An Exact History of the Battle of Floddon: in Verse: Written about the Time of Queen Elizabeth. In which are Related Many Facts Not to be Found in the English History |
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Page 175 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Page 149 - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations.
Page 205 - Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play; But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie — The Flowers of the Forest are weded away. Dool and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border! The English, for ance, by guile wan the day; The Flowers of the Forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land, are cauld in the clay.
Page 182 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 149 - I know a merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings price, a shame it is to be spoken.
Page 176 - Nereids of the neighbouring seas, Where bowls and urns were form'd of living stone, And massy beams in native marble shone, On which the labours of the nymphs were roll'd, Their webs divine of purple mix'd with gold. Within the cave the clustering bees attend Their waxen works, or from the roof depend.
Page 201 - And has he slain my brother dear ? The furious Graham replies ; Dishonour blast my name, but he By me ere morning dies ! Tell me, where is Sir James the Ross ? I will thee well reward. He sleeps into Lord Buchan's park ; Matilda is his guard.
Page 125 - When the King returned from France, he gave the Earl an augmentation of his arms, viz. to bear on the bend, the upper part of a red lion, depicted in the same manner as the arms of Scotland, pierced through the mouth with an • arrow. A. 1514, [the...
Page 205 - Mong stacks, with the lasses, at bogle to play ; But ilka ane sits dreary, lamenting her deary, The Flowers of the Forest that are a
Page 197 - Allow'd his tender claim : She vow'd to him her virgin heart, And own'd an equal flame. Her father, Buchan's cruel lord, Their passion disapproved, And bade her wed Sir John the Graham, And leave the youth she lov'd.