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When I am in the greenwood, give me greenwood ways; and my word for this
tide is: 'A fig for all mock soldiery!'"
"
Lawless, ye but show an ill example; give us the word, fool jester,"
said the commander of the post.
"And if I had forgotten it?" asked the other.
"
An ye had forgotten it--as I know y' 'ave not--by the mass, I would clap
an arrow into your big body," returned the first.
"Nay, an y' are so ill a jester," said Lawless, "ye shall have your word
for me. 'Duckworth and Shelton' is the word; and here, to the
illustration, is Shelton on my shoulders, and to Duckworth do I carry
him."
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"
"
Pass, Lawless," said the sentry.
And where is John?" asked the Grey Friar.
He holdeth a court, by the mass, and taketh rents as to the manner
born!" cried another of the company.
So it proved. When Lawless got as far up the village as the little inn,
he found Ellis Duckworth surrounded by Sir Daniel's tenants, and, by the
right of his good company of archers, coolly taking rents, and giving
written receipts in return for them. By the faces of the tenants, it was
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