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Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. * To gally, or gallow, is to frighten excessively to confound with fright. It is an old Saxon word. It occurs once in Shakespeare:
How ought we to love the Lord Jesus for his GREAT salvation! Ed. It is a very modern custom to have the place of execution within a city formerly they were always without their position being still noted by the name 'Gallow Knowe, the knoll or mound of the gallows; 'Gallowgate, the gate or way leading to the gallows; and so on.
The wrathful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark And make them keep their caves. To common language, the word is now completely obsolete. When the polite landsman first hears it from the gaunt Nantucketer, he is apt to set it down as one of the whaleman's self-derived savageries.
To see good corn upon the rigs, And a gallow built to hang the Whigs, And the right restored where the right should be. Oh, that is the thing that would wanton me." "You may sing as loudly as you will, cantabit vacuus ," answered the Master; "but I believe the Marquis is too wise, at least too wary, to join you in such a burden.
Went over to Galashiels, and was busied the whole time till three o'clock about a petty thieving affair, and had before me a pair of gallows'-birds, to whom I could say nothing for total want of proof, except, like the sapient Elbow, Thou shalt continue there; know thou, thou shalt continue. A little gallow brood they were, and their fate will catch them. Sleepy, idle, and exhausted on this.
Enter Manuell to be rackt; Jaylour & Officers. Med. Don Manuell Guzman ere you taste the tortures, Which you are sure to feele, will you confesse This murther of your father? Man. Pray, give me privacy a little with my brother. Man. O brother your owne Conscience knowes you wrong me: Ile rather suffer on the Gallow Tree Then thus be torne in pieces.
They were as closely correlated as the moot-hill and the Gallow hill in our own country. The primitive method of execution derived a sanctity from its antiquity, and was continued far on into the most civilised times of the empire.
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