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" ... places of assembly, where the company shall be desirous to hear of old adventures and valiances* of noble knights in times past... "
The battle of Flodden-field, an heroic poem, collected from antient MSS., by ... - Page 4
by Flodden field - 1805
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The History of Chivalry Or Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 1

Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1825 - 838 pages
...or historical CHAP. rhymes. And in another place the same author — speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past. * The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary recreations which...
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The History of Chivalry: Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2

Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1825 - 404 pages
...or historical CHAP. rhymes. And in another place the same author — speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past. * The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary recreations which...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 17

Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...English tongue, in short and long metre, and by breaches or divisions, (ie fits) to be more commodiously sung to the harp, in places of assembly, where the...adventures and valiances of noble knights in times past, as those of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Bevis of Southampton], and others like."...
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The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...old romances or historical rhymes. And in another place the same author speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past. The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary recreations which...
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The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times

Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1844 - 256 pages
...old romances or historical rhymes. And in another place the same author speaks of companies that were desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past.f The domestic amusements of the age are thus enumerated by Burton : " The ordinary * Nicholls's....
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A Little book of songs and ballads, gathered from ancient musick books, MS ...

Edward Francis Rimbault - Ballads, English - 1851 - 304 pages
...English tongue, in short and long metre, and by breaches or divisions (ie fits), to be more commodiously sung to the harp, in places of assembly, where the...adventures and valiances of noble knights in times past, as those of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Bevis of Southampton, and others like."...
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, Volume 2, Part 2

Thomas Percy - 1867 - 706 pages
...locality to which the more touching part is attached. Puttenham, in his Art of Poetry (1589), speaks of " places of assembly where the company shall be desirous...valiances of noble knights in times past, as are those of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table — Sir Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwick, and others...
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Englische Studien, Volume 13

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1889 - 554 pages
...Great-Britaine, in short and long meeters; and by breaches or divisions to be more commodiously sung to the harpe in places of assembly, where the Company shall be desirous to hear of old adventures, and valiaunces of noble knights in times past; äs are those of king Arthur, and bis knights of the round...
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English Poetry and Poets

Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 518 pages
...recorded that long after, in the reign of Elizabeth, it was usual in places of assembly for the company to be desirous to hear of "old adventures, and valiances of noble knights in times past," as those of King Arthur, and his Knights of the Eound Table. When the Earl of Leicester entertained Queen...
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English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, Volume 10

William Henry Schofield - Comparative literature - 1906 - 522 pages
...from any other "romance of prys." Puttenham in 1589 attests that Guy and Beves were popular then at "places of assembly where the company shall be desirous...of old adventures and valiances of noble knights in time past " ; but these were not the castles of the land. He mentions the two among other works as...
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