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This Proceeding gall'd the Feathers to the quick, and finding the Grandees resolv'd to proceed Judicially upon the said Writ of Follies, which if they did, the Prisoners would be deliver'd and the Follies fixt upon the Feathers, they sent their Poursuivants took them out of the Common Prison, and convey'd them separately and privately into Prisons of their own.

But she has ta'en the broken lance, And wash'd it from the clotted gore, And salved the splinter o'er and o'er. William of Deloraine, in trance, Whene'er she turn'd it round and round, Twisted, as if she gall'd his wound, Then to her maidens she did say, That he should be whole man and sound,

Her eyes with scalding rheum were gall'd and red; Cold palsy shook her head; her hands seem'd withered; And on her crooked shoulders had she wrapped The tatter'd remnants of an old strip'd hanging, Which serv'd to keep her carcase from the cold: So there was nothing of a piece about her.

The day hes eyne, the night hes ears. The more ye tramp in a it grows the broader. That which hussies spares, Cats eat. The weakest goes to the walls. There is no medicine for fear. Touch a gall'd Horse on the back and he will fling. There is no fool to an old fool. There is none without a fault. The longer we live, the more farlies we see. They are welcome that brings.

It needs not that I should particularize the subsequent events of Langton's and the boy's history how the reformation of the profligate might be dated to begin from that time how he gradually sever'd the guilty ties that had so long gall'd him how he enjoy'd his own home again how the friendship of Charles and himself grew not slack with time and how, when in the course of seasons he became head of a family of his own, he would shudder at the remembrance of his early dangers and his escapes.

Her Eyes with scalding Rheum were gall'd and red, Cold Palsy shook her Head; her Hands seem'd wither'd; And on her crooked Shoulders had she wrap'd The tatter'd Remnants of an old striped Hanging, Which served to keep her Carcase from the Cold: So there was nothing of a Piece about her.