The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott Quotes

“described approached so nigh as to receive some interruption from the warders, he dashed his dusky green turban from his head, showed that his beard and eyebrows were shaved like those of a professed buffoon, and that the expression of his fantastic and writhen features, as well as of his little black eyes, which glittered like jet, was that of a crazed imagination. "Dance, marabout," cried the soldiers, acquainted with the manners of these wandering enthusiasts, "dance, or we will scourge thee with our bow-strings till thou spin as never top did under schoolboy's lash." Thus shouted the reckless warders, as much delighted at having a subject to tease as a child when he catches a butterfly, or a schoolboy upon discovering a bird's nest. The marabout, as if happy to do their behests, bounded from the earth, and spun his giddy round before them with singular agility, which, when contrasted with his slight and wasted figure, and”
― Walter Scott, The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Journal, Letters, Articles and much more (Illustrated Edition): Epic Scots Anthology

“cantrip to ken wha suld wed me: and the monk said there”
― Walter Scott, Complete Works of Walter Scott "Scottish Historical Novelist, Playwright, Poet, and 1st Baronet"! 49 Complete Works (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, Waverley, ... Bride of Lammermoor, & More)