revied

Updated: May 21, 2025

Now I held king and queen, being three a natural towser, making fifteen and tiddy, nineteen. We vied the ruff, and revied, as your lordship may suppose, till the stake was equal to half my yearly exhibition, fifty as fair yellow canary birds as e'er chirped in the bottom of a green silk purse.

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel