 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
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1879 - 152 Seiten
...Take the following passage from Scott, which occurs in Chambers' " National Reader III.," P- 43 :— " 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 Seiten
...They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through 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... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1880 - 538 Seiten
...not their harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night : M " Ten squires, ten yeomen, maJl-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night," — *' Such was the custom of Branksome-Hall," — To " watch against Southern force and guile. Lest... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 Seiten
...carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. . . . Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night. . . Why do these steeds stand ready dight ? Why watch these warriors, armed, by night ? They watch... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 Seiten
...asterisk ¡n these pages signifies that a note upon the passage is to be found at the end of the volume. Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at...and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddlebow ;* A hundred more fed free... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 Seiten
...carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. 5. 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1882 - 356 Seiten
...could hardly live in greater distrust. Let now the Poet of Chivalry describe another scene : — " 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1882 - 568 Seiten
...They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet Mr^edTen squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 660 Seiten
...the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. 5. Ten squire?, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 96 Seiten
...cearfan, to cut. Meal. AS, mael, a portion. Glove. AS, glof, a cover. Helmet. AS, helmet, helan, to cover. V. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; 35 Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night. Barbed with frontlet... | |
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