Crossword-Solution: PADOVA 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When, therefore, the Clerk of Oxford is made to say that he will tell a tale — “The which that I Learn’d at Padova of a worthy clerk, As proved by his wordes and his werk.

Speake so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say.” This worthy Clerk benignely answer’d; “Hoste,” quoth he, “I am under your yerd,* *rod Ye have of us as now the governance, And therefore would I do you obeisance, As far as reason asketh, hardily:* *boldly, truly I will you tell a tale, which that I Learn’d at Padova of a worthy clerk, As proved by his wordes and his werk.

Bonizzi (_see_ ‘Variazioni dei Columbi domestici:’ Padova, 1873) states that certain coloured spots are often different in the two sexes, and the certain tints are commoner in females than in male pigeons.

The officers of the _Padova_ talked a good deal about the mine-fields that still guarded the approaches to the Dardanelles and the possibility that some of the deadly contrivances might have broken loose and drifted across our course.

The captain of the _Padova_ could understand a few simple English phrases, if slowly spoken, but the broadside of Billingsgate only confused and puzzled him, so, despite the fact that he had no pilot and that darkness was rapidly descending, he kept serenely on his course.