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And sum war in water adreynt;
And sum with fire al for-schreynt;
Wives ther lay on childe bedde;
Sum dede, and sun awedde;
And wonder fele ther lay besides,
Right as thai slepe her undertides;
Eche was thus in this warld y-nome,
With fairi thider y-come."
And sum with fire al for-schreynt;
Wives ther lay on childe bedde;
Sum dede, and sun awedde;
And wonder fele ther lay besides,
Right as thai slepe her undertides;
Eche was thus in this warld y-nome,
With fairi thider y-come."
Note XIII.
Though space and law the stag we lend,
Who ever reck'd where, how, or when,
The prowling fox was trapped and slain.—St. XXX. p. 185.
Who ever reck'd where, how, or when,
The prowling fox was trapped and slain.—St. XXX. p. 185.
St John actually used this illustration when engaged in confuting the plea of law proposed for the unfortunate Earl of Strafford: "It was true, we give laws to hares and deer, because they are beasts of chace; but it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play, to knock foxes or wolves on the head as they can be found, because they are beasts of prey.' In a word, the law and humanity were alike; the one being more fallacious, and the other more barbarous, than in any age had been vented in such an authority."—Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. Oxford, 1702. fol. vol. I. p. 183.
Note XIV.
his Highland cheer,
The harden'd flesh of mountain-deer.—St. XXXI. p. 186.
The harden'd flesh of mountain-deer.—St. XXXI. p. 186.
The Scottish Highlanders, in former times, had a concise
