 Ye lie, ye lie, ye liar loud ! Sae loud I hear ye lie : For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 1271859Full view - About this book
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1859 - 344 pages
...not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, When Percy... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1858 - 348 pages
...not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...of the Otterburn Shall be thy morning fee." " But I hae dreamed -a dreary dream, Ayont the Isle o' Skye, — I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his gnde braidsword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the hewment strong, That... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...bower of the Otterburn Shall be thy morning fee." " But I hae dreamed a dreary dream, Ayont the Isle o' Skye,— I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his gude braidsword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the hewment strong, That... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 584 pages
...bower of the Otterburu Shall be thy morning fee." " But I hae drtamed a dreary dream, Ayont the Isle o' Skye, — I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his gude braidsword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the hewment strong, That... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1860 - 338 pages
...not men yestreen To dight my men and me. " But I have dream'da dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran; But he forgot the helmet good, When Percy... | |
 | William Motherwell - Ballads, Scots - 1864 - 380 pages
...men yestreen, To dight my men and me. " But I hae dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his good braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should... | |
 | Alexander Smith - Scotland - 1865 - 440 pages
...for some centuries. Douglas, on the morning of Otterbourne, according to the ballad, was shaken with superstitious fears : — " But I hae dreamed a dreary...win a fight, And I think that man "was I." Then the whole country is full of stories of the Norwegian times and earlier, — stories it might be worth... | |
 | Alexander Smith - Highland Region (Scotland) - 1865 - 336 pages
...Otterbourne, according to the ballad, was shaken with superstitious fears:—• " But I hae dream'da dreary dream— Beyond the Isle of Skye, I saw a dead...win a fight, And I think that man was I." Then the whole country is full of stories of the Norwegian times and earlier—stories it might be worth Dr... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1866 - 420 pages
...morning of Otterbourne, according to the ballad, was shaken unto superstitious fears i — " But I hac dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye ;...Dasent's while to take note of, should he ever visit the rainy Hebrides. One such legend, concerning Ossian and his poems, struck me a good deal. Near Mr.... | |
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