 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 3221875Full view - About this book
 | Edward Arber - 1896 - 644 pages
...Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong ; Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather. None from his fellow...When down their bows they threw ; And forth their bilbowes [swords] drew And on the French they flew : Not one was tardy. Arms were from the shoulders... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...Stuck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow...together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew, Not one was tardy ; Arms were from shoulders sent, Scalps... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 344 pages
...Spanish yew 2 so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; 3 None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts,...down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbows 4 drew, And on the French they flew, Not one was tardy: 1 Erpingham: Sir Thomas Erpingham was the marshal... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1896 - 104 pages
...have none, I swear, but these my joints.'" Farther on in the same poem we find this passage : — " None from his fellow starts, But, playing manly parts,...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together." The note (which contains a reference to the one just given) is as follows : — " Stuck close together.... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 356 pages
...Struck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow...together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew, Not one was tardy; Arms were from shoulders sent, Scalps... | |
 | Sir Frederick Wedmore - 1897 - 322 pages
...Struck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; None from his fellow...together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew, Not one was tardy ; Arms were from shoulders sent, Scalps... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 350 pages
...Struck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow...together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew, Not one was tardy; Arms were from shoulders sent, Scalps... | |
 | John Lowe - 1897 - 344 pages
...spake, Thunder to thunder. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather : None from his fellow...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together.' The preceding lines indicate, I think, the probable source from which Lord Tennyson derived the metre... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 490 pages
...Struck the French horses, With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long. That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow...And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. 1x — 306 When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbows drew, And on the French they flew.... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 pages
...Struck the French horses. With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather ; None from his fellow...together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilbos drew, And on the French they flew, Not one was tardy ; Arms were from shoulders sent, Scalps... | |
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