Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other PiecesThomas Percy |
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... Youth and Age , by Shakspeare 17 The Frolick some Duke , or the ' Tinker's Good Fortune 18 The Friar of Orders Gray 135 135 137 • worth 16 As ye came from the Holy Land 17 Hardyknute . A Scottish Fragment . Sir J. Bruce . By • 203 · 197 ...
... Youth and Age , by Shakspeare 17 The Frolick some Duke , or the ' Tinker's Good Fortune 18 The Friar of Orders Gray 135 135 137 • worth 16 As ye came from the Holy Land 17 Hardyknute . A Scottish Fragment . Sir J. Bruce . By • 203 · 197 ...
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... youth , who was also his son - in - law . The Welsh , alarmed at the approach of this rabble , supposing them to be a regular body of armed and disciplined veterans , instantly raised the siege and retired . " For this good service ...
... youth , who was also his son - in - law . The Welsh , alarmed at the approach of this rabble , supposing them to be a regular body of armed and disciplined veterans , instantly raised the siege and retired . " For this good service ...
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... youths , to supply vacancies by death among the King's Minstrels : in which it is expressly directed that they shall be elegant in their limbs , as well as instructed in the Minstrel art , wherever they can be found , for the so- lace ...
... youths , to supply vacancies by death among the King's Minstrels : in which it is expressly directed that they shall be elegant in their limbs , as well as instructed in the Minstrel art , wherever they can be found , for the so- lace ...
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... youth , to the ancient Rimeurs , it is plain they exerted their skill in rhyme . As for King Adenes , or Adenez ( whose name in the first passage above is corruptly printed Adams ) , he is recorded in the " Bi- bliothèques des Romans ...
... youth , to the ancient Rimeurs , it is plain they exerted their skill in rhyme . As for King Adenes , or Adenez ( whose name in the first passage above is corruptly printed Adams ) , he is recorded in the " Bi- bliothèques des Romans ...
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... youth , 170 To rest his wearye feet , He found his daughter and Syr Cauline There sette in daliaunce sweet . 10 To be my batchilere , Ile promise if thee I may not wedde I will have none other fere . Then shee held forthe her lilly ...
... youth , 170 To rest his wearye feet , He found his daughter and Syr Cauline There sette in daliaunce sweet . 10 To be my batchilere , Ile promise if thee I may not wedde I will have none other fere . Then shee held forthe her lilly ...
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Page 473 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume...
Page 160 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 473 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 144 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 281 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Page 127 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields. A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs — All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 127 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 126 - Come live with me, and be my love. And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Page 127 - And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield! There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 473 - I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied ; — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; — And now I am come with this lost love of mine To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine ; There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.