"Nay; those are not your company: they came before you."

"What matter? they are my friends, and without them I go not in."

"Stay without, then."

"That will I not."

"That we will see."

"We will, and speedily." And with this, Gerard raised a voice of astounding volume and power, and shouted, so that the whole street rang:

"Ho! Philip Earl of Holland!"

"Are you mad?" cried the porter.

"Here is one of your varlets defies you."

"Hush, Hush!"