Nor had I sword to offer him to cross with mine; so I had him by the leg and the collar and walked him to the cliff's edge.
"You will do less harm down there," said I, "than here.

So say your prayers." "As you please, comrade," said he.

"I should have sooner have had breakfast first.

As for the blow I gave you, I thought you saw me come at you, else I would have woke you up first, and knocked you down next." I set him down at that.
"If that be so," said I, "you are not the cur I took you for; for I had no business to be nodding.

Stay here, and I will fetch you a sword, and you shall die like an Englishman." "I ask nothing better," said he, "even if it be at the hands of an Englishman turned traitor." That took the spirit clean out of me.