volueres

Updated: January 22, 2026

Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volueres dispersit in auras, 'which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer, wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since