Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Том 4

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W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902
 

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Стр. 5 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Стр. 4 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Стр. 85 - For forty days and forty nights He wade thro red blude to the knee, And he saw neither sun nor moon, But heard the roaring of the sea. O they rade on, and further on, Until they came to a garden green: " Light down, light down, ye ladie free, Some of that fruit let me pull to thee.
Стр. 6 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Стр. 172 - The old people point out her monument now broken and defaced. The inscription is said to have been legible within this century, and to have run thus : Fair maiden...
Стр. 83 - Ercildoune, a person came running in, and told, with marks of fear and astonishment, that a hart and hind had left the neighbouring forest, and were, composedly and slowly, parading the street of the village. The prophet instantly arose, left his habitation, and followed the wonderful animals to the forest, whence he was never seen to return. According to the popular belief, he still "drees his weird" in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit earth.
Стр. 87 - She mounted on her milk-white steed ; She's ta'en true Thomas up behind: And aye, whene'er her bridle rung, The steed flew swifter than the wind. O they rade on, and farther on ; The steed gaed swifter than the wind; Until they reach'da desert wide, And living land was left behind.
Стр. 162 - Then changed, I trow, was that bold baron's brow From the dark to the blood-red high; ' Now, tell me the mien of the knight thou hast seen, For, by Mary, he shall die!' 'His arms shone full bright in the beacon's red light; His plume it was scarlet and blue ; On his shield was a hound in a silver leash bound, And his crest was a branch of the yew.
Стр. 86 - O no, O no, Thomas," she said, 'That name does not belang to me; I am but the Queen of fair elfland, That am hither come to visit thee." "Harp and carp, Thomas," she said; " Harp and carp along wi me; And if ye dare to kiss my lips, Sure of your bodie I will be.
Стр. 175 - Langside, and owed his life to the regent's clemency. But part of his estate had been bestowed upon one of the regent's favourites, who seized his house, and turned out his wife naked, in a cold night, into the open fields ; where, before next morning, she became furiously mad.

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