The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 353
Percy out of Bamborough came With him a mighty meanyWith fifteen hundred archers bold of blood and bone, They were chosen out of shires three. This began on a Monday at mornIn Cheviot the hills so high ; The child may rue that is unborn,It was the more pity. The drivers thorough the woodes went.… … They began m Cheviot the hills above, Early on Monanday;By that it drew to the hour of noon, A hundred fat harts dead there lay. They blew a mort upon the bent.They sembled on sides sheer ; To the quarry then the Percy wentTo the brittling of the deer. He said : It was the Douglass promiseThis day…
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