 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 pages
...warden's men, arrayed for fight : 191 And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders lang and hie ; And five and five, like broken men ; And so they reached the Woodhouselee. And as we cross'd the Sateable Land, When to the English side we held, The first o' men that we met wi',... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...warden's men, array'd for fight : And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders lang and hie And five and five, like broken men ; And so they reach'd the Woodhousele«N And as we cross'd the Bateable Land, When to the English side we held, The... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 532 pages
...on epauld—Armour on shoulder. And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders lang and hie; And five and five, like broken men ; And so they reach'd the Woodhouselee. And as we cross'd the Bateable Land, When to the English side we held, The... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 534 pages
...warden's men, array'd for fight: And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders lang and hie ; And five and five, like broken men; And so they reach'd the Woodhouselee. And as we cross'd the Bateable Land, When to the English side we held, The... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...men arrayed for fight. And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders long and high ; And five and five, like broken men, — And so they reached the Woodhouselee. WILLIE OP KINMONT. And as we crossed the Bateable Land, When to the English side we held, The first... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Lake District (England) - 1846 - 318 pages
...the Eden we crossed, The water was great and mickle of spait But there never a man nor horse we lost. And when we reached the Staneshaw bank, The wind was rising loud and hie, And there the laird gar'd leave our steeds For fear that they should stamp and nie. And when we left the Staneshaw bank,... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - Folklore - 1852 - 328 pages
...for Carlisle town And at Staneshaw bank the Eden we crossed, The water was great and mickle of spait And when we reached the Staneshaw bank, The wind was rising loud and hie, And there the laird gar'd leave our steeds For fear that they should stamp and nie. And when we left the Staneshaw bank,... | |
 | University of Edinburgh - English essays - 1857 - 430 pages
...warden's men arrayed for fight. And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders lang and hie ; And five and five, like broken men, And so they reached the Woodhouselee. And as we crossed the Bateable land, When to the English side we held, The first o' men that we met wi',... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1859 - 312 pages
...warden's men, array'd for fight. And five and five, like a mason gang, That carried the ladders lang and hie ; And five and five, like broken men ; And so they reach'd the Woodhouselee. And as we cross'd the Bateable Land, When to the English side we held, The... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Ballads, English - 1859 - 416 pages
...Like Warden's men arrayed for fight. And five and five like a mason gang, That carried ladders lang and hie ; And five and five like broken men, And so they reached the Woodhouselee, And as we crossed the 'bateable land, When to the English side we held, " Where be ye gaun, ye hunters... | |
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Where be ye gaun, ye hunters keen, Quo' fause Sakelde, Come tell to me: We go to hunt an English stag, Has trespassed on the Scots countrie. 
