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Updated: May 27, 2025
Well, it's true enough, I suppose! I am 'base-born' but your uncle is not my father. He is a good, upright man you can always be proud of him! He has not sinned, though he has burdened me with the shame of sin! I think that is unfair, but I must bear it somehow, and I will try to be brave.
I was personated by a mean, low friend of Sir Montague Hockin; base-born as I am, I would never stoop to such a trick. You will find out the meaning of that by-and-by. I have taken the law into my own hands it is the only way to work such laws I have committed what is called a crime.
Good men and true are we all, but see you not, lord, these outlaws be lewd fellows base-born " "See you not, Giles, these outlaws be men, even as we, who, like us, can laugh and weep, can bleed and die who can use their lives to purpose good or evil, even as we. Therefore, since they are men, I will make of them our comrades also, an it may be."
He might be the issue of august parentage on one side; he was; possibly, sprung of most ignoble blood. Base-born at best, he was not sure whether to look for the author of his being in the halls of the Caesara or the booths of Ratisbon mechanics. An absurd rumor had existed that Barbara Blomberg had only been employed to personate Don John's mother.
You've been here since breakfast-time." "I know," he answered calmly, "and my only error in judgment was that I didn't take an earlier breakfast, in order to begin my day here sooner. One has to snatch a moment when he can, nowadays; for these rooms are so infested with British swells that a base-born American stands very little chance!"
You base-born Beauties, whose ill-manner'd Pride, Th'industrious noble Citizens deride. May you all meet with Isabella's doom. Guil. And all such Husbands as the Count Guiliome. Spoken by Mrs. Barry, made by a Person of Quality.
I never understood that Lord Lovel was my rival when Lady Anna was regarded as the base-born child of the deceased madman." "I suppose, Mr. Thwaite, you are not indifferent to her money?" "Then you suppose wrongly, as lawyers mostly do when they take upon themselves to attribute motives." "You are not civil, Mr. Thwaite."
Every one was struck dumb with horror at such a death; but the knight laughed loudly, and cried, "Ha! thou base-born serf, I shall teach thee how to liken thy feudal lord to a brute," and striding over his quivering limbs, he spat upon his face.
"Bold beyond measure," Quoth they, "is the base-born!" Out from the sheath Drew they the sheath-steel, And the glaives' edges played For the pleasure of hell; By the third part they minished The might that they had, Their young kin they let lie A-cold on the earth.
"Your Highness will pardon me," interrupted Montagu; "but I do trust to your esteem for our poor and insulted House of Nevile so far as to be assured that the name of my niece Isabel will not be submitted to the ribald comments of a base-born Burgundian." "Then I will break no lance in the lists!"
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