“If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto II, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“He who would see old Hoghton right
Must view it by the pale moonlight.”
William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases, (London, 1882) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0BwDL0yjf1gG1Sn05IQSrM4&id=mmkKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22He+who+would+see+old+Hoghton+right%22#PPA205,M1 <br class="br">Misattributed
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