Northern Garlands: A Collection of SongsJoseph Ritson E. & G. Goldsmid, 1887 - 261 Seiten |
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agayne awaye barber battle Battle of Otterburn Bonny Scot Bowes brave call'd castle Chevy-Chase Chyviat cittie of London Cockerton dead dear doth Durham e'er earl Douglas earl Percy Elsie Marley fair Fal lal fear Follow the horses friends fylde gallant Garland George harbour harte hast heart Heigh-ho Highland laddie hondrith JAMES Robson keel laddie keel row king knyght lad oh lasses of Sedgfield lord Derwentwater lord Persé maid marrow Martha Midford monie mother ne'er never night noble Northumberland o'er Otterburn Perssy poor pray Randal river Tees roaring company Rookhope Rothbury Sandgate Sawney sayd says Tommy Linn schall Sedgfield Are roaring sing Stockton's commendation Skottes slain SONG sore soth spear Stockton's commendation Sunderland sword tell thee Ther was slayne thou thow Tividale took town Tune turn'd twas unto Wallington wear Weardale-men wife wolde wou'd wyll Yarm Yorkshire
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Seite 162 - For Wetharryngton my harte was wo, That ever he slayne shulde be ; For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to, Yet he knyled and fought on hys kne.
Seite 175 - Now God be with him, said our king, Sith 'twill no better be, I trust I have within my realm Five hundred as good as he. Yet shall not Scot nor Scotland say, But I will vengeance take, And be revenged on them all For brave Lord Percy's sake.
Seite 172 - The spear ran through the other side A large cloth-yard and more. So thus did both these nobles die, Whose courage none could stain ; An English archer then perceived The noble earl was slain.
Seite 175 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Seite 238 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Seite 172 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long To the hard head haled he.
Seite 165 - Percy took his way; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Seite 71 - ROOKHOPE stands in a pleasant place, If the false thieves wad let it be, But away they steal our goods apace, And ever an ill death may they dee ! And so is the man of Thirlwall and Willie-haver, And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out.
Seite 171 - Then leaving life, Earl Percy took The dead man by the hand ; And said, " Earl Douglas, for thy life Would I had lost my land. " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With sorrow for thy sake ; For sure, a more redoubted knight Mischance did never take.
Seite 166 - Their backsides all, with special care, That day were guarded sure. The hounds ran swiftly through the woods, The nimble deer to take, That with their cries the hills and dales An echo shrill did make. Lord Percy to the quarry went, To view the tender deer ; Quoth he, "Earl Douglas promised This day to meet me here ; But if I thought he would not come, No longer would I stay.