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Other poems followed, The Pilgrims of the Sun , Madoc of the Moor, The Poetic Mirror, and Queen Hynde ; and in prose Winter Evening Tales , The Three Perils of Man , and The Three Perils of Woman. In his later years his home was a cottage at Altrive on 70 acres of moorland presented to him by the Duchess of Buccleuch, where he d. greatly lamented.
And the princess, pale and sad, worn out by long waiting, promised to look no more for Hynde Horn. To please her father and his people, she even promised to marry Hynde Horn's old playfellow, Prince Fykenyld. Ah, but had they only known, King Horn was already hastening towards the palace. Already he had learned that the wedding had not yet taken place.
Hobbes and Bolingbroke, Hume and Adam Smith, Wyndham and Cobham, Pitt and Grenville, Canning and Huskisson? Are not the principles of Toryism those popular rights which men like Shippen and Hynde Cotton flung in the face of an alien monarch and his mushroom aristocracy? Place bills, triennial bills, opposition to standing armies, to peerage bills?
It was given to me by one who loved me well, and I, I give it back to her on this her wedding-day. As Hynde Horn spoke he stood up, straight and tall, and looked straight into the eyes of the Princess Jean. Then, in a flash, she understood. In spite of the tattered coat, she knew her own Hynde Horn. Her pale cheeks glowed, her dim eyes shone.
It was a fearsome time!" It would have been dreadful had the pleasure which "Kilmeny," "Queen Hynde," and the hundred other beautiful creations which the glorious old bard has given us, been all thus destroyed "at one fell swoop."
Paul, but none shalt thou take from any hand, save from the hand of the young bride herself. Hynde Horn thanked the old beggar man, and, bidding him farewell, set off up the hill toward the palace gate. And no one looking at him in the tattered coat, bending half double over his staff, no one could have guessed that this beggar man was the brave and courteous Hynde Horn.
To-day is the wedding-day of the king's daughter, the Princess Jean. Ah, now Hynde Horn understood why his diamonds had grown dull and dim. His beautiful princess had not forgotten him. Of that he was quite sure. But King Alymer and his people had grown weary of waiting for his return.
Anstruther was rather disagreeable at the beginning, and upbraided Miss Dalziel for offering to be the king's daughter Jean to Mr. Macdonald's Hynde Horn, when she knew very well he wanted her for Ladye Jeanie in Glenlogie. Mr.
He hears that the king's daughter Jean has been married to a knight these nine days past. 'But unto him a wife the bride winna be, For love of Hynde Horn, far over the sea. He therefore borrows the old beggar's garments and hobbles to the king's palace, where he petitions the porter for a cup of wine and a bit of cake to be handed him by the fair bride herself.
We had read Hynde Horn together ages before Jean Dalziel came; but I imagine, when we came to acting the lines, he thought it would be better to have some other king's daughter; that is, that it would be less personal. And I never, never would have been in the tableau, if I had dared refuse Lady Ardmore, or could have explained; but I had no time to think.
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