 Raby there 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 811855Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bradley - 1863 - 460 pages
...wonderful likeness to the famous deed of one of the heroes of ' Chevy Chase : '— For Witherington I needs must wail As one in doleful dumps ; For, when...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...account, Good Sir Ralph Raby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps;' For when his legs were smitten oflj He fought upon his stumps. Of fifteen hundred Englishmen, Went home but fifty-three; 1 L e. "I,... | |
 | 1863 - 302 pages
...account, Good Sir Ralph Rabby there was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten oft', He fought UJKHI his stumps. And with Earl Douglas, there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles... | |
 | English ballads - 1864 - 296 pages
...account, Good Sir Ralph Rabby there 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... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 352 pages
...author, before the Keformation. — PEBCY. For Witherington 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... | |
 | Popular readings - 1867 - 266 pages
...of good account, Good Sir Ralph Raby there-was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when...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
...account, Good Sir Ralph Rabby there 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1868 - 458 pages
...poet .SSschylus, who, when the Persians were flying from Marathon, clung to a ship till both his bauds were hewn away, and then seized it with his teeth,...the most deformed stanza * of the modern deformed version which was composed in the eclipse of heart and taste, on the restoration of the Stuarts ; and... | |
 | James Maidment - 1868 - 584 pages
...of good account ; Good Sir Ralph Raby there was slain, whose prowess did surmount ; For Withrington I needs must wail, as one in doleful Dumps, For when his Legs were smitten off, he fought still on the stumps. And with Earl Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles Murral,t... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...account, Good Sir Ealph Raby there 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... | |
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