Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies, Volume 5,Parte 1

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Joseph Ritson
Priv. Print., 1884 - 71 páginas
 

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Página 23 - Alas ! then sayde that lytle boye, Ye tary here all to longe ; Cloudesle is taken and dampned to death, All readye for to honge.
Página 22 - He toke hys sweard and hys buckler, And among them all he ran, Where the people were most in prece, He smot downe many a man. There myght no man stand hys stroke...
Página 24 - Tom Thumbe, his life and death : wherein is declared many maruailous acts of manhood, full of wonder, and strange merriments. Which little knight lived in king Arthurs time, and famous in the court of Great Brittaine.
Página 39 - Hys bowe was great and longe, He set that arrowe in his bowe, That was both styffe and stronge. He prayed the people that was there, That they would styll stande, " For he that shooteth for such a wager, Behoveth a stedfast hand.
Página 52 - Away by the bride then Tommy Pots went, But never a word to her he did say, Till he the lord Phenix came before, He gave him the right time of the day.
Página 30 - they cryed for wo. " Kepe we the gates fast " they bad, " That these traytours thereout not go." But al for nought was that they wrought, For so fast they downe were layde, Tyll they all thre, that so manfulli fought, Were gotten without at a braide.
Página 28 - Of no man had they dread, The one hyt the justice, the other the sheryfe, That both theyr sides gan blede. All men voyded that them stode nye, When the justice fell downe to the grounde, And the sherife fell nyghe hym by, Eyther had his deathes wounde.
Página 55 - That's a foolish opinion, his master said, And a foolish opinion thou tak'st to thee ; Thou'st have a better then ever he was, Though forty pounds more it should cost me.
Página 36 - The kyng opened the letter anone, Hymselfe he red it thro, And founde how these thre outlawes had slaine Thre hundred men and mo ; Fyrst the justice and the sheryfe...
Página 33 - Where they woulde nedes be. And whan they came to the kynges courte, Unto the pallace gate, Of no man wold they aske no leave, But boldly went in therat.

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