King's dinner-time, which was ten o'clock,

g plainly. He was upon his seat beneath the cloth-of-estate that was quartered with the leopards and lilies, and had his hat upon his head. About him, bene

ide and that beneath the windows, and, finest of all were the colours of the robes, and the steel and the g

ery busy together in the crowd, shaking their fingers, lifting their brows, and clacking like rooks at sunset-so the young man related it. There were two fellows with their

a great quill in his hand, and the King's eyes roved as he listened, now up, now down, and his fingers with rings upon them were arched at his ear. My lord cardinal had a ruddy face and bright holy eyes, and sat

ear what was said. But it seemed to content the clerks and the Religious [King Henry VI. was a great favourer of ecclesiastics.], for they roared and clamoured and one flung up his cap so th

ould not cry out: it seemed as if the fiend had gripped him by the throat and were hammering in

at to what God should put in his mouth, and this

rd! News from our

e at his shoulder from behind; one struck him on the head: he heard himself named madman, feeble-wit, knave, fond fellow. The guards in front turned themselves abou

out again with

rward to the barrier, still looking at the King who had turned and

gainst the barrier, menacing him with his glaive, but the Kin

usiness, sir?"

ed Master Richard

all out of breath, he told me, with the pushing and striki

the sleeve, for the space of a paternoster, and the murmuring began to br

the tidi

your private e

"we have no private ea

Word," said M

that, and the crowd ca

stood still, looking th

ow on the cardinal, w

s if he could not d

e spok

re you

he country, from ... [It is most annoying that the name of the village is w

ked my lord cardinal,

er Richard, "he has his

run about

crowd of clerks, and my lord cardinal smiled more than ev

your grace," said my lo

ace be pleased to h

er Richard again, as if

tell us here,

not, you

you?" said my lord ca

inted to the line

red; which was a brave and shrewd answ

dy day, and the crowd crept up nearer, so that Master Richard could feel hot breath upon his bare neck behind. H

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he clear pallour of his face and his pure simple eyes, and then at the coarse red faces behind him that crept up like devils after holy Job. It was not hard to know which was in the right, and besides the brave words that had stung the clerks t

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s presence, and the cardinals and the nobles, in Westminster Hall on the Monday after Deus qui nobis. [S

ng with the King's Grace:

ligite: erudimini q

d: receive instruction, ye tha