said Dick . `` Y ' are a milk-sopping baby , so to harp on women . An ye think I be no true man , get down upon the path , and whether at fists , back-sword , or bow and arrow , I will prove my manhood on your body . '' `` Nay , I am no fighter , '' said Matcham , eagerly . `` I mean no tittle of offence . I meant but pleasantry . And if I talk of women , it is because I heard ye were to marry . '' `` I to marry ! '' Dick exclaimed . `` Well , it is the first I hear of it . And with whom was I to marry ? '' `` One Joan Sedley , '' replied Matcham , colouring . `` It was Sir Daniel 's doing ; he hath money to gain upon both sides ; and , indeed , I have heard the poor wench bemoaning herself pitifully of the match . It seems she is of your mind , or else distasted to the bridegroom . '' `` Well ! marriage is like death , it comes to all , '' said Dick , with resignation . `` And she bemoaned herself ? I pray ye now , see there how shuttle-witted are these girls : to bemoan herself before that she had seen me ! Do I bemoan myself ? Not I .
An I be to XXXXX , I will marry dry-eyed !
Do bemoan bemoaned hear marry mean meant pray seems seen