Inhaltsangabe
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. 1827. Excerpt: ... A wholesome taste again: alas! I know, sir, What an unequal distance lies between Great Huntley's daughter's birth and Dalyell's for-tunes; She's the king's kinswoman, placed near the crown, A princess of the blood, and I a subject. Hunt. Right; but a noble subject; put in that too. Dal. I could add more; and in the rightest line, Derive my pedigree from Adam Mure, A Scottish knight; whose daughter was the mother To him who first begot the race of Jameses, That sway the sceptre to this very day. But kindreds are not ours, when once the date Of many years have swallow'd up the memory Of their originals; so pasture-fields, Neighbouring too near the ocean, are supp'd up And known no more: for stood I in my first. And native greatness, if my princely mistress Vouchsafed me not her servant, 'twere as good I were reduced to clownery, to nothing, As to a throne of wonder. Hunt. Now, by Saint Andrew, A spark of metal! he has a brave fire in him. I would he had my daughter, so I knew 't not. But 't must not be so, must not.---Aside--Well, young lord, This will not do yet; if the girl be headstrong, And will not hearken to good counsel, steal her, And run away with her; dance galliards, do, And frisk about the world to learn the languages: 'Twill be a thriving trade; you may set up by't. Dal. With pardon, noble Gordon, this disdain Suits not your daughter's virtue, or my constancy. Hunt. You're angry--would he would beat me, I deserve it. Aside. Dalyell, thy hand, we are friends: follow thy courtship, Take thine own time and speak; if thou prevail'st With passion, more than I can with my counsel, She's thine; nay, she is thine: 'tis a fair match, Free and allow'd. I'll only use my tongue, Without a father's power; use thou thine: Self do, self have--no more words; ...
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