She in that cottage there, knitting her healds, And I, her young forester, roaming the fields.
My honest Muse, Nor yet be thou servile; But tinkle up that harp again, A moment to beguile.
Through your vain wickedness Thousands are fatherless, False your pretensions old Egypt to save; Arabs with spear in hand Far in a distant land Made our brave Gordon a sad and red grave.
Long life to thee, Sir Titus, The darling of our town; Around thy head while living, We’ll weave a laurel crown.
No longer when thi name I hear, Mi conscious colour flies!
When the evening cloud prevails, And the sun gives way for night, When the shadows mark the vales, Return thy flight.
He was left far behind, and when last seen faintly through the fog, he was standing up in the stern of the boat wringing his hands.
Ay; he was i' the shadow o' Captain Ogilvy and I couldna see his face, but I thought it like his voice when he first spoke.
I should reply that the one idea was improbable, and the other impossible," returned the lieutenant.
Such was the advice tendered, and much more of a similar nature, to the suffering man.
Perchance some delicate shades in the seamanship, displayed in managing the little vessel, had influenced the sailor in forming his opinion.
Be this as it may, the vessel brought up under the lee of the rock and cast anchor.
Whereupon one sayd vnto him, and it like your Grace you may be healed, we mistrust not, but yet it will be very painfull for you to suffer.
The originall cause of this grudge betweene them began thus.
I wot nere, but God knowethe: but in what wyse than men worschipen it, the blessed seynt John holt him a payd.
Look wot I've fetched yer;" and she held up a couple of well-polished apples.
He looked so sour and seemed so low in his sperits that I asked wot was up.
Woe be to the lass o' Balathy toun, I wot an ill death may she die; For she bored the coble in seven parts, And let the waters perish me!
His bed was made in Balathy toun, Of the clean sheets and of the strae; But I wot it was far better made, Into the bottom o' bonny Tay.
She's ta'en her seven sons in her hand; I wot she didna fail!
Out he has ta'en a bright long brand, And he has striped it through the straw, And through and through Clerk Saunders' body I wot he has gared cold iron gae.
Saunders he started, and Margaret she lept Into his arms where she lay; And well and wellsome was the night I wot it was between those twa.
She thought it had been a loathsome sweat, I wot it had fallen these twa between; But it was the blood of his fair body, I wot his life-days were na lang.
The bells gaed clinking through the town, To carry the dead corpse to the clay, An sighing says her may Margaret, I wot I bide a doleful day.
We wot not yet what Duckworth purposes; and when all is said, and if the worst befall, we may yet clear our feet of it.
Ever for the priest he crieth, and Sir Oliver, I wot not why, still cometh not.
For, truly, had ye said Lancaster, I wot not for the world what I had done.
Jack," said Dick, "I wot not where ye were all day.
Y' are called to count for this; in the end, I wot not how, ye have ever the uppermost at law, and ye think all patched.
I wot not what it may be worth--it is worth something.
Well, the news of the death of your brother Frank of course reached us in Shire-Carnarvon, and how well I remember hearing my aunt say, "Henry Aylwin will be one of the wealthiest landowners in England.
The daughter of the man who desecrated my husband's tomb!
I thought the text was, Love in a hut, with water and a crust.
Destiny is merciless, but who ever heard of Destiny playing mere cruel practical jokes upon man?
I returned to the window for relief from the bedroom.
Mother,' I said, 'your persistent prejudice and injustice towards this man astonish me.
Thet's wotye git fer runnin' away," put in Watson, who had appeared on the scene.
On'y fancy wot a lot of burials takes place every year in London; and room must be made for 'em somehow or other.
I've been thinking as I come along, and after the first shock was over, wot cursed fools you and me was to be humbugged in this here affair.
Here a hound nipped my calf like a vice, and--I woke.
We'll be invisible for awhile, and I'll show you our 'ARRY in the clouds.
Open your mouth and say wot you've got to say in plain words.
Come in, you sneaking warmint; wot are you stopping outside for, as if you was ashamed of your master!
The yeoman thinking it good manner to soothe his Sergeant, said againe, I meant what I wot Sir, your best is to hie, And carrie a knaue with you for companie.
I wotwhat I meant Iohn, it is for to stay And company the knaue Carrier, for loosing my way.
Thus sayd one in a meeter of eleven very harshly in mine eare, whether it be for lacke of good rime or of good reason, or of both I wot not.
Little wot ye wha's coming, Little wot ye wha's coming, A' the wild Macraws are coming.
