The Scottish Cavalier: An Historical Romance, Volume 2 (of 3)

Shades of my fathers, in your pasteboard skirts, Your broidered waistcoats and your plaited shirts, Your formal bag-wigs--wide extended cuffs, Your five-inch chitterlings and ni...

Her heart was full Of passions which had found no natural scope. She hated men because they loved not her, And hated women because they were beloved, And thus in wrath, in hatre...

To eat cran, pertick, swan, and pliver, And everie fisch that swyms in river; To drink with us the newe fresch wyne, That grew vpon the River Ryne; Fresch fragrant Clarets of Fr...

O love, when womanhood is in the flush, And man's a young and an unspotted thing! His first-breathed word and her half conscious blush Are fair as light in heaven,--as flowers i...

The neighynge of the war-horse prowde, The rowleinge of the drum; The clangour of the trumpet lowde, Be soundes from heaven that come. Then mount, then mount, brave gallants all...

The bell tolling eleven in the clock-tower of the Netherbow Porte, made Clermistonlee quicken his pace in issuing from the gloomy alley of his house into the broad and magnifice...

Distrust me not, but unreserved disclose The anxious thought that in thy bosom glows; To impart our griefs is apt to mitigate, And social sorrows blunt the darts of fate. EVENIN...

Notwithstanding the graces of her person and richness of her attire, there were many bright and beautiful beings present who attracted more attention than the timid and retiring...

Unconscious of this bold abduction, a whisper of which would have driven him mad, on the very night it took place, Walter Fenton was seated with Douglas of Finland in the public...

Lord Clermistonlee, as he anticipated, reached the Earl of Dunbarton's house just when the company were separating. The guard of horse was drawn up in the court-yard in courtesy...

The redness of the moon passed away as it ascended into the blue wide vault, and its cold white lustre was poured upon the level English landscape that spread at the feet of the...

O mother, thus to fret is vain-- My loss must needs be borne; Death, death is now mine only gain-- Would I had ne'er been born. God's mercies cease to flow-- Woe to me, poor one...

When Walter Fenton recovered, he found himself on horseback, and his comrades on the march, beyond Crowland, and the setting sun was about to dip below the far-off horizon. A th...

O wae be to the orders, that marched my love awa, And wae be to the cruel cause that gars my tears' dounfa'; The drums beat in the morning, before the screich o' day, The wee fi...

HOST. What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he dances, he hath the eye of youth, he writes verses, he smells April and May; he will carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in h...

COUNT. What an unaccountable being! But it won't do. Steinfort, we will take the ladies home, and then you will try once again to see him. You can talk to these oddities better...

Some weeks after this, at a late hour one night, Lord Clermistonlee was seated by the capacious fireplace in his chamber-of-dais. He was alone. A supper of Crail capons and roas...

Ha! dost thou know me? that I am Lothario? As great a name as this proud city boasts of. Who is this mighty man, then, this Horatio, That I should basely hide me from his anger?...

March! march! why the deil do ye no march? Stand to your arms, my lads, fight in good order; Front about, ye musketteers, all When ye come to the English border. LESLY'S MARCH.

Thus shall your country's annals boast your corps, And, glorious thought! in times and ages hence, Some valiant chief to stimulate the more, And urge his troops, the battle in s...

Walter had listened longer than he intended, and for a moment he felt keenly how sad a thing it was that there were neither parent nor kindred to bless his departing steps. The...