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Updated: October 15, 2026
Her "kerchiefs" were "full fine" of texture, and weighed, one might be sworn, ten pound That on a Sunday were upon her head. Her hosen too were of fine scarlet red, Full straight y-tied, and shoes full moist and new. ... Upon an ambler easily she sat, Y-wimpled well, and on her head a hat, As broad as is a buckler or a targe.
And that evening, when the moon had risen, the young Fisherman climbed up to the top of the mountain, and stood under the branches of the hornbeam. Like a targe of polished metal the round sea lay at his feet, and the shadows of the fishing-boats moved in the little bay. A great owl, with yellow sulphurous eyes, called to him by his name, but he made it no answer.
But few know much more, though there is close by a much more elaborate and equally good piece of Smollettian fun in the quarrel of Buchanan and Targe, the Scotch Whig and Jacobite, over the reputation of Queen Mary.