scarbro' warning

The Sailor's Word-Book

Letting anything go by the run, without due notice. Heywood in his account of Stafford's surprise of Scarborough castle, in 1557, says:


"This term Scarborow warning grew (some say),

By hasty hanging for rank robbery theare,

Who that was met, but suspected in that way,

Straight he was truss't, whatever he were."

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