The lyfe of Virgilius. From the ed. by Doesborcke1828 |
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Strana 36
... thinking to lay a bait for him , which he could not chuse but be nibbling at , being well mounted , broke down a strong fence , and put in their horses to feed in the corn . George , whose careful eye was ever watchful over his business ...
... thinking to lay a bait for him , which he could not chuse but be nibbling at , being well mounted , broke down a strong fence , and put in their horses to feed in the corn . George , whose careful eye was ever watchful over his business ...
Strana 41
... thinking himself as secure as the earl had appear'd to be negligent , was set upon in the night by Sir William Musgrave and his son Cuddy , who took him when he was careless and asleep , by which means they quite dis- comfited the whole ...
... thinking himself as secure as the earl had appear'd to be negligent , was set upon in the night by Sir William Musgrave and his son Cuddy , who took him when he was careless and asleep , by which means they quite dis- comfited the whole ...
Strana 9
... thinking thereby to obtaine her love . Many times would hee solicite her with rich gifts and large promises , befitting rather an empresse then the daughter of an earle , profering such kindnesses , that if she had a heart of iron , yet ...
... thinking thereby to obtaine her love . Many times would hee solicite her with rich gifts and large promises , befitting rather an empresse then the daughter of an earle , profering such kindnesses , that if she had a heart of iron , yet ...
Strana 12
... thinking with himselfe that heaven had sent him that good fortune , not onely giving him riches but withall a sonne , to be a comfort to him in his latter yeares ; so bearing it in to his old wife , and withall the purse of gold , and ...
... thinking with himselfe that heaven had sent him that good fortune , not onely giving him riches but withall a sonne , to be a comfort to him in his latter yeares ; so bearing it in to his old wife , and withall the purse of gold , and ...
Strana 13
... thinking that some fayrie nymph had stolen it away ; but such was the kind comfort which the smooth - tonged midwife gave her in that ex- tremity , whereby her sorrow seemed the less , and her mistrustfull feare exchanged into smiling ...
... thinking that some fayrie nymph had stolen it away ; but such was the kind comfort which the smooth - tonged midwife gave her in that ex- tremity , whereby her sorrow seemed the less , and her mistrustfull feare exchanged into smiling ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
ageyne amongst Angellica Anglitora answered arrow Beatrice began behold betwixt bishop Blacke Knight blood body cast castle cause chamber court daughter dayes death Dulcippa earl Earl of Kendal emperour English knights espied faire father Fayrie forrest fortune gaue George A Green hand hath haue heart heaven honour Hood's King Arthur kyng lady land Lincolne Little John lives lordes majesty manner merry murthered myght Napels never noble Nottingham ouer pallace Pindar pleasure Portingale present Prester John princely queene quoth Red Rose Knight renowned revenge Ritson Robin Hood Robin Hood's Delight Robyn Rome sayd Scarlock shee shewed shoot shulde Sodan sonne sooner soule spake speake sunne sword thee thereof theyr thou thought toke took town of Wakefield tyme unto valiant valour Virgilius Wakefield whan withall wolde words wyfe wyll
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Strana 50 - IN Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder, In Wakefield all on a green, In Wakefield all on a green : There is neither knight nor squire, said the pinder, Nor baron that is so bold, Nor baron that is so bold, Dare make a trespass to the town of Wakefield, But his pledge goes to the pinfold, &c.
Strana xii - THE HISTORY OF GEORGE A GREEN, Pindar of the Town of Wakefield, his Birth, Calling, Valour, and Reputation in the Country : with divers pleasant as well as serious Passages in the Course of his Life and Fortune. Illustrated with cuts. Sm. 8vo. London, Printed for Samuel Ballard at the Blue-Ball in Little Britain, 1706.
Strana 8 - France. During his absence he constituted the bishop of Ely, then chancellor of England, vicegerent of the kingdom. This bishop being on the one side covetous, and by many unjust impositions oppressing the nation, and the king's brother ambitious on the other, as presuming much upon his royal birth, and his great possessions, some persons fomented great factions and combinations against the tyranizing prelate; so that all things grew out of frame and order; and great distractions ensued; nay, a third...
Strana 8 - Than Virgilius spake and asked, " Who calleth me ! " than harde he the voyce agayne, but he sawe no body ; than sayd he, "Virgilius, see ye not that lytyll bourde lyinge besyde you there marked with that worde ? " Than answered Virgilius, " I see that borde well enough.
Strana 52 - If Michaelmas day were once come and gone And my master had paid me my fee, Then would I set as little by him As my master doth set by me.
Strana 25 - ... flew oute, and brake the lampe that Virgilius made ; and it was wonder that the mayden went nat out of her mynde for the great fere she had, and also the other burgeyses daughters that were in hyr companye, of the great stroke that it gaue when it hyt the lampe, and when they sawe the metall man so swyftly ronne his waye : and neuer after was he no more sene ; and this forsayd lampe was abydynge byrnynge after the deth of Virgilius by the space of CCC yeres or more.
Strana 9 - And fro thensforth abydeth he there. And so Virgilius becam very connynge in the practyse of the blacke scyence. It was so that the moder of Virgilius wexed olde, in so muche that she lost her herynge.
Strana iii - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Strana 50 - To an excellent tune," which has not been recovered. Several lines of this ballad are quoted in the two old plays of the " Downfall " and " Death of Robert earle of Huntington,
Strana 11 - And thus the Emperour sayd that he must take pacyence by the space of iiij. or v. yere that we myght examyne with in our selfe whether ye be ryght eyer or no. And with that answere was Virgilius very angry, and sayd that he shulde be auenged. And whan he cam home he sende for all his poor kynsfolke and fryndes, and put them in his houses and dwellynge places that he hadde within Rome, and purueyed them of mete and drynke, and byd them make mery tyll Julio, that the corne and frute is rype. And whan...