Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some Few of Later Date: By Thomas Percy. Edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated by Edward CorbouldG. Routledge and Sons, 1857 - 610 pages |
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... awaye , He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght In hys londe another daye . Yet had I lever to be rynde and rente , 1 By Mary that mykel maye ; 5 Than ever my manhod schulde be reprovyd With a Skotte another daye . Wherfore schote ...
... awaye , He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght In hys londe another daye . Yet had I lever to be rynde and rente , 1 By Mary that mykel maye ; 5 Than ever my manhod schulde be reprovyd With a Skotte another daye . Wherfore schote ...
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... awaye . Ther was slayne upon the Ynglysshe syde , For soth and sertenlye , A gentell knyght , Sir John Fitz - hughe , Yt was the more petye.3 Syr James Harebotell ' ther was slayne , For hym ther hartes were sore , The gentyll Lovelle ...
... awaye . Ther was slayne upon the Ynglysshe syde , For soth and sertenlye , A gentell knyght , Sir John Fitz - hughe , Yt was the more petye.3 Syr James Harebotell ' ther was slayne , For hym ther hartes were sore , The gentyll Lovelle ...
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... Awaye , awaye : I sweare , as I am the hend soldan , Thou lettest me here all daye . Then forthe the stranger knight he came In his blacke armoure dight : The ladye sighed a gentle sighe , 66 That this were my true knighte ! " And nowe ...
... Awaye , awaye : I sweare , as I am the hend soldan , Thou lettest me here all daye . Then forthe the stranger knight he came In his blacke armoure dight : The ladye sighed a gentle sighe , 66 That this were my true knighte ! " And nowe ...
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... awaye . 1 But - unless . " Dr. Percy adds improperly in the next line or else . ' ought to be some such phrase as Bot doubt . " - Finlay . 2 Thrall - captivity . 3 Spille - come to harm . It 4 From the earliest times , among all the ...
... awaye . 1 But - unless . " Dr. Percy adds improperly in the next line or else . ' ought to be some such phrase as Bot doubt . " - Finlay . 2 Thrall - captivity . 3 Spille - come to harm . It 4 From the earliest times , among all the ...
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... awaye . Although itt is seven yeers and more Since my daughter was in halle , She shall come once downe for your sake To glad my guestès alle . Downe then came that mayden fayre , With ladyes laced in pall , And halfe a hundred of bold ...
... awaye . Although itt is seven yeers and more Since my daughter was in halle , She shall come once downe for your sake To glad my guestès alle . Downe then came that mayden fayre , With ladyes laced in pall , And halfe a hundred of bold ...
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Adam Bell ancient awaye ballad bonny brave bride busk castle Child Waters cloth Coloured crown dame daughter daye dear death doth Douglas dragon Earl Edition Edward England English Erle fair fast father fayre Fcap gallant Gawaine gentle George gilt gold grace greene Guenever hand hart hath head heart heire of Linne honour Illustrations John king king Arthur knight kyng lady ladye land lord maid Mary Ambree Minstrels never noble Percy poem praye pretty Bessee prince queene quoth Robin ryde sayd sayes Scotland Scottish shee shold Sing sir Aldingar slaine slayne song sonne soon sore sorrow stanza sweet sword teares tell thee ther thou art thou shalt unto weep wife willow wilt wold wood wyfe wyll Wyth yemen youth zour