The maid yielded to the conditions: but after she had passed the night with him, the wanton savage next morning showed her from the window her brother, the darling object for whom she had sacrificed her virtue, hanging on a gibbet, which he had secretly ordered to be there erected for the execution.

Rage, and despair, and indignation took possession of her mind, and deprived her forever of her senses.

All the inhabitants of that country, innocent as well as guilty, were exposed to the ravages of this barbarian.

The soldiery were let loose to live at free quarters; and his own regiment, instructed by his example, and encouraged by his exhortations, distinguished themselves in a particular manner by their outrages.

By way of pleasantry, he used to call them his lambs; an appellation which was long remembered with horror in the west of England.