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Maid Marian.
overcome: her love of the forest and the chase, which he had never before discouraged; now presented itself to him as matter of serious alarm; and if her cheerfulness gave him hope on the one hand by indicating a spirit superior to all disappointments, it was suspicious to him on the other as arising from some latent certainty of being soon re-united to the earl. All these circumstances concurred to render their songs of the vanished deer, and greenwood archery, and Yoicks and Harkaway, extremely mal-a-propos, and to make his anger boil and bubble in the cauldron of his spirit; till its more than ordinary excitement burst forth with sudden impulse into active manifestation.
But as it sometimes happens, from the might
Of rage in minds that can no farther go,
As high as they have mounted in despite
Of rage in minds that can no farther go,
As high as they have mounted in despite
