Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - Authors, English |
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... gude and fine ; Came on a steed a bowshot near , Before all other that there were : And knew the king , for that he saw Him sae range his men on raw , Caused , ordered * In this and the subsequent extract , the language is as far ...
... gude and fine ; Came on a steed a bowshot near , Before all other that there were : And knew the king , for that he saw Him sae range his men on raw , Caused , ordered * In this and the subsequent extract , the language is as far ...
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... gude man borne doun and slain ; They dang on other with wappins sair , Some of the horse , that stickit were , Rushit and reelit richt rudely . * * * The gude earl thither took the way , With his battle , in gude array , And assemblit ...
... gude man borne doun and slain ; They dang on other with wappins sair , Some of the horse , that stickit were , Rushit and reelit richt rudely . * * * The gude earl thither took the way , With his battle , in gude array , And assemblit ...
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... gude had wroucht . ' St Serf answered , ' That Goddis will Was never to make his werkis ill , And as envious he had been seen , Gif nought but he full gude had been . " St Serf the devil askit than , ' Where God made Adam , the first ...
... gude had wroucht . ' St Serf answered , ' That Goddis will Was never to make his werkis ill , And as envious he had been seen , Gif nought but he full gude had been . " St Serf the devil askit than , ' Where God made Adam , the first ...
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... gude thing ; For , but radure , + all governing Shall all time but despised be : And where that men may radure see , They shall dread to trespass , and sae Peaceable a king his land may ma ' . Thus radure dred that gart him be . Of ...
... gude thing ; For , but radure , + all governing Shall all time but despised be : And where that men may radure see , They shall dread to trespass , and sae Peaceable a king his land may ma ' . Thus radure dred that gart him be . Of ...
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... gude , suppose he suffered pain . Of that labour as than he was not slie , Happy he was , took fish abundantly . Or of the day ten hours o'er couth pass . Ridand there came , near by where Wallace was , The Lord Percy , was captain than ...
... gude , suppose he suffered pain . Of that labour as than he was not slie , Happy he was , took fish abundantly . Or of the day ten hours o'er couth pass . Ridand there came , near by where Wallace was , The Lord Percy , was captain than ...
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