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Updated: June 27, 2025
This man is the King of Oakenrealm, and he yonder is but a thief of kings, a dastard!" And again great was the shouting, for carle and quean, young and old, they loved Christopher well: and Jack of the Tofts was not only their war-duke and alderman, but their wise man also, and none had any thought of gainsaying him.
"Tolerable luck!" he repeated; "yes, truly, my lord, I am told that you have tolerable luck, and that ye ken weel how to use that jilting quean, Dame Fortune, like a canny douce lad, willing to warm yourself in her smiles, without exposing yourself to her frowns. And that is what I ca' having luck in a bag."
She was tryin', and didn't know the way. She was tryin', for she had his watch and pocketbook. You're wrang if ye think she was ever there before or after. The slut you saw cryin' at his back door was that quean Elise, an' ye well know there was no love lost between them. Go say yer prayers, man, for every wicked thought ye've had of him or of that poor child. Between them they saved your Angela!"
Hood, in his "Flowers," thus alludes to Clytie: "I will not have the mad Clytie, Whose head is turned by the sun; The tulip is a courtly quean, Whom therefore I will shun; The cowslip is a country wench, The violet is a nun; But I will woo the dainty rose, The queen of every one." The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.
There was a general titter from the Corporal, my host, and his wife, at the Traveller's semi-jest at his own unprepossessing appearance: but Madeline, a little disconcerted, bowed hastily, and drew her sister away. "A proud quean!" said the Stranger, as he re-seated himself, and watched the sisters gliding across the green. All mouths were opened against him immediately.
"Only the pictur' o' some randy quean," his father answered, chucking away at the inanimate chin. "Gie it me!" David ordered fiercely. "It's mine." "Na, na," the little man replied. "It's no for sic douce lads as dear David to ha' ony touch wi' leddies sic as this." "Gie it me, I tell ye, or I'll tak' it!" the boy shouted. "Na, na; it's ma duty as yer dad to keep ye from sic limmers."
She now met her, envied her success, and called out in a coarse tone: "Oh, ye're a gallant quean; ye'll be waur than ever the noo." "What's wrang, if ye please?" said the Johnstone, sharply. Reader, did you ever see two fallow bucks commence a duel?
Thither came to them also the Lady Margaret, Jack's wedded wife, and made them the most cheer that she might; and unto her did Christopher tell his story as unto his very mother; and what there was in the house, both of carle and of quean, gathered round about to hearken, and Christopher nothing loth.
And now, if I hear ye, quean lassies, sae muckle as name dancing, or think there's sic a thing in this warld as flinging to fiddler's sounds, and piper's springs, as sure as my father's spirit is with the just, ye shall be no more either charge or concern of mine!
"I despise the childish boy too much to raise a finger against him. But I will return insult for insult. Here, any of you who love the Douglas, spurn me this quean from the monastery gates; and let her be so scourged that she may bitterly remember to the last day of her life how she gave means to an unrespective boy to affront the Douglas."
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