 And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. 'Let me have length and breadth enough, With a green sod under my head ; That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold...  English and Scottish Ballads - Page 312edited by - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 380 pages
...enough, With a green sod under my head ; That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood, These words they readily promis'd him, Which did bold...bold Robin Hood, Near to the fair Kirkleys. ROBIN HOOD'S EPITAPH. Set on his Tomb by the Prioress of Birkslay Monastery, in Yorkshire. JlvoBiN, Earl... | |
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 554 pages
...enough, With a green sod under my head ; That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood. , These words they readily promis'd him, Which did bold...Robin please ; And there they buried bold Robin Hood, to the fair Kirkleys. ROBIN HOOD'S EPITAPH. Set on his Tomb by the Ptiares of Monastery, in YoritshiiE.... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1826 - 128 pages
...head, That they may say when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood. These words they readily promised him, Which did bold Robin please; And there they buried bold Robin Hood Near to the fair Kirkleys. XXX.—ROBIN HOOD'S EPITAPH. PJear itn&ernea'li tii» laftl »tean laij roftett rart of f^untingtun... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - Robin Hood (Legendary character) - 1832 - 640 pages
...impertinent and corrupt. '•'. might read : That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood. These words they readily promis'd him, Which did bold...buried bold Robin Hood, Near to the fair Kirkleys. eo APPEND1X. THE PLAYE OF ROBYN HODE is printed by Copland at the end of his edition of the " **~ geste,"... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - Ballads, English - 1844 - 178 pages
...enough, With a green sod under my head, That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood.' These words they readily promis'd him, Which did bold...buried bold Robin Hood, Near to the fair Kirkleys. SIR JAMES THE ROSE. THE author of this interesting ballad was Michael Bruce, a Scotchman, who died... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - Ballads, English - 1847 - 498 pages
...neatly put, Sweet as the green-wood tree. That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood. These words they readily promis'd him, Which did bold...buried bold Robin Hood, Near to the fair Kirkleys. ' -- ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WYLLYAM OF CLOUDESLE. IT is singular, that Mr. Ritson should... | |
 | Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1847 - 690 pages
...Robin Hood, pp. xliv — 1. Robin Hood's Death and Burial is the last Ballad in the second volume. " And there they buried bold Robin Hood, Near to the fair Kirkleys." 411 recognized the features of the .wife of their own clergyman, — who having been married to him... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1847 - 762 pages
...dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood.» These words they readily promised him, Which did bold Robin pleaee : And there they buried bold Robin Hood, Near to the fair Kirkleys. The following ballad is an additional proof of Robin Hood's popularity in Scotland. Mr. Chalmers f... | |
 | John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...collecting them in a body before the house, swimming the whole through the water.* Sltrfilcea, co. ".And there they buried bold Robin Hood Near to the fair Kirkleys." OLD BALLAD. KIEELEES ABBEY, situated in the woods between Halifax and Wakefield, in the deanery of... | |
 | Bernard Burke - England - 1848 - 268 pages
...collecting them in a body before the house, swimming the whole through the water.* , co. f)ortt. " And there they buried bold Robin Hood Near to the fair Kirkleys." OLD BALLAD. KIRKLBES ABBEY, situated in the woods between Halifax and Wakefield, in the deanery of... | |
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