 On a circle of stones but barely nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine. They rolled him up in a sheet of lead — A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him,...  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Page 159by John Gibson Lockhart - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...leaves he spread ; And he found that to quell the powerful spell, The wizard must be boiled in lead. On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle...nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shin?. They rolled him up in a sheat of lead, A sheat of lead for a... | |
 | John Leyden, James Morton - Medicine in literature - 1819 - 906 pages
...that to quell the powerful spell, The wizard must be boil'd in lead. On a circle of stones they plac'd the pot, On a circle of stones but barely nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnish'd brass did glimmer and shine. They roll'd him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 pages
...leaves he spread ; And he found that to quell the powerful spell, The wizard must be boil'd in lead. On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle...but barely nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, They rollM him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the... | |
 | Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 516 pages
...leaves he spread ; And he found that to quell the powerful spell, The wizard must be boil'd in lead. On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle of stones but barely nine ; They roll'd him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a funeral pall ; They plunged him in the cauldron... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...to add barley chaff, and on his refusal, were obliged to leave the hopeless work. R 2 LOUD SOULI9. On a circle of stones they placed the pot ; On a circle of stones, but harely nine — They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine. They... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1899 - 510 pages
...put to death in the following fashion at the Ninestane Rig, the hill to the north of Hermitage: — " On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle...nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine. They rolled him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...leaves he spread ; And he found that to quejl the powerful spell. The wizard must be boil'd in lead. On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle...nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot. Till the burnish'd brass did glimmer and shine. They roll'd him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a... | |
 | Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...:—(Probably * See note, " Proof against shot given by Satan."—Waverley Jfmels, vol. xp 40. t " On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle...nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot. Till the burnished glass did glimmer and shine. They rolled him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...leaves he spread ; And he found that to quell the powerful spell, The wizard must be boil'd in lead. On a circle of stones they placed the pot, On a circle of stones but barely nine j . They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnish'cl brass did glimmer and shine. They roll'd... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...(Probably while he wrote, some * See note, " Proof against shot given by Satan." — Waverley ffarel,, vol. xp 40. f " On a circle of stones they placed...nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnish'd brass did glimmer and shine. They roll'd him up in a sheet of lead, A sheet of lead for a... | |
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