"Scalled" Quotes from Famous Books
... was ther with us in that place, Thad hadde a fire-red cherubimes face; For sausefleme he was, with eyen narwe. As hote he was, and likerous as a sparwe, With scalled browes blake, and pilled berd; Of his visage children were sore aferd. Ther n'as quiksilver, litarge, ne brimston, Boras, ceruse, ne oile of Tartre non, Ne oinement that wolde clense or bite, That him might helpen of his whelkes white, Ne of the nobbes sitting ... — Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury |