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Page 350 - ... with sword. And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou wert the meekest man, and the gentlest, that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 345 - ... anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder, that them thought the place should all to-drive. In the midst of this blast entered a sunbeam more clearer by seven times than ever they saw day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost. Then began every knight to behold other, and either saw other, by their seeming, fairer than ever they saw afore.
Page 319 - In our forefathers tyme, whan Papistrie, as a standyng poole, couered and ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, sauyng certaine bookes of Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries, by idle Monkes or wanton Chanons: as 'one for example, Morte Arthure...
Page 320 - This is good stuffe, for wise men to laughe at, or honest men to take pleasure at. Yet I know, when Gods Bible was banished the Court, and MORTE ARTHURE received into the Princes chamber.
Page 254 - Woodmans jacket he was clad Of Lincolne greene, belayd with silver lace ; And on his head an hood with aglets sprad, And by his side his hunters home he hanging had.
Page cv - ... century. The pages are divided into two columns, unless where the verses, being Alexandrine, occupy the whole breadth of the quarto. In two or three instances there occurs a variation of the handwriting ; but as the poems regularly follow each other, there is no reason to believe that such alterations indicate an earlier or later date than may be reasonably ascribed to the rest of the work ; although the Satire against Simonie, No. 44, seems rather in an older hand than the others, and may be...
Page 7 - WA8 at [Erceldoune :] With Tomas spak Y thare ; Ther herd Y rede in roune, Who Tristrem gat and bare. Who was king with croun ; And who him forsterd yare ; And who was bold baroun, As thair elders ware, Bi yere : — Tomas telles in toun, This auentours as thai ware.
Page cxxi - And stalworth man and hardi bo, Large and curteys he was also ; His fader was comen of King Pluto, And his moder of King Juno, That sum time were as godes yhold, For anentours that thai dede and tolde.
Page 346 - And there was all the hall fulfilled with good odours, and every knight had such meats and drinks as he best loved in this world. And when the Holy Grail had been borne through the hall, then the holy vessel departed suddenly, that they wist not where it became : then had they all breath to speak.
Page 322 - Faith, husband, and Ralph says true; for they say the King of Portugal cannot sit at his meat, but the giants and the ettins will come and snatch it from him.
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| Title | Sir Tristrem; a metrical romance, ed. by W. Scott |
| Author | Thomas (of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer.) |
| Editor | sir Walter Scott (bart) |
| Published | 1804 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
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