 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...reached his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor*- • Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hack'd and hew'd, H is acton pierc'd and tore ; His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 200 pages
...As he reached his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hacked and hewed, His acton pierced and tore; His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 306 pages
...he reached his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hacked and hewed, His acton pierced and tore ; His ax and his dagger with blood... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 pages
...As he reached his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hacked and hewed, His acton pierced and tore; His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | Scott - 1821 - 516 pages
...he reach'd his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hack'd and hew'd, His acton pierced and tore, His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 pages
...As he reachM his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hack'd and hew'd, His acton pierced and tore, His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 508 pages
...As he reach'd his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hack'd and hew'd, His acton pierced and tore, His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...he reach'd his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hack'd and hew'd, His acton pierced and tore ; His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...As he reach'd his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor* Ran red with English blood; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hack'd and hew'd, His acton pierced and tore His axe and his dagger with blood embrued,... | |
 | 1829 - 426 pages
...is coat-armour; the vauntbrncc, or wambrace, armour for the body ; the sperthe, a battle-axe. "Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen Lord Evers stood. Yet was his helmet hacked and hewed, His acton pierced and tore ; His axe and his dagger with blood... | |
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Baron returned in three days' space, And his looks were sad and sour ; And weary was his courser's pace, As he reached his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst... 
