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XV. King Leir and his Three Daughters. ................................................................... The reader has here a ...

"Before your face, to do you good, My blood shall render'd be And for your sake my bleeding heart Shall here be cut in twain, Er ...

Untill at last in famous France She gentler fortunes found; Though poor and bare, yet she was deem'd The fairest on the ground: ...

Where when he came, she gave command To drive him thence away: When he was well within her court (She said) he would not stay. T ...

And so to England came with speed, To repossesse king Leir And drive his daughters from their thrones By his Cordelia dear. Wher ...

Youth is full of sport, Ages breath is short; Youth is nimble, Age is lame: Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold; Youth i ...

XVII. The Frolicksome Duke, or the Tinker's Good Fortune.................................... The following ballad is upon the sa ...

And the chamberling bare, then did likewise declare, He desired to know what apparel he'd ware: The poor tinker amaz'd, on the g ...

Then the tinker reply'd, "What! must Joan my sweet bride Be a lady in chariots of pleasure to ride? Must we have gold and land e ...

XVIII. The Friar of Orders Gray................................................................................ Dispersed throug ...

"O do not, do not, holy friar, My sorrow now reprove; For I have lost the sweetest youth, That e'er won ladyes love. "And nowe, ...

"But first upon my true-love's grave My weary limbs I'll lay, And thrice I'll kiss the green-grass turf, That wraps his breathle ...

BOOK III ................................................................................................................... I. ...

abides in thefield:" whereas the more modern bard seems to have understood bybent, the inclination of his mind, and accordingly ...

he was Warden, when some Scotch gentlemen coming to hunt in defiance of him, there must have ensued such an action as this of Ch ...

The bow-men mustered on the hills Well able to endure; Theire backsides all, with speciall care, That day were guarded sure. The ...

"Yet wee will spend our deerest blood, Thy cheefest harts to slay." Then Douglas swore a solempne oathe, And thus in rage did sa ...

And throwing strait their bows away, They grasp'd their swords so bright: And now sharp blows, a heavy shower, On shields and he ...

"O Christ! my verry hart doth bleed With sorrow for thy sake; For sure, a more redoubted knight Mischance cold never take." A kn ...

For Witherington needs must I wayle, As one in doleful dumpes;[8] For when his leggs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumpe ...