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And when it was time for the nobles to pass, In solemn procession to minster and mass, The first walk'd the Princess in purple and pall, But the blood-besmear'd night-robe she wore over all; And eke, in the hall, where they all sat at dine, When she knelt to her father and proffer'd the wine, Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.
The Indians proffer'd to sell him as a Slave to the Governor, but he refused to buy him; so they took him bound away. Another Instance, of the like Nature, happen'd at the same House.
The door of the chamber opened wide, and in strutted the portly bulk of the military hero whom Nigel had on the preceding evening in vain endeavoured to recognise. SWASH-BUCKLER. Bilboe's the word PIERROT. It hath been spoke too often, The spell hath lost its charm I tell thee, friend, The meanest cur that trots the street, will turn, And snarl against your proffer'd bastinado.
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