However, young sir, that is not like to be, in our time." "I am afraid not, Sanderson, and we must needs make the best we can of things, as they stand.

I think that 'twould be well, if the English do come north again and capture Edinburgh, and ruin trade for years, to cross the seas to France, and take service there." "Scarce spoken like a peaceful trader," the landlord laughed; "but I doubt not you would make a good soldier, and that a sword would suit your hand to the full as well as a yard measure.
"Well, it makes not so much difference, to me.

Men must eat and drink, and though my wine would be drunk up without payment, and I should have to run the risk of being killed on the walls, if the English came; I should know that, in a short time, men would come and go as before, and that they will drink good wine if they have money to pay for it, and in six months my trade would be as brisk as ever; but men seem to think that, this time, it will be the Scots who will invade England, for the English barons have had enough of wars in France, and will be slow in furnishing their quota when called on; and that we shall carry fire and sword through the northern counties." "That we may do, though Northumberland and Hotspur will doubtless have something to say to it.

I fear it will be as it has been, many a time before.

Our armies will march back with their plunder, the news of the damage done will inflame all England, and then a great army will march north.