 | 1906 - 594 pages
...from ' Rookhope Ryde ' being the only exception we remember. The allusion is to Border thieves : ' But yet we will not slander them all, For there is of them good enow ; It is a sore consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough.' With ' And such a storm amongst... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - Songs, English - 1810 - 232 pages
...Thirlwa' 'nd Willie-haver,* And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And as their stealing stands not out. But yet we will not...consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough. * Thirlwall or Thirlitwall is sayed by Fordun, th« Scotish historian, to be a name given to the Picts... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...man of Thirlwall and Willie-haver, And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will...is of them good enough ; It is a sore consumed tree Lord God ! is not this a pitiful case, That men dare not drive their goods to the fell, But linuner... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 534 pages
...man of Thirlwall and Willie-haver, And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will...is of them good enough ; It is a sore consumed tree Lord God ! is not this a pitiful case, That men dare not drive their goods to the fell, But limmcr... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 532 pages
...man of Thirlwall and Willie-haver, And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will...is of them good enough ; It is a sore consumed tree Lord God ! is not this a pitiful case, ' That men dare not drive their goods to the fell, But limmer... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...Thirl wall * and Willie-haver.t And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will not slander them all, For there is of them good enow ; It is a sore consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough. Lord God ! is not this a pitiful... | |
 | Sir Cuthbert Sharp - Ballads - 1834 - 110 pages
...Thirlwall -j- and Willie-haver, J And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will not slander them all, For there is of them good enow ; It is a sore consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough. Lord God ! is not this a pitiful... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...of Thirlwall1 and Willie-haver, * And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will not slander them all, For there is of them good enow ; It is a sore consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough. Lord God ! is not this a pitiful... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...ofThirlwall * and Willie-haver, t And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to id> mischief, And at their stealing stands not out. But yet we will not slander them all, For there is of them good enow ; It is a sore consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough. Lord God ! is not this n pitiful... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1844 - 858 pages
...Willeva, and Spear Edom, And ren the mom they meet them a'." ' That is minded to do mischief, And as their stealing stands not out. But yet we will not...good enough ; It is a sore consumed tree That on it hears not one fresh bough. Lord God ! is not this a pitiful case, That men dare not drive their goods... | |
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ROOKHOPE stands in a pleasant place, If the false thieves wad let it be, But away they steal our goods apace, And ever an ill death may they dee ! And so is the man of Thirlwall and Willie-haver, And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do... 
