then the orcs were wroth , and having heard these matters were yet for slaying him there and then as one who impudently enlarged the power of his miserable folk to the mockery of the great might and puissance of melko ; but meglin catching at a straw said : `` think ye not that ye would rather pleasure your master if ye bore to his feet so noble a captive , that he might hear my tidings of himself and judge of their verity ? ''