half-mimicked

Updated: May 6, 2025

But here is the gate we will disturb these honest gentlemen's recreations." As he spoke, he applied the large and ponderous knocker to the hall-door. "Rat-tat-tat-too!" said Wildrake; "there is a fine alarm to you cuckolds and round-heads." He then half-mimicked, half-sung the march so called: "Cuckolds, come dig, cuckolds, come dig; Round about cuckolds, come dance to my jig!"

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier