 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 466 pages
...however, is not the case. Wyntown has preserved a short elegiac sonnet on the death of Alexander III. (1285) composed, as it should seem, by a contemporary...dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, ' Away was sons * of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, ofgamyn and glee : Our gold was changed into lead. Christ... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 464 pages
...however, is not the case. Wyntown has preserved a short elegiac sonnet on the death of Alexander III. (1285) composed, as it should seem, by a contemporary...that early date. It is as follows: When Alexander our Smg was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee,* Away was sons * of ale and bread, Of wine and wax,... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 476 pages
...that of the full Iambic Tetrameter ; but is it certain this rhythmus* was known in the middle ages, When Alexander our king was dead That Scotland led in love and lee Away was sons of ale and brede Of wyn and wax of gamyn and gle Oure gold wes changed into lead Crist born into... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...however, is not the case. Wyntown has preserved a short elegiac sonnet on the death of Alexander III. (1285), composed, as it should seem, by a contemporary...our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee 1, Away was sons 3 of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, ofgamyn and glee : 1 Lie,liesse; joyous, joy.... | |
 | Henry White - 1849 - 550 pages
...the work of the old annalist Andrew Wyntoun, it will be very easily understood at the present day. When Alexander our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, Away was sons of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, of gaming and glee : Our gold was changed into lead. Christ,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...herself a prey to anarchy, and exposed to the miseries attendant on a disputed succession. 260 251 " When Alexander, our king, was dead, That Scotland led in love and law, Away was sons of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, of game and glee : Our gold was changed into... | |
 | 1852 - 1202 pages
...found herself a prey to anarchy, and exposed to the miseries attendant on a disputed succession. " When Alexander, our king, was dead, That Scotland led in love and law, Away was sous of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, of game and glee : Our gold was changed into... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...composed apparently by some contemporary bard, on the death of Alexander III. of Scotland in 1285 :— When Alexander our king was dead. That Scotland led in love and lee, Away was sons of ale and oread, Of wine and wax, of gamyn and glee: Our gold was changed into lead. Christ!... | |
 | Mary Anne Everett Green - Princesses - 1857 - 480 pages
...Lanercost, p. 115. vernacular Scotch, written a few years after the death of this great and good king. "When Alexander our king was dead. That Scotland led in love and law, Away was sons of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, of game and glee: Oar gold was changed into lead... | |
 | Art - 1859 - 552 pages
...Scottish lyrical fragment of the thirteenth, or at latest, of the early part of the fourteenth century: " When Alexander our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, Awny WBB sons of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, of gaming and gle« • Our gold was changed into... | |
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When Alexander our king was dead, That Scotland led in love and lee, ' Away was sons * of ale and bread, Of wine and wax, ofgamyn and glee : Our gold was changed into lead. 
