Sir Tristrem, Part 6society, 1886 - 148 pages |
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Page 116 - The borys hede that we bryng here, Betokeneth a prince with owte pere, Ys borne this day to bye vs dere, Nowell. A bore ys a souerayn beste, And acceptable in euery feste, So mote thys lord be to moste and leste, Nowell. This borys hede we bryng with song, In worchyp of hym that thus sprang Of a virgyne to redresse all wrong, Nowell.
Page xxix - Sir Tristrem ; a Metrical Romance of The Thirteenth Century ; by Thomas of Ercildoune, called The Rhymer. Edited from the Auchinleck MS. by Walter Scott, Esq.
Page xxxiv - Als thai haf wryten and sayd Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd, In symple epeche as I couthe, That is lightest in manne's mouthe.
Page xxxvi - Inglis as }>ai wroght. And men besoght me many a tyme, To turne it bot in light ryme.
Page 102 - And as the book saith, he began good measures of blowing of blasts of venery, and of chace, and of all manner of vermeins ; and all these terms have we yet of hawking and hunting. And therefore the booke of venery, of hawking and hunting, is called the booke of Sir...
Page 113 - YEMAN hadde he and servauntz nomoo At that tyme, for him luste ryde soo ; And he was clad in coote and hood of grene. A shef of pocok arwes brighte and kene Under his belte he bar ful thriftily.
Page 102 - Ffowre maner bestes : of venery there are The first of hem is a hart : the second is an hare The boar is one of tho The wolf and no mo.
Page 103 - That sure he deern'd him borne of noble race : All in a woodman's jacket he was clad Of Lincolne greene, belayd with silver lace ; And on his head an hood with aglets sprad, And by his side his hunters home he hanging had.
Page 103 - Yet seventeene yeares, but tall and faire of face, That sure he deem'd him borne of noble race : All in a Woodmans...