Note 68 — INTRODUCTION LIFE OF GOWER.
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Fuller’s spirited translation of these lines is well known, but may here be quoted again:
‘Tom comes thereat, when called by Wat, and Simm as forward we find, Bet calls as quick to Gibb and to Hykk, that neither would tarry behind. Gibb, a good whelp of that litter, doth help mad Coll more mischief to do, And Will he does vow, the time is come now, he’ll join in their company too. Davie complains, whiles Grigg gets the gains, and Hobb with them does partake, Lorkin aloud in the midst of the crowd conceiveth as deep is his stake. Hudde doth spoil whom Judde doth foil, and Tebb lends his helping hand, But Jack the mad patch men and houses does snatch, and kills all at his command.’
Church History, Book iv. (p. 139).