 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...agmen, Sfc. yidisti, quo Turnus eguo, quibus ibat in armis Aurevs Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...agmen, &\c. Vidisti, quo Turnus equo, qaibus ibat in armis Aureus Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true ; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...&c. Vidisti, quo Turnu* equo, quibus ibat in armis Aureus ' Our English archers bent their bows, ' Their hearts were good and true ; ' At the first flight...arrows sent, • Full threescore Scots they slew. 1 They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, • No slackness there was found ; ' And many a gallant gentleman... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...quibus ibat in armis Aureus ' Our English archers bent their bows, ' Their hearts were good and true ; 1 At the first flight of arrows sent, ' Full threescore Scots they slew. • They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, ' No slackness there was found ; * And many a gallant gentleman... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - Songs, English - 1810 - 232 pages
...I havepow'r to wield my sword, I'll fight with heart and hand. Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true ; At the first flight...of arrows sent, Full three-score Scots they slew. / To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Douglas had the bent ; A captain mov'd with mickle pride,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...Ifc. yidisti, quo Turnus cquo, quibits ibat in annis Aureus • Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true ; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on evYy side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...quo Turnus equo, quibus Hat in armis Aureus Our English archers bent their bows. Their hearts v ere good and true ; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on ev*ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay... | |
 | John Bell - Ballads, English - 1812 - 340 pages
...have pow'r to wield my sword, I'll fight with heart and hand. Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true ; At the first flight...of arrows sent, Full three-score Scots they slew. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Douglas had the bent ; A captain mov'd with mickle pride,... | |
 | James Everett - 1812 - 138 pages
...nobler blood, of whom we were accustomed to hear when young: Our English archers bent their bows, - -« Their hearts were good and true: At the first flight of arrows sent is eulogized and defended, and his followers exhorted and advised; — the seventeenth and eighteenth... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...fight with heart and hand.' Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true j At the first flight of arrows sent, Full three-score Scots they slew. To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Douglas had the bent ; A captain mov'd with mickle pride,... | |
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I'll do the best that do I may, While I have power to stand : While I have power to wield my sword, I'll fight with heart and hand. 
