...the SPECTATOR had reafon to cenfure : For WITHERINGTON needs muft I wail, as one in doleful Dumps; For when his Legs were Smitten off, he fought upon his Stumps. But the Old Ballad of OTTERBURN, in the Reign of HARRY the Sixth, has it ; For WITHBRINGTON my Heart...

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...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. * That is, says Percy, ' the curfew bell, usually rung at eight o'clock.' But this ingenious conjecture...

...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Wilherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with liarl Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery; Sir Charles Currel, that from the field...

...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps : For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with Earl Douglas there were slain, Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles Currel, that from the field...

...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. 200 And with earl Douglas there was slain, Sir Hugh Montgomery; Sir Charles Currel, that from the field...

...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with Earl Douglas there was slain, Sir Hugh Mountgomery : Sir Charles Murray, that from the field...

...persevered, as observed in the ballad of Chevy Chace, JOURNEY TO PARIS. 25 Like one in doleful dumps," " For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." His lower extremity was snugly stowed away in a great wooden bowl. He spun around, like a top, on this...

...stumps.] In the famous song of Chevychase : For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. But all, alas ! had been in vain, And he inevitably slain, If Trulla and Cerdon, in the nick, To rescue...

...stumps.] In the famous song of Chevychase : For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. The battle of Chevy-chase, or Otterbourne, on the borders of Scotland, was fought on St. Oswald's day,...