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" ... cabin under his mantle, but used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives, and did light his candle at the flames of their houses to lead him in... "
Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and ... - Page 165
by John Pinkerton - 1804
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The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

Edmund Spenser - 1862 - 530 pages
...brought up by the fire fide, but that moft of his dayes he fpent in armes and valiant enterprifes; that he did never eat his meat before he had won it with his {word ; that he lay not all night flugging in a cabbin under his mantle, but ufed commonly to keepe...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...milk-sops that were bronght up by the fireside, but that most of.his days he spent in arms and vuliant enterprises; that he did never eat his meat before...won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slngging in a cabin under his mantle, bat used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives,"...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: ballads, collected by sir W. Scott. Repr ...

Scottish border - 1869 - 624 pages
...his praise, will say, 1 that he was none of the idle milk-sops that was brought up by the fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms and valiant enterprises ; that he never did eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night, slugging in...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 1

1873 - 838 pages
...his praise, will say, ' that he was none of the idle milk-sops that were brought up by the fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms, and valiant enterprises ; that he never did eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging in...
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THE MONTHLY PACKET OF EVENING READINGS

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE - 1878 - 664 pages
...notorious thief and outlaw.' ' That he was none of the idle milksops that was brought up by the fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms and valiant enterprises ; that he never did eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging in...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English ..., Volume 25

1878 - 644 pages
...notorious thief and outlaw.' ' That he was none of the idle milksops that was brought up by the fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms and valiant enterprises ; that he never did eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging in...
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Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

Edmund Spenser - 1890 - 462 pages
...bards in his praise will say that he was none of the idle milksops that was brought up by the fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms and valiant enterprises j that he did never eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 1

Sir Henry Craik - 1893 - 632 pages
...lifetime of spoils and robberies, one of these bards in his praise said, That he was none of those idle milk-sops that was brought up by the fire side,...he spent in arms and valiant enterprises ; that he never did eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he was not slugging all night in...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 14

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 pages
...in his praise will say, That he was none of the idle milksops that was brought up by the fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms and valiant enterprizes ; that he did never eat his meat, before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not...
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Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1902 - 442 pages
...his praise, will say, " that he was one of the idle milk-sops that was brought up by their fireside, but that most of his days he spent in arms, and valiant enterprises ; that he never did eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging in...
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