 With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; None from his fellow starts, But, playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together.  Drayton, WArner - Pagina 430geredigeerd door - 1810Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a eloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piereing the weather ; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuek elose together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbows drew, And on the Freneh... | |
 | James Endell Tyler - 1838 - 512 pagina’s
...Harry. And taking many a fort, Furnished in warlike sort, Marcheth towards Agincourt, In happy hour. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpent stung, Piercing the weather. None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And, like... | |
 | Barbara Hofland - 1843 - 974 pagina’s
...betrayed her sex. " A prize! a prize !" he cried. And Mary fell swooning against his shoulder. CHAPTER V. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long,...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. The Ballad of Agincourt. ON gaining the summit of the scaling-ladder, during the assault on the castle... | |
 | 1875 - 676 pagina’s
...didst the signal aim To our hid forces ; When, from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, The English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpent stung, Piercing the weather. None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And, like... | |
 | Henry Meredith Parker - 1851 - 356 pagina’s
...signal aim To our hid forces ; When, from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, The English archery Struck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. Aye, "close together!" Shoulder to shoulder, showering their arrows so that the French might, like... | |
 | Charles Mac Farlane - 1853 - 550 pagina’s
...next minute were assailed by a tremendous shower of arrows, both in front and flank. Our archers — " With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpent stung, Piercing the weather. None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like... | |
 | 1865 - 940 pagina’s
...repeats a streak of color or a dash of flavor belonging to some alien growth. Thus, Drayton says, — " With Spanish yew so strong. Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpent* itu*gn And Brownell, — " Trust me, our berth was hot ; Ah, wickedly well they shot ; How... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 160 pagina’s
...befell the knights of France at Agincourt: — " Like a storm suddenly, The English archery Struck the French horses. " With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows...And like true English hearts Stuck close together." DRAYTON. We need not wonder, then, that the government vigorously encouraged the practice of the national... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pagina’s
...did the signal aim To our hid forces ; When from a meadow by, Like a storm suddenly, 70 The English archery Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew...Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, 75 Piercing the weather ; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English... | |
 | Army - 1869 - 614 pagina’s
...next minute were assailed by a tremendous shower of aiTows, both in front and flank Our archers — " With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpent stung, Piercing the weather. None from his fellow starts, 15ut playing manly parts, And like... | |
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