William Morris

“ And Sir Godrick was very wroth.
So when the herald was gone Sir Godrick turned to Osberne and said: How sayest thou, Red Lad, is this any of thy business? All of my business, lord, said Osberne, albeit I am none so wroth as thou art. Said the Knight, looking on him kindly: Thou art not bound to run, Red Lad; the sharp spear is an unhappy beast, and these men are doubtless of the deftest. Said Osberne: It all comes in the day's work, lord; I pray thee turn me not back. Well, do we on our basnets and make we speedy end of it, quoth Sir Godrick; a wise man must ever wait upon a fool's pleasure. ”

“ Then Sir Godrick cast up his spear-head, and lifted the visor of his basnet and looked around, and saw Osberne sitting still upon his horse and the long man in the arms of his fellows, and he cried out: Now this comes of fools! here is our journey tarried, and one man or two, who be not of our foes, slain or sore hurt, and all for nought. Ho ye, give my man his spear. And thou, Red Lad, come away before they make us do more hurt. ”

“ THENCE they rode through the fields and the thorpes two days, and on the third day in the morning they saw a fair white castle on a hill, and on the plain underneath a little plump of men-at-arms under a banner. ”