Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
Your correspondent Mr. Melville will be surprised to learn that the words deranged, derangement, now so generally used in reference to a disordered intellect, or madness, are not to be found in any dictionary that I have seen.
J. A. H.
Fair Rosamond (Vol. ix., p. 163.).—The lines which your correspondent C. C. inquires for are from Warner's Albion's England, which first appeared in thirteen books in 1586:
"Fair Rosamond, surprised thus ere thus she did expect,
Fell on her humble knees, and did her fearful hands erect:
She blushed out beauty, whilst the tears did wash her pleasing face,
And begged pardon, meriting no less of common grace.
'So far, forsooth, as in me lay, I did,' quoth she, 'withstand;
But what may not so great a king by means or force command?'