Old English ballads, a collection1864 |
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... fights and deeds of arms , All others did excel . When he had rested him a while , To play , to game , and sport , He thought he would go try himself , In some adventurous sort . He armed rode in forest wide , And met a damsel fair ...
... fights and deeds of arms , All others did excel . When he had rested him a while , To play , to game , and sport , He thought he would go try himself , In some adventurous sort . He armed rode in forest wide , And met a damsel fair ...
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... fight . An English man I was by birthe : In faith of Christ a christyan true : The wicked lawes of infidells I sought by prowesse to subdue . Nine ' hundred twenty yeere and odde After our Saviour Christ his birth , When King Athèlstone ...
... fight . An English man I was by birthe : In faith of Christ a christyan true : The wicked lawes of infidells I sought by prowesse to subdue . Nine ' hundred twenty yeere and odde After our Saviour Christ his birth , When King Athèlstone ...
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... fight The emperours daughter of Almaine , From manye a vallyant worthye knight . Then passed I the seas to Greece , To helpe the emperour in his right , Against the mightye souldan's hoaste Of puissant Persians for to fight : Where I ...
... fight The emperours daughter of Almaine , From manye a vallyant worthye knight . Then passed I the seas to Greece , To helpe the emperour in his right , Against the mightye souldan's hoaste Of puissant Persians for to fight : Where I ...
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... fight destroye , Which did bothe man and beast oppresse , And all the countrye sore annoye . At length to Warwicke I did come , Like pilgrim poore , and was not knowne ; And there I lived a hermitt's life A mile and more out of the ...
... fight destroye , Which did bothe man and beast oppresse , And all the countrye sore annoye . At length to Warwicke I did come , Like pilgrim poore , and was not knowne ; And there I lived a hermitt's life A mile and more out of the ...
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... fight . Methought they did mee beate and binde , And tooke my bowe mee froe ; Iff I be Robin alive in this lande , ** Ile be wroken on them towe . " " Sweavens are swift , master , " quoth John , " As the wind that blowes ore a hill ...
... fight . Methought they did mee beate and binde , And tooke my bowe mee froe ; Iff I be Robin alive in this lande , ** Ile be wroken on them towe . " " Sweavens are swift , master , " quoth John , " As the wind that blowes ore a hill ...
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Страница 262 - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day ; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear; Hounds are in their couples yelling. Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they: Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Страница 250 - THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.
Страница 239 - By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands. Crown'd with the ears of corn, now come, And, to the pipe, sing harvest home.
Страница 92 - My maids, gae to my dressing-room. And dress to me my smock ; The one half is o the holland fine, The other o needle-work.
Страница 267 - Which may be ours another day ; And therefore let's be merry. The client now his suit forbears, The prisoner's heart is eased. The debtor drinks away his cares, And for the time is pleased. Though others...
Страница 254 - The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The...
Страница 249 - I in these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice...
Страница 89 - LORD THOMAS and Fair Annet Sate a' day on a hill ; Whan night was cum, and sun was sett, They had not talkt their fill. 2 Lord Thomas said a word in jest, Fair Annet took it ill : ' A, I will nevir wed a wife Against my ain friends
Страница 46 - What is thy name?" then said Robin Hood, "Come tell me, without any fail." "By the faith of my body," then said the young man, "My name it is Allin a Dale.
Страница 226 - Twixt one another secretly : I mark their gloze, And it disclose To them whom they have wronged so : When I have done, I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho, ho, ho ! When men do traps and engines...