Their disguises were at hand, and they assumed them and departed, after a warm farewell and many deep expressions of gratitude.
Cuthbert felt a little sad at first, but the invigorating air, and the restoration to life and action soon revived his spirits, and the love of adventure, never wanting in the young, shed its glamour over him, as they rode over Woodbury Common on their way to Glastonbury.
And thence from that breezy height, looking back, he caught his last view of Dartmoor.
FOOTNOTES
[46] “He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.”—Psalm xxiii. 2.
[47] Witness, for instance, the case of Lord Dacre, of Hurstmonceux, executed for an offence which, a few generations earlier, would hardly have been considered an offence at all. Like Percy of Chevy Chase he had gone hunting in his neighbour’s grounds; a fray took place and he slew a gamekeeper. Henry would hear of no excuse, and the noble paid for the peasant’s blood on the scaffold at Tyburn, June 29th, 1541.
[48] Sir Walter Raleigh, born six years later, in 1552.