Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... Till Irvine water fish to tak he went , Sic fantasy fell in his intent . " To lead his net a child furth with him yede , 1 But he , or noon , was in a fellon dread . His swerd he left , so did he never again ; It did him gude , suppose ...
... Till Irvine water fish to tak he went , Sic fantasy fell in his intent . " To lead his net a child furth with him yede , 1 But he , or noon , was in a fellon dread . His swerd he left , so did he never again ; It did him gude , suppose ...
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... Till Dareoch the Butler passed but let ; At sundry fuirds , the gait they unbeset ; To keep the wood till it was day they thoucht . As Wallace thus in the thick forest soucht , For his twa men in mind he had great pain , He wist not ...
... Till Dareoch the Butler passed but let ; At sundry fuirds , the gait they unbeset ; To keep the wood till it was day they thoucht . As Wallace thus in the thick forest soucht , For his twa men in mind he had great pain , He wist not ...
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... till ane end : Humbly to God his sprite he there commend Lowly him served with hearty devotion Upon his knees and said ane orison . A psalter - book Wallace had on him ever Fra his childheid - fra it wald nocht dissever ; Better he ...
... till ane end : Humbly to God his sprite he there commend Lowly him served with hearty devotion Upon his knees and said ane orison . A psalter - book Wallace had on him ever Fra his childheid - fra it wald nocht dissever ; Better he ...
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... till her heart strake mony waeful stound , As in a fever trembling foot and hand ; And when her sister in sic plight her fand , For very pity sho began to greet , Syne comfort gave , with words as honey sweet . ' Why lie ye thus ? Rise ...
... till her heart strake mony waeful stound , As in a fever trembling foot and hand ; And when her sister in sic plight her fand , For very pity sho began to greet , Syne comfort gave , with words as honey sweet . ' Why lie ye thus ? Rise ...
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... Till that the gallows gars him rax : 3 In Taking sould Discretion be . Some taks by sea , and some by land , And never fra taking can hald their hand , Till he be tyit up to ane tree ; And syne they gar him understand , In Taking sould ...
... Till that the gallows gars him rax : 3 In Taking sould Discretion be . Some taks by sea , and some by land , And never fra taking can hald their hand , Till he be tyit up to ane tree ; And syne they gar him understand , In Taking sould ...
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