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. 3Tauchnitz, 1866 - 356 pages |
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... De la Braunch is dismounted : the battle is renewed on foot : Sir William's sword breaks : he yields . Sir Lybius makes him swear to go and present himself to King Arthur , 18 ON THE ANCIENT The Sweet Neglect By Ben Jonson.
... De la Braunch is dismounted : the battle is renewed on foot : Sir William's sword breaks : he yields . Sir Lybius makes him swear to go and present himself to King Arthur , 18 ON THE ANCIENT The Sweet Neglect By Ben Jonson.
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... sword from one of the necromancers , and wounds the other with it : the edge of the sword being secretly poisoned , the wound proves mortal . PART IX . He He goes up to the surviving sorcerer , who is carried away from him by ...
... sword from one of the necromancers , and wounds the other with it : the edge of the sword being secretly poisoned , the wound proves mortal . PART IX . He He goes up to the surviving sorcerer , who is carried away from him by ...
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... sword Excalibar : Goe saddle mee my steede ; 45 Nowe , by my faye , that grimme baròne Shall rue this ruthfulle deede . And when he came to Tearne Wadlinge 50 Benethe the castle walle : " Come forth ; come forth ; thou proude baròne ...
... sword Excalibar : Goe saddle mee my steede ; 45 Nowe , by my faye , that grimme baròne Shall rue this ruthfulle deede . And when he came to Tearne Wadlinge 50 Benethe the castle walle : " Come forth ; come forth ; thou proude baròne ...
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... swords , and not razors , quickly shall trye , Whether he , or king Arthur will prove the best barbor ; And therewith he shook his good sword Escalà bor . * * * * * *** Strada , in his Prolusions , has ridiculed the story of the giant's ...
... swords , and not razors , quickly shall trye , Whether he , or king Arthur will prove the best barbor ; And therewith he shook his good sword Escalà bor . * * * * * *** Strada , in his Prolusions , has ridiculed the story of the giant's ...
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... sword drawne they shold see . And Mordred on the other parte , Twelve of his knights did likewise bringe ; 35 The best of all his companye , To hold the parley with the kinge . Sir Mordred alsoe charged his hoste , In readinesse there ...
... sword drawne they shold see . And Mordred on the other parte , Twelve of his knights did likewise bringe ; 35 The best of all his companye , To hold the parley with the kinge . Sir Mordred alsoe charged his hoste , In readinesse there ...
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