The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Provincial antiquities of Scotland

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Robert Cadell, 1848

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Strona 187 - Marmion's rank. That Castle rises on the steep Of the green vale of Tyne : And far beneath, where slow they creep From pool to eddy, dark and deep, Where alders moist and willows weep, You hear her streams repine. The towers in different ages rose ; Their various architecture shows The builders' various hands ; A mighty mass,-that could oppose, When deadliest hatred fired its foes, The vengeful Douglas bands.
Strona 375 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Strona 307 - By the Eternal and Almighty God, who liveth and reigneth for ever, we become your liege men, and truth and faith shall bear unto you, and live and die with you against all manner of folks whatsoever, in your service, according to the National Covenant, and Solemn League and Covenant.
Strona 327 - I digged down in the ground betwixt the two foremost of these seits, and layed it down within the case of it, and covered it up, as that removing the superfluous mould it could not be discerned by any body ; and if it shall please God to call me by death before they be called for, your Ladyship will find them in that place.
Strona 282 - Lea, knight, saved me out of the flames, and brought me into England. In gratitude to him for his kindness, I, who hitherto served only at the baptism of the children of kings, do now most willingly offer the same service, even to the meanest of the English nation. Lea the Conqueror hath so commanded. Adieu. AD 1543, in the 36th year of King Henry VIII.
Strona 80 - The people of this countrey hath had one barbarous custome amongst them ; if any two be displeased, they expect no lawe, but bang it out bravely, one and his kindred against the other and his ; they will subject themselves to no justice, but in an inhumane and barbarous manner fight and kill one another; they run together in clangs (clans) as they terme it, or names.
Strona 121 - I sent my two deputies with all the speed they could make, and they took along with them such gentlemen as were in their way, with my forty horse, and about one of the clock they came...
Strona 138 - Notwithstanding he came not, but straight locked up a sixteen poor soldiers like the soldiers of Dunglas, fast within the house, took the keys with him, and commanding them they should defend the , house and tarry within (as they could not get out) till his return, which should be on the morrow, with munition and relief, he with his prickers pricked quite his ways.
Strona 103 - ... by a jury, and, if found guilty, suffered death by decapitation; but with the marauders of either country, the wardens used much less ceremony, and hanged them frequently, and in great numbers, without any process of law whatever. This was a very ordinary consummation, if we can believe a story told of Lord William Howard of Naworth. While busied deeply with his studies, he was suddenly disturbed by an officer who came to ask his commands concerning the disposal of several moss-troopers who had...
Strona 159 - Cumbernauld, their most determined adherent, — an act of detestable policy, which soon brought on the vengeance it deserved, and was long remembered and execrated in the popular rhyme, — " Edinborough castle, town, and tower, God grant you sink for sin, And that even for the black dinoure Earl Douglas gat therein.

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