Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Volume 1Gould and Lincoln, 1856 |
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... Saracens rede nome , 2 And the folk of Jerusalem and of Damas come , Of Aleph , and of other londs , mid great power enow , And to succoury Antioch fast hitherward drew . So that the Earl of Flanders and Beaumond at last Mid twenty ...
... Saracens rede nome , 2 And the folk of Jerusalem and of Damas come , Of Aleph , and of other londs , mid great power enow , And to succoury Antioch fast hitherward drew . So that the Earl of Flanders and Beaumond at last Mid twenty ...
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... . 10 But assuredly . was born . 8 What do you advise . First . 11 It shall be ill - fortune to him that he 18 Order . The Soudan gathered a host unride , 1 With Saracens METRICAL ROMANCES . METRICAL ROMANCES . ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... . 10 But assuredly . was born . 8 What do you advise . First . 11 It shall be ill - fortune to him that he 18 Order . The Soudan gathered a host unride , 1 With Saracens METRICAL ROMANCES . METRICAL ROMANCES . ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... Saracens of muckle pride , The king of Tars to assail . When the king it heard that tide , He sent about on each a - side , All that he might of send ; Great war then began to wrack , For the marriage ne most be take , Of that maiden ...
... Saracens of muckle pride , The king of Tars to assail . When the king it heard that tide , He sent about on each a - side , All that he might of send ; Great war then began to wrack , For the marriage ne most be take , Of that maiden ...
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... Saracen dominion . And ye shall understand , ' says he , that of all these countries , and of all these isles , and of all these diverse folk , that I have spoken of before , and of diverse laws and of diverse beliefs that they han ...
... Saracen dominion . And ye shall understand , ' says he , that of all these countries , and of all these isles , and of all these diverse folk , that I have spoken of before , and of diverse laws and of diverse beliefs that they han ...
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... Saracens ben good and faithful . For they keepen entirely the commandment of the holy book Alcoran , that God sent ' em by his messager Mahomet ; to the which , as they sayen , St Gabriel , the angel , oftentime told the will of God ...
... Saracens ben good and faithful . For they keepen entirely the commandment of the holy book Alcoran , that God sent ' em by his messager Mahomet ; to the which , as they sayen , St Gabriel , the angel , oftentime told the will of God ...
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