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"The offender, madam, is before you," replied Walter, bowing very low; "the full and sole blame is mine; and my lord has most justly sent me to abye the consequences of a fault, of which he is as innocent as a sleeping man's dreams can be of a waking man's actions." "What! was it thou? thou thyself, that repelled my messenger and my physician from Sayes Court?" said the Queen.
But it is well known such a great hunting was held in the Forest of Brae-Mar, under the auspices of the Earl of Mar, as preparatory to the Rebellion of 1715; and most of the Highland chieftains who afterwards engaged in that civil commotion were present on this occasion. A', all. ABOON, abune, above. ABY, abye, endure, suffer. ACCOLADE, the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood. AIN, own.
The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet. I bloodied the nose of one, I mind, when I was still so wambly on my legs that I cowped upon the top of him. A proud man was my father that day, God rest him! and I think he had the cause.
The caitiff Walter mansworn that he is he shall abye it; but that can scarce be as yet, and methinks it were not well that I entered Scotland with you and your sister at my side, for then must I seem to have overlooked an offence that, by this holy relic, I will never pardon.
"Caitiff!" exclaimed the merchant; "I'll have thy old vagabond bones in the Fleet for daring so to cheat his Grace's lieges." "If you can prove a cheat against me I will readily abye it, Sir," returned the beggar. "Palming a beggar's brat off for a noble dame." "So please you, Sir," interrupted the beggar, "keep truth with you. What did the child or I ever profess, save what we were?
Walter and Eleanor hurried up to her, but before they had time to speak, the rebel captain dashed into the room, exclaiming, "Thou treacherous woman, thou shalt abye this! Here! mount, pursue, the nearest road to the coast. Smite them rather than let them escape. The malignant nursling of the blood- thirsty Palatine at large again! Follow, and overtake, I say!"
"Am I thus bearded in mine own castle?" said the Lady; "to the dungeon with her! she shall abye what is due to the vender of poisons and practiser of witchcraft." "Yet hear me for an instant, Lady of Lochleven," said Mary; "and do you," to Magdalen, "be silent at my command.
'By my honour, said the Baron, 'I would gladly know who has dared to array the poor knave thus; and I trust he should dearly abye his outrecuidance, were he the best, save one, in England. Gregory, who had now found more breath, cried, 'Help, an ye be men! Save Lady Emma and her brother, whom they are murdering in Brokenhurst thicket. This put all in motion.
Will the parents, shut in from coming to them by my Lord of Norfolks men, ever forget their agonies, I ask your Grace?" Henry's face grew red with passion. "If Norfolk thinks to act the King, and turn the city into a shambles," with a mighty oath "he shall abye it. Here, Lord Cardinal more, let the free pardon be drawn up for the two lads.
Lord Dalgarno, who had half drawn his sword on receiving the blow, returned it to his scabbard when he observed the crowd thicken, and, taking Sir Ewes Haldimund by the arm, walked hastily away, only saying to Lord Glenvarloch as they left him, "You shall dearly abye this insult we will meet again."
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