 | Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast. A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man. All made of...long; Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. Poly-Olbion, Song 26. To wound an antagonist in the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast. A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man, All made of...long; Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. Poly Olbion, Song 26. To wound an antagonist in the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 350 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast. A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man. All made of...long; Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. Poly-Olbion, Song 26. " they met at the sperre poyntes... | |
 | Walter Scott - Love poetry, Scottish - 1807 - 382 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast. A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man, All made of...long; Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. Poly Olbion, Song 26. To wound an antagonist in the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1808 - 352 pages
...arms their hlicafs were buckled fast, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man. All made of Spanish yew, their bows were wondious strong, They not an arrow drew but was a clothyard long Of archery they had the very perfect... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast, A short sword at their bell, a buckler scarce a span, \Vho struck below the knee not counted then a man. All made of...long. Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. Fie strak the Frenchman depe into the thygh. Wherwith... | |
 | Walter Scott - Clans - 1811 - 310 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast. A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man. All made of...; Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. •Pohj-Olblon, Song 2€ To wound an antagonist in... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1812 - 282 pages
...their sheafs were buckled last, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck bt-low the knee not counted then a man. All made of Spanish...They not an arrow drew, but was a clothyard long. Of iU-chtii'y they had the very perite t emit, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. To... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...were buckled fast, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span. Who struck below the knre nat counted then a man. All made of Spanish yew, their...wondrous strong, They not an arrow drew but was a cloth yard long; Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...arms their sheafs were buckled fast, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee not counted then a man. All made of...long-. Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft. To wound an antagonist in the thigh, or leg, was reckoned... | |
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below the knee, not counted then a man : All made of Spanish yew, their bows were wondrous strong; They not an arrow drew, but was a cloth-yard long. Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad-arrow, or butt, or prick, or roving shaft, 
