text:  After listening to the plea fluently set forth by the prince that he was simply a Zealand burgess travelling on his own errand and sorely in fear of falling in (God wot) with either Protestants or Papists the damsel appeared to hail the arrival of so congenial an ally as a blessing; acquainted him with a rash frankness of speech worthy of his own that she was journeying from the Ardennes towards the frontier of Brabant where her father was in high command; that the duenna her companion outwearied by the exercise was taking her siesta within; for that her pacing nag having cast a shoe on reaching the wood the ferryman had undertaken to conduct to the nearest smithy the venerable chaplain and serving-man constituting her escort