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Updated: May 13, 2025
Their pastime or recreation is prayers, their exercise drinking, yet herein so religiously addicted that they serve God oftest when they are drunk. Their humanity is a leg to the residencer, their learning a chapter, for they learn it commonly before they read it; yet the old Hebrew names are little beholden to them, for they miscall them worse than one another.
That old stargazer, with whom Aesop has made us acquainted, deserved, indeed, to fall into the well, no less for his profanity than his stupidity. Yet this same star-gazing it is that we miscall reflection.
It is proved that our wages be double thine; how then may it be that thou'st knocked therefrom the stuffing? an miscall not the wonderly word, this being the first time under grace and providence of God it hath been granted me to hear it."
Already, though his father had been dead only a week, Stephen began to miscall many of the harder words; but his hearers were not critical, and the performance gave unbounded satisfaction. 'That beats me! cried Tim. 'What a headpiece thee must have, Stephen! But what does it all mean, lad? Is it all English like?
And the knight who would not speak save truly, they mockingly named Sir Verity, which name some of them did again miscall SEVERITY, for the more he loved, the more it was to him impossible to tell a lie. And thus it came about that one after another he was hated of them all.
In the presence of this marvel, wars, elections, economic upheavals, the high cost of living, prohibition, all "that unrest which men miscall delight" fade into insignificance. Life itself seems a small and pitiful thing. You are face to face with a force of Nature that is titanic, terrifying, and irresistible.
And not withstanding bear in mind the saying of the philosopher called Bertrand the Old, who says that if you engage a maid or man of high and proud answers, you shall know that when she leaves she will miscall you if she can; and if, on the contrary, she be flattering and ¸full of blandishments, trust her not, for she is in league with someone else to trick you; but if she blushes and is silent and shamefast when you correct her, love her as your daughter.
All this latter part, of course, I said to myself, but no word of it to the lad before me, for no honest youth can bear any lips to miscall his father save his own. "You will come to the manse with us and stay the night; it is too late to seek other lodging now." "Thank ye kindly, sir, but I hae a wee pickle siller in my pocket," he replied, with modest independence.
"Nay," said Eli sadly, "miscall us not. We be true folk, and neither rebels nor traitors. But 'tis sudden, and the poor lad is our true flesh and blood, and hath of late given proof of more sense than heretofore." "Avails not threatening our lives," whimpered Catherine; "we grudge him not to the Duke; but in sooth he cannot go; his linen is all in holes. So there is an end."
He seemed to hold it about breast-high and to pause. 'You had best be rid of Margot Poins, the musing voice came out of the thick air. 'Send her back to her mother's people: she gets you no friends. Katharine wondered if she might strike about eighteen inches above the tiny spark: or if in these impenetrable shadows there were a very tall man. 'Your Margot's folk miscall you in shameful terms.
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