Woe betide the unlucky wight who dares to hold an opinion of his own.

I am not one that haunts on hills or Rocks, I am no shepheard wayting on my flocks, I am no boystrous Satyre, no nor Faune, That am with pleasure of thy beautie drawne: Thou dost not know, God wot, thou dost not know The wight whose presence thou disdainest so.

Yet spake he to Beltane in soft and soothing accents, on this wise: "Resplendent sir, behold this thy most officious wight who doth my tender throat with hurtful hand encompassdoubtless to some wise and gracious end an he doth squeeze me thus at thy command.

After all, what were a magic carpet that could carry a single lucky wight,at best, but a species of heavenly sulky,compared with a railroad train that speeds along hundreds of men, women, and children, over land and water, with any amount of heavy baggage, as well as a boundless extent of crinoline?

He came nearer the clumsy wight, and saw that it was a pan of batter the cook had left on the table, probably the morning griddle-cakes.

* Eight months previously, I had left London a poor burdened, cowering wight.

There died some wounded wight under his plunderer's knife!"

How then dare I, the novice of his art, 225 Presume to picture so divine a wight, Or hope t'expresse her least perfections part, Whose beautie filles the heavens with her light, And darkes the earth with shadow of her sight?

'Good gods!' exclaims the startled wight, 'Defend me from this hideous sight!

Better he might have fared, poor wight, Hadst thou not given him a gleam of heavenly light; Reason he names it, and doth

The Carle himself is extravagantly and most "Resolutely" painted as a monster in nature,stern, terrible, fearing no living wight,his looks dreadful,his eyes fiery, and rolling from left to right in search of "foeman worthy of his steel"; he strides with the stateliness of a crane, and, at every step, rises on tiptoe; his dress and aspect resemble those of the Moors of Malabar, and remind us forcibly of the swarthy Menalcas.

Well, he gave One jovial night, to six poor Erfurt monks Six picked-visaged, wan, bird-fingered wights All in their rough hair shirts, like hedgehogs starved I told them, six weeks' work would break their hearts: They answered, Christ would help, and Christ's great mother, And make them strong when weakest:

Far from your reach, sure, under Feckhill-ridge, Five hundred men (England hath few such wight) Keep it for Gloster's use both day and night:

I know not whome you meane, sir: he that comands the family in chiefe, hath been honor'd with a sword and "rise Sir Richard" (who is but my father in lawe to a[nd?] by a former wife): for Mr. Underwitt, whome to salute you humbled your Cloth a gold Dublet, I ken not the wight.

Thereupon his elder brother affectionately addressed Bhima, saying, 'If thou regardest us as an authority, liberate this wicked wight.

Mild creatures, in whose warm crib now lies That heaven-sent youngling, holy-maid-born wight, Midst, end, beginning of our prophecies!

Thus fantastically tricked out, on that same daynay, only a few hours before, and at the fair above mentionedhad these facetious wights, with more merriment than discretion, ventured to exhibit themselves before the cortege of Henri, and to exclaim loud enough to reach the ears of royalty, "à la fraise on connoit le veau!"

For some good gentleman, that hath the right 525 Unto his church for to present a wight, Will cope with thee in reasonable wise, [Cope, bargain.

The "burrow" which received the luckless wight, was indeed no pleasant refuge.

From here: 'T is, Chrysanthus, my intent Thus to place before thy sight Thus to show thee in what light I regard thy restoration Back to health, the estimation In which I regard the wight

On the pavement may probably be seen some wight who with more than political obstinacy, resolves to "weather the storm," with slouched hat, which acts upon the principle of capillary attraction, drenched coat, and boots in which the feet work like pistons in tannin: now The reeling clouds, Stagger with dizzy poise, as doubting yet, Which master to obey.

That in this gardin where yong Clarion Was wont to solace him, a wicked wight, The foe of faire things, th'author of confusion, The shame of Nature, the bondslave of spight, 245 Had lately built his hatefull mansion; And, lurking closely, in awayte now lay, How he might anie in his trap betray.

A staff he swung A wight whom Mosby's wasp had stung.

No leave he took, he told no mortal wight, Scarce had he thought to guide his steps aright, But all at random, reckless of his way, He wander'd on the better half of day.

"This table gan [began] Uther the wight; Ac