The herald of arms who carried out this sentence took from the hands of the pursuivant of arms a basin full of dirty water, and threw it all over the head of the recreant knight in order to wash away the sacred character which had been conferred upon him by the accolade.

A Pursuivant.

Enter PURSUIVANT.

Enter GLOSTER like FAUCONBRIDGE, with a PURSUIVANT; GLOSTER having a paper in his hand, the PURSUIVANT bare.

Enter GLOSTER like FAUCONBRIDGE, with a PURSUIVANT; GLOSTER having a paper in his hand, the PURSUIVANT bare.

But hear[502] ye, boy! Bring sugar in white paper, not in brown; For in white paper I have here a trick, Shall make the pursuivant first swoon, then sick.

Pursuivant, your warrant and your box These must with me; the shape of Fauconbridge Will hold no longer water hereabout.

Why, a pursuivant.

A pursuivant, and at the alderman's? What pig, or goose, or capon, have you kill'd Within your kitchen new? DRA.

I'll fit the pursuivant, and alderman, And Fauconbridge, if Skink have any wit.

Marry, here's a pursuivant, that this gentleman, sir, Richard Fauconbridge, left sick even now.

Go, sirrah, bring us forth that Pursuivant.

Enter two, leading the PURSUIVANT, sick.

If thou hadst done it, I'd have justified it; But, Richard, I conceit this jest already: This mad-mate Skink, this honest merry knave, Meeting this Pursuivant, and hearing tell He had a warrant to reprieve a slave Whom we would hang, stole it away from him.

A slave, a pursuivant, one Winterborn. FAU.

I'll to the holy hermit, and inquire About my chain, your sword, the pursuivant, And other matters, that I have to ask.

He got your sword, Prince John: 'twas he that sav'd The porter, and beguil'd the pursuivant.

O, but run back, Redcap, for the pursuivant!

O L-Lord, s-sir, I have another s-suit for the p-p-pursuivant, That has l-l-lost his b-b-box and his wa-wa-warrant. HEN.

What worms do another day, I care not, but I'll be sworn upon a whole kilderkin of single beer, I will not have a worm-eaten nose, like a pursuivant, while I live.

Clare, here is an unwelcome pursuivant; My lord and guardian writes to me, with speed I must return to London.

There went but a pair of shears between him and the pursuivant of hell, for they both delight in sin, grow richer by it, and are by justice appointed to punish it; only the devil is more cunning, for he picks a living out of others' gains.

No place in our climate holds him so securely as a lady's chamber; the modesty of the pursuivant hath only forborne the bed, and so missed him.

The office is still retained; but some Grand Lodges have changed the name to that of Grand Pursuivant.

And while the pursuivant had gone for them, the old Councillor leaned across the table and whispered: "Enter Field-Marshal Jorian and General Boris!"