Chevy Chase,: A Poem. Founded on the Ancient Ballad. With Other Poems..Cadell & Davies, ... J. & A. Arch, ... Hayward & Roscoe, ... W. Blackwood, Edinburgh; and W. Robinson & Sons, Liverpool., 1820 - 112 ページ |
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ancient ballad archers arrow Barons Battle of Otterbourne bend beneath blade blood bow'rs brave breast breath brow charger Cheviot Chevy Chase chieftain coursers cried dark deadly dear death deep deer Earl Douglas Earl Percy earth English fear fiercely Ford Castle forest gale gallant green-wood groan ground Haggerstone hand hark hart Hast thou hath head heard heart hill honours hound hunters king king of Spain light Lord James Douglas Lord Percy loud lov'd Lyre manly midst Montgomery morning murmurs night noble Northumberland o'er path Percy's PETRARCH poem pride recheat Robert of Scotland Saracen Scarce scene Scot Scottish Scottish Border shade shaft shame shore Sir Hugh Sir Philip Sydney skies sleep slumber song SONNET soul sound spear speed spray spring steed storm thee thine thou art Thou hast thro throng tide turf turn'd valiant warlike warrior Widdrington winds wing woods
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59 ページ - ... me; and I will most willingly do all that you command me with the utmost loyalty in my power: never doubt it, however I may feel myself unworthy of such a high distinction.
vi ページ - Gaul,7 one of the despised romances ; while in connexion with the old ballads, reduced in his day to pot-house fare, he has to confess, not without some bewilderment, that he never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that he ' found not his heart moved more than with a trumpet...
61 ページ - Genoese felt these arrows, which pierced their arms, heads, and through their armour, some of them cut the strings of their cross-bows, others flung them on the ground, and all turned about and retreated, quite discomfited. The French had a large body of men-at-arms on horseback, richly dressed, to support the Genoese. The King of France, seeing them thus fall back, cried out, ' Kill me those scoundrels, for they stop up our road without any reason.
58 ページ - My dear friend lord James Douglas, you know that I have had much to do, and have suffered many troubles, during the time I have lived, to support the rights of my crown : at the time that I was most occupied, I made a vow, the nonaccomplishment of which gives me much uneasiness — I vowed, that, if I could finish my wars in such a manner, that I might have quiet to govern peaceably, I would go and make war against the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the adversaries of the Christian faith....
59 ページ - Gallant knight, I thank you.—You promise it me then ?' ' Certainly, Sir, most willingly,' answered the knight. He then gave his promise upon his knighthood. " The king said, « Thanks be to God ! for I shall now die in peace, since I know that the most valiant and accomplished knight of my kingdom will perform that for me, which I am unable to do for myself.
60 ページ - Sluys twelve days, he heard that Alphonso, king of Spain, was waging war against the Saracen king of Granada. He considered, that if he should go thither he should employ his time and journey according to the late king's wishes ; and when he should have finished there he would proceed further to complete that with which he was charged. He...
58 ページ - I do not know any one knight so gallant or enterprising, or better formed to complete my intentions than yourself, I beg and entreat of you, dear and special friend, as earnestly as I can, that you would have the goodness to undertake this expedition for the love of me, and to acquit my soul to our Lord and Saviour ; for I have that opinion of your nobleness and loyalty, that, if you undertake it, it cannot fail...
vii ページ - ... owing to the author's quoting from memory. Indeed, whoever considers the style and orthography of this old poem will not be inclined to place it lower than the time of Henry VI : as on the other hand the mention of Samesf tf)t .Scottish fcing, with one or two anachronisms, forbids us to assign it an earlier date.
63 ページ - HEEON, was their ancient residence. It descended, 25 Edw, I. to the heir general Emiline Heron, afterwards Baroness Darcy. —Ford, &c. and Bockenfield (in com. eodem) went at the same time to Roger Heron, the heir male ; whose descendants were summoned to Parliament...
61 ページ - The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness, that it seemed as if it snowed.