 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Whose courage none could staine : An English archer then perceiv'd The noble erle was slaine ; He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew hee : Against Sir Hugh Mountgomerye, So right the shaft he sett, The grey goose-winge that was thereon,... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 194 pages
...Whose courage none could stain. Au English archer then perceived The noble earl was slain : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree : An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he : Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right the shaft he set, The gray-goose wing that was thereon In his... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1886 - 684 pages
...So thus did both these nobles dye, Whose courage none could stain ; He had a bow bent in his band, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery So right his shaft he set, The grey goose-wing that was thereon In his... | |
 | Robert Ford - Ballads, English - 1889 - 312 pages
...die, Whose courage none could stain. An English archer then perceived His noble lord was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth yard's length, Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomery then So right his shaft he... | |
 | Charles Dalton - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1890 - 288 pages
...Otterburne as far back as 1388. His death is thus recorded in the old ballad of Chevy Chase : '' He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth- yeard long Unto the head drew he. " Against Sir Hugh Montgomerie So right his shaft he set,... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...Whose courage none could staine ! An English archer then perceived The noble Erle was slaine : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he; Against Sir Hugh Mountgomerye So right the shaft he set, The grey goose-winge that was thereon In his... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 394 pages
...Whose courage none could staine ! An English archer then perceived The noble Erle was slaine : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he; Against Sir Hugh Mountgomerye So right the shaft he set, The grey goose-winge that was thereon In his... | |
 | 1891 - 846 pages
...kindly Scot from the cloth-yard shaft"; and in the ballad of " Chevy Chase " is this stanza : He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew hee. "The beleaguered Port of Calais." Dickens says, " In order to starve the inhabitants out, King... | |
 | Scotland - 1891 - 670 pages
...Montgomerie's death at the battle of Otterburn is referred to in the old ballad of Chevy Chase — ' He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Unto the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomerie, So right his shaft he set, The gray-goose wing... | |
 | William Forbes-Mitchell - India - 1893 - 320 pages
...resist making another quotation, but this time it was from the old English ballad of Chevy Chase. He had a bow bent in his hand Made of a trusty tree, An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he. Against Sir Hugh Montgomerie So right his shaft he set, The grey goose wing that was thereon In his... | |
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The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he... 
