Old English ballads, a collection1864 |
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... upon the earth . Sometime I was of Warwicke erle , And , as I sayd , of very truth A ladyes love did me constraine To seeke strange ventures in my youth ; To win me fame by feates of armes In strange THE LEGEND OF SIR GUY ·
... upon the earth . Sometime I was of Warwicke erle , And , as I sayd , of very truth A ladyes love did me constraine To seeke strange ventures in my youth ; To win me fame by feates of armes In strange THE LEGEND OF SIR GUY ·
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... sayd : " O ladye , Ive been with thy own true love , And he greets thee well by mee ; This night will he bee at thy bowre - windowe , And dye or sette thee free . " Nowe daye was gone , and night was come , The Child of Elle . 13.
... sayd : " O ladye , Ive been with thy own true love , And he greets thee well by mee ; This night will he bee at thy bowre - windowe , And dye or sette thee free . " Nowe daye was gone , and night was come , The Child of Elle . 13.
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... sayd wee may . O give consent shee may be mine , And blesse a faithfull paire ; My lands and livings are not small , My house and lynage faire . My mother she was an earles daughter , And a noble knyght my sire- The baron he frownde ...
... sayd wee may . O give consent shee may be mine , And blesse a faithfull paire ; My lands and livings are not small , My house and lynage faire . My mother she was an earles daughter , And a noble knyght my sire- The baron he frownde ...
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... sayd , And gave her lillye hand ; " Here take my deare and only child , And with her half my land . Thy father once mine honour wrongde , In dayes of youthful pride ; Do thou the injurye repayre In fondnesse for thy bride . And as thou ...
... sayd , And gave her lillye hand ; " Here take my deare and only child , And with her half my land . Thy father once mine honour wrongde , In dayes of youthful pride ; Do thou the injurye repayre In fondnesse for thy bride . And as thou ...
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... sayd jollye Robin , " A sweaven § I had this night ; I dreamt me of two wight yemèn , That fast with me can 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 ...
... sayd jollye Robin , " A sweaven § I had this night ; I dreamt me of two wight yemèn , That fast with me can 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 ...
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Страница 260 - 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 248 - 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 237 - 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 90 - 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 265 - 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 252 - 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 247 - 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 87 - 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 44 - 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 224 - 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...