This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...step must be!" "I've brought thee back thy banner, wench, from as rude and red a fray As e'er was proof of soldiers thew, or theme for minstrel's lay! Here, Hubert, bring the silver bowl, and liquor quantum suff.; I'll make a shift to drain it yet, ere I part with boots and buff--Though Guy through many a gaping wound ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...step must be!" "I've brought thee back thy banner, wench, from as rude and red a fray As e'er was proof of soldiers thew, or theme for minstrel's lay! Here, Hubert, bring the silver bowl, and liquor quantum suff.; I'll make a shift to drain it yet, ere I part with boots and buff--Though Guy through many a gaping wound is breathing forth his life, And I come to thee a landless man, my fond and faithful wife. "Sweet! we will fill our money-bags, and freight a ship for France, And mourn in merry Paris for this poor land's mischance: For if the worst befall me, why better axe and rope, Than life with Lenthall for a king, and Peters for a pope! Alas! alas! my gallant Guy!--curse on the cropeared boor Who sent me, with my standard, on foot from Marston Moor!" Winthrop Mackworth Praed. THE HAUGHS OF CROMDALE May 9, 1645 A.D. As I cam' in by Auchindoun, A little wee bit frae the toune, When to the Hielands I was boune, To view the haughs o' Cromdale, I met a man in tartan trews, I speer'd at him what was the news; Quo' he, "The Hieland army rues That e'er we came to Cromdale. "We were in bed, Sir, every man, When the English host upon us cam'; A bluidy battle there began Upon the haughs o' Cromdale. "The English horse they were sae rude, They bath'd their hoofs in Hieland blude, But our brave clans they boldly stood Upon the haughs o' Cromdale. "But alas, we could na longer stay, For ower the hills we cam' away; And sair do we lament the day That e'er we cam' to Cromdale." Thus the great Montrose did say; "Can you direct the nearest way? For I will ower the hills this day, And view the haughs o' Cromdale." "Alas, my lord, you're not so Strang, You scarcely have twa thousand men, And there's twenty thousand...
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