Guy Mannering.

40 WAVElLEY NOVELS.
12.
"No," says the Lord, " that cannot be,
For I have tried his honesty;"
"Then," said the Cook, "my Lord, I die
Upon a tree full ten feet high."
13.
Then hearing what these men did say
He sent a messenger that day,
To take him with a hue and cry,
And bring him back immediately.
14.
They searched his portmanteau with speedy
In which they found the cup indeed;
Then was he struck with sad surprise,
He could not well believe his eyes.
15.
The assizes then were drawing nigh,
And he was tried and doomed to die;
And his injured innocence
Could nothing say in his defence.
16.
But going to the gallows tree,
On which he thought to hanged be,
He clapped his hands upon his breast,
And thus in tears these words exprest.
17.
"Blind Fortune will be Fortune still,
I see, let man do what he will;
For though this day I needs must die,
I am not guilty-no, not I."
18.
This noble Lord was in amaze,
He stood and did with wonder gaze;
Then he spoke out with words so mild,"What mean you by that saying, child?"