“Whereupon both Euseby and myself did forthwith fall upon our faces, commending our souls unto the Lord.”
Sir Thomas.
“It was then really the dead body that quivered so fearfully upon the water, covering all the punt! Christ, deliver us! I hope the keeper they murdered was not Jeremiah. His wife and four children would be very chargeable, and the man was by no means amiss. Proceed! what further?”
“On reaching the bank, ‘I never sat pleasanter in my lifetime,’ said William Shakspeare, ‘than upon this carcass.’”
Sir Thomas.
“Lord have mercy upon us! Thou upon a carcass, at thy years!”
And the knight drew back his chair half an ell farther from the table, and his lips quivered at the thought of such inhumanity.
“And what said he more? and what did he?” asked the knight.
Joseph Carnaby.
“He patted it smartly, and said, ‘Lug it out; break it.’”