Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow ; A hundred more fed free... The land of Scott; or, Tourists' guide to Abbotsford, the country of the ... - Side 43af John Marius Wilson - 1858Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 sider
...wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled...night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow ; A hundred more fed free in stall : Such was the custom in Branksome Hall.... | |
| Francis Fulford - 1859 - 120 sider
...through the helmet barr'd. . Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled...frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood axe at saddlebow ; A hundred more fed free in stall : — Such was the custom at Branksome-Hall. Why do these... | |
| Francis Fulford - 1859 - 126 sider
...through the helmet barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders tea; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled...frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood axe at saddlebow ; A hundred more fed free in stall : — Such was the custom at Branksome-Hall. Why do these... | |
| Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 sider
...barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders tea; Thirty steeda, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day...frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood axe at saddlebow ; A hundred more fed free in stall : — Such was the custom at Brauksome-Hall. Why do these... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...red wine through the helmrf Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled...night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow; A hundred more fed free in stall; — Such was the custom of Branksome HalL... | |
| 1861 - 588 sider
...contingent. The first contingent must wait in readiness, perhaps not quite as of old, in Eranksome Hall, "Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night ;" IN A FALSE POSITION. A TALE. BY K. SHENSTONE SHOBT. CHAPTER IX. I DO not intend to enter minutely... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 sider
...the bold Buccleuch. . ***** Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled...night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle-bow ; A hundred more fed free in stall ; — Such was the custom of Branksome... | |
| Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 sider
...wine through the helmet barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night, Barb'd with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle bow ; A hundred more fed free... | |
| Abraham Hume - 1863 - 514 sider
...Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel.* Wrhile, at the same time, Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night. Chauce/ describes the Wyf of Bathe as having On hire fete a pair of sporres large ; and, in another... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 sider
...throngh the helmet barred. v. Ten squires, ten yeomen; mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled...night, Barbed with frontlet of steel, I trow, And with Jedwood-axe at saddle bow; A hundred more fed free in stall : — Such was the custom of Branksome... | |
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