fifemen

Updated: June 9, 2025

"From the good lance that never failed me before," replied Christie of the Clinthill. "Heaven absolve thee for thy purpose!" said the Sub-Prior; "wouldst thou have slain a servant of the altar?" "To choose!" answered Christie; "the Fifemen say, an the whole pack of ye were slain, there were more lost at Flodden." "Villain! art thou heretic as well as murderer?"

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery