Ancient Metrical Tales: Printed Chiefly from Original Sources

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Charles Henry Hartshorne
W. Pickering, 1829 - 344 páginas
 

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Página 179 - IN somer, when the shawes be sheyne, And leves be large and long, Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song: To se the dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee, And shadow hem in the lev s grene, Vnder the grene-wode tre.
Página 194 - Nay, be my trouth," seid Litull John, "So shalle hit never be; But lat me be a felow," seid Litull John, "No noder kepe I be." Thus John gate Robyn Hod out of prison, Sertan withoutyn layn; Whan his men saw hym hol and sounde, For sothe they were full fayne.
Página 192 - He has made hym abot of Westmynster, A lorde of that abbay. " The scheref made John gode chere, And gaf hym wine of the best ; At nyzt thei went to her bedde, And euery man to his rest.
Página viii - Cornutus, that it pleased the heavenly Deity, by Hesiod and Homer, under the veil of fables to give us all knowledge, logic, rhetoric, philosophy, natural and moral, and quid non? To believe with me, that there are many mysteries contained in poetry, which of purpose were written darkly, lest by profane wits it should be abused.
Página 183 - For sothe he is in this towne. I haue spyed the false felone, As he stondes at his masse, Hit is longe of the seide the munke And euer he fro vs passe. This traytur[s] name is Robyn Hode, Vndur the grene wode lynde, He robbyt me onys of a C pound, Hit shalle neuer out of my mynde.
Página 284 - Guillaume de Palerne, in the Library of King's Coll., Cambridge, in which the orthography almost explains the word : — "I sayle now in the see as schip boute mast, Boute anker, or ore, or any semlych sayle.
Página 184 - Hys sworde vpon the schireff hed Sertanly he brake in too; The smyth that the made, seid Robyn, I pray God wyrke hym woo.

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