The Singing Butler

The Singing Butler
with an admirable gift of lying-and these be qualities which do mightily assist a blind affection to cozen itself. I was wild-in troth I might go yet farther and say very wild, though "twas a wildness of an innocent sort, since it hurt none but me, brought shame to none, nor loss, nor had in it any taint of crime or baseness, or what might not beseem mine honorable degree.
The Singing Butler
Yet did my brother Hugh turn these faults to good account-he seeing that our brother Arthur's health was but indifferent, and hoping the worst might work him profit were I swept out of the path-so-but "twere a long tale, good my liege, and little worth the telling. Briefly, then, this brother did deftly magnify my faults and make them crimes; ending his base work with finding a silken ladder in mine apartments-conveyed thither by his own means-and did convince my father by this
The Singing Butler