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Defense: Beggars who would soon become yeomen farmers.
And front and rear, and either flank, there ride the yeomen of the Barons, and in the midst King John.
The road had more folk on it than ever passed along it at night before; for many of the yeomen up our way had enrolled themselves in the Berwick volunteer regiments, and were riding now as fast as hoof could carry them for the muster.
If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their revels.
The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands;And clowns come crowding on, with cudgels in their hands.
Squires, pages, and yeomen in rich liveries, waited around this place of honour, which was designed for Prince John and his attendants.
The lower and interior space was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any higher place.
The sloping galleries were crowded with all that was noble, great, wealthy, and beautiful in the northern and midland parts of England; and the contrast of the various dresses of these dignified spectators, rendered the view as gay as it was rich, while the interior and lower space, filled with the substantial burgesses and yeomen of merry England, formed, in their more plain attire, a dark fringe, or border, around this circle of brilliant embroidery, relieving, and, at the same time, setting off its splendour.
"The yeomen and commons," said De Bracy, "must not be dismissed discontented, for lack of their share in the sports."
More than thirty yeomen at first presented themselves as competitors, several of whom were rangers and under-keepers in the royal forests of Needwood and Charnwood.
Prince John stepped from his royal seat to view more nearly the persons of these chosen yeomen, several of whom wore the royal livery.
"Because," replied the woodsman, "I know not if these yeomen and I are used to shoot at the same marks; and because, moreover, I know not how your Grace might relish the winning of a third prize by one who has unwittingly fallen under your displeasure."
"Then, Locksley," said Prince John, "thou shalt shoot in thy turn, when these yeomen have displayed their skill.
"This must be the devil, and no man of flesh and blood," whispered the yeomen to each other; "such archery was never seen since a bow was first bent in Britain."
Had Fitzurse met this figure in an outer apartment, he would have passed him without notice, as one of the yeomen of the guard; but finding him in the inner hall, he looked at him with more attention, and recognised the Norman knight in the dress of an English yeoman.
The outlaws, whom the severity of the forest laws had reduced to this roving and desperate mode of life, were chiefly peasants and yeomen of Saxon descent, and were generally supposed to respect the persons and property of their countrymen.
Beneath this tree four or five yeomen lay stretched on the ground, while another, as sentinel, walked to and fro in the moonlight shade.
Keep a close watch on them therefore; and dispatch one of your comrades, the lightest of foot, to bring the news of the yeomen thereabout."
"True," answered Front-de-Boeuf; "were they black Turks or Moors, Sir Templar, or the craven peasants of France, most valiant De Bracy; but these are English yeomen, over whom we shall have no advantage, save what we may derive from our arms and horses, which will avail us little in the glades of the forest.
"No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses, and Free Companions are grown keepers of dying folk's curtains, when the castle is about to be assailed.--To
"Saint George strike for us!" exclaimed the knight; "do the false yeomen give way?""No!" exclaimed Rebecca, "they bear themselves right yeomanly--the Black Knight approaches the postern with his huge axe--the thundering blows which he deals, you may hear them above all the din and shouts of the battle--Stones and beams are hailed down on the bold champion--he regards them no more than if they were thistle-down or feathers!"
"And a brave addition to the kingdom of Satan," said De Bracy;"this comes of reviling saints and angels, and ordering images of holy things and holy men to be flung down on the heads of these rascaille yeomen."
fought these villain yeomen on thy side?""Like fiends incarnate," said De Bracy.
-------And you, good yeomen,Whose limbs were made in England, show us hereThe mettle of your pasture--let us swearThat you are worth your breeding.
And seizing upon Ivanhoe, he bore him off with as much ease as the Templar had carried off Rebecca, rushed with him to the postern, and having there delivered his burden to the care of two yeomen, he again entered the castle to assist in the rescue of the other prisoners.
I should, therefore, ere now, have left this place; and I waited--not to share the booty, for, so help me God and Saint Withold! as neither I nor any of mine will touch the value of a liard,--I waited but to render my thanks to thee and to thy bold yeomen, for the life and honour ye have saved."
But beware of the future, lest a worse thing befall thee.--Maurice de Bracy, I say BEWARE!"De Bracy bowed low and in silence, and was about to withdraw, when the yeomen burst at once into a shout of execration and derision.
shouted the yeomen, "and long live the Black Knight of the Fetterlock!--May he soon use our service, to prove how readily it will be paid."
When each had taken his own proportion of the booty, and while the treasurer, accompanied by four tall yeomen, was transporting that belonging to the state to some place of concealment or of security, the portion devoted to the church still remained unappropriated.
While they thus spoke, a loud shout among the yeomen announced the arrival of him for whom they feared, as they learned from the stentorian voice of the Friar himself, long before they saw his burly person.