`` Well , '' said Ellis , when he had done , `` see what the kind saints have done for you , Dick Shelton , not alone to save your body in so numerous and deadly perils , but to bring you into my hands that have no dearer wish than to assist your father 's son . Be but true to me -- and I see y ' are true -- and betwixt you and me , we shall bring that false-heart traitor to the death . '' `` Will ye assault the house ? '' asked Dick . `` I were mad , indeed , to think of it , '' returned Ellis . `` He hath too much power ; his men gather to him ; those that gave me the slip last night , and by the mass came in so handily for you -- those have made him safe . Nay , Dick , to the contrary , thou and I and my brave bowmen , we must all slip from this forest speedily , and leave Sir Daniel free . '' `` My mind misgiveth me for Jack , '' said the lad . `` For Jack ! '' repeated Duckworth . `` O , I see , for the wench ! Nay , Dick , I promise you , if there come talk of any marriage we shall act at once ; till then , or till the time is ripe , we shall all disappear , even like shadows at morning ; Sir Daniel shall look east and west , and see none enemies ; he shall think , by the mass , that he hath dreamed awhile , and hath now awakened in his bed . But our four eyes , Dick , shall follow him right close , and our four hands -- so help us all the army of the saints ! -- shall bring that traitor low ! '' Two days later Sir Daniel 's garrison had grown to such a strength that he ventured on a sally , and at the head of some two score horsemen , pushed without opposition as far as Tunstall hamlet . Not an arrow flew , not a man stirred in the thicket ; the bridge was no longer guarded , but stood open to all corners ; and as Sir Daniel crossed it , he saw the villagers looking timidly from their doors . Presently one of them , taking heart of grace , came forward , and with the lowliest salutations , presented a letter to the knight . His face darkened as he read the contents . It ran thus : To the most untrue and cruel gentylman , Sir Daniel Brackley , Knyght , These : I fynde ye were untrue and unkynd fro the first . Ye have my father 's blood upon your hands ; let be , it will not wasshe .
Some day ye shall perish by my procurement , so much I let you to wytte ; and I XXXXX you to wytte farther , that if ye seek to wed to any other the gentylwoman , Mistresse Joan Sedley , whom that I am bound upon a great oath to wed myself , the blow will be very swift .
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