OSWALD No, no, my Friend, you may pursue your business 'Tis a poor wretch of an unsettled mind, Who has a trick of straying from his keepers; We must be gentle.

He took this virgin straying in the field For all the nuns and every covent fled The dangers that attended on our troops:

Then the pagan intoxications of the Catholic rites were no more surrounding him to over-excite him and betray the trouble of his heart and the straying of his thoughts, and if he felt affected before the smiles of these marriageable girls, he armed himself with force sufficient to thrust back carefully to his inmost being his boldness and his desires.

Above all things, I would have you know that the report that I was drowned while bathing is not true, for a report to this effect will certainly find its way into the local papers, and in these days, once a piece of news gets reported, it flies along from newspaper to newspaper, and newspapers have a knack of straying into our hands when they contain a disagreeable item of news.

The monotony of our journey was rather romantically interrupted by our straying for a short distance from the right road.

All silent; all hearts still; Love, cunning, fire fallen low: When faint morn straying on the hill Sighs, and his soft airs flow.