Historic romance, strange stories [&c.] in the history of old England1883 |
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according ancient appeared Barton Hartshorn Bentley Bettiscombe boar's head body bull-baiting buried called century ceremony CHAPTER Chetwode church coach court curious Cuthbert Bede death deer died drink DUNMOW FLITCH Earl Edward Edward the Confessor Elizabeth England English Eyam fool forest giants give Godstow Gog and Magog Gogmagog Gretna Green Guild Guildhall guilty hand Harrington Henry Historic Yorkshire honourable horn Hull hunter hunting husband innocent James jester John killed King King's known lady land laws LEGEND lived London Lord Lyttleton lordship manner marriages Mary murder notice office of ale-taster omen ordeal parish pass period person plague poet pounds present priest Queen record reign Rhyne Toll Richard Rosamond Rossendale royal touch says servant Shakespeare Shrewsbury Sir George Chetwode skull story superstition thee town village Walter de Clifford Wambrook wife wild boar WILLIAM ANDREWS wolf woman Wood
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Página 2 - To-day, my Lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Página 82 - s the disease he means ? Mai. 'T is call'd the evil ; A most miraculous Work in this good king : Which often, since my here-remain in England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a. golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 't is spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Página 2 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 125 - With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
Página 140 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions...
Página 141 - Pallas, as they are translated by the same hand : — 0 Pallas ! thou hast failed thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword : 1 warn'd thee, but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far, Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war ! O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come.
Página 7 - Their baldrics set with studs, athwart their shoulders cast, To which under their arms their sheafs were buckled fast, A short sword at their belt, a buckler scarce a span, Who struck below the knee, not counted then a man : All made of Spanish yew, their bows were wondrous strong ; They not an arrow drew but was a cloth-yard long. Of archery they had the very perfect craft, With broad arrow, or but, or prick, or roving shaft...
Página 87 - Johnson used to talk of this very frankly; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, 'He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood.
Página 7 - An hundred valiant men had this brave Robin Hood, Still ready at his call, that bowmen were right good ; All clad in Lincoln green, with caps of red and blue...
Página 84 - ... with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplaine in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them and he healed them.