 | Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Caerlaverock (Scotland) - 1828 - 426 pages
...Lord the King. His much honoured banner was chequered with gold and azure, with a vermillion fess. If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart and person, so great is his fame. The good Hugh le Despenser, who loyally on his courser knows how to disperse... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1837 - 684 pages
...admiration, dt it titott tint puctlltttt 3>f It tionroit ttur tt curt Cant tit ttt lit bond U rtr.or.jl. " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart aiid person, So great is his fame I 1 ' Fortunately the poet was a tough old monk of Exeter ; since... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby - Ghost stories - 1840 - 384 pages
...of admiration, Si it rstnir unr yurrllrttr Je It titwroir rrur rt row Cant ret ie lu tons It neon, " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart and person, So great is his fame ! " Fortunately the poet was a tough old monk of Exeter ; since such a... | |
 | Thomas William Weare - 1848 - 450 pages
...grandfather AD 1286, being then twelve years of age. The Poet of Carlaverock thus sums up his merits. " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart and person, so great is his fame." Maude, daughter and coheire of Gilbert Lacye Lo. of Methe and Middin... | |
 | rev. Henry Addington - 1860 - 238 pages
...grandfather AD 1286, being then twelve years of age. The Poet of Carlaverock thus sums up his merits. " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart and person, so great is his fame." Maude, daughter and coheire of Gilbert Lacye Lo. of Methe and Middin... | |
 | William Charles Macfarlane, John Henry Parker - 1882 - 400 pages
...grandfather AD 1286, being then twelve years of age. The Poet of Carlaverock thus sums up his merits. " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart and person, so great is his fame." Maude, daughter and coheire of Gilbert Lacye Lo. of Methc and Middin... | |
 | George Foster Braithwaite - 1884 - 224 pages
...his good lord knows His much honoured banner Chequered with gold and azure With a vermillion fess. If I were a young maiden I would give him my heart and person, So good is his fame. After accurately delineating the "Arms" borne by one hundred and five... | |
 | Henry Addington - Abbeys - 1860 - 240 pages
...grandfather AD 1286, being then twelve years of age. The Poet of Carlaverock thus sums up his merits. " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart and person, so great is his fame." Maude, daughter and coheire of Gilbert Lacye Lo. of Methe and Middin... | |
 | Kathy Lavezzo - History - 2004 - 396 pages
...his armigerous ancestors' fantastic feats of arms [against Scotland and unicorns respectively]), that "If I were a young maiden, / I would give him my heart and person, / So good is his fame" ("Si je estoie une pucelette, / Je li donroie quer e cors, / Tant est... | |
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Robert de Clifford, eldest son of Roger de Clifford, who was slain AD 1280, in Wales, succeeded his grandfather AD 1286, being then twelve years of age. The Poet of Carlaverock thus sums up his merits. " If I were a young maiden, I would give him my heart... 