simonburn

Updated: July 22, 2025

But ours were a comfortable people." "Very true, Dame Crank," said the hostler; "so said Simpkins of Simonburn when the curate kissed his wife, 'They are a comfortable people, said he." "Silence, thou foul-mouthed vermin," said Dame Crank; "is it fit for a heretic horse-boy like thee to handle such a text as the Catholic clergy?"

Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth