Living
Julia. Gentle Sir
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
Julia. Gentle sir,
You are our captive, -- but we 'll use you so,
That you shall think your prison joys may match
Whate'er your liberty hath known of pleasure.
Roderick. No, fairest, we have trifled here too long;
And, lingering to see your roses blossom,
I 've let my laurels wither.
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Codex Note
From The Betrothed (1825)
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Scott, Walter. “Julia. Gentle Sir.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/262/.
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