 | Samuel Say - English language - 1745 - 210 pages
...the SPECTATOR had reafon to cenfure : For WITHERINGTON needs muft I wail, as one in doleful Dumps; For when his Legs were Smitten off, he fought upon his Stumps. But the Old Ballad of OTTERBURN, in the Reign of HARRY the Sixth, has it ; For WITHBRINGTON my Heart... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...•vvt-ll -known ballad of that name : " With Widdrington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off, / He fought upon his stumps." V. 102. At $hafts which long field Partition's shoot.] Warburton is of opinion thai long Jiled Parthians... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. * That is, says Percy, ' the curfew bell, usually rung at eight o'clock.' But this ingenious conjecture... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Wilherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with liarl Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery; Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | Richard Brathwaite - English poetry - 1822 - 236 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps : For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with Earl Douglas there were slain, Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. 200 And with earl Douglas there was slain, Sir Hugh Montgomery; Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with Earl Douglas there was slain, Sir Hugh Mountgomery : Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
 | Zachariah Allen - Europe - 1833 - 440 pages
...persevered, as observed in the ballad of Chevy Chace, JOURNEY TO PARIS. 25 Like one in doleful dumps," " For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." His lower extremity was snugly stowed away in a great wooden bowl. He spun around, like a top, on this... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Poets, English - 1835 - 410 pages
...stumps.] In the famous song of Chevychase : For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. But all, alas ! had been in vain, And he inevitably slain, If Trulla and Cerdon, in the nick, To rescue... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...stumps.] In the famous song of Chevychase : For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. The battle of Chevy-chase, or Otterbourne, on the borders of Scotland, was fought on St. Oswald's day,... | |
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For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. 
