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"

Good

Jew

--

good

beast

--

good

earthworm

!

"

said

the

yeoman

,

losing

patience

;

"

an

thou

dost

go

on

to

put

thy

filthy

lucre

in

the

balance

with

thy

daughter

's

life

and

honour

,

by

Heaven

,

I

will

strip

thee

of

every

maravedi

thou

hast

in

the

world

,

before

three

days

are

out

!

"

Isaac

shrunk

together

,

and

was

silent

.

"

And

what

pledge

am

I

to

have

for

all

this

?

"

said

the

Prior

.

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"

When

Isaac

returns

successful

through

your

mediation

,

"

said

the

Outlaw

,

"

I

swear

by

Saint

Hubert

,

I

will

see

that

he

pays

thee

the

money

in

good

silver

,

or

I

will

reckon

with

him

for

it

in

such

sort

,

he

had

better

have

paid

twenty

such

sums

.

"

"

Well

then

,

Jew

,

"

said

Aymer

,

"

since

I

must

needs

meddle

in

this

matter

,

let

me

have

the

use

of

thy

writing-tablets

--

though

,

hold

--

rather

than

use

thy

pen

,

I

would

fast

for

twenty-four

hours

,

and

where

shall

I

find

one

?

"

"

If

your

holy

scruples

can

dispense

with

using

the

Jew

's

tablets

,

for

the

pen

I

can

find

a

remedy

,

"

said

the

yeoman

;

and

,

bending

his

bow

,

he

aimed

his

shaft

at

a

wild-goose

which

was

soaring

over

their

heads

,

the

advanced-guard

of

a

phalanx

of

his

tribe

,

which

were

winging

their

way

to

the

distant

and

solitary

fens

of

Holderness

.

The

bird

came

fluttering

down

,

transfixed

with

the

arrow

.

"

There

,

Prior

,

"

said

the

Captain

,

"

are

quills

enow

to

supply

all

the

monks

of

Jorvaulx

for

the

next

hundred

years

,

an

they

take

not

to

writing

chronicles

.

"

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The

Prior

sat

down

,

and

at

great

leisure

indited

an

epistle

to

Brian

de

Bois-Guilbert

,

and

having

carefully

sealed

up

the

tablets

,

delivered

them

to

the

Jew

,

saying

,

"

This

will

be

thy

safe-conduct

to

the

Preceptory

of

Templestowe

,

and

,

as

I

think

,

is

most

likely

to

accomplish

the

delivery

of

thy

daughter

,

if

it

be

well

backed

with

proffers

of

advantage

and

commodity

at

thine

own

hand

;

for

,

trust

me

well

,

the

good

Knight

Bois-Guilbert

is

of

their

confraternity

that

do

nought

for

nought

.

"

"

Well

,

Prior

,

"

said

the

Outlaw

,

"

I

will

detain

thee

no

longer

here

than

to

give

the

Jew

a

quittance

for

the

six

hundred

crowns

at

which

thy

ransom

is

fixed

--

I

accept

of

him

for

my

pay-master

;

and

if

I

hear

that

ye

boggle

at

allowing

him

in

his

accompts

the

sum

so

paid

by

him

,

Saint

Mary

refuse

me

,

an

I

burn

not

the

abbey

over

thine

head

,

though

I

hang

ten

years

the

sooner

!

"

With

a

much

worse

grace

than

that

wherewith

he

had

penned

the

letter

to

Bois-Guilbert

,

the

Prior

wrote

an

acquittance

,

discharging

Isaac

of

York

of

six

hundred

crowns

,

advanced

to

him

in

his

need

for

acquittal

of

his

ransom

,

and

faithfully

promising

to

hold

true

compt

with

him

for

that

sum

.

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