His other accomplishments are pallid in the light of his brilliant left hand. Once, at Derry--he attended a cock- fight, and beguiled an interval by emptying the pockets of a lucky bookmaker. An expert, who watched the exploit in admiration, could not withhold a compliment. `You are the Switcher,' he exclaimed; `some take all, but you leave nothing.' And it is as the Switcher that Haggart keeps his memory green.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
"A baron's child to be beguiled! It were a curs-ed dede; To be fel-aw with an out-law Almighty God forbede! Yet better were, the poor squyere Alone to forest yede, Than ye shall say another day, That by my wicked dede Ye were betrayed: Wherefore, good maid, The best rede that I can, Is, that I to the green wood go, Alone, a banished man."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"These tidings be more glad to me, Than to be made a queen, If I were sure they should endure: But it is often seen, When men will break promise they speak The wordis on the spleen. Ye shape some wile me to beguile, And steal from me, I ween: Then were the case worse than it was And I more wo-begone: For, in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Robin dwelled in green wood, Twenty year and two, For all dread of Edward our king, Again would he not go. Yet he was beguiled, i-wis, Through a wicked wom-an, The Prioress of Kirklees, That nigh was of his kin, For the love of a knight, Sir Roger of Doncaster, That was her own special, Full evil mote they thee,英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
How could reason be so far beguiled,
Err so far from sense's safe employ,
Stray so wide of truth, or run so wild?英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
Though time and change, harsh time's imperious child,
That wed strange hands together, might not wed
High hearts by hope's misprision once beguiled;英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》