Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 190
... fair . The Bludy Serk is a ballad of a knight who rescued a king's daughter from the dungeon of a foul and loathly giant , but , wounded to death in the encounter , bequeathed to the lady the gar- ment wet with his life's blood ...
... fair . The Bludy Serk is a ballad of a knight who rescued a king's daughter from the dungeon of a foul and loathly giant , but , wounded to death in the encounter , bequeathed to the lady the gar- ment wet with his life's blood ...
Page 323
... Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair as any may be ; The fairest shepherd on our green , A love for any lady . Paris . En Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair as any may be ; Thy love is fair for thee alone , And for no ...
... Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair as any may be ; The fairest shepherd on our green , A love for any lady . Paris . En Fair and fair , and twice so fair , As fair as any may be ; Thy love is fair for thee alone , And for no ...
Page 525
... fair bodie . They've casten him in a dungeon deep , Where he could neither hear nor see ; For seven years they kept him there , Till he for hunger's like to die . This Moor he had but ae daughter , Her name was called Susie Pye ; And ...
... fair bodie . They've casten him in a dungeon deep , Where he could neither hear nor see ; For seven years they kept him there , Till he for hunger's like to die . This Moor he had but ae daughter , Her name was called Susie Pye ; And ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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