"Gallows-tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to choose a man who played the part and enjoyed all the traditionary privileges of Saturn for a season, and then died, whether by his own or another's hand, whether by the knife or the fire or on the gallows-tree, in the character of the good god who gave his life for the world. In Rome itself and other great towns the growth of civilisation had probably mitigated this cruel custom long before the Augustan age, and transformed it into the innocent shape it wears in the writings of the few classical writers ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... merry lads be we, And three merry lads be we; I on the land, and thou on the sand, And Jack on the gallows-tree." ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving |
