"This Hubert of Malsen is but a craven, sirs, if he doth say the merchants of Dort are rascal cowards.
"I did mean these young red hats here, who do no more dare to bait your father's lions than to face the Cods of Dort in fair and equal fight."
Had they been fairly mated, he had no more dared to put his nose within the gates of Dort than dare one of you here to go down yonder amid Count William's lions!"