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Página 38 - I tell thee, thou'rt defied ! And if thou said'st I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied...
Página 39 - Lord Marmion turned — well was his need — And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung, The ponderous...
Página 116 - ... by him ; and that all these gatherings, convocations, petitions, protestations and erecting and keeping of council tables that were used in the beginning and for carrying on of the late troubles were unlawful and seditious ; and particularly that those oaths, whereof the one was commonly called the National Covenant...
Página 89 - And the truth is, there was so little curiosity either in the court, or the country, to know any thing of Scotland, or what was done there, that when the whole nation was solicitous to know what passed weekly in Germany and Poland, and all other parts of Europe, no man ever inquired what was doing in Scotland, nor had that kingdom a place or mention in one page of any gazette...
Página 13 - ... have been preferred to the foreign female infant. Even as matters stood there was, it would seem, one party which had already formed the design of displacing Queen Margaret in favour of its own chief. Robert de Brus, or Bruce, Lord of Annandale and Cleveland, was the son of Isabella, one of the three daughters of David, earl of Huntingdon, the brother of William the Lion. He and a number of his adherents, including some of the principal of the Scottish nobility, held a meeting on the 20th of...
Página 55 - which heard of him, he answered, ' Why should the pleasing face of a gentlewoman fear me ? I have looked in the faces of many angry men, and yet have not been afraid above measure.
Página 30 - Pack up your goods and begone, for no good will be done as long as ye are here ! We neither understand you, nor you us. We cannot communicate together ; and in a short time we shall be completely rifled and eaten up by such troops of locusts. What signifies a war with England? the English never occasioned such mischief as ye do. They burned our houses, it is true ; but that was all, and with four or five stakes, and plenty green boughs to cover them, they were rebuilt almost as soon as they were...