[eBook #12449] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A REPUTED CHANGELING*** Transcribed by David Price, email [email protected] A REPUTED CHANGELING, or, THREE SEVENTH YEARS

Yet so farre hath Discretion fought with Nature, That we with wisest sorrow thinke on him, [Footnote 1: Does it meancarries off any child, leaving a changeling?

By night they came and from my bed They stole my babe, and left behind A thing I hate, a thing I dread A changeling who is old and blind; He's moaning all the night and day For those who took my babe away.

They mistook that lusty Teutonic changeling for their own new-born Turkish babe, and they nursed and nourished it.

I find it hard to count that white man a teacher who tortured an ambitious Indian youth by frequently reminding the brave changeling that he was nothing but a "government pauper.

Many advised her to roast the Changeling on the turf-fire, but the White Witch of Moher said it would be safer to leave him alone.

Love to carry on a party, or a design to be seen or accounted somebody, to maintain their credit and reputation, lest they be accounted changelings and the like, will prove very dangerous in this case; for these may forcibly carry the soul away, to embrace one error after another, and one error to strengthen and confirm another, that it is hard to know where or when they shall stand.

The youthful prince was fond of cultivating pinks, and one of his courtiers, by substituting a floral changeling, persuaded him that one of those pinks planted by the royal hand had sprung up into bloom in a single night!

Will you deprive changelings of a future state?) is founded on one of these two suppositions, which are both false.