[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER V 2/36
Eh? young Plato, young Daniel, come hither to judgment! And yet, though I cannot see through the bottom of the tankard already, I can see plain enough still to see this, that Will shall not fight." "Shall I not, eh? who says that? Mr.Frank, I appeal to you, now; only hear." "We are in the judgment-seat," said Frank, settling to the pasty. "Proceed, appellant." "Well, I was telling Amyas, that Tom Coffin, of Portledge; I will stand him no longer." "Let him be, then," said Amyas; "he could stand very well by himself, when I saw him last." "Plague on you, hold your tongue.
Has he any right to look at me as he does, whenever I pass him ?" "That depends on how he looks; a cat may look at a king, provided she don't take him for a mouse." "Oh, I know how he looks, and what he means too, and he shall stop, or I will stop him.
And the other day, when I spoke of Rose Salterne"-- "Ah!" groaned Frank, "Ate's apple again!"-- "(never mind what I said) he burst out laughing in my face; and is not that a fair quarrel? And what is more, I know that he wrote a sonnet, and sent it to her to Stow by a market woman.
What right has he to write sonnets when I can't? It's not fair play, Mr.Frank, or I am a Jew, and a Spaniard, and a Papist; it's not!" And Will smote the table till the plates danced again. "My dear knight of the burning pestle, I have a plan, a device, a disentanglement, according to most approved rules of chivalry.
Let us fix a day, and summon by tuck of drum all young gentlemen under the age of thirty, dwelling within fifteen miles of the habitation of that peerless Oriana." "And all 'prentice-boys too," cried Amyas, out of the pasty. "And all 'prentice-boys.
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