[Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock]@TWC D-Link bookMaid Marian CHAPTER X 1/7
A noble girl, i' faith.
Heart! I think I fight with a familiar, or the ghost of a fencer.
Call you this an amorous visage? Here's blood that would have served me these seven years, in broken heads and cut fingers, and now it runs out all together .-- MIDDLETON.
Roaring Girl. Prince John sat down impatiently before Arlingford castle in the hope of starving out the besieged; but finding the duration of their supplies extend itself in an equal ratio with the prolongation of his hope, he made vigorous preparations for carrying the place by storm.
He constructed an immense machine on wheels, which, being advanced to the edge of the moat, would lower a temporary bridge, of which one end would rest on the bank, and the other on the battlements, and which, being well furnished with stepping boards, would enable his men to ascend the inclined plane with speed and facility.
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