Strike, kettle-drum, the alarum in refrain.

Strike, kettle-drum, the alarum in refrain.

Blow, trumpets; clarions, sound your strain; Strike, kettle-drum, the alarum in refrain.

Strike, kettle-drum, the alarum in refrain.

And when one summer evening they paid their vows again, They heard the alarum ring to arms across the darkling plain; For the foes' approach had roused the watch and caused the war-like sound.

Thomas Lodge, in his "Alarum against Usurers," 1584, speaks of his "birth," and of "the offspring from whence he came," as if he were at least respectably descended; and on the authority of Anthony Wood, it has been asserted by all subsequent biographers that he was of a Lincolnshire family.

In 1584, when Lodge answered Gosson, he was a student of Lincoln's Inn; and to "his courteous friends, the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court," he dedicated his "Alarum against Usurers."

[A great alarum.

[Exeunt to the alarum.

Alarum, skirmish, a retreat.

Fiunt quóque de pennis alarum eius arcus rigidi, et fortes ad iaciendum missilia et sagittas.

[Alarum. Alberto.

Alarum, Drum! madnesse is on their side, All vertuous counsell is by them defied.

Alarum, fight lustily, and drive away the Duke; Fredericke pursues Valentia over the stage and takes her; a Retreate sounded.

[Alarum.

Hinc merula in nigro se oblectat nigra marito, Hinc socium lasciva petit Philomela canorum, Agnoscitque pares sonitus, hinc Noctua tetram Canitiem alarum, et glaucos miratur ocellos.

The troubling and persistent alarum of rebellion calls from many sides, and as instances of its call I have introduced mention of various rebels, whether against authority or custom.

At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay, On board of the Cumberland sloop-of-war; And at times from the fortress across the bay The alarum of drums swept past, Or a bugle-blast From the camp on the shore.

Watch Alarum.

Instead of encumbering a watch designed to be worn in the pocket with the striking apparatus, (by which it would be increased to double the ordinary thickness), this ingenious invention has the alarum or striking part detached, and forming a bed on which the watch is to be laid; a communication being made by a lever, projecting through the watch case, to connect the works.

But if it were so sad as Sardou said in 1870, when 500,000 answered to its call, how infinitely sadder was it in 1914 when ten times that number responded to its wild alarum, a million never returning to the women that had loved them.

Mr. Lewisham was to rise at five, and that this was no vain boasting, a cheap American alarum clock by the books on the box witnessed.

The time was six and he had not heard the alarum; as a matter of fact the alarum had not been wound up.

But of such themes forbear to tell May never War awake this bell To sound the tocsin or the knell Hush'd be the alarum gun.

On the left of the enclosure was a shed, with a large ship's bell suspended beneath, serving as an alarum bell in case of danger, while the remainder was occupied with neatly built huts, inhabited by the numerous wives of the king.