“I thynke for to touche also
The worlde whiche neweth everie daie,
So as I can, so as I maie.”
GOWER.
“The hye sheryfe of Notynghame,
Hym holde in your mynd.”
Robin Hood Ballads.
“His shoote it was but loosely shott,
Yet flewe not the arrowe in vaine,
For it mett one of the sheriffe’s men,
And William a Trent was slaine.”
Robin Hood Ballads
“Gazed on the heavens for what he missed on Earth.”
Britania’s Pastorals
When the first light dawned on the earth and the birds, awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all men having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.
“All courageous knichtis
Agains the day dichtis
The breest-plate that bricht is,
To feght with their foue.
The stoned steed stampis
Throw curage and crampis,
Syne on the land lampis;
The night is neir gone.”