you had better drown yourself in the first river you come to, than return to Northumberland." "I think that you can trust me, my lord," the monk said, calmly.

"I am a very poor monk, but methinks that I am not a bad soldier; and although I go in the dress of the one, I shall really go as the other.
I know that my duty, as a soldier, will be to obey.

Even as regards my potations, which I own are sometimes deeper than they should be, methinks that, as a soldier, I shall be much less thirsty than I was as a monk.

If the enterprise should fail from any default of mine, your lordship may be sure that I shall bear your advice in mind." "I doubt not that you will do well, Roger.

I should not have sent you with my esquire, on such a business, had I not believed that you would prove yourself worthy of my confidence.