id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt scott-talisman-1825 scott scott-talisman-1825 1825 .txt text/plain 126508 4111 65 The Englishman was struck with the solemnity of the obtestation, and answered with more cordiality than he had yet exhibited, Tell me, Sir Knight of the Leopard, granting (which I do not doubt) that thou art thyself satisfied in this matter, shall I do well, in a land where the art of poisoning is as general as that of cooking, to bring this unknown physician to practise with his drugs on a health so valuable to Christendom? My lord, replied the Scot, thus only can I reply--that my squire, the only one of my retinue whom war and disease had left in attendance on me, has been of late suffering dangerously under this same fever, which, in valiant King Richard, has disabled the principal limb of our holy enterprise. But for my hours of liberty or of idleness King Richard has no title to bar my recreation. cache/scott-talisman-1825.txt txt/scott-talisman-1825.txt