Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date. Volume the First. [-third.].J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., 1765 |
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... should hunt in the other's borders , without leave from the proprietors or their deputies . There had long been a rivalship between the tro martial families of Percy and Douglas , which heightened by the national quarrel , must have ...
... should hunt in the other's borders , without leave from the proprietors or their deputies . There had long been a rivalship between the tro martial families of Percy and Douglas , which heightened by the national quarrel , must have ...
الصفحة 56
... should feem to have been written while a great part of Spain was in the hands of the Saracens or Moors : whose empire there was not fully extinguished before the year 1491 . The Mahometans are Spoken of in v . 49 , & c . just in the ...
... should feem to have been written while a great part of Spain was in the hands of the Saracens or Moors : whose empire there was not fully extinguished before the year 1491 . The Mahometans are Spoken of in v . 49 , & c . just in the ...
الصفحة 57
... should take a journey into another kingdom to vifit his miftrefs incog . was a piece of gallantry pa- ralleled in our own Charles I. but that king Adland should be found lolling or leaning at his gate ( v . 35. ) may be thought ...
... should take a journey into another kingdom to vifit his miftrefs incog . was a piece of gallantry pa- ralleled in our own Charles I. but that king Adland should be found lolling or leaning at his gate ( v . 35. ) may be thought ...
الصفحة 93
... should wend with thee . O ladye , thou with a knighte so true Mayft fafelye wend alone , To my ladye mother I will ... should fly ? 75 Ah ! well I wot , he never would rest , Nor his meate should doe him no goode , Till he had flayne ...
... should wend with thee . O ladye , thou with a knighte so true Mayft fafelye wend alone , To my ladye mother I will ... should fly ? 75 Ah ! well I wot , he never would rest , Nor his meate should doe him no goode , Till he had flayne ...
الصفحة 99
... to dif- cover . It contains however but too just a picture of the vio- lences practifed in the feudal times all over Europe . H 2 From From the different titles of this ballad , it should AND BALLAD S. 99 Edom o Gordon A Scottish Ballad.
... to dif- cover . It contains however but too just a picture of the vio- lences practifed in the feudal times all over Europe . H 2 From From the different titles of this ballad , it should AND BALLAD S. 99 Edom o Gordon A Scottish Ballad.
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Adam Bell agayne alfo ancient archar arrowes awaye ballad bowe caft Cauline Chrift Cloudeflè copy daughter daye dear doth Earl Douglas Earl Percy Edom English faft faid fair fame fave fayd faye fayre feems fene fett fhall fhee flaine flayne fome fong fonnes foon ftand ftanzas ftill fubject fuch fworde Garland Gilderoy greene willow hand hart hath heart houſe intitled king KING LEIR knight lady ladye lord Minstrels mither moft moſt muft muſt never noble Northumberland obferved Patrick Spence Percy Perfè perfon play poems poets praye prefent preferved quoth Robin Hood Scotland ſhall ſhe ſhould Theare thee thefe ther theſe theyr thofe thoſe thou thouſand thre unto whan whofe Whoſe willow wold wyfe wyll Wyllyam yemen youth zour
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الصفحة xxviii - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
الصفحة 201 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
الصفحة 220 - Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance, Age is full of care: Youth like summer morn, Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave, Age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame : Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
الصفحة 228 - His cheek was redder than the rose ; The comeliest youth was he ; But he is dead and laid in his grave ; Alas, and woe is me ! " " Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more ; Men were deceivers ever ; One foot on sea and one on land, To one thing constant never...
الصفحة 54 - OI hae killed my reid-roan steid, Mither, mither, OI hae killed my reid-roan steid, That erst was sae fair and frie O.
الصفحة 247 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
الصفحة 202 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy- buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move, To come to thee and be thy love.
الصفحة 269 - Content I live, this is my stay, I seek no more than may suffice; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo! thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.
الصفحة 101 - Nae sooner said the grace, Till Edom o' Gordon and his men, Were light about the place. The lady ran up to hir towir head, Sa fast as she could hie, To see if by her fair speeches She could wi
الصفحة 191 - IN Venice towne not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell.