human
Good evening to you, my masters. It is not often that these roads witness riders in silk and pile.
gpt
Friend, quoth the Montagu,
human
Peace, sir! returned the horseman, roughly,--
gpt
A caitiff and illegal act,
human
Illegal! But the law will notice it not,--why should it? Unjust, if it punish the knight and dare not touch the king's brother!
gpt
How, sir?
human
I say the king's brother! Scarcely a month since, twenty-four persons under George Duke of Clarence entered by force a lady's house, and seized her jewels and her money, upon some charge, God wot, of contriving mischief to the boy-duke. [See for this and other instances of the prevalent contempt of law in the reign of Edward IV., and, indeed, during the fifteenth century, the extracts from the Parliamentary Rolls, quoted by Sharon Turner, History of England,
gpt
Knowest thou not that these words are death, man?
human
Ay, in the city! but in the fields and waste thought is free. Frown not, my lord. Ah, I know you, and the time may come when the baron will act what the franklin speaks. What! think you I see not the signs of the storm? Are Warwick and Montagu more safe with Edward than they were with Henry? Look to thyself! Charolois will outwit King Louis, and ere the year be out, the young Margaret of England will be lady of your brave brother's sternest foe!
gpt
And who art thou, knave?
human
One who has sworn the fall of the House of York, and may live to fight, side by side, in that cause with Warwick; for Warwick, whatever be his faults, has an English heart, and loves the Commons.