Chevy Chase,: A Poem. Founded on the Ancient Ballad..T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 108 pages |
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... honour'd feet , With fawning love their master greet ; And high yon steed his dark mane throws , As forth the stout Earl Percy goes . To horse ! to horse ! -mov'd man and steed With hurrying haste and eager speed ; While Percy , clad in ...
... honour'd feet , With fawning love their master greet ; And high yon steed his dark mane throws , As forth the stout Earl Percy goes . To horse ! to horse ! -mov'd man and steed With hurrying haste and eager speed ; While Percy , clad in ...
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... with heat and foul with stain , His black'ning mouth and swelling vein , Betray his fears and inward pain . Tam'd is his pride , and humbled low The branching honours of his brow , His glory once , a burden now , As on THE CHASE . 13.
... with heat and foul with stain , His black'ning mouth and swelling vein , Betray his fears and inward pain . Tam'd is his pride , and humbled low The branching honours of his brow , His glory once , a burden now , As on THE CHASE . 13.
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... light esteem , 6 Content to let the bravest bleed 6 6 6 At will of friend or foeman's need . And much I fear , that warlike lord Forfeits for once his plighted word , 6 C On honour of a true - born knight E 2 THE RENCOUNTER. ...
... light esteem , 6 Content to let the bravest bleed 6 6 6 At will of friend or foeman's need . And much I fear , that warlike lord Forfeits for once his plighted word , 6 C On honour of a true - born knight E 2 THE RENCOUNTER. ...
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... honour of a true - born knight To meet me here ere fall of night : • For well it might my purpose suit 6 To challenge here his brisk salute , · And welcome him with greeting warm , As best becomes a soldier's arm . ' He paus'd - At once ...
... honour of a true - born knight To meet me here ere fall of night : • For well it might my purpose suit 6 To challenge here his brisk salute , · And welcome him with greeting warm , As best becomes a soldier's arm . ' He paus'd - At once ...
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... honour's pledge ; I'll prove it with my sword's keen edge , For life or death .'- With angry frown , He dash'd his heavy gauntlet down . That warlike gage , as soon as flung , The Percy seiz'd.— ' Accurs'd the tongue , 6 Accurs'd the ...
... honour's pledge ; I'll prove it with my sword's keen edge , For life or death .'- With angry frown , He dash'd his heavy gauntlet down . That warlike gage , as soon as flung , The Percy seiz'd.— ' Accurs'd the tongue , 6 Accurs'd the ...
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alfo Algernon ancient ballad arms arrow Battle of Otterbourne beneath blood born captayns Castle charger Cheviot CHEVY CHASE Chevy-Chase chieftain Chyviat daugh daughter death deer Duke Duke of Brabant Earl Douglas Earl of March Earl of Northumber Earl of Northumberland Earl Percy Edward England English archers faid fhould fight flain fon and heir Ford Castle fucceeded gallant Geffery green-wood hand hart heart himſelf holy hondrith honour hound hunting Jofceline John King Henry King's knight Lady Elifabeth land left iffue Lord Percy lord Persè loud married Michael's Mount Montgomery never noble o'er Otterbourne owar Parliament Percy's poem Queen Ralph reign Robert of Scotland rock sayd Scarce Scotland Scots Scottish shaft Sir Hugh slain slayne Somerfet spear steed thee ther Thomas thorowe thou thro throng thumberland took uppone Warkworth wear wife William William de Percy wold woods wyll
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Page 97 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 92 - To have savyde thy lyffe I wolde have pertyde with My landes for years thre, For a better man, of hart nare of hande, Was not in all the north centre.
Page 98 - Did to the woods resort, With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well, in time of need, To aim their shafts aright.
Page 91 - I tolde it the beforne, That I wolde never yeldyde be To no man of a woman born.
Page 106 - 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 104 - Against Sir Hugh Montgomery *So right the shaft he set, The gray goose wing that was thereon In his heart's blood was wet. This fight did last from break of day Till setting of the sun ; For when they rung the evening-bell, The battle scarce was done.
Page 105 - I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Page 80 - ... me ; and I will most willingly do all that you command me with the utmost loyalty .in my power ; never doubt it, however I may feel myself unworthy of such a high distinction.
Page 96 - Over castill, towar, and town. This was the hontynge off the Cheviat ; That tear begane this spurn : Old men that knowen the grownde well yenoughe, Call it the Battell of Otterburn.
Page 79 - My dear friend, Lord James Douglas, you know that I have had much to do, and have suffered many troubles, during life, to support the rights of my crown. At the time that I was most occupied, I made a vow, the non-accomplishment of which gives me much uneasiness : I vowed that, if I could finish my wars in such a manner that I might have quiet to govern peaceably, I would go and make war against the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ and the adversaries of the Christian faith. To this point my heart...