 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 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 lonp Up to the head drew he : Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 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... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1883 - 338 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 Montgomery So right the shaft he set,... | |
 | William Burt Harlow - 1884 - 154 pages
...Whose courage none could staine; An English archer then perceived The noble Erie was slayne; XLVI. 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 ; XL VII. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he... | |
 | Francis Watt - 1885 - 202 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1886 - 566 pages
...185 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 ; 190 An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew hee : Against Sir Hugh Mountgomerye, So right... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1889 - 312 pages
...nobles die, Whose courage none could stain. An English archer then perceived His noble lord was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth yard's length, Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery then So right his shaft he... | |
 | Charles Dalton - 1890 - 288 pages
...collateral ancestor, Sir Hugh Montgomerio, fell at the battle of Otterburne as far back as 1388. His death is thus recorded in the old ballad of Chevy...in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth- yeard long Unto the head drew he. " Against Sir Hugh Montgomerie So right his shaft he set,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 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 ; 1 Redoubted : valiant. 2 Cloth-yard : that is, the length of a yard-stick used in measuring cloth... | |
 | 1891 - 676 pages
...Scotland from a very early period. Sir Hugh Montgomerie's death at the battle of Otterburn is referred to in the old ballad of Chevy Chase — ' He had a bow...in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomerie, So right his 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... 
