When the Steward saw what was done, he waxed mad with rage; and, as Little John stooped to look within the pantry, he seized him from behind by the nape of the neck, pinching him sorely and smiting him over the head with his keys till the yeoman's ears rang again.

He looked at Robin with a fell look, but saw that in the yeoman's face which bade him pause.

" "Yes, thanks to thee, Robin," said the Knight, laying his hand upon the yeoman's shoulder.

Marry then, there was a certain cracking, cogging, pettifogging, butter-milk slave, sir, one Churms, sir, that is the very quintessence of all the knaves in the bunch: and if the best man of all his kin had been but so good as a yeoman's son, he should have been a marked knave by letters patents.

Hence 'yeoman's service' must mean the very best of service.]

Footnote 155: A similar story of quackery is found in Chaucer, "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale.

act a part &c (action) 680; perform a function, discharge a function &c; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service; bestead^, stand one in good stead be the making of; help &c 707. bear fruit &c (produce) 161; bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit &c (do good) 648. find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of &c (be better for) 658. render useful &c (use) 677.

In sum, he is a yeoman's commander and a gentleman's superior, a nobleman's companion and a prince's worthy favourite.

No greater misery than for a lord to have a knight's living, a gentleman a yeoman's, not to be able to live as his birth and place require.

Long may he live to do yeoman's service in the cause of the beautiful and the true!

Mr. Hamilton has done yeoman's service by his collation and publication of all the manuscript readings found on the margins of "Hamlet" in Mr. Collier's folio.

He knew where a yeoman's heart lay!

A CURATE'S SON. Better be a yeoman's son!

However, they continue to render yeoman's service, for the breeze has set in steadily.

On its bending stalk a bonny flower In a yeoman's home close grew; It had gathered beauty from sunshine and shower, From moonlight and silent dew.

But the crucial passage (for the sources) is the scene in the yeoman's hall where Zamorna comes to Percy.

CAMLEN, ST. JOHN ONSLOW. Yeoman's Hospital.

Yeoman's Hospital, by Helen Ashton, pseud.

CAMLEN, ST. JOHN ONSLOW. Yeoman's Hospital.

Yeoman's Hospital, by Helen Ashton, pseud.

She claimed and carried off the departed yeoman's Savings Bank book, and was much aggrieved on finding that the authorities would not at once permit her to avail herself of the little vested fund; inquiries must be made, they said, and in any case some time must elapse before she could be permitted to draw the money out.

For in the "Serving-man's Comfort," 1598, one reads:"Even so the gentlemanly serving-man, whose life and manners doth equal his birth and bringing up, scorneth the society of these sots, or to place a dish where they give a trencher"; and speaking of the passion of people for raising themselves above their extraction, the writer, a little farther on, observes: "For the yeoman's son, as I said before, leaving gee haigh!

What the yeoman's every-day diet was Harrison does not express; but at Christmas he had brawn, pudding and souse, with mustard; beef, mutton, and pork; shred pies, goose, pig, capon, turkey, veal, cheese, apples, etc., with good drink, and a blazing fire in the hall.

We enter the yeoman's hall, and the council hall, where, in the recesses of the windows, on each side, are painted yeomen in strange dresses, half Dalecarlians and half Roman warriors.

CHAUCER'S PRIORESS'S TALE, Pardoner's Tale, Clerk's Tale, and Canon's Yeoman's Tale.