 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.  Chevy Chase - Page 99by Robert Roscoe - 1813 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1873 - 838 pages
...Cheviot within dayes thre, lu the mauger of doughty Dougles, And all that ever with him be," Becomes, " The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish wooda Three summer days to take," &c. From this, and other examples of the same kind, of which... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 62 pages
...6d. per day : how much will it amount to in a solar year (365days 5hrs. 48m.)? Fi Write and learn : The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Tu. M. Write and learn: — Who sent Earl Percy present word, He would prevent his sport.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...: To drive the deer witk hound and horse Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take ; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1895 - 436 pages
...Erie Percy took his way, The child may rue that is unborne The hunting of that day. The stout Erie of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy Chase To kill and bear away.... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - Ballads, English - 1896 - 344 pages
...befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy 2 took his way; The child may rue that is unborn 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 — 1 Chev'y-Chase: that is, the hunt among the Chev'i-ot... | |
 | Ballads - 1896 - 168 pages
...our noble King, Our lives and safeties all; A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy Chase befall. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods The chiefest harts in Chevy Chase To kill and bear away.— The tidings to Earl Douglas... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 pages
...poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas ? — The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take. With fifteen hundred bowmen bold. All chosen men of might,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...Erie Percy took his way ; j.'he child may rue that is unborne The hunting of that day. The stout Erie of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summers days to take; The cheefest harts in Chevy Chace To kill and beare away... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 454 pages
...Erle Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborne The hunting of that day. The stout Erie of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summers days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy Chace To kill and beare away... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 476 pages
...poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas? — "The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take. "With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might.... | |
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