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 |
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... Land , The Heir of Linne , The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall- Green , Sir Andrew Barton , Corin's Fate , King John and the Abbot of Canterbury , The Old and Young Courtier , The Baffled Knight , The Mar- riage of Sir Gawaine , King ...
... Land , The Heir of Linne , The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall- Green , Sir Andrew Barton , Corin's Fate , King John and the Abbot of Canterbury , The Old and Young Courtier , The Baffled Knight , The Mar- riage of Sir Gawaine , King ...
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... Land 214 • 217 219 . · 225 Hardyknute 226 Book EE . A Ballad of Luther , the Pope , a Cardinal , and a Husbandman 236 John Anderson my Jo 239 Little John Nobody . 239 Queen Elizabeth's Verses , while Prisoner at Woodstock . The Heir of ...
... Land 214 • 217 219 . · 225 Hardyknute 226 Book EE . A Ballad of Luther , the Pope , a Cardinal , and a Husbandman 236 John Anderson my Jo 239 Little John Nobody . 239 Queen Elizabeth's Verses , while Prisoner at Woodstock . The Heir of ...
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... land with him . His conversation is as a book ; you must speak upon the square with him . " Ritson treated the " Reliques " like the Roman Wall , and resented every emendation as a violation of truth . The key to his personal virulence ...
... land with him . His conversation is as a book ; you must speak upon the square with him . " Ritson treated the " Reliques " like the Roman Wall , and resented every emendation as a violation of truth . The key to his personal virulence ...
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... land since distin- guished by the name of Jutland , Angelen , and Holstein . The Jutes and Angles in particular , who composed two- thirds of the conquerors of Britain , were a Danish people , and their country at this day belongs to ...
... land since distin- guished by the name of Jutland , Angelen , and Holstein . The Jutes and Angles in particular , who composed two- thirds of the conquerors of Britain , were a Danish people , and their country at this day belongs to ...
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... lands assigned him for his maintenance.1 III . We have now brought the inquiry down to the Norman Conquest ; and as the Normans had been a late colony from Norway and Denmark , where the Scalds had arrived to the highest pitch of credit ...
... lands assigned him for his maintenance.1 III . We have now brought the inquiry down to the Norman Conquest ; and as the Normans had been a late colony from Norway and Denmark , where the Scalds had arrived to the highest pitch of credit ...
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Adam Bell ancient armes awaye ballad bonny brave bride busk castle Childe Waters court dame daughter daye dear death doth Douglas dragon Earl Edward England English Erle eyes fair fast father fayre fell fight gallant Gawaine gentle George gold grace greene Guenever hand hart hath head heart heire of Linne Honi soit honour John king Arthur knight kyng lady ladye land live lord maid Mary Ambree merry Minstrels never noble Percy poem praye 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 hast thou shalt unto weep wife willow wilt wold wyfe wyll Wyth yemen youth zour
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Page 108 - If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.
Page 159 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 43 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.' O our Scots nobles wer richt laith To weet their cork-heild schoone ; Bot lang owre a' the play wer playd, Thair hats they swam aboone.
Page 460 - Love wont to gae ! 1 leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bow'd, and syne it brak, Sae my true Love did lichtly me. O waly waly, but love be bonny A little time while it is new ; But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld And fades awa
Page 108 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 131 - 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 109 - 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 131 - Now God be with him, said our king, Sith it will noe better bee ; I trust I have, within my realme, Five hundred as good as hee...
Page 159 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen 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 336 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ; You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise?