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
| John Bell - Ballads, English - 1812 - 340 pages
...all ; A woeful hunting or.ce there did In Chevy Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and hots, Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is...hunting of that day. The stout earl of Northumberland A TOW to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take ; The chiefest... | |
| Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 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...Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scotish woods Three summer's days to take j The chiefest harts in Chevy-chase To kill and bear away... | |
| Robert Roscoe - Otterburn, Battle of, 1388, in literature - 1813 - 128 pages
...To drive the deere with hound and home, Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborne, The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scotish woods Three summer days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and beare away.... | |
| Robert Roscoe - Otterburn, Battle of, 1388, in literature - 1813 - 156 pages
...To drive the deere with hound and home, Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborne, The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scotish woods Three summer days to take ; The cheefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and beare away.... | |
| James Hogg - Epic poetry, Scottish - 1816 - 166 pages
...our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ! A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy Chace befall : To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took...child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! MADOR OF THE MOOR. CANTO FIRST. Bunting, i. Jrl ASTE, ranger, to the Atbol mountains blue ! Unleash... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...— • Life of Richard Savage, by Dr. Samuel Johnson, t Lord Chatham died May 1 1, 1778. BOOK IV. " To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy...child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day." A pretty basis truly, for a maudlin play! What ! shall a scribbling, senseless woman, dare To offer... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...greater .than either the thought or th« expression in that stanza, To drive the deer with hound and hora Earl Percy took his way ! The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...following quotations. What can be greater than either the thought or the expression in that stanza, To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took...child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day ! This way of considering the misfortunes which this battle would bring upon posterity, not only on... | |
| Richard Brathwaite - English poetry - 1822 - 236 pages
...woeful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Piercy took his way, The child may rue that is unborn The...to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods E primis Cerois Cheoiœ Casos abripere : Duglasium hae notitiae Adibant propere. Qui ore tenus delegat... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...following quotations. What can be greater than either the thought or the expression in that stanza, ' of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally rery innocent in itself, so it re U unborn The hunting of that day !' This way of considering the misfortunes which this tattle would... | |
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