 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...death, representing to them, as the most bitter circumstance of it, that his rival saw him fall: ' hird's sword, and, leaning upon the pummel of it, gavt us the whole history Douglu to the heart A deep and deadly blow. 1 Who never spoke more words than these, Fight on my merry-men... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - Ballads, English - 1844 - 178 pages
...of an English bow, Which struck Erle Douglas to the heart, A deepe and deadlye blow: Who never spake more words than these, ' Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall.' Then leaving life, Erle Percy tooke The dead man by the hand ; And said, ' Erle... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - Archers - 1844 - 70 pages
...Earl Percy then, " Thy proffer I do scorn ; I will not yield to any Scot, That ever yet was born." With that, there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, 155 A deep and deadly blow : • Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 70 pages
...an English bow, Which struck Erle Douglas to the heart, A deepe and deadlye blow : Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall." Then leaving life, Earl Percy tooke The dead man by the hand ; And said, " Earl... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1844 - 858 pages
...an English bow, Which struck Erie Douglas to the heart, A deepe and deadlye blow : Who never spake more words than these, Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall. Then leaving life, Erle Percy tooke The dead man by the hand ; And said, Erle Douglas,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...quoth Earl Percy then, " Thy proffer I do scorn ; I will not yield to any Scot That ever yet was born." With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English...Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; 1 Wode— mad, fierce, wild, It seems to be connected with the word wild. 8 James our Scottish King... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1845 - 258 pages
...an English bow, Which struck Erie Douglas to the heart, A deepe and deadlye blow : Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall." Then leaving life, Earl Percy tooke The dead man by the hand ; And said, " Erle... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1846 - 430 pages
...an English bow, Which struck Erle Douglas to the heart, A deepe and deadlye blow : Who never spake more words than these, Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall. Then leaving life, Erle Percy tooke The dead man by the hand ; And said, Erle Douglas,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...verse, an end— a not uncommon one in those days — was put to the combat between the two earls : — With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart " Fight on, my merry men," exclaimed the expiring hero. Percy was deeply moved : he took the dead man... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...of an English bow, Which struck Erie Douglas to the heart A deepe and deadlye blow : Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall." Then leaving liffe, Erie Percy tooke The dead man by the hand ; And said, "Erie... | |
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