 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...convey us in bomb to the English king : but by your courage, and the help ol God, they shall tail. Set yourselves in order, every man to his station....let the crossbows be ready : have the lime-pots and tire-balls to the tops : two-handed swords to the fore-rooms. Be stout, be diligent, for your own sakes,... | |
 | James Miller - Castles - 1830 - 322 pages
...superior numbers, prepared for the attack. " These, my lads," he exclaimed, " are the foes who expect to convey us in bonds to the English king ; but, by...your courage, and the help of God, they shall fail. Charge, gunners : let the crossbows be ready ; have the lime-pots and fire-balls to the tops ; two-handed... | |
 | John M. Leighton - Fife (Scotland) - 1840 - 264 pages
...encouragement to his men to meet the foe bravely. " These my lads," said he, " are the foes who expect to convey us in bonds to the English king : but by...Charge gunners : let the cross-bows be ready ; have the lime pots and fire balls to the tops ; and the two-handed swords to the fore-rooms. Be stout — be... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 468 pages
...lads, are the foes who expect to convey us in bonds to the King of England, but by your courage, and by the help of God, they shall fail. Set yourselves in order, every man to his station. Charge guns, let the cross-bows be ready; have the lime-pots and fire-balls to the tops ; two-handed swords... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1852 - 776 pages
...mariner. •' My lads," he exclaimed, " these are the foes who would convey us in bonds to the foot of au English king ; but, by your courage and the help of God, they shall fail ! Set yourselves in order — repair every man to his station — chargo home, gunners — crossbowmen to the tops — two-handed... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - Dunbar, Scotland - 1859 - 352 pages
...prepared for the attack. " These, my lads," he exclaimed, " are the foes who expect to convey us iu bonds to the English king ; but, by your courage, and the help of God, they shall fail. Charge, gunners: let the cross-bows bo ready ; have the lime-pots and fire-balls to the tops ; two-handed... | |
 | James Grant - Adventure and adventurers - 1866 - 384 pages
...mariner. " My lads," he exclaimed, " these are the foes who would convey us in bonds to the foot of an English king; but, by your courage and the help of God, they shall fail ! Set yourselves in order— repair every man to his station — charge home, gunners — crossbowmen to the tops — two-handed... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 pages
...of the time. "My lads," said he, "these are the foes who would convey us in bonds to the foot of an English king; but, by your courage and the help of God, they shall fail ! Set yourselves in order ; repair every man to his station — crossbow-men to the tops — two-handed swords to the fore-rooms... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...his men in the plain and boisterous phrase of the sea — "These, my lads, are the foes who expect to convey us in bonds to the English king ; but by...ready ; have the lime-pots and fire-balls to the tops ; two-handed swords z I THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH ANECDOTE. to the fore-rooms. Be stout, be diligent, for... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...addressed his men in the plain and boisterous phrase of the sea : " There, my lads, are the foes who expect to convey us in bonds to the English king; but by...ready ; have the lime-pots and fire-balls to the tops ; two-handed swords to the fore-rooms. Be stout, bediligent, for your own sakes, and for the honour... | |
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These, my lads, are the foes who expect to convey us in bonds to the English king ; but by your courage, and the help of God, they shall fail. Set yourselves in order, every man to his station. Charge, gunners ; let the crossbows be ready ; have the lime-pots... 
