The Boy's Percy: Being Old Ballads of War, Adventure and Love from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Together with an Appendix Containing Two Ballads from the Original Percy Folio MS. |
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... eye Around the dreary waste ; and weeping try ( Though then , alas ! that trial be too late ) To find thy father's hospitable gate , And seats , where ease and plenty brooding sate ? Those seats , whence long excluded thou must mourn ...
... eye Around the dreary waste ; and weeping try ( Though then , alas ! that trial be too late ) To find thy father's hospitable gate , And seats , where ease and plenty brooding sate ? Those seats , whence long excluded thou must mourn ...
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... eyes busy in reconnoitering the enemy's position , and upon the knowledge thus gained , presently planned an attack which routed his foes ; of how , some sixty years afterwards , Danish King Anlaff plays the same trick upon Saxon King ...
... eyes busy in reconnoitering the enemy's position , and upon the knowledge thus gained , presently planned an attack which routed his foes ; of how , some sixty years afterwards , Danish King Anlaff plays the same trick upon Saxon King ...
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... eye - witnesses of the great exploits they were to celebrate . As to Estmere's riding into the hall while the kings were at table , this was usual in the ages of chivalry ; and even to this day we see a relic of this custom still kept ...
... eye - witnesses of the great exploits they were to celebrate . As to Estmere's riding into the hall while the kings were at table , this was usual in the ages of chivalry ; and even to this day we see a relic of this custom still kept ...
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... Cloudesly , " Yet hope I well to fare ; If I might have my hands at will , Right little would I care . ' 1 [ The Folio MS . has simple " eye . " 2 [ Slay ] . Then spake good Adam Bell To Clym of the Clough ADAM BELL . 53.
... Cloudesly , " Yet hope I well to fare ; If I might have my hands at will , Right little would I care . ' 1 [ The Folio MS . has simple " eye . " 2 [ Slay ] . Then spake good Adam Bell To Clym of the Clough ADAM BELL . 53.
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... eye . " But keep my counsel , Sir Cauline , Nor let no man it know ; For , and ever my father should it ken , I wot he would us sloe . " 111 From that day forth , that lady fair Loved Sir Cauline the knight : From that day forth , he ...
... eye . " But keep my counsel , Sir Cauline , Nor let no man it know ; For , and ever my father should it ken , I wot he would us sloe . " 111 From that day forth , that lady fair Loved Sir Cauline the knight : From that day forth , he ...
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abbot Adam Bell ancient anon archers arrow art thou ballad bold brave bonny lass carlish knight Carlisle castle Christ Clough Clym copy daughter dear doth Dub a dub Earl Douglas Earl of Murray Earl Percy Editor's folio Edom Eldridge England English fain fair Annet fair lady fast father fell fight gallant gold gone grim baron Guenever hand hanged hath heart heir of Linne King Arthur King Estmere king's lady fair land Lord Persè maid Mary Ambree merry merry England mither ne'er never noble Northumberland Nut-Brown Maid Percy's poem pray queen quoth rede ride Robin Hood rode sayd Scotland Scots Scottish shoot Sir Andrew Sir Cauline slain soon sore spear stand stanzas steed sword tanner tell thou art thou hast thou shalt took unto wife wight William of Cloudesly wood yeoman yonder
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Page 84 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long To the hard head haled he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The gray goose wing that was thereon In his heart's blood was wet. This fight did last from break of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rung the evening-bell The battle scarce was done.
Page 82 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Page 212 - With enemies day or night, I would withstand, with bow in hand, -. To grieve them as I might, /And you to save ; as women have / From death men many one ; For, in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone.
Page 79 - By whom this is denied." Then stepped a gallant squire forth, Witherington was his name, Who said, "I would not have it told To Henry, our king, for shame, "That e'er my captain fought on foot, And I stood looking on. You...
Page 307 - O these are hard questions for my shallow witt, Nor I cannot answer your grace as yet : But if you will give me but three weekes space, He do my endeavour to answer your grace."
Page 211 - I think not nay but as ye say; It is no maiden's lore; But love may make me for your sake, As...
Page 308 - I must give : That I have but three days more to live; For if I do not answer him questions three, My head will be smitten from my bodie.
Page 97 - The dougheti Dogglas on a stede He rode att his men beforne ; His armor glytteryde as dyd a glede ; A bolder barne was never born.
Page 85 - Rabby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 78 - And take your bows with speed: " And now with me, my countrymen, Your courage forth advance; For never was there champion yet, In Scotland or in France, " That ever did on horseback come, But if my hap it were, I durst encounter man for man, With him to break a spear.