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" They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. "
Calliope: A Collection of Poems, Legendary and Pathetic - Page 69
1814 - 308 pages
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on 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 bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on 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 bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...• Full threescore Scots they slew. 1 They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, • No slackness there was found ; ' And many a gallant gentleman ' Lay gasping on the ground. 1 With that there came an arrow keen ' Out of an English bow, ' Which struck earl Douglas to the heart...
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Northern Garlands ...

Joseph Ritson - Songs, English - 1810 - 232 pages
...with mickle pride, The spears to shivers sent. They clos'd full fast on every side. No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping...it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, ; • And scatter'd here and there. At last these two stout earls...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on 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 bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart A...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on evYy 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 Earl Douglas to the heart A...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...shower, On shields and helmets light.] They closed full fast on everye side, 125 Noe slacknes there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see, And likewise for to heare, 130 The cries of men lying in, their goro, And scattered...
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Drinking-songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...with mickle pride, The spears to shivers sent. They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping...it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd here and there. At last these two stout earls did meet,...
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Chevy Chase,: A Poem. Founded on the Ancient Ballad..

Robert Roscoe - Otterburn, Battle of, 1388, in literature - 1813 - 156 pages
...mickle pride, Their speares to shivers went. They clos'd full fast on everye side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see, And likewise for to heare, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd here...
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Chevy Chase,: A Poem. Founded on the Ancient Ballad..

Robert Roscoe - Otterburn, Battle of, 1388, in literature - 1813 - 128 pages
...mickle pride, Their speares to shivers went. They clos'd full fast on everye side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a griefe to see, And likewise for to heare, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scatter'd here...
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