Quotes from Richard Masefield

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

by the time your child is born, in April or in May?' My lady's probing eyes moved from my breasts down to my belly. 'Well, shall we say by spring – the croisade will most like be over, and our soldiers of the cross returned. With a fair wind we'll have a king again in England by Eastertide, and I dare swear you'll know by then if you're a widow or a wife.' The

Knights Hospitaller of Saint John. (Nursing monks devoted to the care of Christian pilgrims, who pray to gentle Jesus seven times a day and kill without compunction).