added further that Sir John must not be judged hardly; for he was
limited by an inadequate vocabulary and an ignorance of many of the
terms that his scanty reading enabled him to employ.}




How Master Richard took his meat: and of Master Lieutenant's whipping
of him


_Domine, ante te omne desiderium meum; et gemitus meus a te non est
absconditus._

Lord, all my desire is before Thee: and my groaning is not hidden from
Thee.--_Ps. xxxvii. 10._


IX


It was a little cell in which Master Richard found himself that
afternoon, after he had passed through the guardroom and heard the anger
and laughter of the men-at-arms, and sustained their blows, and when he
had looked about it, at the little narrow window high up upon the wall,
and the water that dripped here and there from the stones, and the
strong door shut upon him, the first thing that he did was to go down
upon his knees in the puddle, and thank God for solitude.

(There be two kinds of men in the world, those that love solitude, and