Author: Joseph Hall
Cited by
- Walter Scott (1)
- IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: His mother could for him as cradle set
Her husband’s rusty iron corselet;
Whose jangling sound could hush her babe to rest,
That never plain’d of his uneasy nest;
Then did he dream of dreary wars at hand,
And woke, and fought, and won, ere he could stand.
FROM: HALL’S SATIRES, (1824), Book, UK