When Sir Walter Scott published his poem of Rokeby, Doctor Whitaker discovered that The Felon Sewe was not of such 'exceeding rarity' as he had been led to suppose; for he was then made acquainted with the fact that another MS.
Felon Sewe is at the present day perfectly comprehensible to any Craven peasant, and to such a reader neither note nor glossary is necessary.
We certainly remember to have met with an old chivalric romance, in which the leading incidents were similar to those of the Felon Sewe.
When they sawe thefelon come, They sange merrilye Te Deum!
The Felon Sewe belongs to the same class of compositions as the Hunting of the Hare, reprinted by Weber, and the Tournament of Tottenham, in Percy's Reliques.
The felon sewe of rokeby and the freeres of Richmond.
Raphe of Rokeby wid ful gode wyl, The freers of Richmond gav her tyll, This sewe toe mende ther fare; Freer Myddeltone by name, He wold bring the felon hame, That rewed hym sine ful sare.
The allotment of earnings is made in the following proportion, the remainder being applied to prison expenses:-- Three-tenths to each felon to whom one medal has been granted.
Four-tenths to each felon having been granted two medals.
Sir Alain bound the emissary with cords, like a felon spy, and sent him and his papers and credential signets unto King Stephen.
Once down as a felon it is a miracle if one ever regains what he has lost.
Three hundred and fourty-four of this age find a home in felon cells.
Something should be done to save this large army of youth who are annually finding their way into felon cells.
As the population of Missouri increases, she is generous enough to contribute her quota to the felon cells within her borders.
The word felon is derived of the Saxon words fell and one, that is to say, an evil and wicked one, a one of untameable nature and lewdness not to be suffered for fear of evil example and the corruption of others.
And so by fortune they came into this land, that at that time was called Great Britain; and there they found a great felon paynim, that put Joseph into prison.
There is a long catalogue of the felon and miscreant knights and princes that follow the Spanish king.
The friends arouse the jealousy of Hardre, a felon knight, of Ganelon's lineage and likeness.
Some, as I have before remarked, were quite unfit persons to have the charge offelon servants, being themselves little better than convicts, and prepared at any time to consort with them and make them their intimate friends.
The vicissitudes of the felon transport who ventured to return before his sentence of exile had expired, has been told by one of their number.
The price paid according to the mercantile returns ranged at about £20 per head, although it appears from a contemporary record that for two guineas a felon might purchase his freedom from the captain of the ship.
Strange to say, too, the French authorities preferred to choose their felon overseers from an alien race.
At this period, thanks to the unceasing arrival of new drafts, the number of felon exiles on charge continued to form a serious item in the colonial expenditure.
Although too wild and preposterous a plot to raise serious alarm, the very existence of this serves to prove the treacherous, untrustworthy character of these felon exiles.
Mitford suggests: 'The ass more than the lion, and the felon Loaden &c.
And th' ass more than the lion, the felon Loaden &c.
I do defy thy conjurations[1474] And apprehend thee for a felon here.
At last the pedlar said-- "The spot is haunted, then, by the ghost of yon felon knight?
Then shouted Sir Simon to us, 'What do ye, knaves, letting yon felonknight escape?
What canst thou say for thyself, ere I deal with thee as a convicted felon and traitor?
Thou canst scarce have come off scatheless from the clutch of yon felon beast.
The felon very coolly loosed his collar and his stock, And placed his wicked head upon the handy little block.
He had requested Sir Henry Parkes to allow him to operate on the next felon under capital sentence.
It requires very little acquaintance with our laws to know that no one could allow a felon condemned to death to be experimented on in this or in any other manner.
A curse upon the wretch who dared To crop us with his felon saw!
The friar might also be borrowed from 'The Felon Sow and the Friars of Richmond,' but this piece does not appear to have been extensively known.
He wears the brand of a felon and is doomed to stone-caged solitude throughout his life.
The perjured Dorothy was aware of their felon origin; doubtless, she even then encouraged the miserable Richard in his love.
Neither would it have been possible to establish his identity--burnt and mutilated as he was--with the daring felon of Rochefort.
Yes, the helpless girl I rescued from the hands of a felon was my own, my lost child!
Officer, do your duty and arrest this dangerous felon before he perpetrates further sacrilegious acts.
In order to settle this knotty point, just hand the felon up here a moment," said the Judge.
The felon has an aroma most dangerously suggestive of beef gravy," said the Usher, solemnly.
When the tourney actually comes off and Partenopeus is supposed to be prisoner of a felon knight afar off, the two sisters and Persewis take their places at the entrance of the tower crossing the bridge at Melior's capital, "Chef d'Oire.
He is no mere traitor or felon knight, much less a coward, from the first; but at that first shows a mixture of good and bad qualities in which the "dram of eale" does its usual office.
At last things come right: the felon knight is forced in single combat (a long and good one) to acknowledge his lie and give up his plunder, and the excellent but somewhat obtuse Robert recovers his wife as well.
And I acknowledge that I have feloniously killed Roger le Swan in the town of Strete in the hundred of Strete in the rape [a division of a county] of Lewes and that I am a felon of the lord King of England.
Property of a felon was still forfeited to the crown.
An accessory before or after the fact of felony may be prosecuted and tried not only if the principal accused felon has been convicted, but even if he stood mute or peremptorily challenged over 20 persons to serve on the jury.
A felon who brought two buyers or receivers to justice was to be pardoned.
A felon forfeited his life and his goods, but not his lands or tenements.
Otherwise, the papist is declared a felon without benefit of clergy.
Buyers and receivers of stolen goods may be prosecuted and punished if they knew the goods to be stolen, even if the principal felon has not been convicted.
Anyone assisting a felon (except for petty larceny) to try to escape from gaol, is guilty of felony and shall be transported for seven years.
Anyone stealing sheep or cattle or parts thereof is a felon and shall suffer death without benefit of clergy.
A wife of a felon had the dower of one half or her husband's lands and tenements.
An the saints help me," Felon then replied, "you shall pay dearly for those words of yours.
By Heaven," exclaimed the worthy king at this, "what felon act!
This Felon seeing, he his foot placed on't, so that the knight might not resume the blade; then he again assailed him with such strength, fire flew from out his helm.
When they had thus some dozens of them ta'en, Felon recalled the bird, which on his fist again returned to perch.
Felon then called about him all his knights, who bore him to the castle.
Felon came gently on, bearing upon his fist a hawk most rare as it was beautiful.
I have long renounced my allegiance to your besotted king; here his armies and navies are alike useless: besides, my bravo, who will tell his most sacred Majesty that his servant hangs like a felonon a nut-tree?
He was a felon by the laws of his country,--a man outlawed, and lying under the ban of God and his fellow-creatures.
Captain, my true friend, thou art laid low by a felon hand!
Santa Maria, he is in no place suited for my Lord to enter, a felon in chains--ah!
If I nab that fellow Lyth, I shall go near to hanging him as a felon outlaw.
The revenue officer had called his favorite pupil and cleverest parishioner "a felon outlaw;" and if that were so, Robin Lyth was no less than a convicted criminal, and must not be admitted within his doors.
