On Friar Rush and the frolicsome elves. Observations on Dunlop's History of fiction. On the history and transmission of popular stories. On the poetry of history. Adventures of Hereward the Saxon. The story of Eustace the monk. The history of Fulke Fitz Warine. On the popular cycle of the Robin Hood ballads. The conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans. On old English political songs. On the Scottish poet DunbarJ.R. Smith, 1846 - English literature |
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... forest for Robin Goodfellow : such boors as Godric's devil were not confined to the twelfth century . Godric judged of the nature of his visiter by the smell which he left behind him , but to us the colour of his coat tells what class ...
... forest for Robin Goodfellow : such boors as Godric's devil were not confined to the twelfth century . Godric judged of the nature of his visiter by the smell which he left behind him , but to us the colour of his coat tells what class ...
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... forest , is there visited by his father , who according to the fashion of the time is called Oberon , and who makes known to him his origin and his power of transforming himself to what shape he will , a power which he delays not to put ...
... forest , is there visited by his father , who according to the fashion of the time is called Oberon , and who makes known to him his origin and his power of transforming himself to what shape he will , a power which he delays not to put ...
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... forest , whither he had retired to await the result of his signal . Hereward's historian has taken no small pride in recording the names of the most distin- guished of these brave men who joined the last of their ancient lords in ...
... forest , whither he had retired to await the result of his signal . Hereward's historian has taken no small pride in recording the names of the most distin- guished of these brave men who joined the last of their ancient lords in ...
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... wealthy of his companions into the deep recesses of their forest home , where it was in vain to pursue them , and they only released their captives on the payment of heavy ransoms . From the abbot of HEREWARD THE SAXON . 115.
... wealthy of his companions into the deep recesses of their forest home , where it was in vain to pursue them , and they only released their captives on the payment of heavy ransoms . From the abbot of HEREWARD THE SAXON . 115.
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... forest in search of the depredator . But Eustace had gone to a small hamlet , where he put Moriel in a place of safety and secrecy ; and then changed his habit , putting a linen cap on his head , and carrying a club on his shoulder . In ...
... forest in search of the depredator . But Eustace had gone to a small hamlet , where he put Moriel in a place of safety and secrecy ; and then changed his habit , putting a linen cap on his head , and carrying a club on his shoulder . In ...
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Page 91 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 286 - Like a young courtier of the king's, And the king's young courtier. Like a flourishing young gallant, newly come to his land, Who keeps a brace of painted madams at his command, And takes up a thousand pound upon his father's land, And gets drunk in a tavern, till he can neither go nor stand ; Like a young courtier, &c.
Page 187 - IN somer, when the shawes be sheyne, And leves be large and long, Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song: To se the dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee, And shadow hem in the lev s grene, Vnder the grene-wode tre.
Page 286 - And an old frize coat, to cover his worship's trunk hose, And a cup of old sherry, to comfort his copper nose; Like an old courtier, &c.
Page 286 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate.
Page 219 - Ireland, written apparently at the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, and...
Page 269 - The Kyng of Alemaigne wende do ful wel, He saisede the mulne for a castel, With hare sharpe swerdes he grounde the stel, He wende that the sayles were mangonel To helpe Wyndesore, Richard, thah thou be ever, &c. The Kyng of Alemaigne gederede ys host, Makede him a castel of a mulne post, Wende with is prude, ant is muchele bost, Brohte from Alemayne mony sori gost To store Wyndesore.
Page 38 - Ten pounds, quoth he, I will give thee, sweet Neece, with all my heart, So thou wilt grant to me thy love, to ease my troubled heart. Then let me a writing have, quoth he, from your owne hand with speed, That I may marry my sweet-heart when I have done this deed.
Page 95 - And thou touche his head or gowne, In syght that men may se, By all the sayntes that be in heaven, I shall hange you all thre.