[The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fair Maid of Perth CHAPTER XXXI 3/14
Look you, I will play Dame Marjory, disposed on this day bed here with a mourning veil and a wreath of willow, to show my forsaken plight; thou, John, wilt look starch and stiff enough for her Galwegian maid of honour, the Countess Hermigild; and Dwining shall present the old Hecate, her nurse--only she hath more beard on her upper lip than Dwining on his whole face, and skull to boot.
He should have the commodity of a beard to set her forth conformably.
Get thy kitchen drudges, and what passable pages thou hast with thee, to make my women of the bedroom.
Hearest thou? about it instantly." Ramorny hasted into the anteroom, and told Dwining the Prince's device. "Do thou look to humour the fool," he said; "I care not how little I see him, knowing what is to be done." "Trust all to me," said the physician, shrugging his shoulders.
"What sort of a butcher is he that can cut the lamb's throat, yet is afraid to hear it bleat ?" "Tush, fear not my constancy: I cannot forget that he would have cast me into the cloister with as little regard as if he threw away the truncheon of a broken lance.
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