And thy skull and thymarrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise.
Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs[sic], and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on hismarrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom.
1861, Eneas Sweetland Dallas,Once a Week, volume 4, page246:
So the news of the split between the old and the young one caused plenty of conversation, you may be sure; and will Mr. Robert go down on hismarrowbones? and what has he done? was all the question.
