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 258 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 'decision was as ye shall hear. Coming forth (or 'going in, all is one), at the queir-door' {choir-door) ' of Glasgow Kirk begins a striving for state betwixt {fists and fisticuffing) ; * and then for charity's sake, 'strongest, and which bearer could best defend his- ' maister's pre-eminence, and that there should be no- ' a merry game ; for rockets ' [rochets) * were rent,. 'them lacked beards and that was the more pity; 'and therefore could not buckle other' {each other) 'by the byrse' {hristJeSy — hair or heard), 'as bold
 * the doctors of divinity of both the Prelates, yet the
 * the two croce-bearers, so that from glooming they
 * come to shouldering ; from shouldering they go to
 * buffets, and from dry blaws by neffis and neffelling,*
 * they cry Dispersit dedit pauper ihiis ; and assay which
 * of the croces was finest metal, which staff was^
 * superiority in that behalf, to the ground goes both
 * the croces. And then began no little fray, but yet
 * tippets were torn, crowns were knapped * (cracked),
 * and side ' {long) * gowns micht have been seen wan-
 * tonly wag from the one wall to the other. — Many of
 * men would have done. But fy on the jackmen that
 * did not their duty ; for had the one part of them