If you like tales filled with exclamations like "By my hilt!" this is the book for you! As for me, this was a tough read filled with archaic words. My curiosity forced me to read this book with a dictionary close by and even then some of the words were so "out of use" that I couldn't chase down their meaning in the dictionary. I had to reference an online glossary of words from the 17th and 18th century.

The novelty of the old-timey language carried me through the first 200 pages but it was pure devoir that carried me to the end of the book.

Here's a sampling of some of the words I looked up.
Bejaped
Gallybagger
Gapeseed
Herbergage
Oriflamme
Rammucky
Rattlepated
Sickerly (has nothing to do with being ill)

Two of my favorite lines that stood out to me in the book were "It is easy for the man in the sunshine to preach the man in the shadows." Another favorite line and I may be paraphrasing here "I'll warrant if you have the ale, I warrant I have the throat for it."

I lost my enthusiasm for this tale somewhere around page 230 when lusty swashbuckling men roaming the countryside in search of glory and fame grew tiresome. I slogged my way to the end.