ng chant, which he assured me was an Eastern ode which had been taught him by the second sister of the Hospodar of Wallachia.
‘Anent Monmouth,’ he remarked, coming back suddenly to the realities of our position. ‘It is unlikely that he can take the field for some days, though much depends upon his striking a blow soon, and so raising the courage of his followers before the Vans Bottoms Men King’s troops can come down upon him. He has, mark ye, not only his troops Vans T-Shirts & Vests Men to find, but their weapons, which is like to prove a more difficult matter. Suppose he can raise five thousand men — and he cannot stir with less — he will not have Converse Jack Purcell one musket in five, so the rest must do as they can with pikes and bills, or such other rude arms as they can find. All this takes time, and though there may be skirmishes, there can scarce be any engagement of import before we arrive.’
‘He will have been landed three or four days ere we reach him,’ said I.
‘Hardly Converse Summer Collection time for him with his small Men Regular & Straight-Leg Jeans staff of officers to enrol his men and divide them into regiments. I scarce expect to find him at Vans High sneakers Women Taunton, though we were so directed. Hast ever heard whether there are any Women Jumpers rich Papists in those parts?’
‘I know not,’ I replied.
‘If so there might be plate chests and silver Męskie Vans chargers, to say nothing of my Men Keyring & Chains lady’s jewels and other such trifles to reward a faithful soldier. What would war be without plunder! A bottle without the wine — a shell without the oyster. See the house yonder that peeps through the trees. I warrant there is a store of all good things under that roof, which you and I might have for the asking, did we but ask with our swords in our grip. You are my witness that your father did give and not lend me this horse.’
‘Why say you that, then?’
‘Lest he claim a half of whatever booty I may chance to gain. What saith my learned Fleming under the heading “an qui militi equum praebuit, praedae ab eo captae particeps Vans Trainers esse debeat?” which signifieth “whether he who lendeth a horse hath a claim on the plunder of him who borroweth it.” In this discourse he cites a case wherein a Spanish commander having lent Męskie Vans Slip-On a steed to one of his captains, and the said captain having captured the general of the enemy, the commander did sue him for a half share of the twenty thousand crowns which formed the ransom of the prisoner. A like case is noted by the famous Petrinus Bellus in his book “De Re Militari,” much read by leaders of repute.’ [Note C. Appendix.]
‘I can promise you,’ I answered, ‘that no such claim shall ever be made by my father upon you. See yonder, over the brow of the hill, how the sun shines upon the high cathedral tower, which points upwards with its great stone finger to the road that every man must travel.’
‘There is good store of silver and plate in these same churches,’ quoth my companion. ‘I remember that at Leipsic, when I was serving my first campaign, I got a candlestick, which I was forced to sell to a Jew broker for a fourth of its value; yet even at Adidas ZX10000 his price it suflinks:
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