 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 346 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For WITHERINGTON needs must I wail, As one in too full dumps, For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps! And with Earl DOUGLAS, there were slain Sir HUGH MONTGOMERY ; And Sir CHARLES MORRELL, that from Field... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 780 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,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1902 - 376 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 ; And Sir Charles Murray, that from field... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - American poetry - 1902 - 772 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,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Christianity - 1906 - 360 pages
...reminds him of the familiar lines, — "For Widdrington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." It must not avail him, that he has but quoted from the ballad of Chevy Chase. It is the most deformed... | |
 | American poetry - 1906 - 282 pages
...jumbling of that day. The original says: For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps; For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. Andre pictures Wayne's men as seeking shelter behind the trees: But, lest Chieftain Washington Should... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 432 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wall, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with Karl Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery ; Sir Charles Carrel, that from the field... | |
 | Frank Sidgwick - Ballads, English - 1907 - 234 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; And Sir Charles Murray, that from field... | |
 | Erich Poetzsche - 1907 - 132 pages
...your old famous ballad was wail'd: Thee, Witherington, needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. All your friends are greatly delighted with your resolution to do honour and justice to your own Spenser.... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 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, And Sir Charles Morrell, that from 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. 
