Scribblings on the Margins

Short notes and quotes that otherwise might have fallen by the wayside. Your tumbling guide is Andreas Jungherr.
February 12
“ Yet Clare’s sharp questions must I shun,
Must separate Constance from the nun
Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!
A Palmer too! No wonder why
I felt rebuked beneath his eye; Marmion: Canto VI. Stanza 17. By Walter Scott