But such occurrents do not alwayes either
foregoe, or foresignifie; for sometimes they fall out idle,
and sometimes not at all. Howbeit, Nicetaes Choniates taketh
it very vnkindly, that God woud not spare some watchword out of
his prescience, to the Constantinopolitanes, what time Baldwyn Earle
of Flaunders and others, first assisted, and then conquered their
Citie.
Touching Veall the Mercurialist, I haue spoken in my former booke.
The youthlyer sort of Bodmyn townsmen vse sometimes to sport
themselues, by playing the box with strangers, whome they summon
to Halgauer. The name signifieth the Goats moore, and such a place
it is, lying a little without the towne, and very full of quauemires.
When these mates meet with any rawe seruingman, or other young master,
who may serue and deserue to make pastime, they cause him to be
solemnely arrested, [127] for his appearance before the Maior of
Halgauer, where he is charged with wearing one spurre, or going
vntrussed, or wanting a girdle, or some such like felony: and after
he hath beene arraygned and tryed, with all requisite circumstances,
iudgement is giuen in formal termes, and executed in some one
vngracious pranke or other, more to the skorne, then hurt of the
party condemned.
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