"I am on
the look-out for a wife, and I know not but I may take your
granddaughter with me to Guildford."
"She is not to be so lightly won," cried Tristram; "for though I am but a
poor forester, I rate her as highly as the haughtiest noble can rate his
child."
"And with reason," said Harry. "Good-night, sweet-heart! By my crown,
Suffolk!" he exclaimed to his companion, as he quitted the cottage,
"she is an angel, and shall be mine."
"Not if my arm serves me truly," muttered Fenwolf, who, with his
mysterious companion, had stationed himself at the window of the hut.
"Do him no injury," returned the other; "he is only to be made captive-
mark that. And now to apprise Sir Thomas Wyat. We must intercept
them before they reach their horses."
IV. How Herne the Hunter showed the Earl of Surrey the Fair Geraldine in
a Vision.
On the third day after Surrey's imprisonment in the keep, he was
removed to the Norman Tower. The chamber allotted him was square,
tolerably lofty, and had two narrow-pointed windows on either side,
looking on the one hand into the upper quadrangle, and on the other
into the middle ward. At the same time permission was accorded him
to take exercise on the battlements of the Round Tower, or within the
dry and grassy moat at its foot.
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