"To guide you to the palace of him of Liege."
"Of the Bishop?"
The Bohemian again nodded.
"What token canst thou give me, that we should yield credence to thee?"
"Even the old rhyme, and no other," answered the Bohemian, –
"The page slew the boar,
The peer had the gloire."
"A true token," said Quentin; "Lead on, good fellow – I will speak further with thee presently." Then falling back to the ladies, he said, "I am convinced this man is the guide we are to expect, for he hath brought me a pass-word, known, I think, but to the King and me. But I will discourse with him further, and endeavour to ascertain how far he is to be trusted."
CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGRANT.
I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The Conquest of Granada