 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. Fo:- Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. ALONE IN THE DESERT. 123 And with Earl Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery ; Sir Charles Currel,... | |
 | A E. Platt - 1876 - 220 pages
...sword I'll fight with heart and hand. For Witherington needs must I wayle As one in doleful dumps ; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." It was not denied that Sir Henry Widderington and Sir Nicholas Tempest had sold to Richard Willan and... | |
 | A. E. Platt (of Sedbergh, Eng.) - Sedbergh (England) - 1876 - 216 pages
...sword I'll fight with heart and hand. For Witherington needs must I wayle As one in doleful dumps ; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." It was not denied that Sir Henry Widderington and Sir Nicholas Tempest had sold to Richard Willan and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 290 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. Sir Charles Carrel, that from the field One foot would never fly. Sir Charles Murrel, of Ratcliff,... | |
 | Edward Peacock - English language - 1877 - 808 pages
...Stump Cross Dale, a place in the North field, Kirton-in-Lindsey, 1787. GLOSSARY OF WORDS USED IN ' For when his legs" were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps' (Jhevy Chase. 'jWhitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, You Clutterbuck, come, stir your stumps, Why... | |
 | W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 pages
...slaiu, Whose prowess did surmount.9 For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; 10 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... | |
 | Sir David Lindsay - 1879 - 412 pages
...celebrated in the ballad of Chevy Chase. For Withrington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. In the older English ballad, " The Hunting of the Cheviot," we find the incident thus immortalized... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...slain, Whose prowess did .surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, 205 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, 210 Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...was slain Whose prowess did surmount. t 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, And Sir Charles Murray that from field One... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1858 - 714 pages
...author before the Reformation.— I'ERCY. For Witheringlon needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps1; 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... | |
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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. 
