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‘I know not,’ I replied.
‘If so there might be plate chests and silver chargers, to say nothing of my lady’s jewels and other such trifles to reward a faithful soldier. What would war be without plunder! A bottle without the wine — a shell without the oyster. See the house yonder that peeps through the trees. I warrant there is UGG Roxy a store of all good things under that roof, which you and I might have for the asking, did Ondrej Palat Jersey we but ask with our swords in our grip. You are my witness that your father did give and not lend me this horse.’
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‘Lest he claim a half of whatever booty I may chance to gain. What saith my learned Fleming under the heading “an qui militi equum praebuit, praedae ab eo captae particeps esse Dougie Hamilton Jersey debeat?” which signifieth “whether he who lendeth a horse hath a claim on the plunder of him who borroweth it.” In this discourse he cites a case wherein a Spanish commander having lent a steed to one of his Nike x Fragment Damskie captains, and New Jersey the said captain having captured the general of the enemy, the commander did sue him for a half share of the twenty thousand crowns Joe Mullen Jersey which formed the ransom of the prisoner. A like case is noted by the famous Petrinus Tanner Pearson Jersey Bellus in his book “De Re Militari,” much read by leaders of repute.’ [Note C. Appendix.]
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