Part 2 (2/2)
Our time was now but short; and soon we did mount our horses and set out in the train of the Duke of Gloucester, on our march to Scotland, and had soon left the castle behind
However, so long as we could see the left wing, atched two scarfs waving, to which aved our lances in return
And so we rode off to the wars
CHAPTER III
A FIRST BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY
Noill not weary ye, my children, with a description of our march unto Scotland, as it was a wearisoht have relieved the tediousness of so long a journey Indeed there was nought for us to do, but ht did coet our weariness in well earned rest and sleep
At al the line of march ere joined by reinforcements; so, by the tih to take a considerable fortress However, as we did approach nigh unto Berwick, which place was the object of our attack, we learned that it should require all of our forces to subdue so forhold When within a few miles of this place, that hath been so le between our nation and our ever irritating neighbours of the North, and which, some score of years before, had been turned over unto our ene Henry VI, Duke Richard of Gloucester, on this, his second expedition unto this place--his first havingof truce, to dehtful owner Whilst he was gone, the arh it was still early in the day, our leader had decided, in case the Scots did refuse to surrender--which, in all probability, would be their reply--that ere not to begin the attack until the ht have an opportunity to rest after their long, hard,did follow that long and weary day of labour We were anificent border scenery, where nature doth see herself into edness How, in the evening, doth she cast her beauteous, drooping, eye aslant across her work; and her gentle breath dies out in hushed and satisfied, yetsun did seem to paint a hill, then step a vale and touch another with its golden brush
Here round the rocks asunder, and still soroove
On this evening Harleston and I did take our usual walk through the calorious, it did teht be considered safe In fact, past the outposts did we go, and sat us down upon a hill that had seeht the better see the surrounding country
As we sat there, our backs were turned towards the ca colors of the western sky To right and left were hills and hollows of varying height and depth, but all having in co side by side, above and beneath each other, in the sa there by the hand of the hurrying angel which did sow the whole of the earth's broad face At our feet, and betwixt us and the sister to the hill on which ere seated, was a shills, that nature's pardonable vanity norant eye of man
”I wonder e shall be back at Windsor,” said Sir Frederick, in a gentle tone, after we had sat in silence for soht
”Surely thou art not beginning to be homesick?” I asked; for this was the first time that I had heard my companion speak of the castle, since we had left it
”Oh, no,” he replied, ”yet I wish that I h
Now, Heaven knows, no man could have wished to be in Windsor more than did I at that ht think that I did relish the lazy life at court, more than I did that of the camp But now that he had broken the ice it was the one subject on which I wished to talk
”Well, Sir Frederick, and what dost thou think of her, now that thou hast had ti out boldly
”She is indeed perfection,” he replied And then, as though to himself:--”Eyes like the sky's deep and unfatho old”
”Nay, not so; her hair is dark, and her eyes are hazel as her na at each other for a
So Harleston and I sat talking on a subject that was very dear to us, until we did hear the bugles calling, which warned us that it was time to return and retire We arose and started down the hill, and back to ca, one far, however, whenbehind a cluht
”If I aer yonder; for if ever I did see the glisten of a headpiece, I see it now We had better put that hill between us and the enemy, if such they be, for, without our armour, a doublet doth afford but faint resistance to the steel head of an arrow”
We at once started to cross the low hill that Harleston did refer to
We had just reached the top, when two or three arrows struck the rocks at our feet