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CHAPTER XX
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HOW ALLEYNE WON HIS PLACE IN AN HONORABLE GUILD1.
Whilst the prince's council was sitting, Alleyne and Ford2 had remained in the outer hall, where they were soon surrounded by a noisy group of young Englishmen of their own rank, all eager to hear the latest news from England.
“How is it with the old man at Windsor?” asked one.
“And how with the good Queen Philippa?”
“And how with Dame3 Alice Perrers?” cried a third.
“The devil take your tongue, Wat!” shouted a tall young man, seizing the last speaker by the collar and giving him an admonitory shake. “The prince would take your head off for those words.”
“By God's coif! Wat would miss it but little,” said another. “It is as empty as a beggar's wallet.”
“As empty as an English squire4, coz,” cried the first speaker. “What a devil has become of the maitre-des-tables and his sewers5? They have not put forth6 the trestles yet.”
“Mon Dieu! if a man could eat himself into knighthood, Humphrey, you had been a banneret at the least,” observed another, amid a burst of laughter.
“And if you could drink yourself in, old leather-head, you had been first baron7 of the realm,” cried the aggrieved8 Humphrey. “But how of England, my lads of Loring?”
“I take it,” said Ford, “that it is much as it was when you were there last, save that perchance there is a little less noise there.”
“And why less noise, young Solomon?”
“Ah, that is for your wit to discover.”
“Pardieu! here is a paladin come over, with the Hampshire mud still sticking to his shoes. He means that the noise is less for our being out of the country.”
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dame
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chastise
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boor
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chivalry
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churl
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sneering
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antagonist
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etiquette
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comeliness
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graceful
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severed
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thigh
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tinkling
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gasps
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