If wishing better things, if glad resolve Are any hostage-bond for now and then, Take itas I do give ittrue and whole!

Raoul Rigault and Régère charged with the hostage decree.

XI. Dayly when I do seeke and sew for peace, And hostages doe offer for ray truth, She, cruell warriour, doth her selfe addresse To battell, and the weary war renew'th; Ne wilbe moov'd, with reason or with rewth*, To graunt small respit to my restlesse toile; But greedily her fell intent poursewth, Of my poore life to make unpittied spoile.

I have grown tired of this sort of hostage life, and I am going North with you.

Mr. S.B. Griswold, who was one of the American hostage officers at Quebec, Dr. Foot, and Mr. Johnston came in to see me, at different times.

Scipio promised the hostages permission to return home so soon as their respective communities should have entered into alliance with Rome, and employed the resources which the city afforded to reinforce and improve the condition of his army.

When the king learned what mischief the pagans had done to his land, and of the siege they laid to Bath, he hanged his hostages straightway.