Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English".Macmillan, 1881 |
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Abbot Abbot Thorold Aldreth Alftruda Anglo-Saxon Chronicle arms Asbiorn Ascelin asked Bishop blood Bourne Bruneswald burn Castle Church churl cried Crowland curse Danes dare Earl England English Englishman Etheldreda eyes fair fear fens fight forest French Frenchmen Godiva Golden Borough Gospatric Guthlac hand head heard heart heaven Hereward HEREWARD THE WAKE Herluin holy honour horse housecarles isle Ivo Taillebois king knew knights lady Lady Godiva land Lanfranc laughed Leofric likewise looked Lord Mamzer mare Martin minster monks Morcar never Norman Normandy once outlaw Peterborough prayed priest quoth Richilda rode Roman road round saints says the chronicler sent shouted Sigtryg Sir Ascelin Sir Robert Siward soul stood Sweyn sword tell thee things Thorold thou art thought told took Torfrida traitor turned Ulfketyl valiant Wake Waltheof whither wild William Winter wise witch woman words
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Σελίδα 76 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
Σελίδα 71 - Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Σελίδα 344 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Σελίδα 345 - The Sachentege was made thus : it was fastened to a beam, having a sharp iron to go round a man's throat and neck, so that he might no ways sit, nor lie, nor sleep, but that he must bear all the iron.
Σελίδα 345 - ... in a town, or its lands tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land — wretched men starved with hunger — some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich : some fled the country — never was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse than these.
Σελίδα 344 - ... were any martyrs tormented as these were. They hung some up by their feet and smoked them with foul smoke ; some by their thumbs or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads, and twisted it till it went into the brain.
Σελίδα 346 - If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate. The earth bare no corn; you might as well have tilled the sea, for the land was all ruined by such deeds, and it was said openly that Christ and his saints slept.
Σελίδα 243 - If I had not taken your advice, I should not have been here." " If I had not loved you so well, I might have been very differently off." And so forth. The words were wiped away the next hour, perhaps the next minute, by sacred kisses : but they had been said, and would be recollected and perhaps said again. Then, again, the " merry greenwood " was merry enough in the summer tide, when shaughs were green, and " The woodwele sang, and would not cease, Sitting upon the spray, So loud, it wakened Robin...
Σελίδα 213 - ... rock, or in a lodge of boughs. And then, after a while, the life which began in terror, and despair, and poverty, and loss of land and kin, became not only tolerable, but pleasant. Bold men and hardy, they cared less and less for " The thornie wayes, the deep valleys. The snowe, the frost, the rayne, The colde, the hete ; for dry or wete We must lodge on the plaine, And us above, none other roofe But a brake bushe, or twayne.
Σελίδα 345 - ... seated in a town, or its lands tilled. " ' Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese and butter, for there was none in the land — wretched men starved with hunger — some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich ; some fled the country...