 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...throw away, and, being (as they commonly are) naked, it is to them all in all. Laftly for a theife it is fo handfome, as it may feem it was firft invented...under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that commeth handfomly in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his beft... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1813 - 444 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thiefe it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him, for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free booting, it is his best and surest... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1813 - 472 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thiefe it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him, for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that commeth handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thief, it is so handsome, as it may seem it was first invented for him: for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsomely in his way; and when he goeth abroad in the night on freebooting, it is his best and surest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 312 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thiefe it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him, for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best and surest... | |
 | 1819 - 414 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thief it is so handsome, as it may seem it was first invented for him ; for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsOmly in his way, and when he goeth ahroad in the night in free hooting, it is his hest and surest... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 290 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thiefe it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him, for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsomely in bis way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best and surest... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 342 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly, for a thiefe it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him ; for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in freebooting, it is his best and surest... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...naked, it is to them all in all. Lastly for a thief it is so handsome, as it may seem it was first invented for him ; for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that cometh handsomely in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best and surest... | |
 | Henry Blake - Connemara (Ireland) - 1825 - 392 pages
...receive a rebel it is as serviceable Lastly for a thiefe it is so handsome as it may seem it was at first invented for him, for under it he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that commeth handsomely in his way ; and when he goeth abroad in the night in freebooting, it is his best... | |
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... in his way, and when he goeth abroad in the night in free-booting, it is his best and surest friend ; for lying, as they often do, two or three nights together abroad to watch for their booty, with that they can prettily shroud themselves under a... 
