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Whereby do you attest that you are he? What are the signs by which you shall be known? How 'scaped you those were sent to hunt you down And now, when sixteen years are passed, and you Well nigh forgot, emerge to light once more? DEMETRIUS. 'Tis scarce a year since I have known myself; I lived a secret to myself till then, Surmising naught of my imperial birth.
"They told you truth," I said. "Then, in the name of Antichrist that I should say so! how scaped you drowning, and how came you here?" I told him the story, as briefly as might be. "Ill luck go with yon second-sighted wench that has bewitched Elliot, and you too, for all that I can see.
"You ere an unceevil lad," he replied, "but strange as it may seem, I'm glad as you is sorry to see me, boy; it shows as you fears me; as you is guilty, as well you may think yerself, and you knows as Anton can bring yer to justice. You shall fear me more afore you has done, Master Joe. You 'scaped me afore, but there's no escape this time.
Chilton then repeated the poem; and, as some of my young readers may not be familiar with it, they shall have a copy, too. "This, also, boys, is a true story," said their mother. The noon was shady, and soft airs Swept Ouse's silent tide, When, 'scaped from literary cares, I wandered on his side.
Constance rose quickly, with a more decided welcome than she usually vouchsafed to her husband. "Why, my Lord! I thought you were in London." "What ill hath happed, son?" was the more penetrating remark of the Dowager. "Well nigh all such as could hap, Madam," said Le Despenser wearily. "I am escaped with life if I have so 'scaped! but with nought else.
No man's cattle, goods, nor even life, are safe from them; and the only reason why these two old hags, who hold sovereign sway over the others, have 'scaped justice so long, is because every one is afraid to go near them. Their solitary habitations are more strongly guarded than fortresses. Not believe in witches! Why I should as soon misdoubt the Holy Scriptures."
'I pray Jesu send you safe hither and soon, writes Richard to his 'right well beloved brother George', on June 6, 1482. 'Robert Eryke was chased with Scots between Calais and Dover. They scaped narrow. There are many such chases recorded, and we hear too of wool burnt under hatches or cast overboard in a storm.
'Now God be praised, the printer cried out, and caught at the boy's wrist. 'Tell your tale! and he shook him on his legs. 'Me, too, Privy Seal had taken but I 'scaped free, he gasped. 'These twain had promised me advancement for braving their screeds. And I ha' lost it. 'Gossips all, the Neighbour Ned barked out, 'to your feet and let us sing: "A fortress fast is God the Lord."
Lo! while she spake, new light seemed in her; and it was as if a splendid jewel were struggling to cast its beams through the sides of a crystal vase smeared with dust and old dirt and spinnings of the damp spider. He was amazed, and cried, 'How's this? What change is passing in thee? She said, 'Joy in thy kiss, and that I have 'scaped Shagpat. Then he: 'Shagpat?
As she cast eyes on him she cried out, and rushed to him, and took him by the ears and blew up his nostrils, and the animal was quiet. Then she and Shibli Bagarag mounted him again, and she said to him, 'It is well thou wert more vigilant than I, and that the sun rose not on this Ass while I slept, or my enchantment would have thawed on him, and he would have 'scaped us.
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