| The friars at this tide were nought inclined to mirth, but uneathly kept their seats, silently eyeing each other, and casting in their minds what selcouth gambol was to follow this preparation. |
| Its English is not more quaint than that of De Brunne himself, as it contains no names more selcouth than he himself is in the custom of introducing. |
| But my heart quaketh, my hand is trembling When I write of this most selcouth thing. |
| Many selcouth sights in certes have I seen, But this mirth and this melody mengs my mood. |
| These selcouth or strange things being the landing of Henry Bolingbroke, whose arrival we have seen to be followed with bloody issues close to the doors of the church. |
