The hauberk was to the Norman what the byrnie was to the Saxon, the chief method of bodily defence.

Flip [Lady Flippant]. I love, of my life men ſhould deal freely vvith me; there are ſo fevv men vvill deal freely with one— / Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. Are you not a Fireſhip? a Punk, Madam? / Flip. VVell, Sir, I love Raillery. / Sir Sim. Faith and troth I do not railly, I deal freely.

Henry followed up these steps to build up his power in South Germany by planning a military campaign in Saxony against Rudolf. It was a concern of his Trinitytide court at Nuremberg, and of a subsequent visit to Mainz and the middle Rhineland.

In desolate places where dank moisture breeds / The pipy Hemlock to strange overgrowth