Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions, المجلد 2

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William John Thoms
Nattali and Bond, 1858
 

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الصفحة 73 - In this our spacious isle, I think there is not one, But he hath heard some talk of him and little John ; And to the end of time, the tales shall ne'er be done, Of Scarlock, George a Green, and Much the miller's son, Of Tuck the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his out-laws, and their trade.
الصفحة 135 - A PLEASANT CONCEYTED CoMEDIE OF GEORGE A GREENE THE PINNER OF WAKEFIELD. As it was sundry times acted by the Servants of the Right Honourable the Earle of Sussex.
الصفحة 132 - IN Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder, In Wakefield all on a green, In Wakefield all on a green : There is neither knight nor squire, said the pinder, Nor baron that is so bold, Nor baron that is so bold, Dare make a trespass to the town of Wakefield, But his pledge goes to the pinfold, &c.
الصفحة 147 - Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance, And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y...
الصفحة 73 - Their baldrics set with studs, athwart their shoulders cast, To which under their arms their sheafs were buckled fast, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee, not counted then a...
الصفحة 219 - Monark of the World. Together with the lives and deaths of his two famous sons, the Black Knight and the Fairy Knight, with divers other memorable accidents, full of delight.
الصفحة 137 - Crowde the fidler would be there, « And many more I will not speake of here : " Good god ! how glad hath been this hart of mine ' To see that Towne, which hath in former time ' So flourish'd and so gloried in her name, ' Famous by the Pindar who first rais'd the same ; ' Yea, I have paced ore that greene and ore,
الصفحة 92 - Four mark, said the butcher, I cannot bate anything of it. Sit down then and tell thy money, said Robin Hood, I will try for once if I can thrive by being a butcher. The money being told, Robin Hood gets up on the mare, and away he rides with the meat to Nottingham market, where he made such good penniworths, that he had sold all his meat by ten of the clock in the morn ; He sold more meat for one penny than others could do for five. The butchers in the market, that had their stands by him, said...
الصفحة 61 - Renowned Robin Hood ; Or, His famous archery truly related in the worthy exploits he acted before queen Katherine, he being an outlaw man ; and how he obtained his own and his fellows
الصفحة 74 - From wealthy abbots' chests, and churls' abundant store, What oftentimes he took he shared amongst the poor : No lordly bishop came in lusty Robin's way, To him, before he went, but for his pass must pay ; The widow in distress he graciously...

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