soldier in Sigismund's camp, of Sigismund's camp
“I am earning King Sigismund's silver in the mud outside Kuttenberg, though most days I just drag wet branches around. I am not dead yet.”
Things Tuma had written, latest first, with the glosses of his neighbours.
the eve of Whitsun, at Vespers
Sakra, Jarda still will not ask his merchant friend to carry a word to my sister Adela in Prague. I survived the winter march, I am earning the King's silver, and she ought to know it. It is sheer spite that he keeps his mouth shut when it would cost him nothing.
Nota scribaeThe man would not stop shifting his weight while he spoke.
the Tuesday after St George, at None
Christopher begs me daily to walk all the way to the crossroad to give a message to a carter heading south to Znojmo. The mud is up to my knees and it is too bloody far. Besides, his Cecily is probably already rolling in the hay with some baker by now.
You know the carter and you have two legs. Keep my wife's name out of your mouth.
He has a point about the mud, Christopher.
the third day of Easter week, at Sext
Eating half-cooked rations off a wooden trencher again. If Hugh had not left Prokop snoring in that locked hayloft in Kolin, we would still have our iron cooking pot. Now Prokop is sitting there with fifteen groschen of Jarda's and our only bloody pot.
Nota scribaeHe spoke quickly and without pausing for breath.
the Monday after St Gregory, at Prime
I was standing right there when Nicholas slipped out of the tavern window for that pig. I said to him, wring a few chicken necks and walk away clean. Now the headborough has him locked in a cellar. Andrew was right to keep the mess purse shut.
Candlemas, at Terce
First light and they are kicking me out to the treeline to drag damp branches in the freezing cold. Because I have fewer grey hairs they treat me like a pack mule. Sakra, there is not even any decent ale to warm the blood when I get back to the ditch.
Stop your whining and fetch the wood, lad, or I will give you another kick.
Fetch it yourself if your knees still work.
Nota scribaeHe rubbed his arms as if cold the entire time.
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I am not bothering a decent merchant with your whining, lad.
Sakra, Jarda, we share the same bloody fire.