 Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow; A hundred more fed free...  The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Seite 15von sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 Seiten
...They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, [barred. And they drank the red wine through the helmrf Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow; A hundred more fed free... | |
 | 1861 - 588 Seiten
...contingent. The first contingent must wait in readiness, perhaps not quite as of old, in Eranksome Hall, "Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night ;" IN A FALSE POSITION. A TALE. BY K. SHENSTONE SHOBT. CHAPTER IX. I DO not intend to enter minutely... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 Seiten
...They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle bow ; A hundred more fed free in stall : — Such was the custom of Branksome Hall. Why do these... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 Seiten
...duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. . ***** Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow ; A hundred more fed free... | |
 | Abraham Hume - 1863 - 514 Seiten
...Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel.* Wrhile, at the same time, Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night. Chauce/ describes the Wyf of Bathe as having On hire fete a pair of sporres large ; and, in another... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 Seiten
...They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine throngh the helmet barred. v. Ten squires, ten yeomen; mail-clad men, Waited...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle bow; A hundred more fed free... | |
 | Frederick Henry Arnold - 1864 - 136 Seiten
...customary in the border counties to have stables of vast extent, as Sir W. Scott's lines remind us, "Thirty steeds both fleet and wight Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel T trow And with Jedwood axe at saddle bow, A hundred more fed free in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 Seiten
...They carvci at the meal With gloves of steel, [barred. And they drank the red wine through the helmet v Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jed wood-axe c at saddle-bow : A hundred more fed free... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 Seiten
...They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. I Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the...Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in sable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-ахе at saddle-bow;... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1867 - 552 Seiten
...have been far more numerous, as their business was far more momentous, than Sir Walter Scott's who . Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men Waited the beck of the warders ten. But the speed with which the Council's couriers galloped off from the front of Whitehall, in various... | |
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