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" With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall. "
The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII]. - Page 324
1803
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 pages
...every side,, No slackness there was found, And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. With that there came an arrow keen • Out of an English bow, Which struck Enrl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow.' jEneas was wounded after the same manner by an unknown...
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Vestigia Anglicana: Or, Illustrations of the More Interesting and ..., Volume 2

Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 494 pages
...armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scotish spears All marching in our sight." • WaUingham. U itb that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow,...Earl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow. The ballad goes on to relate also the death of Percy, from the hand of Sir Hugh Montgomerie : Who past...
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A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian ...

Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. " With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English...Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow." yEneas was wounded after the same manner by an unknown hand in the midst of a parley. Has inter voces,...
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Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Reign of King Henry the Second ..., Volume 2

Joseph Ritson - 1829 - 346 pages
...earl Percy then, Thy proffer I do scorn ; I will not yield to any Scot That ever yet was born. 140 With that there came an arrow keen, Out of an English...merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall. Then leaving life, earl Percy took The dead man by the hand, 150 And said, Earl...
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The Legendary Cabinet: A Collection of British National Ballads, Ancient and ...

John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 pages
...quoth Earl Percy then, Thy proffer I do scorn ; I' will not yield to any Scot That ever yet was born. With that there came an arrow keen * Out of an English...merry men all ; For why ? my life is at an end : Lord Percy sees my fall, f • Then leaving life, Earl Percy took The dead man by the hand : And said, Earl...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 2

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...imagination 1 Christian Hero. 8KWith that there came an arrow keen oat of an English bow. Which strack Earl Douglas to the heart, a deep and deadly blow : Who never spake more words than these, fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...death, representing to them, as the most sitter circumstance of it, that his rival saw jim fall: ' nversed with him. It was this holy man to whom Constantia had determin F.arl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow. 1 Who never spoke more words than these. Fight on...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found; And many a callnnt gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 'With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Karl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow.* .¿Eneas was wounded after the same manner by an...
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Knight's Store of Knowledge for All Readers: Being a Collection of Treatises ...

Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pages
...end — a not uncommon one in those days — was put to the combat between the two earls : — " Wilh that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow,...Earl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow." " Fight on, my merry men," exclaimed the expiring hero. Percy was deeply moved : he took the dead man...
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Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland

Richard John King - 1842 - 352 pages
...of an English bow, Which struck Erle Douglas to the heart A deepe and deadly blow. Who never spake more words than these Fight on my merry men all, For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall. Then leaving liffe, Erle Percy tooke The dead man by the hand, And said, Erle Douglas...
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