The Boy's Book of Ballads |
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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 spake more words than these , Fight on , my merry men all ; For why , my life is at an end ...
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 spake more words than these , Fight on , my merry men all ; For why , my life is at an end ...
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Adam Bell Alice archer arrow bear better blow bold brave bring called Carlisle Childe Cloudesly Clough Clym dear Earl Earl Douglas Emmeline fair faith fast father fellow fight forest friar gates give gold gone grace grant green ground hand hanged hath head hear heart heir of Linne hill hold horse hundred hunting John justice king king's knight lady laid Lancelot land leave Little John lives looked lord merry miller never noble Percy pollaxe pray quoth rest ride Robin Hood sheriff shoot shot side Sir Andrew slain soon stand stood sword tanner tell thee Thou art thou hast thou shalt thought tidings TILDEN took town tree true twenty unto wife William of Cloudesly wilt wood yeomen yonder young
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Страница 73 - Percy present word He would prevent his sport. The English Earl, not fearing that, Did to the woods resort With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Страница 81 - So thus did both these nobles die, Whose courage none could stain : An English archer then...
Страница 77 - 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...
Страница 82 - And with Sir George and stout Sir James, Both knights of good account, Good Sir Ralph Raby 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.
Страница 147 - COME listen to me, you gallants so free, All you that love mirth for to hear, And I will tell you of a bold outlaw, That lived in Nottinghamshire. As Robin Hood in the forest stood, All under the green-wood tree...
Страница 135 - fore our father the pope. Now welcome, sire abbot, the king he did say, Tis well thou'rt come back to keep thy day ; For and if thou canst answer my questions three, Thy life and thy living both saved shall be.
Страница 76 - Ere thus I will out-braved be, One of us two shall die. I know thee well; an earl thou art, Lord Percy, so am I. " But trust me, Percy, pity it were, And great offence, to kill Any of these our guiltless men, For they have done no ill. "Let thou and I the battle try, And set our men aside."— "Accursed be he," Earl Percy said,
Страница 98 - The heir of Linne is full of gold : And come with me, my friends, said he, Let's drink, and rant, and merry make, And he that spares, ne'er mote he thee...
Страница 135 - 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.
Страница 83 - Did with Earl Douglas die ; Of twenty hundred Scottish spears, Scarce fifty-five did fly. Of fifteen hundred Englishmen, Went home but fifty-three ; The rest in Chevy-Chase were slain, Under the greenwood tree.
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| Заглавие | The Boy's Book of Ballads Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| Илюстрации от | John Gilbert |
| Издател | D. Appleton & Company, 1861 |
| Оригиналът е от | Нюйоркската обществена библиотека |
| Цифровизирана на | 14 Дек 2006 |
| Брой страници | 187 страници |
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