corbie-messenger

Updated: May 9, 2025

If thou art wise, thou wilt make for Lockerbie so soon as thy foot touches dry land, and let the packet find another bearer; at all rates, look it miscarries not." "Nay, madam," replied he "I was born, as I said, the Douglas's servant, and I will be no corbie-messenger in mine old age your message to your son shall be done as truly by me as if it concerned another man's neck.

Sir Walter Scott - The Abbot