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WOODSTOCK; OR, THE CAVALIER
SIR WALTER SCOTT
THE WOODSTOCK SCUFFLE; or, Most dreadfull apparitions that were lately seene in the Mannor-house of Woodstock, neere Oxford, to the great terror and the wonderful amazement of all there that did behold them.
It were a wonder if one unites, And not of wonders and strange sights; For ev'ry where such things affrights Poore people,
That men are ev'n at their wits' end; God judgments ev'ry where doth send, And yet we don't our lives amend, But tipple,
And sweare, and lie, and cheat, and--, Because the world shall drown no more, As if no judgments were in store But water;
But by the stories which I tell, You'll heare of terrors come from hell, And fires, and shapes most terrible For matter.
It is not long since that a child Spake from the ground in a large field, And made the people almost wild That heard it,
Of which there is a printed book, Wherein each man the truth may look, If children speak, the matter's took For verdict.
For nothing else is history But pickle of antiquity, Where things are kept in memory From stinking;
Which otherwise would have lain dead, As in oblivion buried, Which now you may call into head With thinking.
But I, contented, do indite, Not things of wit, but things of right; You can't expect that things that fright Should delight.
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