The Fortunes of Nigel (Unabridged). Walter Scott

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      Chapter I

       Table of Contents

      Now Scot and English are agreed,

       And Saunders hastes to cross the Tweed,

       Where, such the splendours that attend him,

       His very mother scarce had kend him.

       His metamorphosis behold,

       From Glasgow frieze to cloth of gold;

       His back-sword, with the iron hilt,

       To rapier, fairly hatch'd and gilt;

       Was ever seen a gallant braver!

       His very bonnet's grown a beaver.

       The Reformation.

      The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries separated the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I. to the English Crown. But although the united crown of England and Scotland was worn by the same individual, it СКАЧАТЬ