The Dunbar Anthology: 1401-1508 A. D.

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Edward Arber
Frowde, 1901 - 312 páginas

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Página 69 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Página 75 - 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. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The gray goose wing that was thereon In his heart's blood was wet.
Página 69 - 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 slaughtered 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...
Página 115 - I never was used to such things, indeed ; And, wanting money, I might not speed. Then went I forth by London Stone, Throughout all Canwick Street : Drapers much cloth me offered anon ; Then comes me one cried
Página 188 - Nay, nay, not so; ye shall not go, And I shall tell you why,— Your appetite is to be light Of love, I...
Página 85 - Englysshe-wood for to gone. Now lith and lysten, gentylmen, That of myrthes loveth to here : Two of them were single men, The third had a wedded fere.
Página 188 - Ye would answer, whosoever it were. In way of company. It is said of old, soon hot, soon cold, And so is a woman; Wherefore I to the wood will go, Alone, a banished man.
Página 68 - 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.
Página 71 - Ere thus I will out-braved be, One of us two shall die. I know thee well; an earl thou art, Lord Percy, so am I. " But trust me, Percy, pity it were, And great offence, to kill Any of these our guiltless men, For they have done no ill. "Let thou and I the battle try, And set our men aside."— "Accursed be he," Earl Percy said,

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