The Lay of the Last Minstrel: a Poem: In Six CantosD. Appleton & Company, 1844 - 92 pages |
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... Musgrave , And slew his brother by dint of glaive . Then , since a lone and widowed Dame These restless riders may not tame , Either receive within thy towers Two hundred of my master's powers , Or straight they sound their warison , + ...
... Musgrave , And slew his brother by dint of glaive . Then , since a lone and widowed Dame These restless riders may not tame , Either receive within thy towers Two hundred of my master's powers , Or straight they sound their warison , + ...
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In Six Cantos Walter Scott. Or else he will the combat take ' Gainst Musgrave , for his honour's sake . No knight in Cumberland so good , But William may count with him kin and blood . Knighthood he took of Douglas ' sword , When English ...
In Six Cantos Walter Scott. Or else he will the combat take ' Gainst Musgrave , for his honour's sake . No knight in Cumberland so good , But William may count with him kin and blood . Knighthood he took of Douglas ' sword , When English ...
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... Musgrave's right , Stout Deloraine to single fight ; A gauntlet at their feet he laid , And thus the terms of fight he said : - " If in the lists good Musgrave's sword Vanquish the knight of Deloraine , Your youthful chieftain ...
... Musgrave's right , Stout Deloraine to single fight ; A gauntlet at their feet he laid , And thus the terms of fight he said : - " If in the lists good Musgrave's sword Vanquish the knight of Deloraine , Your youthful chieftain ...
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... Musgrave , hand to hand . XXXI . I know right well , that , in their lay , Full many minstrels sing and say , Such combat should be made on horse On foaming steed , in full career , With brand to aid , when as the spear Should shiver in ...
... Musgrave , hand to hand . XXXI . I know right well , that , in their lay , Full many minstrels sing and say , Such combat should be made on horse On foaming steed , in full career , With brand to aid , when as the spear Should shiver in ...
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... Musgrave and stout Deloraine ; And how the Ladye prayed them dear , The bloody heart was the well - known cognisance of the house of Douglas , assumed from the time of Good Lord James , to whose care Robert Bruce committed his heart ...
... Musgrave and stout Deloraine ; And how the Ladye prayed them dear , The bloody heart was the well - known cognisance of the house of Douglas , assumed from the time of Good Lord James , to whose care Robert Bruce committed his heart ...
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ancient arms band banners bard Baron beneath blaze blood blood-hound bold Border bower Branksome Hall Branksome's towers brave breast breath broken lance Buccleuch CANTO Carlisle wall castle cheer chief clan coursers crest cross dark dead Douglas dread Duchess Dwarf Earl elvish English Ettrick Forest Fair Margaret fair on Carlisle feudal fight gallant Gothic architecture hand harp Hawick heard heart holy Howard iron Jedburgh knight Ladye Ladye's lance Liddesdale lofty lonely Lord Cranstoun Lord Dacre loud Melrose Michael Scott Minstrel Monk moss-trooper Musgrave ne'er noble Dame o'er pale prayed pride raven's nest ride rode Roslin round rung scarce Scotland Scott Scottish Seneschal slain song soul sound spear spur St Clair St Mary's steed stone stood stout sun shines fair sung tear tell thee thou tomb Twas Twixt warrior Watt Tinlinn wave ween wild William of Deloraine