The Battle of Floddon Field;: A Poem of the Sixteenth Century. : With the Various Readings of the Different Copies; Historical Notes, a Glossary, and an Appendix Containing Ancient Poems and Historical Matter Relating to the Same Event

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James Ballantyne and Company, 1808 - 389 Seiten
 

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Seite 284 - I'VE heard them lilting at our ewe-milking, Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day; But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a
Seite 284 - 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. We'll hear nae mair lilting at the ewe-milking; Women and bairns are heartless and wae; Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a
Seite xv - Floddan Field, in Nine Fits, being an exact History of that famous memorable Battle, fought between English and Scots on Floddan Hill, in the time of Henry the Eighth, anno 1513: worthy the perusal of the English Nobility.
Seite 204 - Young, master glazier to her majesty, feeling a sweet savour to come from thence, and seeing the same dried from all moisture, and yet the form remaining, with the hair of the head, and beard red, brought it to London to his house in Wood Street, where for a time he kept it for the sweetness, but in the end caused the sexton of that church to bury it amongst other bones taken out of their charnel, &c.
Seite 135 - The council board of England, at which the earl of Surrey held the chief place, was daily pestered with complaints from the sailors and merchants, that Barton, who was called Sir Andrew Barton, under pretence of searching for Portuguese goods, interrupted the English navigation. Henry's situation at that time rendered him backward from breaking with Scotland, so that their complaints were but coldly received. The earl of Surrey, however, could not smother his indignation, but gallantly declared at...
Seite 277 - Capteyn there first of any one, And rewllid and governid there his tym without blame, But for all that as ye se he lieth under this stone. At Brankiston feld, wher the kyng of Scottys was slayne, He then beyng of the age of thre score and tene, With the gode Duke of Northefolke that journey he has tayen, And coragely avancid hymself among other ther and then.
Seite 127 - 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...
Seite 123 - Poems, Parker's Ballads, in disgrace of religion, to the increase of all vice, and withdrawing of people from reading, studying, and hearing the word of God, and other good books.
Seite 192 - Under the vigorous administration of James IV., the young Earl of Caithness incurred the penalty of outlawry and forfeiture, for revenging an ancient feud. On the evening preceding the battle of Flodden, accompanied by 300 young warriors, arrayed in green, he presented himself before the King, and submitted to his mercy. This mark of attachment was so agreeable to that warlike...
Seite 204 - After the battle, the bodie of the said king, being found, was closed in lead, and conveyed from thence to London, and to the monasterie of Sheyne, in Surry, where it remained for a time, in what order I am not certaine ; but, since the dissolution of that house, in the reign of Edward VI., Henry...

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