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" For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb... "
The Life of Mrs. Godolphin - Page 243
by John Evelyn - 1848 - 291 pages
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With memoir of the author

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; — In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! * •::• * The aged Minstrel audience gained. But when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling...
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Poetical works. With a biogr. and critical memoir by F.T. Palgrave

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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Golden Leaves from the British Poets

John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb. When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. Illustr. by F. Gilbert

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...they should tend the old man well : Korshc had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb! When kindness had its wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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The book of poetry for schools and families [ed.] by W. Davis

William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree : In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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The Roxburghe Ballads, Volume 5

William Chappell - 1885 - 864 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb." —Walter Scott's Lay of the Lait Mitutrel. w. E prefer to give here the ballad (mentioned on p. 415)...
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Poems. Ed., with notes, by W.S. Dalgleish

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 248 pages
...should tend the old man well : 40 For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; — In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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The lay of the last minstrel. With photogr. illustr. by R. Sedgfield

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 178 pages
...they should tend the old man well : For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree ; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb ! When kindness had his wants supplied, And the old man was gratified, Began to rise his minstrel pride...
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