 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pages
...to-day ?" " In behint yon auld fail * dyke, " I wot there lies a new slain knight ; " And nae body kens that he lies there, " But his hawk, his hound, and...hame, " His lady's ta'en another mate, " So we may mak our dinner sweet, • Fail— Turf. 205 " Ye'll sit on his white hause bane, " And I'll pike out... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pages
...to-day ?" " In he-hint yon auld fail* dyke, " I wot there lies a new-slain knight ; " And nae body kens that he lies there, " But his hawk, his hound, and...ta'en another mate, " So we may make our dinner sweet 216 * Yell sit on his white hause bane, " And I'll pike put his bonny blue een : " Wi' ae lock o" his... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 472 pages
...fail* dyke, " I wot there lies a new-slain knight ; " And nae body kens that he lies there, " But.his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. " His hound is to...ta'en another mate, " So we may make our dinner sweet. * Fail— Turf. " Ye'll sit on his white hause bane; " And I'll pike out his bonny blue een : " Wi'... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...half drawn, his shafts unshot, And no one kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet ; Our dinner's... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 734 pages
...half drawn, his shafts unshot, And no one kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet ; Our dinner's... | |
 | English poetry - 1825 - 398 pages
...to day ?" " In behint yon auld fail dyke, " I wot there lies a new slain knight; " And nae body kens that he lies there, " But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair," &c. A bird is in the same way introduced, a few pages farther on, in the ballad of Lord William : Out... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - Ballads, English - 1827 - 272 pages
...half-drawn, his shafts unshot ; And no one kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet; Our dinner's... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 pages
...half-drawn, his shafts unshot; And no one kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet; Our dinner's... | |
 | Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 pages
...yet on the grass is hot, His sword half drawn, his shafts unshot, And no one kens that he lies there, His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet; Our dinner's... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1828 - 550 pages
...half-drawn, his shafts unshot, And no one kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. " His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl hame, His lady 's away with another mate, So shall we make our dinner sweet ; Our dinner... | |
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As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sail we gang and dine to-day... 
