“By hook or by crook?”
“By hook or by crook, your reverence.”
“Before I bless you, will you answer me a question or two?”
“Are you not a set of great big blackguards?”
“We are, your reverence.”
“Without one good quality?”
“We are, your reverence.”
“Would it not be quite right to saddle and bridle you all, and ride you violently down Holyhead or the Giant’s Causeway into the waters, causing you to perish there, like the herd of swine of old?”
“It would, your reverence.”