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Quhen the cup is fullest, bear it evenest. Qhuen thieves reckons, leal men comes to their geir. Ryme spares no man. Ruse the fair day at even. Rhue and time, grows both in ane garden. Reason band the man. Rome was not bigged on the first Day. Racklesse youth makes a goustie Age. Reavers should not be rewers. Rule youth well, and eild will rule it fell. Ruse the Ford, as ye find it.
There were literary reavers, who laid desolate at a foray a whole generation of wits. There were literary duels, fought out in grim hate to the very death. It was dangerous to interfere in the literary mêlée. Every now and then a fine gentleman was run through with a jest, or a foolish Maecenas stabbed to the heart with an epigram, and his foolishness settled for ever.
To take his castle was not like turning out a chieftain of some ancient family, with his clan about him for miles around; O'Donnell had seized upon the place himself, his men were reavers and outlaws, and the castle was a strong one. Then there was the O'Malley alliance.
"We shall need another mount, and Mistress Margery's saddle," I said. "Lie you close here whilst I play the horse-thief on these reavers." But my dear lad was rash only for himself. "Now who is daft?" he retorted. "The Catawba himself could never run that gantlet and come through alive." "Mayhap," I admitted. "But yet "
Sir James sat bolt upright with a sudden air of astonished enlightenment: "Well, I'm hanged if it isn't blackmail!" he cried. "Blackmail?" said the Terror in a tone of pleasant animation. "Why, that's what the Scotch reavers used to do! I never knew exactly what it was." "And we're doing it. That is nice," said Erebus, almost preening herself. "But this is disgraceful!
They are broken folk from all countries, justice-fliers, prison-breakers, reavers, escaped bondsmen, murderers and staff-strikers who have made their way to this outland place and hold it against all comers. There is one here who could tell you of them and of their ways, for he was long time prisoner amongst them."
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