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And I feir, I feir, my deir mastèr, That we will com to harme." O our Scots nobles wer richt laith To weet their cork-heild scho ...
VIII. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. ................................................................... [1]We have here a ball ...
This epitaph appears to me suspicious: however, a late antiquary has given a pedigree of Robin Hood, which, if genuine, shows th ...
The woodweele sang, and wold not cease, Sitting upon the spraye, Soe lowde, he wakened Robin Hood, In the greenwood where he lay ...
As often wordes they breeden bale, So they parted Robin and John: And John is gone to Barnesdale; The gates[9] he knoweth eche o ...
"Good morrowe, good fellowe," sayd Robin so fayre, "Good morrowe, good fellow," quoth he: Methinkes by this bowe thou beares in ...
"I dwell by dale and downe," quoth hee, "And Robin to take Ime sworne; And when I am called by my right name I am Guye of good G ...
"The bowe, the arrowes, and litle horne, Now with me I will beare; For I will away to Bàrnèsdale, To see how my men doe fare. Ro ...
Then John he took Guyes bow in his hand, His boltes and arrowes eche one: When the sheriffe saw Little John bend his bow, He fet ...
Spenser has sometimes used the same epithet. See Warton'sObserv. vol. ii. p. 62. It should seem, from this particularity, that o ...
IX. An Elegy on Henry, fourth Earl of Northumberland. .......................................... [1]The subject of this poem, wh ...
Of hevenly poems, O Clyo, calde by name In the college of musis goddess hystoriall, Adres thé to me, whiche am both halt and lam ...
Ye armed you with will, and left your wit behynd; Well may you be called comones most unkynd. He was your chyfteyne, your shelde ...
Alas for ruth! what thoughe his mynde were goode, His corage manly, yet ther he shed his bloode: All left alone, alas! he fought ...
His noble blode never disteynyd was, Trew to his prince for to defende his right, Doublenes hatinge, fals maters to compas, Trey ...
With thy blode precious our finaunce thou dyd pay, And us redemed, from the fendys pray; To thé pray we, as prince incomperable, ...
X. The Tower of Doctrine.......................................................................................... [1]The reader ...
Up to the toure, and in lykewyse dyd I Wyth bothe the Grayhoundes in my company:[3] Tyll that I came unto a ryall gate, Where I ...
Greyhounds, Lions, Dragons, were at that time the royal supporters. This alludes to a former part of the poem. The story of the ...
XI. The Child of Elle. ................................................................................................ This is ...
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