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"Save you, my masters!" he said, grinning. "And where goeth Master
Hatch?"
"Master Hatch is off to Kettley, with every man that we can horse,"
returned Bennet. "There is a fight toward, it seems, and my lord stays a
reinforcement."
"Ay, verily," returned Appleyard. "And what will ye leave me to garrison
withal?"
"
I leave you six good men, and Sir Oliver to boot," answered Hatch.
It'll not hold the place," said Appleyard; "the number sufficeth not.
"
It would take two score to make it good."
"Why, it's for that we came to you, old shrew!" replied the other. "Who
else is there but you that could do aught in such a house with such a
garrison?"
"
Ay! when the pinch comes, ye remember the old shoe," returned Nick.
There is not a man of you can back a horse or hold a bill; and as for
"
archery--St. Michael! if old Harry the Fift were back again, he would
stand and let ye shoot at him for a farthen a shoot!"
"Nay, Nick, there's some can draw a good bow yet," said Bennet.
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