 GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.  Old Nursery songs, stories, and ballads - Page 3by Old nursery songs - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Eola Willis - Theater - 1924 - 483 pages
...perform This evening, February 13th, Miss Hannah More's Tragedy of PERCY, Or, the Fatal Cheviot Chase; "To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy...way; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of the day." Chevy Chase. Percy (Earl of Northumberland) Mr. Bignall Earl Raby, Mr. West Edric, Mr. Courtney... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 1100 pages
...our noble king, Oar lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took...Three summer days to take, — The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away. These tidings to Earl Douglas came, In Scotland where he lay ; Who... | |
 | Franklin Pierce Adams, Deems Taylor, John Ernest Bechdolt - Amusements - 1925 - 278 pages
...our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way; The child may rue that is unborn The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Social Science - 2004 - 292 pages
...his way, The child may rue that is unhorne The hunting of that day. The stout Erie of Nor1humherland 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 hear away. These tidings to Erie Douglas came, In Scotland... | |
 | Rüdiger Singer - Ballads - 2006 - 384 pages
...angeführten Charakteristika romantischer Wildheit in weit höherem Grade. Zum Vergleich die erste Strophe: The stout Earl of Northumberland, A Vow to God did make, His pleasures in the Scottish Woods Three Summer's Days to take. 549 THE Perse owt of Northombarlande,... | |
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