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Peveril of the Peak

Peveril of the Peak
Walter Scott

Peveril of the Peak is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Woodstock and Kenilworth, this is one of Scott's English novels, with the main action taking place around 1678.

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“"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.”

Walter Scott book Peveril of the Peak

Peveril of the Peak, Chap. xlii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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