The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

PEVERIL OF THEII PEAK. 665
"In God's nalne, then, take your own way," said Christian; "and, for my
sake, let never man hereafter limit a woman in the use of her tongue, since
he must make it amply up to her, in allowing her the privilege of her own
will. Who would have thought it? But the colt has slipped the bridle,
and I must needs follow, since I cannot guide her."
Our narrative returns to the Court of King Charles, at Whitehall.
- But oh!
What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop; thou cruel,
Ingrateful, savage, anti inhuman creature
Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,
That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,
That almost mightst have coli'd me into gold,
Wouldst thou hlave practised on nle for thy use?
HEENRY V.
AT no period of his life, not even when that life was -in imminent danger,
did the constitutional gaiety of Charles seem more overclouded, than when
waiting for the return of Chiffinch with the Duke of Buckingham. His
mind revolted at the idea, that the person to whom he had been so particularly indulgent, and whom he had selected as the friend of his lighter hours
and amusements, should prove capable of having tampered with a plot apparently directed against his liberty and life. He- more than once examined
the dwarf anew, but could extract nothing more than his first narrative
contained. The apparition of the female to him in the cell of Newgate, he
described in such fanciful and romantic colours, that the King could not
help thinking the poor man's head a little turned; and as nothing was
found in the kettledrum, and other musical instruments brought for the use
of the Duke's band of foreigners, he nourished some slight hope that the
whole plan might be either a mere jest, or that the idea of an actual conspiracy was founded in mistake.
The persons who had been dispatched to watch the motions of Mr. Weiver's congregation, brought back word that they had quietly dispersed. It
was known, at the same time, that they had met in arms, but this augured no
particular design of aggression, at a time when all true Protestants conceived
themselves in danger of immediate massacre; when the fathers of the city had
repeatedly called out the Train-Bands, and alarmed the citizens of London,
under the idea of an instant insurrection of the Catholics; and when, to
sunm the whole up, in the emphatic words of an alderman of the day, there
was a general belief that they would all waken some unhappy morning
with their throats cut. Who was to do these dire deeds, it was more difficult to suppose; but all admitted the possibility that they might be achieved,
since one Justice of the Peace was already murdered. There was, therefore, no inference of hostile intentions against the State, to be decidedly
derived from a congregation of Protestants par excellence, military from old
associations, bringing their arms with them to a place of worship, in the
midst of a panic so universal.
Neither did the violent language of the minister, supposing that to be
proved, absolutely infer meditated violence. The favourite parables of the
preachers, and the metaphors and ornaments which they selected, were at
all times of a military cast; and the taking the kingdom of heaven by
storm, a strong and beautiful metaphor, when used generally, as in Scripture, was detailed in their sermons in all the technical language of the attack
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