wood-beggars

Updated: January 13, 2026

The archduke would speedily relieve "bleeding Belgica" from her sufferings, bind up her wounds, and annihilate her enemies. The spirit further informed the poet that the forests of the Low Countries so long infested by brigands, wood-beggars, and malefactors of all kinds would thenceforth swarm with "nymphs, rabbits, hares, and animals of that nature."

John Lothrop Motley - PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

The archduke would speedily relieve "bleeding Belgica" from her sufferings, bind up her wounds, and annihilate her enemies. The spirit further informed the poet that the forests of the Low Countries so long infested by brigands, wood-beggars, and malefactors of all kinds would thenceforth swarm with "nymphs, rabbits, hares, and animals of that nature."

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete

The archduke would speedily relieve "bleeding Belgica" from her sufferings, bind up her wounds, and annihilate her enemies. The spirit further informed the poet that the forests of the Low Countries so long infested by brigands, wood-beggars, and malefactors of all kinds would thenceforth swarm with "nymphs, rabbits, hares, and animals of that nature."

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands, 1594

The archduke would speedily relieve "bleeding Belgica" from her sufferings, bind up her wounds, and annihilate her enemies. The spirit further informed the poet that the forests of the Low Countries so long infested by brigands, wood-beggars, and malefactors of all kinds would thenceforth swarm with "nymphs, rabbits, hares, and animals of that nature."

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)