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TALES OF MY LANDLORD.
CHAPTER VIII.
Our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant: a good—plot, good friends, and full of expectation: an excellent plot, very good friends.
Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Sc. III.
No sooner had the general acclamation of joyful surprise subsided, than silence was eagerly demanded for reading the royal commission; and the bonnets, which hitherto each chief had worn, probably because unwilling to be the first to uncover, were now at once vailed in honour of the royal warrant. It was couched in the most full and ample terms, authorising the Earl of Montrose to assemble the subjects in arms, for the putting down the present rebellion, which divers traitors and seditious per-
