Rufus, Or, The Red King. A Romance, Volume 2Saunders & Otley, 1838 |
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Abbess Albemarle Alberic du Coci Aldery answered Baron behold betwixt bezant blood Broken Lance champion charger Coeur d'Acier Constance de Mowbray courser cried dark dost thou Dwarf of Carilbyne Earl Earl of Chester earth evil exclaimed fair fierce finger Flambard flung forest gallant gambeson gentle glade glance goodly grace grasp hand hast thou hath hauberk heart Heaven Hildebrand Hugh Lupus Hugh of Cluni Jodesac Justiciary King King's knightly Lady lance Liege lips look Lord Luke's face Marshal Matilda methinks Minstrel Monarch mond Montgomery Mowbray's noble Norman Nunna Mynstre once oxgangs Puckfist Ranulph Raymond Reginald de Lacy replied Robert de Mowbray royal Rufus saddle Saxon scorn shaveling Sir Alberic Sir Ilbert spirit Squire steed steel swear thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt Torfin towers trust Tunbridge villain voice Waleric Waleric's weeping Dwarf Weregild Winchester word yonder youth
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Page 1 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 73 - It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Page 16 - My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause...
Page 1 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Page 16 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 97 - Sejanus' clients : there be two, Know more than honest counsels ; whose close breasts, Were they ripped up to light, it would be found A poor and idle sin, to which their trunks Had not been made fit organs. \These can lie, Flatter, and swear, forswear, deprave, inform, Smile, and betray ; make guilty men ; then beg The. forfeit lives, to get their livings ; cut Men's throats with whisperings...
Page 157 - As ever they myne were. To witness that this is sooth, I bite the white wax with my tooth, Before Jugg, Marode, and Margery, And my third son Henry, For one bow and one broad arrow, When I come to hunt upon Yarrow.
Page 94 - Yet well thy soul hath brook'd the turning tide With that untaught innate philosophy, Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, Is gall and wormwood to an enemy. When the whole host of hatred stood hard by, To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled With a sedate and all-enduring eye ; — When Fortune fled her spoil'd and favourite child, He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled.
Page 240 - I gallop to the host." And to the fray he rode amain, Followed by all the archer train ; The fiery youth, with desperate charge, Made for a space, an opening large, — The rescued banner rose, — But darkly closed the war around ; Like pine-tree rooted from the ground, It sunk among the foes.
Page 219 - I have heard of a nobleman that has been drunk with a tinker, and of a magnifico that has plaid at blow-point.