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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. He told me that Rebellion had ill luck, And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold; With that he gave his able horse the head, And, bending forwards, struck his armed heels Against the panting sides of his poor jade, Up to the rowel-head; and starting so, He seem'd in running to devour the way, Staying no longer question. ? Shakespeare. The heat of the weather, and the occurrence of the quarterly cattle-fair at East Grinstead, had occasioned a more than usual assemblage of rustic travellers at the Swan, a small public- house in the obscure hamlet of Forest-Row, near the northern extremity of Sussex. At the time when our history commences, it was kept by a jovial blade who had formerly served in the King's army, and was well known to have not only retained his political opinions, but to have a clear voice and a stout heart for singing his old cavalier songs, a practice which was in those days by no means unattended with peril. On these accounts his house was frequented by such travellers and partisans as were not the best affected towards Cromwell's government, and who thought they might, in this unnoticed spot, safely indulge the effusion of their spleen, and drink, under the rose, confusion to all rogues and Roundheads. At that time the Forest of Ashdown closely invested the place on every side, and a large solitary tree, of that As historical characters and events are introduced into the following novel, it may be right to state here, once for all, that the author has in several instances, deviated from exact chronological succession; and that in the history of Valentine Walton, in the third volume, he has taken the same liberty with fact, that he has done in other places with time. species which had given its name to the vicinity, standing in ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217728485 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217728480 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 146 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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