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... pre- served . The high and heroic war - chant , the deeds of chivalrous emprise , the tale of unhappy love , the mystic songs of fairy - land , all have been liv INTRODUCTION . handed down to us for centuries , INTRODUCTION . liii.
... pre- served . The high and heroic war - chant , the deeds of chivalrous emprise , the tale of unhappy love , the mystic songs of fairy - land , all have been liv INTRODUCTION . handed down to us for centuries , INTRODUCTION . liii.
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... land made with his lemés * light . In a morning , between mid - day and night , I rose , and put all sloth and sleep aside , Untill a wood I went alone , but + guide . Sweet was the smell of flowers white and red , The noise of birdés ...
... land made with his lemés * light . In a morning , between mid - day and night , I rose , and put all sloth and sleep aside , Untill a wood I went alone , but + guide . Sweet was the smell of flowers white and red , The noise of birdés ...
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... land was then widely different from that of Eng- land , and of course any kind of poetry , in which terms familiar to the common ear were studiously avoided , could not be greatly successful . Of this Gawin Douglas , Bishop of Dunkeld ...
... land was then widely different from that of Eng- land , and of course any kind of poetry , in which terms familiar to the common ear were studiously avoided , could not be greatly successful . Of this Gawin Douglas , Bishop of Dunkeld ...
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... land , and lose its popularity , if recent writers , who use that dialect , could only be persuaded that vulgarisms are always to be avoided . INTRODUCTION . lxxi The following extract will , I think lxx INTRODUCTION .
... land , and lose its popularity , if recent writers , who use that dialect , could only be persuaded that vulgarisms are always to be avoided . INTRODUCTION . lxxi The following extract will , I think lxx INTRODUCTION .
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... land or sea , And , shortly , everything that doth repair In firth or field , flood , forest , earth , or air Or in the thickets , or the bushes rank , The lakes , the marshes , or their poolés dank . All settled , lying still to sleep ...
... land or sea , And , shortly , everything that doth repair In firth or field , flood , forest , earth , or air Or in the thickets , or the bushes rank , The lakes , the marshes , or their poolés dank . All settled , lying still to sleep ...
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amang Armstrang auld baith BATTLE OF HARLAW bauld Binnorie Blind Harry bonnie mill-dams Border bower castle Clerk Saunders copy dear Dickie Douglas doun e'en Earl Edom ELORE fair fast fause flowers frae gane gar'd Gil Morice gowd green gude lord hae ta'en hame hand Harlaw Helen horse Huntley Item John Johnie King Kingis command Kinmont Willie knee lady ladye laird Laird's Jock Liddesdale Lizie Lizie Lindsay mair maun meikle minstrels Minstrelsy mony MOTHER'S MALISON Motherwell Murray nane ne'er never night o'er ower owre poem poetry quoth rade recitation ride Scotland Scots Sir Patrick Spens Sir Walter Scott sister slain spake stanzas steed Syne thee Thomas thou toun trow twa sisters weel wife Willie winna xiiij Yarrow ye maun ye'll
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Page 111 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna...
Page 112 - I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood!" It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o
Page 2 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 48 - Then up and gat the seventh o' them, And never a word spake he ; But he has striped his bright brown brand Out through Clerk Saunders
Page 129 - Or wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true Love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.
Page 38 - He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 40 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms Burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! 0 think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak' nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell lea.
Page 1 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine ? " O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee : " Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor, That ever sailed the sea.
Page 51 - Is there ony room at your head, Saunders? Is there ony room at your feet? Or ony room at your side, Saunders, Where fain, fain, I wad sleep?
Page 46 - Walked ower yon garden green ; And sad and heavy was the love That fell thir twa between. 'A bed, a bed,' Clerk Saunders said, ' A bed for you and me !' 'Fye na, fye na,' said may Margaret,