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In the order of the things that he admired, next to having killed a man in single fight came swimming.

Spurring is good meat, but yet it killed the charger.

When ye lose an old friend, Master Richard, the best consolation is to heir him.

Я не сомневаюсь, что мы можем победить их, если вы захотите победить.

Птицы — хорошие часовые; там, где леса, они являются в первых рядах сражения.

Я струсил, но не потерял головы.

Положение наше кажется безнадежным, но пока есть жизнь, есть и надежда.

“And now, Sir Richard,” he continued, “if that ye see Lord Risingham, send me an express upon the instant. Were it your last man, let me hear of it incontinently. I had rather venture the post than lose my stroke at him. For mark me, all of ye,” he added, raising his voice, “if Earl Risingham fall by another hand than mine, I shall count this victory a defeat.”

“Master Shelton, ye are troublesome,” replied the earl, severely. “It is an evil way to prosper in this world".

He hath been gallows-ripe this score of years.

Here we are in good hands; we shall be justly tried, and, some time this evening, decently hanged on the same tree.

...his bald head was seen to be rosy with emotion.

To the eye of a modern it would have looked like the sack of a city; to the eye of a contemporary it was like any other rich and noble household at a festive season.

As the world goes in this poor realm of England, he that rides softliest rides surest.

There cometh never any rising, Bennet, from below--so all judicious chroniclers concord in their opinion; but rebellion travelleth ever downward from above; and when Dick, Tom, and Harry take them to their bills, look ever narrowly to see what lord is profited thereby.

Care killed the cat (не работа старит, а забота).

There was some that was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me.

Секрет ... выболтан, так сказать, попугаю.