 | Cuthbert Bede - Scotland - 1863 - 458 pages
...of the heroes of ' Chevy Chase : '— For Witherington I needs must wail As one in doleful dumps ; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And, unless we concede that such an abbreviated method of fighting was not unusual in Border conflicts,... | |
 | English ballads - 1864 - 304 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 Montgomery, Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | Ballads - 1867 - 638 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 Montgomery, Sir Charles Carrel, that from the field... | |
 | Popular readings - English poetry - 1867 - 264 pages
...there-was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington I needs must 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 Montgomery ; Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 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 Montgomery ; Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 278 pages
...to the corresponding one in the new : ' For Witherington I needs must 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 Mountgomery, Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 532 pages
...to the corresponding one in the new : ' For Witherington I needs must 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 Mountgomery, Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 668 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 Erie Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 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 Montgomery ; Sir Charles Currel, that from the field... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - English language - 1875 - 558 pages
...brave knight is thus spoken of: " There, too, the gallant Widrington — He was in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." But how noble and simple a picture is the original, given in that valuable collection, " Percy's Reliques,"... | |
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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. 
