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English Literature: From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII, by Richard ... - Page 305
by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 pages
...Isle of Sky ; " I saw a dead man win a fight, " And I think that man was I." He belted on hia good braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! They...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 534 pages
...Isle of Sky ; " I saw a dead man win a fight, " And I think that man was I." He belted on his good braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! They...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and ..., Volume 1

Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...Isle of Sky ; " I saw a dead man win a fight, " And I think that man was I." He belted on his good braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the hehnet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain...
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The Scottish Ballads

Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 432 pages
...Skye, I saw a deid man win a fight ; And I think that man was I." He belted on his glide braidsword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet gude, That should hare kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain I They swakkit their swords...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! They...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

Walter Scott - English poetry - 1833 - 474 pages
...Scott, Syr Walter Stewarde, Syr Jhon of Agurstone. ' " J Menteith— 8 Uncle. He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! They...
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Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border ... By S. Oliver, etc

William Andrew Chatto, Stephen OLIVER (the Younger, pseud. [i.e. William Andrew Chatto.]) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1835 - 368 pages
...tide of battle which was setting against his followers, he was borne to the * " He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good That should have kept his brain." ground, mortally wounded, by three spearmen. " I die like my...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: First Series, Containing Minstrelsy ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! They...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, That should have kept his brain. When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu' fain ! . They...
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English and Scottish Ballads, Volume 7

Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1859 - 344 pages
...the Isle of Sky ; I saw a dead man win a fight, And I think that man was I." He belted on his guid braid sword, And to the field he ran ; But he forgot the helmet good, When Percy wi' the Douglas met, I wat he was fu" fain ; They swakked their swords, till sair...
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