 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...nobles dye, Whose courage none could staine: An English archer then perceiv'd The noble erle was slaine; He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew hee: Against Sir Hugh Mountgomerye, So right the shaft he sett,... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...nobles die, Whose courage none could stain. An English archer then perceived The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he : Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...he, I gather from Quintus Curtius. " Indus duorum cubitorum saggittam ita excussit," &c.f and from Chevy Chase, " He had a bow bent in his hand Made of a trusty yew, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head he drew." And as Trulla was tall, the simile has a... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...nobles die, Whose courage none could stain : An English archer then perceived The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth yard long To the hard head haled he : Against Sir Hugh Mountgomery So right the shaft he set,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 pages
...nobles die, Whose courage none could stain : An English archer then perceived The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth yard long To the hard head haled he : Against Sir Hugh Mountgomery So right the shaft he set,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...nobles die, Whose courage none could stain. An English archer then perceived The noble earl was slain. lliam Cullen Bryant cloth-yard long To the hard head haled be. Against Sir Hugh Mountgomery So right the shaft lie set,... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 pages
...nobles die, Whose courage none could stain. An English archer then perceived The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth yard long Up to the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...nobles dye, Whose courage none could stain ; Ar. English archer then perceived The noble erle was slain. HE had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; Aw arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 pages
...die, Whose courage none could stain ; An English archer then perceived Their noble earl wag slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he : Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 pages
...spear. But he did not live long after this stroke ; an English archer perceived that Percy was slain. " He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The... | |
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So thus did both these nobles die, Whose courage none could stain. An English archer then perceived The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he... 
