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But to see with what fear I went forward, how often I looked behind me, how I was ready, every now and then, to lay down my basket, and run for my life, it would have made any one have thought I was haunted with an evil conscience, or that I had been lately most terribly frighted; and so, indeed, I had.
They met in battle on a high place, called Mount Aravius, in the far east, and there the king slew Riton with the sword, spoiling him of that rich garment of furs, with its border of dead kings' beards. Therefore, said Arthur, that never since that day had he striven with so perilous a giant, nor with one of whom he was so sorely frighted.
Birds of Paradise have no legs, they say. 'They need them not, my lord. Once alighted, they fly no more. 'How is it then they alight so seldom? 'Because men shoo them away. One flew now from my heart to seek my lady's, but your lordship frighted it. 'And so it flew back to Paradise eh, mistress Dorothy? said lord Herbert, smiling archly.
"Good heavens! but who are those?" said Walter, pointing to two shadowy and gigantic figures which also faced them. "O, who are those?" he asked wildly, and in such alarm that if the shepherd had not seized him firmly he must have fallen. "There, there don't be frighted," said Giles; "those be'ant no ghosts, but they be just our own shadows on the mist.
Nor marble, nor flesh, nor the sad spirit of man, may in this cindery City of Dis abide white. As retired at length, midway, in a recess of the bridge, Israel surveyed them, various individual aspects all but frighted him. Knowing not who they were; never destined, it may be, to behold them again; one after the other, they drifted by, uninvoked ghosts in Hades.
I was much frighted and kept awake in my bed, by some noise I heard a great while below stairs; and the boys not coming up to me when I knocked. It was by their discovery of some people stealing of some neighbours' wine that lay in vessels in the streets. So to sleep; and all well all night. 9th. Sunday. Up; and was trimmed, and sent my brother to Woolwich to my wife, to dine with her.
The frighted wolf now swims among the sheep, The yellow lion wanders in the deep; His rapid force no longer helps the boar, The stag swims faster than he ran before. The fowls, long beating on their wings in vain, Despair of land, and drop into the main. Now hills and vales no more distinction know, And levelled nature lies oppressed below.
But they would not; so he went home full of trouble, and in the way met the wench walking over the common, which frighted him worse than before; and was forced to send people to take her, which he did; and they got one of the pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house.
Now he hath time to think what the loss of heaven will be, and what the torments of hell will be: now he looks no way but he is frighted. He that cuts him down sways him as the feller of wood sways the tottering tree; now this way, then that, at last a root breaks, a heart-string, an eye-string, sweeps asunder.
"Come, come, friend Bob," says he, "I'll put an end to it all, if you will take my advice." "How's that?" said I. "Why, only," says he, "that the next time thou talkest with the devil, thou wilt talk a little softlier, or we shall be all undone, and you too." This frighted me, I must confess, and allayed a great deal of the trouble of mind I was in.
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