Chapter 26 No.26

"One evening-tide, as with her crones she sate,

Making sweet solace of some scandal new,

A boisterous noise came thund'ring at the gate,

And soon a sturdie boy approached in view;

With gold far glitter and were his vestments blue,

And pye-shaped hat, and of the silver sheen

An huge broad buckle glaunst in either shoe,

And round