midnight
`` He has already shown a timorousness entirely alien from his ordinary sullenness of nature ; he , that would scarce wash his hands after he had slain a man , is now afraid to see a dead body bleed . '' `` Well , '' said the leech , `` I must do something for him if I can , since it was to further my revenge that he struck yonder downright blow , though by ill luck it lighted not where it was intended . '' `` And whose fault was that , timid villain , '' said Ramorny , `` save thine own , who marked a rascal deer for a buck of the first head ? '' `` Benedicite , noble sir , '' replied the mediciner ; `` would you have me , who know little save of chamber practice , be as skilful of woodcraft as your noble self , or tell hart from hind , doe from roe , in a glade at midnight ? I misdoubted me little when I saw the figure run past us to the smith 's habitation in the wynd , habited like a morrice dancer ; and yet my mind partly misgave me whether it was our man , for methought he seemed less of stature . But when he came out again , after so much time as to change his dress , and swaggered onward with buff coat and steel cap , whistling after the armourer 's wonted fashion , I do own I was mistaken super totam materiem , and loosed your knighthood 's bulldog upon him , who did his devoir most duly , though he pulled down the wrong deer . Therefore , unless the accursed smith kill our poor friend stone dead on the spot , I am determined , if art may do it , that the ban dog Bonthron shall not miscarry . ''