Old English ballads, a selection from Percy, Ritson, and other sourcesH.G. Clarke & Company, 1848 - 168 من الصفحات |
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Allin art thou awaye bairns baron blood bold Robin bonny bride butcher castle Charles Murray Chevy-Chace child Cordelia court cried dailye dale dame daughter dead dear deer doth Erle Douglas Erle Percy fair lady Faire Emmeline father feast foot-page forest gallant gentle gold and fee grave grief Haddon height hand hast hath heard heart heire of Linne hill holy horn jolly Robin KING LEIR lady ladye land let it bee Little John lonely look'd Lord of Linne Lord William love's maid maiden merrily merry mother ne'er never noble o'er Outlaw pale pilgrim boy pretty babes quoth Red-Cross Knight Robin Hood Rosabelle rung shafts sheriff shone sighed Sir Hugh Montgomery Sir Valentine slaine sorrow spake spere stay steed stream sung sweet tears thine thou shalt true love Twas unto weep wend wild wold wood Yarrow young youth
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الصفحة 139 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
الصفحة 157 - The green-wood path to meet her brother : They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the forest thorough ; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow...
الصفحة 6 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
الصفحة 156 - THY braes were bonny, Yarrow stream, When first on them I met my lover ; Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream, When now thy waves his body cover ! For ever now, O Yarrow stream ! Thou art to me a stream of sorrow ; For never on thy banks shall I Behold my love, the flower of Yarrow.
الصفحة 75 - then said Robin Hood, " Come tell me without any fail." " By the faith of my body ! " then said the young man,
الصفحة 21 - God knows what will become of them, When I am dead and gone.
الصفحة 104 - In what I did let me be made Example to all men. I will return again, quoth he, Unto my Ragan's court ; She will not use me thus, I hope, But in a kinder sort.
الصفحة 8 - And now with me, my countrymen, Your courage forth advance; For never was there champion yet, In Scotland or in France, "That ever did on horseback come, But if my hap it were, I durst encounter man for man, With him to break a spear." Earl Douglas on his milk-white steed, Most like a baron bold, Rode foremost of his company, Whose armor shone like gold. "Show me...
الصفحة 23 - And work their lives' decay. So that the pretty speech they had, Made murder's heart relent : And they that undertook the deed Full sore did now repent. Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large. The other...
الصفحة 19 - And both possest one grave. No love between these two was lost, Each was to other...