 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
.... i 1 . ' •.'• • .1 <ii ' CHEVY CHASE THE FIRST KIT THE Percy out of Northumberland, An avow to God made he. That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot within days three, In the maugre of doughty Douglas, S And all that ever with hinl be. '•... | |
 | Robert Spindler - English language - 1927 - 244 pages
...B. gleich in der ersten Strophe der 'Chevy C&ase'-Ballade : The Percy out of Northumberland An avow to God made he / / / / That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot within days three, / / ff In maugre of doughty Douglas And all that e'er with him be. Die klingenden... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 420 pages
...countenance you show me than anybody could do. For, Madam, I have the old notions about families. I think of The Percy out of Northumberland And a vow to GOD made he.* Indeed, Madam, these notions are much out now. I.ADY NORTHUMBERLAND (well pleased) . Really, Sir, they... | |
 | 188 pages
...This is probably the case to some extent with regard to the tumbling metre or ballad metre, as in' The Per|cy out | of Northum|berland, And a vow | to...made he, That he | would hunt | in the mountains Of Chev|iot within | days three 1 As there is no uniformity in the printed spelling I have used the modern... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1858 - 816 pages
...words to our own air, or it will be no longer a ballad. Every one knows our old English strain : — The Percy out of Northumberland, And a vow to God made he — a measure very simple in its requirements, yet susceptible of infinite modulation, and capable... | |
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Percy out of Northumberland, And a vow to God made he, That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot, within days three, In the maugre of doughty Douglas, And all that ever with him be. The fattest harts in all Cheviot He said he would kill, and carry... 
