Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets,George Eyre-Todd W. Hodge & Company, 1891 |
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Página 82 - A! fredome is a noble thing! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking; Fredome all solace to man giffis : He levys at ess that frely levys...
Página 194 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Página 173 - Thus thai slayand ware sa fast All the day, qwhill at the last This Kyng Edward saw in that tyde A woman slayne, and off hyr syde A barne he saw fall owt, sprewland Besyd that woman slayne lyand. " Lasses, lasses," than cryid he ; " Leve off, leve off,
Página 85 - In mony thingis liknyt be. Ector had blak har, as he had, And stark lymmys and rycht weill maid, And wlispyt alsua, as did he, 400 And wes fullfillyt of leawte, And wes curtaifl and wyfl and wycht.
Página 67 - not only the first but the most famous of the poet-chroniclers of Scotland. But for his pen the passion of patriotism which gave Scotland a soul for four hundred years, might have died with Douglas and Bruce, and but for him the living heroes of the Scottish wars of succession and independence might have come down to us little more than empty names.
Página 168 - Away wes sons1 off ale and brede, Off wyne and wax, off gamyn and gle; Oure gold wes changyd into lede, Cryst born into Vyrgynyte' Succoure Scotland and remede That stad is in perplexyte".
Página 208 - Wp by the hand the gud erll has hyr tayn; Atour the bent to Wallace ar thai gayn. Quhen scho him saw, scho wald haiff knelyt doune; In armys sone he caucht this queyn with croun, 1235 And kyssyt hyr with outyn wordis mor; Sa dyd he neuir to na Sotheron befor. " Madem," he said, " rycht welcum mot ye be ; " How plessis yow our ostyng for to se?
Página 80 - That in his tyme sa worthy was, That off hys price, and hys bounte", In fer landis renownyt wes he. Off thaim I thynk this buk to ma : Now God gyff grace that I may swa...
Página 200 - Wp the wattir sodeynlye he couth fair; Agayne he blent quhat perance he sawe thair. Him thocht he saw Faudoun that hugly syr; That haill hall he had set in a fyr; A gret raftre he had in till his hand. 210 Wallace as than no langar walde he stand, Off his gud men full gret meruaill had he, How thai war tynt throuch his feyle fantase".