Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
Walter ScottWhat can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
Walter ScottGood wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
Walter Scott