| Ballads, Scots - 1846 - 248 pages
...pointedly mentions the death of Sir Hugh— . an English archer then perceived " He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head drew he. " Against Sir Hugh Montgomerie, So right his shaft he set, The... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...courage none could stain. An English archer soon perceived His noble lord was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth yard length Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery there So right his shaft he set... | |
| Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...courage none could staine ; An English archer then perceiv'd The noble erle was slaine ; He had a bow hent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew hee : Against Sir Hugh Montgomery*, So right the shaft he sett.... | |
| Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...courage none could staine: An English archer then perceived The noble erle was slaine; He had a bow bent in, his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long To the hard head haled he: Against Sir Hugh Mountgomery So right the shaft he sett;... | |
| Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pages
...courage none could stain. An English archer then perceiv'd The noble Earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth yard long Up to the head drew he. STow God be with him, said our J Sith't will no better be ;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...Draw me a elothier's yard— draw like a famous English areher, — the areher of Chevy Chase : — " An arrow of a eloth-yard long Up to the head drew he." * The brown bills — bills for billmen — the infantry. Marlowe uses the phrase in the same way in... | |
| Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...courage none could staine. An English archer then perceived The noble erle was slaiue : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long To the hard head haled1 he : Against Sir Hugh Mountgomery So right the shaft he sett,... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...courage none could stain: An English archer then perceiv'd The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft he set, The gray-goose... | |
| 1853 - 524 pages
...courage none could stain; An English archer then perceiv'd The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft he set, The grey-goose... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...courage none could stain ; An English archer then perceiv'd The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft he set, The grey... | |
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