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" When, lo ! a straunge and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle and a mantle This boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintily bedone. "
Second Walk Through Wales, - Page 23
by Richard Warner - 1800 - 365 pages
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ...

Ballads, English - 1765 - 404 pages
...a knight. And there he kept his Chriftmas 5 , With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a ftraunge and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle, and a mantle This boy had him upon, IO With brooches, rings, and owchcs Full daintily bedone. He had a farke of filk About his middle meet;...
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Tales of Wonder;, Volume 2

Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 266 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning...boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches, 398 He had a sarke of silk About his middle meet ; And thus, with seemely curtesy, . He did King Arthur...
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Tales of Wonder;

Matthew Gregory Lewis - Ballads, English - 1801 - 242 pages
...many a knight. And there he kept his Ghriftmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a ftraunge and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle,...rings, and owches, Full daintily bedone. He had a farke of filk About his middle meet ; And thus, with feemely curtefy, He did King Arthur greet. —...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 3

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And And there he kept his Christmas 5 With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning...appeare. A kirtle and a mantle This boy had him upon, 1O . With brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintily bedone. He had a sarke of silk About his middle...
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The Cambrian Wreath: A Selection of English Poems on Welsh Subjects ...

Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard - English poetry - 1828 - 214 pages
...With mirth and princely cheere, When lo ! a strange and cunning boy Before him did appeare. A kirtlc and a mantle This boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintilie bedone. He had a sarke of silk too, About his middle meet; And thus with seemly curtesy,...
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Der Schatzgräber: Beiträge für ältere deutsche Literatur

Theodor Georg von Karajan - European literature - 1842 - 182 pages
...maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. 5 And there he kept his Christmas Whit mirth and princely cheare , When , lo ! a straunge and cunning...boy Before him did appeare. A kirtle and a mantle 10 This boy had him upon , Whit brooches, rings, and owches,** Full daintily bedone. He had a sarke25...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 2

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1844 - 318 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning boy Before him did appears. A kirtle, and a mantle This boy had him upon, With brooches, rings, and owches Full daintily...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 2

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1846 - 318 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas With mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning...brooches, rings, and owches Full daintily bedone. He had a sarke of silk About his middle meet ; And thus, with seemely curtesy, He did king Arthur greet. " God...
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Archaeologia Cambrensis: A Record of the Antiquities of Wales and Its ...

Electronic journals - 1863 - 418 pages
...there maintain'd his table round, Beset with many a knight. And there he kept his Christmas Whit mirth and princely cheare, When, lo ! a straunge and cunning boy Before him did appearo. A kirtle and a mantle This boy had him upon, 10 Whit brooches, rings, and owches, Full daintily...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 548 pages
...broocha, &c. Falstaff is here again singing a scrap of an old ballad (Percy's ' Reliques,' vol.L):— " A kirtle, and a mantle, This boy had him upon, With...brooches, rings, and owches Full daintily bedone." b It has been suggested to us by a critical reader of Shakspere, that these lines are metrical; that...
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