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They were fools more than knaves.
Still louder shouted Don Quixote, calling them knaves and traitors, and the lord of the castle, who allowed knights-errant to be treated in this fashion, a villain and a low-born knight whom, had he received the order of knighthood, he would call to account for his treachery.
"To the gate, knaves!" said the Saxon, hastily, as soon as the tumult was so much appeased that the dependants could hear his voice.
"Here is a proper matter!" said Front-de-Boeuf, "this comes of lending you the use of my castle, that cannot manage your undertaking quietly, but you must bring this nest of hornets about my ears!""Of hornets?" said De Bracy; "of stingless drones rather; a band of lazy knaves, who take to the wood, and destroy the venison rather than labour for their maintenance."
I say to thee, priest, contrive some cast of thine art to keep the knaves where they are, until our friends bring up their lances.
"'Despardieux'," answered Front-de-Boeuf, "thou hast spoken the very truth--I forgot that the knaves can strip a fat abbot, as well as if they had been born south of yonder salt channel.
cried De Bracy, "and let us mark what these knaves do without;" and so saying, he opened a latticed window which led to a sort of bartisan or projecting balcony, and immediately called from thence to those in the apartment--"Saint Dennis, but the old monk hath brought true tidings!--They bring forward mantelets and pavisses, [32] and the archers muster on the skirts of the wood like a dark cloud before a hailstorm."
[33]--Fling abroad my banner with the old bull's head--the knaves shall soon find with whom they have to do this day!""But, noble sir," continued the monk, persevering in his endeavours to draw attention, "consider my vow of obedience, and let me discharge myself of my Superior's errand."
"The dying man, knaves!" rejoined the Baron; "I promise thee we shall all be dying men an we stand not to it the more stoutly.
Urfried--hag--fiend of a Saxon witch--hearest me not?--tend me this bedridden fellow since he must needs be tended, whilst these knaves use their weapons.--Here
And this is old Fitzurse's boasted policy, encouraging these malapert knaves to rebel against us!
"That is a shrewd loss," said De Bracy; "the knaves will find cover there to assault the castle more closely, and may, if not well watched, gain some unguarded corner of a tower, or some forgotten window, and so break in upon us.
Saint Maur!Clement! false-hearted, knaves, where tarry ye?""Call on them again, valiant Baron," said the hag, with a smile of grisly mockery; "summon thy vassals around thee, doom them that loiter to the scourge and the dungeon--But know, mighty chief," she continued, suddenly changing her tone, "thou shalt have neither answer, nor aid, nor obedience at their hands.--Listen
"Do you give ground, base knaves!" said De Bracy; "'Mount joye Saint Dennis!'--Give me the lever!"
I did step into the cellarage to see what might be rescued there; for though a cup of burnt wine, with spice, be an evening's drought for an emperor, it were waste, methought, to let so much good liquor be mulled at once; and I had caught up one runlet of sack, and was coming to call more aid among these lazy knaves, who are ever to seek when a good deed is to be done, when I was avised of a strong door--Aha!
"Ye be knaves!
for these dead knaves have found me both in exercise and appetite."
Hear me, Rebecca," he said, proceeding with animation; "a better chance hast thou for life and liberty than yonder knaves and dotard dream of.
His head was not strong: the knaves he lived amongst fooled him beyond anything I ever heard.
Gringoire enjoyed seeing, feeling, fingering, so to speak an entire assembly (of knaves, it is true, but what matters that ?) stupefied, petrified, and as though asphyxiated in the presence of the incommensurable tirades which welled up every instant from all parts of his bridal song.
He! two gentlemen among these knaves!
He halted for a moment, leaned against a post like a drunken man, then followed the two merry knaves.