Poetical Works12

Author : Bart Walter Scott
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230016627
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Poetical Works,12 written by Bart Walter Scott and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 18 edition. Excerpt: ...are doing, 'tis but natural I guarantee thy safety--I'll ride with thee. Philip. E'en as you will, my lord. But pardon me, --If you will come, let us not have a word Of conscience, and of pity, and forgiveness; Fine words to-morrow, out of place to-night. Take counsel then, leave all this work to me; Call up your household, make fit preparation, In love and peace, to welcome this Earl Justiciar, As one that's free of guilt. Go, deck the castle As for an honourM guest. Hallow the chapel (If they have power to hallow it) with thy prayers. Let me ride forth alone, and ere the sun Comes o'er the eastern hill, thou shalt accost him: "Now do thy worst, thou oft-returning spy, Here's nought thou canst discover." AUCHINDRANE. Yet goest thou not alone with that MacLellan! He deems thou bearest will to injure him, And seek'st occasion suiting to such will. Philip, thou art irreverent, fierce, ill-nurtured, Stain'd with low vices, which disgust a father; Yet ridest thou not alone with yonder man, --Come weal come woe, myself will go with thee. JEscit, and calls to horse behind the Scene. Philip (alone.) Now would I give my fleetest horse to know What sudden thought roused this paternal care, And if 'tis on his own account or mine: "Tis true, he hath the deepest share in all That's likely now to hap, or which has happen'd. Yet strong through Nature's universal reign, The link which binds the parent to the offspring: The she-wolf knows it, and the tigress owns it. So that dark man, who, shunning what is vicious, Ne'er turn'd aside from an atrocity, Hath still some care left for his hapless offspring. Therefore 'tis meet, though wayward, light, and stubborn, That I should do for him all that a son Can do for sire--and his dark wisdom...